Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-05-31
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Committee was directed to enquire into the
ezpediency of adopting uniform and legal
mode of eleeting T. S. Senators......Owing
to Mr. Fessenden's illness, the Reconstruc-
ton resolutions were not taken up......Con-
sideration of the Colorado veto was made
the special order for q week from Tuesday
1.-The Fertilization Appropriation Bill
was passed.
In the House, on the 21st, o number Of
bills and joint resolutions were introduced
and referred. "A resolution passed for
Joint Committee to investigate the action of
the Freedmens Bureau and its officers with
all necessary powers. 49,. The House resolved
to hold evening sessions after the 29d for
the consideration of the tax bill......The tax
bill was considered in Committee of the
Whole, and five more pages disposed of......
A number of amendments to House bills and
resolutions were taken up and referred.
In the Senate, on the 22d, MIR. Wilson re-
ported bill for the equalization of boun-
ties, giving any soldier, white or colored,
$8.3 per month during the time of his en-
istment. 1.-The bill passed opening the
the public lands of the South to settlement
under the homestead act......The bill for
consolidating and funding the public debt
was considered, and postponed until the toll
lowing day......The bill passed making fur
| Their provisions for the Armory at Rock
Island. 1.-The bill amending the postal law
passed.. The Senate went into Executive
session, and adjourned.
In the House, on the 22d, the bankrupt
bill passed-sixty- light to ffty-nine 1t
provides that bankrupts to the amount OF
$500 may be discharged after surrendering
| all property to assignees, appointed by the
creditors, and sale and ratable distribution
of the proceeds. Creditors to the amount of
| $3.50 may force dishonest debtors into bank
ruptcy, and compel the sale of property to
pay debts ratably to creditors The pro-
visions against fraud and concealment of
property are very stringent. Themachinery
of the law is to be performed through the
United States Courts. One Register to as
sist the Judges, is to be appointed in each
| Congressional District. The law is to take
effect November l next. The Select Com
mittee on Freedmen reported bill continu-
ing the Freedmen's Bureau in force for three
resumed, and continued to the close of the
evening session.
| In the Senate, ON the 3d. the morning
/ hour was spent in the discussion of bill
to bridge the Mississippi at Winona, Min
nesota..... The reconstruction resolutions
were taken up, and several substitutes
offered by different Senators, all which were
ordered printed......No further action was
taken and the Senate, after executive SEES
sion, adjourned.
In the House, on the 23d, a joint resolu-
ton passed, authorizing the Postmaster
| General to increase the pay of letter car
riers in San Francisco. The House dis
agreed to the Senate amendments to the
! bill for opening the public lands in the
South to settlement and committee Of con-
| ference was asked for......The bill continu-
ing the Freedmen's Bureau in force was
taken up, and an amendment adopted, re-
duclng the term Of the continuance from
three to two years. 1t was discussed until
the expiration of the morning hour, when
the tax bill was taken up, he consideration
OF which occupied the balance of the day
and the evening session. When the House
adjourned, it had reached the 123d page
1t was decided, in the discussion of the bill.
to leave the tax onincomes as it now stands,
with a tax of five per cent. on incomes up
to $4,000, and ten per cent. on the excess
over that amount, the limit of the first 5000
being extended TO ST. 600 Another amend
ment was adopted, providing that lists of
incomes shall not be published or furnished
for publication, but that they shall be open
to public inspection in the Office of the Col
lector.
In the Senate on the Oath, Mr.. Trumbull
obtained leave to withdraw from the files
petition from citizens of Stanton, Va, pray
ing for military protection to loyal men,
the signers of the petition having been per-
secuted by the rebels. "A select committee
was appointed to enquire into the deposits
of Government money in national banks
1.-THE West Point Academy bill was dis
cussed during the morning hour, when the
reconstruction report was taken up, and
Mr.. Stewart of Nevada spoke at length in
favor Of universal suffrage and universal
amnesty. Mr.. Johnson moved to strike out
the third section, and further consideration
of the subject was postponed for the days
......A joint resolution passed giving 500
bounty to soldiers in the Indian regiments.
Mr.. Sherman submitted plan of recon
struction, which was ordered printed.
In the House, on the oath, the Senate
amendments to the joint resolution to pre-
vent the introduction of cholera were con-
CURED in......An amendment to the Freed
mems Bureau bill was adopted, prohibiting
the restoration of the Sea Island lands to
their old ers......0ther amendments
were offered, but the morning hour expired
without action upon them......The bounty
bill has been so amended as to deduct local
bounties paid to soldiers from the sum that
may appear to be due. This will cut off
most Of those who enlisted after the pay
ment of liberal local bounties commenced.
Consideration of the tax bill occupied |