Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-03-07
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SUMMARY, OF THE WEEK
General News.

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5 Bishop Whitehouse, of Illinois, and J.
CT. Bennett, Jf., arrived in New York on
the, 9th, on the steamer Pereire ed, -
II President Johnson has appointed Prof
Pierce, of Princeton College, y. J., Super,
linten tends Of the Coast Survey, 0iee Prof
tBache, deceased, , -,
The bill establishing National Depart
ment Of Education has passed the United
States Senate and only awaits the approx
2al the President tefbecome a law. odj
painting of President Lincoln
reading the Emancipation Proclamation
to his Cabinet, by, Carpenter, was placed
oyer ythe east door in the; rotunda of the
Capitol on the Both. p. s. '
:, T., Ross Browne, the well-knowr artist
lcontri butter to Harpers' Magazine, reports
the existence Of rich mineral resources in
Lower California, but says the land is most
for agricultural purposes, r.,
M The Secretary, of the, Treasury has re-
ceived information from high source in
England that an organized attempt will be
made, in the event Of the passage Of a high
protective tariff, to smuggle goods into the
United States by way of Canada 9dJ
The Senate has confirmed the nomination
of John A.Dix, Minister Paris, Hugh
Ewing to be Minister Resident, at the
Hague, A L. Williams, of Michigan, as
Minister TO San Salvador, and rejected
James Murphy as Governor Of Idaho.
Surratt takeshis imprisonment philosoph-
ically, and being supplied with food from
his friends outside, is improving daily. His
brother, who has not seen him since 1860,
when he leftforTe Texas, was at the Jail with
hisisister day ortwo ago, but, the Warden
being very strict asito the admission of per
sons to see him, he was not allowed an in
,terview., No attempt has been made to
arrest. him., notwithstanding the charges
against him by General Sheridan, i'll 1865,
of an intention to assassinate President
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Three important measures were passed
by Congress on the 2d inst. The Military
Reconstruction bill was passed over the
veto by 3S to, 10 in the Senate, and 1876 to
AZ in the House the Tenure of Office bill
was also passed over the veto by IS to II
in the, Senate and 121 to 81 in the House.
Both were declared laws Both branches
Of Congress passed bill for funding the
Compound Interest notes. This bill also
provides for the issue of fifty millions of
temporary loan certificates bearing three
per cent interest, interest and principal and
interest, payable in lawful money, which
may be held by National Banks as part of
their reserve: Provided, That two-fifths of
said reserve shall at all times be lawful
money - " 7'' '''i "a ''hi l''l" il't' 81.
The House Judiciary Committee have
made report ,denouncing polygamy as
contrary to the spirit Of the Christian re
ligion, and relic Of .heathenism and bar
barism, and subyersiye of the marriage re
lation in all nations where it is tolerated
1t is simply legalized prostitution destroy
ing tile original and divine condition of So
ciety2 No greater outrage}on the freedom
of religious faith, says the report, could be
perpetrated, than toirequire the people of
any nation to sanction and approve by law
a practice SO deeply offensive. Abiding to
the assertion, in the recent memorial from
the Utah Legislature, that no effort had
been made to enforce the law, the Commit
tee says::n" This fact is humiliating. If this
is IN consequence of the neglect of the Fed
eral Judges, then they ought to be rel
moved buff the failure arises from other
causes, it is the duty of the President to see
the law executed" aeob ..,i