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Tho Constitutional Amendments In Kan.
ST.. LOUIS, January lo.-The Kansas
House passed the Constitutional Amend
ment today, 70 to ..
Nebraska and Colorado.
WARRINGTON, Jan. 9.-The Senate to-
day passed the Nebraska Admission
Bill with the following amendment, Of
fered by Mr.. Edmunds:
SEC. 3. That this Act shall 60 into eff
feet with the fundamental and perpetual
condition that within said State Of Ne
brasks there shall be no abridgement or
denial Of the elective franchise or any
other right to any person by reason Of
race or color, except Indians not taxed.
The Colorado bill passed with the
same amendment.
The Indians TO DO Punished.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-General Grant
directed the Superintendent of the
Mounted Recruiting Service, at Carlisle
Barracks to forward the recruits to Fort
Lesvenworth, Kansas, for the Seventh
United States Cavalry.
Fatality Of the Cholera ON tho Nicaragua
RnmHA
New YORK, Jan. l0.-The steamer
Evening Star, from Aspinwall, brings
$s74,474 in treasure. ySixty-six U. s.
soldiers, sent to San Francisco via Mica
rsgua, died in transit of the cholera,
which is raging there. All California
passengers via that route were detained
on the Isthmus, being too late to con.
meet with the California steamer.
Congressional.
WASHINGTON, Jan. l0.-In the House,
the bill to pay the route mail agents not
less than nine hundred or more than
one thousand two hundred dollars pei
anuum, passed! A lengthy discussion
ensued on making the bridge YER the
Mississippi river at Clinton, Iowa, q
post route, passed-l0l to 43.
The Senate amendment to the bill fix
ing the time of the meeting of Congress,
and providing TINT no member Of the
next preceding Congress shall be allow
ed mileage, was agreed to.
The Senate amendment to the House
bill amending the organic acts of the
Territories ofNebraska, Colorado, Da.
kota, etc., was agreed to in the House.
under the operation of the previous
question, and the title ofthe bill charged
to read, Gan Act to Regulate the Elec'
tive Franchise in the Territories of the
United States"
The Senate bill to admit Nebraska
was taken up, discussed, and postponed
when the House adjourned.
The House Judiciary Committee are
ready for the witnesses to be examined
in regard to the sale of negroes into
slavery. There is q determination &c
investigate this matter thoroughly.
The Impeachment business was mo-
taken up tonight.
WASHINGTON, Jan. lO.-Inthe Senate
Mr.. Pollard called up the House bill to f,
the time for the regular meeting Of Cou'
gress.
Mr.. Hendricks opposed the passage o
the bill.
Mr.. Edmunds said he had only taken
charge of the bill at the request Of Sen.
ators who wero about, and members o.
the House. As far as he knew, the rea.
sons that produced the passage of the
bill in the House-the principal one wal
to provide an additional Office in sue
cession to the President in case Of hi,
death or impeachment. The bill would
give US a permanent Speaker Of the
House, which we would not have with.
out it. How much political significance
there might be in the bill he did moi
know. He was not prepared to say thai
the difference between the President
and Congress had not contributed to
the passage of the bill, though how
much he could not say.
Mr.. Hendricks offered an amendment
to the second section in the following
words:
Unless there be q recess in such ses.
sion for more than thirty days, in which
case the members of a former Congress
shall receive mileage.
The amendment was disagreed to.
The bill was then read a third time
and passed. Yeas, 20; nays, IL. ,
As passed by the Senate and sent to
the House the bill is in substance:
The Fortieth Congress and all Con-
crosses hereafter shall meet at noon, on
the 4th day of March. In case the day
comes on Sunday, it shall meet at the
same hour on Monday.
Section 2. No member who was a
member of the previous Congress shall
receive mileage going to or returning
from the session.
The Finance Committee have finished
the consideration of!.the Tariff Bill and
will reportit late tonight or tomorrow.
1t maintains very nearly the same rates
of duty on wool and iron as those now
in force. That on classified articles in
clines 10 the rates suggested by Mr..
McCulloch.
Mr.. Wade called up the bill to amend
the organic Acts of Territories of the
United States, by prohibiting the denial
of civil or political rights on account of
color, and offered the following sub
~stitute:
From and after the passage of this
Act there shall be no denial Of the cleo
tive franchise in the Territories Of the
United States which are now, or may be
hereafter, organized, on account of race,
color, or previous condition of servitude;
and all Acts or parts of Acts, either of