Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-02-28

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to report abill to prohibit the sale of intoxicgng
| beverages in the District. The amendment to
the House bill to provide for d more efficient
| government of the rebefStates was taken up and
debate occurred on the Senate amendment which
was sustained 103 to CO.
| In the Senate, on the 10Th, the Clerk of
the House announced the agreement of the House
| to the report of the Conference Committee on
bill to regulate the tenure Of office. It goes to the
President. The bill amendatory to the act to pro-
vide for the safety of life of steamboat passengers
and those on board vessels to regulate the salaries
OF steamboat III inspectors, and other purposes,
on its amendment to the Reconstruction bill and
agree on the amendments called for by the House.
After lengthy debate the motion prevailed. The
bill to abolish and forever prohibit peonage in New
Mexico passed. "A bill passed that regular army
officers shall have by breyet the highest rank they
$500 to drafted men who found substitutes and
were again drafted and went into the service.
| In the House, on the 10Th, the act forthe
more efficient government of the rebel States was
considered, and the House refused to concur in the
Senate amendment by a vote % toss. Mr.
ESchenek,o from the Committee Of Conference on
the bill to regulate the tenure of ofhce made re-
port the same as was acted in the Senate the day
before 1t was agreed TOLLS against 4O-a strict
party vote ~ The Indian Appropriation bill was
! considered and passed. :. The Senate amendment
to the House bill for the election Of Congressional
printer providing that the election be by the Sem
ate, was concurred in. !. The Post Route bill was
passed. Memorials We're received from tie Min
nesota Legislature to aid in the construction OF the
Green Bay and Lake Pepin Railroad. and to i'm
prove the navigation OF the Minnesota river svst
In the Senate on the Goth, Mr. Pomeroy
presented resolution from the Kansas legislature
in favor of the admission of Colorado. Ordered
printed. The Chair submitted certificate of the
Governor of Pennsylvania that that State had rati-
| fed the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution
| -. Mr.. Poland from the Committee on the Judi
cary, reported adversely ON the bill to protect
children of African descent from being enslavedi in
violation of the Constitution of the United States,
and moved an indefinite postponement of the bill
| The Reconstruction. bin was taken up. Mr..
Doolitte offered an amendment to the House
| amendment as follows Add to the last section the
g Progided, That nothing in this act contained
shall be construed to disfranchise any person in
either OF said States from voting or holding Office
who have received pardon and amnesty II accord
snce with the Constitution and laws.''
Mr.. Doolittle supported his amendment and Mr..
/ Sherman opposed it, 1t was rejected Sto 49, Z The
amendment OF the House was then cencurred in,
IS to z. 1Hoes tiae1i5 fasl Eaiii o7fH o7t.f
The House on the goth, proceeded 70 the
consideration Of the bill to provide efficient gov
ernments for the rebel States : Mr.. Shellabarger
moved the following amendment to the amend
ment to come in as new section:
& And be 1t further enacted, THAT until the peo-
pie of said rebel States shall, by law be admitted
to representation in the Congress of the United
States, the civil governments that xist therein
shall be deemed provisional only, and shall be in
the United sfatGs which NAV at any tine Abolish.
modify, control and supeTsede the same, and in all
4 elections to office under such Provisional Gov
efriinents, all persons shall be entitled toyoe, and
none others, who are entitled to vote under the
provisions of the fifth section of this act and no
person shall be eligible to any office under such
i Provisional Governments who would be disqna
ged from holding office under rhe provisions of the
third article OF said Constitutional Amendment
Adopted, 9S to 70.
f. Mr. Wilson'S motion to concur in the Senate
amendment with Mr. Wilson'S amendment as
amended, on motion of Mr.; Shellebarger, was
agreed to 1875 against as. The bill was then sent
to the Senate. The Senate joint resolution ex-
tending aid and facilities to citizens of the United
States engaged in survey of the route foraship
canal across the Isthmus of Dariee, was passed.
The Army Appropriation bill was passed-6S to 30.
The Tax bill was then considered at some length
and the House adjourned
In the Senate, on the 21st, the commit
tee was discharged from the further consideration
of the bills named. A resolution was introduced
authorizing the formation of board of six officers,
to be appointed by the Secretaries of War and
Navy, to make a trial of the comparative power of
resistance of iron-clad ships and stone fortifca-
tons to the fire of heavy artillery; the use OF one
of the strongest iron-clad ships of the navy and
the most perfect sea coast fertilization for trialbe
ing authorized. Referred to the Committee on
Joint Resolutions. The Judiciary Committee re-
ported the House bill to restore possession of lands
confscated by the authorities of the States lately
in rebellion, with an amendment bill was in
troduced to confirm sales made by the Direct Tax
Commissioners for South Carolina to persons in
the army navy or marine corps. The Postotfice
| Committee reported with amendment, the, bill
establishing mail route between California and
the Sandwich Islands,, A resolution was reported
authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to re-
fund to National Banks the amount of excuses
paid in certain under erroneous rulings OF the
treasury department passed Inc Paclne hai IL
aid a road from Lake Superior to Puget Sound.
The Postofice Committee reported bill declaring
the bridge over the Mississippi at Clinton, Iowa,
postroute. Passed The bill to amend the Militia
ry bill of last session, so as to place Judge Advo
Gates on the same footing as to tenure of Office as
other officers, was passed. =" +t'.
In the House, on the 21st, the Senate bill
to authorize the construction of a submerged
tubular bridge across the Mississippi at st. Louis
was passed. bill was passed, by a vote 95 to 65,
entitled an act to provide for the funding of COM
pound interest notes, which authorizes the Seere
tary of the Treasury to issue one hundred millions
OF legal tenders, or greenback currency, in place
OF the compound interest notes redeemed. The
resolutions of the Kansas Legislature, urging Con-
gress to pass the bill for the admission of Colorado
over the veto was referred The Naval Committee
reported a resolution for board of naval officers
to examine facts in reference to the Naval Academy
| at Annapolis, with view to its removal The
House, in Committee of the Whole, considered the
Tax bill and adjourned -
In the Senate, on the 22d, the Chairman
submitted the resolutions Of the Rhode Island
Legislature ratifying. the Constitutional Amend.
meIt . Mr.. Howard presented the resolutions of
the Wisconsin Legislature certifying to the rafca-
| ton by that body of the Fourteenth Amendment
to the Constitution ;: The Committee on Com
preservation and completion of public works, with
neutrality-suspicious. among which is one
striking out the appropriation of 81 000 900 for the
improvement of the Des Moines rapids of the Mis-
sissippi river, and another striking out the appro
priation of $4,000 for the improvement OF the
harbor of Michigan City. ;. Mr. McDougal present.
ed the credentials OF Senator Cole OF California,
for six years from March d. Ordered fled. :. The
joint resolution to extend to the State Of Ten
nessee the benefits of the act donating public lands
to the several States for the establishment of az
ricuura colleges was called up, the proyiso
ed in the House to prohibit any person who ever
held Office under the rebel government from hold
ing professorship in the college was stricken out
and the bill passed The bill in relation to the
Indian Bureau was taken up, the House amend
i ments disagreed to, and Committee OF Confer
ence ordered ]. The Senate also agreed to a Com
mittee of Conference on the Legislative Appropri-
alton bill A similar course was taken on the
81 Military Academy bill. Also on the Diplomatic
Appropriation bill... On motion of Mr.. Sumner
the joint oluton supplementary to that for the
Exposition, was considered and passed. 1t appro-
PIRATES $4,000 in addition to the $156000 previous
ly appropriated. Adjourned.
4 In the House, on the 22d, the Consular
and Diplomatic Appropriation bill was reported
back with Senate amendments, and that making
an appropriation for the Portugal mission was non
concurred in The bill for the relief of the iron
clad contractors was passed. >! The Select Commit
tee on the murder of Union Soldiers in South Car
DINA. made a report with leave to Mr. Cooper to
present the views of the majority. Report ordered
| printed The Committee on Ways and Means
! was requested to examine into the expedency of
bringing in a bill to establish national school Of
| science. The House went into Committee Of the
| Whole on the Tax BILL. An amendment was
adopted that after Sept, 1S67ync tax be levied on
cotton grown in the United States. Amend
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