The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-01-07
City Debt oaly Increased s5 COO. 900
In One Year.
GOLD CLOSED lNeKEWsYoRK lsn
XLth CONGRESS---Sec0nd Session.

/ Fs+@ 1t1t Effs
Under cali of The States bills were intro
| duced by Ar. Broomal 70 sbolsbthe presen
! system Of contractionI and to substitute re
/ demption of legal tender notes when present.
/ edin sums of less than 500, at 1one dollal
nd forty cents rer dollar OF gold during the
! first month; one dollar and thirty-nine and a
half cents during the second mouth; one dol
lar snd thiriy-aine cents daring the third
msnth, and 70 oa, until gold and ssses be-
come Of eqaal value, which would be in six
years and eight months.
BY Mr.. Keaa. To amend tif4 soldiers
bounty lawso that the heirs Of soldiers Eho
died after the passage |ol The law shall receive
tie bounty he would have been entitled to If
living. q ks9E
BY Mr. Iugersoli. To repeal certain por
tion of an &c, of the Lsgislaiiss Assembly
of Colorado authorizing q lottery and to
prevent swindiinfg in the Territories.
| by Mr. Asum. Toamend the act dividing
tie State or Illinois into two judicial DIS
trietst also to create local bosrd Of inspec-
ton ofhuiis, boilers, and machinery Of sfeaff-
ers at Cairo, and 10 authorize the appoint
ment of local Inspectors and fix their COM
pensatien. -
BY Mr.. Loan. To provide for holding
terms OF the. U Uniied States District Court at
tSt dOtsEu, -'1o.f dlso " IVusatotS ING saihc =
rDrsuf delivery x s
ssBr Mr. sl}onnelfy.. To amend the Tnien
Pacific Railroad act so a. TO extend the Sioux
City branch TO the head of Lake Superior;
making grant OF Land 70 Dacotah Territory
for railroad from Sioas City via VermiiIion
and Ytnktoa, to Helena, Mentana Terri
tory.
BY Mr.. Window. To amend the home
stesd set % IS to aptherss. applicants ID
b@ats iie nidsvsts required BY lhe urisinei
atatntf, hsfcre the Clerk OF The County Court
in which the applicants reside; also for the
relief of actual settlers en- the Sioux ressr-
walton in Minnesota, extending for two years
the tspe OF mssing proof and psymsnssfor
their lards.s
All appropriately referred.
Mr.. Epson Offered ths following resoiu-
ions
Rss5lred, That the Gonni.,fc on Rerops
stFnetion inquire into the expedency of au-
thofizing by Law the several ConssltMietssl
Conventions elected under the Recsnstrlik-
ton sets in the Ststes lately In rebellion, TO
appeiat all titil OH aeers Slate, o6SAty, arity,
or otherwise, in those States, to act tenpors-
rily until the ConstitulioEs may be 6dopted
therein, and the oi6cers chosen and qualified
hereunder, and for that purpose, to relieve
ary or all ssaA civil officers who may be now
actinatu each OF said States, ~ the Consti-
sut:onal Eoaveasio, thereof may deem proper
lss Ioatgel askeA AlFs Ufasea 40 acespt
as an amendment the foilosinG rssoistion, 70
be added to his own:. -
II Res,frei, Thst the Com Bittee on Recon-
s.ruction be directed 10 consider the e5pe-
diency of authorizing the General of the
Ars,r 70 1etan Office sfor sefYice 10 fhs sew
eral military districts. established by law in
the several states recently in sebelsioni pisa
70 consider the expediency OF constituting
such States single military district, uuder
ffss command Of fhe t5enefHf Uf ING Armyy
also 10 eonsider ths expedisSoy. efYtpEiHak
additional sernrkses fer the exercise Of the
elective franchise in said Siatesi and also to
consider the expedleny a dscdarjng by act
of Congress that The governments heretofore
10 said States by order of The, President, are
not republican forms Of geyeslment sc
Mr.. Epson accepted The amendment as an
addition to his resolation
Mr. Chandler moved 10 lar the resolution
onthsstsbts. kesAtised- yeas 9e, ssJs ty.
tn: ftsolutisus ss asnended, ~ tlsesf
Mr.. E,dridge introduced joint resolution
rendering the tbankss of Congress to Msjor
General Hancock, for his wise, patriotic and
tisrsly secUsniiiou ef the tret rghas AZ sisis
zens, and The great principles of constitution
81 liberty expressed in the order issued by
him in assuming command of the Fifth Mill
tary district, so called. snd Cor his prompt
determination to restore and maintain the
supremacy Of the civil A~wi,hin the limits
Mr. Wsshfasee Iaa.ofs sseksSsNt. El>
bridge to accept the following as an amend;
merit: A8S u "A ~