The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-07-27

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tioDs for certain executive expense
of the Government, was amended anc
passed. ~
4 CoBkling called up the bill relative
to The protection of Government OH
GERS against whom suits are brought
was passed.
AT ppm. the Senate went into ex-
ecutive session.
HOUSE. w AsHINGToN. July %.
| "A resolution was adopted remitting
fines on members for absence without
leave.
The bill providing that railroad
lands be sold only to actual settler
| passed. au Is r,.f4l1.
Il The business on the Speakers table
was taken up, and the first vote
showed no quorum present.
| Washburne' had endeavored to OBJ
tain consent to report a bill TO extend
the revenue laws over Alaska, but
l-PomeToy objected, insisting upon the
regular order Of business.
On the announcement of no quo
rum, Nv ash burne Offered to compro-
mise with POmerOy by agreeing not to
call for a division on the business If
| the latter would not object to his re-
/ porting his bill after the business was
completed. sPomerOy declined.
A call of the House fOuGd ia
present. 5s.ss-s ...
The ratification of the Fourteenth
Article by the Georgia Legislature
was presented and referred. ,-.r
Several Senate bills were acted
upon. included an extension of the
patent on Turner's alarm clock, which
passed. 49,
Schenck, from the Committee on
Ways and Means, reported bill Cor
the increase of duties On imported
copper and copper ores, as follows ::
On ores, three cents per pound if fine
copper is contained therein; on Block
and grass copper, four cents per
pound; on fine, copper on old copper,
fit only for re-maau acture, four
cents per pound on copper in plates
and bars, ingots, not manufactured
nor enumerated in the bill, five cents
per pound.
Kerr made it point of order that
the bill relative to import taxes must
be first considered In Committee of
the Whole.
The Speaker sustained the point,
and the bill was referred to the Com
mittee Of the Whole. a
The Senate bill for the extension
of the Portage Lake and Lake Su-
perior Ship Canal to Kanawa Bay
was RET erred to the Committee On
Public Lands. -
Logan ex pressed his belief that no
agreement would be reached on the
funding bill, and asked leave to re-
port, from the Committee on Ways
and Means, a bill containing the Sec
tions added in his motion to the fund
ing bin No objection being made
Logan reported bill prohibiting
the allowance of commissions, &C.,
for negotiations or exchange of
bonds, coin, or bullion on account of
the United States; providing that all
authority under existing laws to issue
bonds or interest bearing treasury
notes, shall cease Immediately, not to
interfere with the conversion of Sc
eurities into $40 bonds, nor the issue
of 3 per cent. certificates, temporary
| loan for the exchange OF registered
bonds, for coupon bonds, nor the
issue of subsidy bonds to the rail-
road coupons, and requiring monthly
reports from the Secretary of the
Treasuryz
Mr.. Broadwcll offered as an amend
ment an additional section, pro-
hibiting the Secretary of the Treasury
from making any sales of gold for any
purpose whatever. The amendment
was agreed to and the bill passed.
Mr.. Eliot, from the Committee on
| Commerce, reported back the Senate
bill to amend the act of March 1868,
to prevent and punish frauds on the
revenue, which passed.
| Mr.. Beck offered a resolution
| directing the Committee on Ways and
1 Means to reports joint resolution eX-
/ empting all persons from penalties and
| forteitures imposed by the Internal
Revenae Law passed at this session,
| for such period of time, not less than
| twenty days. as would enable persons
effected thereby to obtain copies Of
the law aud understand Its provisions,
which was adopted.
| Maynard, from the Committee on
| Ways and Means, reported back the
bill introduced by Cullom. repealing
section 136 of the act of June Both,
| 1864, to provide ways and means to
support the government, and repeal
ing any legacy or succession tax,
which passed. .-. ..-.. --- e.
/ Clarke, of Kansas, offered a resolu-
ton. reciting the fact that two female
white children had been recently re-
covered from a tribe of the Kiowa
Indians, in Texas, the rest of the
family having been murdered, and
directing the. Secretary of the Interior
to reserve. from monies due to those
Indians, $50 900 for each of the
children, who are to be known as
Helene and Hsloise Lincoln.
Paine suggested an amendment re-
quiring the payments to be withheld
from any tribes of Indians that held
white persons in captivity.
Mullins suggested extending the
provisions to persons of other colors.
Paine adopted the suggestion, and
: 1.-The resolutions as amended were
adopted.
Butler offered a resolution author
iziug and-req qairing Lieutenant Cen
: eral Sherman to use the most efficient
} means to reclaim from peonage the
| women and children of the Navajoe
Indians now held in slavery In the
territory adjacent to their homes. He
| stated that there were about 1000
/ women and children so enslaved. The
: resolution was adopted.
4 Schenck, from the Committee on
r WAYS and Means, reported bill to
correct an error in the settlement OF
5 the tax bill, supplying the word not
t where it had been omitted, In the last
e clause of section fOrty-eight, so that