The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-04-15
Adjournment OF Congress.

session of nearly five months. Boil
Houses were in session all night the las
night of the session
! The Senate was IN executive session
until o'clock in the morning Three
hours and half were consumed in debat.
ing the nomination of j. M. Ashley, OF
Ohio, as governor of Montana, and he
was confirmed by only one majority, the
vote standing 81 to 20.
The conference report on the amenda-
tory Tax bill was agreed to at 4 o'clock in
the morning, when the Senate adorned
to l o'clock. On re assemblingt the bill
relating to Attorney General was passed
The resolution to pay the Senators
from the reconstructed States from the
commencement of the Fortieth Congress-.
came up. Mr.. Perry moved to pay them
only from the 28th of June, 1868. Mr..
Wilson moved to lay the matter aside and
take up the bill defining the act regulat-
ing the hours OF labor. Lost.
The discussion continued till the hour
of adjournment arrived, when the Presi-
dent declared the Senate adjourned.
Congress passed, and the President ap-
proved, the bill reconstructing Mississip-
pi, Virginia and Texas, with a proviso,
requiring as condition precedent to
Congressional representation, that those
States shall ratiiy the Fifteenth Cor suf-
frage) amendment to the Constitution of
the United states
In the house, Mr. Banks offered reso
luton rendering sympathy to the Cuban
patriots, and promising support to the
President whenever, a Republican govern
ment having been established, he may
deem it expedient to recognize their indie
pendence. The rules were suspended
and the resolution adopted-98 to "a.
At the close. Of the session, there was
the same confusion in the House-many
members addressing the Speaker at the
same time. But, the Speaker refused to
recognize any one till order was restored,
and when the hour for adjournment arriv-
ed, adjourned the House sinie de.
President Grant, Secretary Fish, and
Attorney General Hoar, went to the Cap
itol at 10 in the morning, and the Presi-
dent was busy signing bills which were
passed during the night and forenoon up
to the time Of adjournment. Every i'm
portant measure that the President or
Congress desired has passed There are
several railroad schemes and few pri-
vate jobs that failed
The bill which continued the educa
tional department of the Freedmen's Blu
reau, failed. A million dollars appropro-
priated and in the treasury, will be saved
by Its failure Whether the saving will
overbalance the detriment to the Freed
men and the country, is not 50 clear. !.
The currency Redistribution bill failed
to pass, and perhaps some others not now
Remembered
The Union Pacific and Central Pacific
Railway difficulty was adjusted, and the
necessary legislation to take the case out
of the hands of the New York Courts
passed
tits said that all the bills passed except
one for the relief of Rollin White, were
signed by the President.
Fifly1one Executive nominations re-
NAMED without action when the Senate
adjourned, including all of the New York
Internal Revenue appointments. These
will, of course fail, and the President
will be compelled to renominate them, or
others in their places.