The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1869-12-18

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,Senate.--Various petitions favoring the re-
cognition of Cuba were presented. Mr.. Stockton
introduced bill to amend the revenue acts.
Mr.. Drake presented bill regulating the time
for holding the Presidential and congressional
elections.
House-A bill for the more perfect recon
struotion of Georgia was presented and referred
Various bills of an unimportant nature were
presented and referred.
sta FRIDAY, Dec. 10.
The Senate was not in ses sion.
In the House the census bill was further dis
cussed. Alarge number of bills were introduced
and referred, among them being one to relieve
farmers who sell their own products from the
necessity of taking out license as produce
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SATURDAY, Dec. IL.
The Senate was not in session.
In the House, the ways and means committee
were directed to inquire into the expediency of
reporting bill to repeal so much of the inter
nal revenue laws imposes a manufacturer S
tax on provision dealers. The committee on
reconstruction submitted several documents in
relation to the admission Of the State of Virgil
MIA A bill was introduced and referred to dis
pense with spies and informers in the internal
revenue departments.
g MONDAY, Dec. 10.
Senate.-Mr. Carpenter, from the Committee
on the Judiciary, reported a bill to perfect the
reconstruction of Georgia, providing for the as
sembling of the Legislature as originally cleo
ted, with no expulsion of members on account
of race or color, the eclusion of all persons
ineligible under the Fourteenth Amendment,
and that the provisions of the act be enforced
by the military and naval power. The bill now
goes over for further consideration. Mr.. Wilson
introduced bin to prevent the importation of
emigrants Chinese, etc. J, under labor contracts
Mr.. Corbett introduced bill to fund the debt
Mr.. Conkling bill to repeal the ranking
privilege and Mr.. Carpenter bill authorizing
the President to receive the designations of the
Judges of the Supreme Court on the ground of
incapability on account of disease or accident,
and retiring any such Judge on pension Mr..
Carpenter introduced bill in opposition to the
release of the Spanish gunboats Mr.. Drake
called up his bill prohibiting the Supreme
Court from jurisdiction upon acts of Congress,
and made an argument upon it, Mr.. Drake
took the ground that if the Court could pass
judgment upon and reverse an act of Congress
it was practically the highest power in the
land, and that the Constitution never intended
butthat Congress should be the sole and supreme
legislative power.
House.-Mr. Butler introduced several bills
for the admission of Virginia, all of which were
referred to the Committee on Reconstruction
Several bills to abolish the ranking privilege
were referred. resolution was adopted en-
dorsng the Presidents views in opposition to
reciprocity of trade with Canada as expressed
in the Message. The resolution to appoint a
committee to investigate the recent gold panic
in New York, and ascertain fanny Government
official was connected with it, was altered so as
to impose the duty upon the Committee on
Banking and Currency, and then adopted.
Several petitions for the recognition of Cuba
were referred. resolution nstructng the
Committee ON the Judiciary to inquire whether
the retrocession of the county Of Alexandria
was constitutional, and whether in consequence
Nc en- zie is tO n in
as Representative from the First District of
Virginia, was, after some debate, laid on the
table, the House showing an indisposition to
question the consttutionality of the retroces-
sion The diplomatic correspondence with our
Minister at Madrid relative to Cuba was called
for. A message from the Secretary of State was
received announcing that official notice of the
ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment had
been received from twenty one States The
Census bill was then debated on the repre-.
sentation question up to the hour of adjourn
inent.
TUESDAY, Dec. II
Seaate-The session was almost entirely de
voted to the official announcement of the death
of Mr.. Fessenden. Eulogies were spoken by
Messrs. Morrill,, Grimes, Trumbull, Anthony,
Williams, Cattell, Patterson, Davis, Vickers
and Hamlin.
3 House.-Mr, Getz introduced BILL which
was referred, aboishing the office of Collector,
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enue, and apportoning the amount of taxes
among the States, 10 be collected by them
Mr.. Swami presented a memorial from the
Medical Staff of the Naval Academy regarding
their injuriously degrading position. The Cen
sus bill was esumed, and the amendment re-
curing preliminary report to bemade to the
Secretary of the Interior, so that Representa-
tives could be apportonod, was defeated. The
death of Mr.. Fesseneen was announced, and
was followed by eulogies from Messrs. Lynch,
Peters, Brooks Dawes and Hale.
@ Ht WEDNESDAY,, Dec. 10.
In the Senate memorial from the National
COlored Labor Convention, recently in sson
at Washington, setting forth the necessity of
Congress interfering to amelorate the condi |
tion of the laboring colored men of the South,
and asking Congress TO divide the lands belong
ing to the Government in the South among the |
colored men was yesterday referred to the Com
mitteeon Public Lands. A resolution to establish |
a lighthouse at the mouth of the Choptank riv. |
er was referred TO the Committee on Commerce |
resolution authorizing the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue to offer rewards for the APP |
prehension of persons numbering or attempting |
to murder officers of the Internal Revenue in |
the discharge of their duty was referred to the |