The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-03-04

and new Committee appointed
The report Of the Conference Com.
mitiec on the constitutional amend.
meut was adopted. The amendment
as passed, is 10 the folloAiug words
"The right df citizens Of the United
States to vote shall not be denied OF
abridged by the United States, or by
any State, on account Of race, color
or precious condition Of servitude.
The House then went at work on the
Legislative Appropriation bill as re-
ported by Committee Of the Whole.
Various amendments, including that
giving women clerks the same pay
received by men doing simil1r work
were adopted. The bill was not fin
ally disposed of. The Annual Post
Route bill was passed. The evening
was passed 10 discussion Of the De-
| f,icncy Appropriation bill.
senate, Feb 2G--Tho morning
hour was spent debating, without vo-
ting on, the proposition to pay South
ern Senators for tho whole term Of
the Fortieth Congress. The report
of the Committee Of Conference on
tho Cunstitutional amendment then
came up, and was debated through
the day, aud during most of the
evening session. Many Republican
Senators objected strongly to the
form of the amendment, but stated
their intention to vote for il on t Q
principle, as stated by Senator MoiS
ton, that "half loaf is better than
no bread" The amendment was f.
nally passed, yeas 30; nays, ID. Sew
eral bills relating to the management
and business of National Banks were
then passed in the shape they came
from the House.
House, Feb. 2G.-The Deficiency
Appropriation bill o,Ulpicd the at
tention OF the House, in Committee
Of the Whole, in the early part Of the
day. But few aue ldments wlro
made. The item providing ior rav-
ing back salary to Harvey, Minis.
ter at Lisbon, was stricken out in
Committee, but retained by the
House. The House agreed to the
Conference Committees reports on
the bill regarding pay Of Deputy
COLLECTORS ard Assessors, and the
Naval Appropriation bill. The leg
islativo Appropriation bill was con.
sidcred, but not acted on. The De-
fcieucy bill was then passed. A res
olution expressing sympathy with the
Cuban reyolutiouists went to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs.
SENATE, Feb. 27.-The bill &c
strengthen the public credit, as re,
ported from the Finance Committee
was taken up, and after amcndmont
an d long discussion, occupying mos
Of tho day and evening sessions, wa:
passed--30 to 16.
House Feb. 27.-Tho report o
the Committee on Elections in tho
Louisiana case, was taken up. Mr.
Menard (colored) addressed tht
House in his own behalf Mr.. Hunt
claim TO the seat was rejected; also
Mr.. Monard's. Then the whole sub
ject was tabled. Tho debate on thi
subject, and a personal affair betwecI
Mr.. Chauler, Democrat, from New
York, and Speaker Colhx, in whicl
the latter was grossly iusulte,
by the former, consumed the who'll
of tho day session, In the evening
the report on the Alaska bribery cas-,
was made. The Union Pacific Rail
road, Eastern Division, was authoriz
ed to change its name to the Ka1sa
Pacific Railroad Company. Th
House then went into Committee o
the Whole on the Indian Appropria.
tion bill, consideration of which wa
not concluded before adjournment.
Ge5- An Incident of peculiar kin,
took place in New York city recently
Charles Koade sued the publishers o
tho Round TJle for libel, becaus
they saw fit to numerically critics
his novel, ,"Griflith Gauut," pronounc
ing it grossly impure. The plainti
offered in evidence the novel itsel
1t was allowed, aud an elocutionis
employed to read it to the Court an
Jury. Tho reader read i've hour
on it and then asked that he be a
lowed to rest till the next day. A
tho conmoncement of the reading tn
Court and Jury appeared interested
but before the first seven chapter
were completed all looked tired.
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