Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-02-25
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

SENATE.
WAsaISSToS, February "A.
Mr.. Trumbull, from the Judiciary Com
miltse, reported, and tns COMMITTEES wss
discharged from the further considera-
tlon OF the petition, etc asking for leg
islatiOn TO inset the existing state OF
affairs in Georgia, the bill To provide 3
more efficient government for the State
o! Mississippi, and the bill supplement-
| airy co the TACT to abolish tae system OF
| peonage in New Mexico and other parts
eff the United States" and a memorial
against the change in the bankrupt law.
Mr.. Trumbull, from the same com
mittee, reported against the bill to
define feloni, ard misdemeGnoEs, and
the regular pert mptOry challenge in
the United States Courts, on the gcound
that the offsets OF the bill sre already
provided for in the statutes; and, also,
adversely to the bill to preserve the
purity of elections IL the Territories"
on the ground that there is not sufficient
| ground at this session to entertain it.
The Senate then passed tae joint reso-
| luton authorizing the Committee Oh
Public Printing to conclude satisfactory
contracts with Rives & Bailey for re-
porting and publishing the debates for
the next two years.
EVENING SRsSION.-Mr. Wilson, as
chairman of the Committee On Military
| Affairs, called up the following bills@nd
resolutions, which were passed, viz The
HOUSE bill that brsyet commissions shall
only be issued in time OF war; the joint
resOlut ons authorizing the Secretary Of
War TO take possession of the national
cemeteries st Antistam and Gettysburg;
the joint resolution dropping from the
army roll certain officers absent three
months or longer without leave the bill
continuing tbs negro hospitals at Rich
mond and ether points in the South until
the Both Of June next, and longer if nee
essary the bill declaring and fixing the
salaries Of the corps OF Judge Advocates;
the bill repeating the lay requiring the
General OF the Army to resids ST Wash
ipgton, and requiring that all orders 10
the army shall go to the army through
him.
HOUSE.
Mr.. FarnsworLh reported from the
P0stoffics Committee the several bids
for the postal telegraph from Washing
ton to Boston, which were ordered to be
| printed and tabled.
The House then resumed the conside-
ration Of the unfinished busiuess-it be-
| AhS LIZ ~ ~ GehC95A hCa Tx B1OAAS
credit, and legslize gold contracts,
which passed by 119 10 81. II passed in
the same shape as II came from the Com
mittee IN Ways and Means.
The House then agreed TO meet to-
morrow at II o'clock.
MIR. Butter, from the COMMITTEES on
Appropriations, reported the Senate's
amendment TO the Iadian Appropriation
bill, which was referred to the Commit
tee of the Whole and made the special
order for tomorrow.
The HoCse then went into a Commit.
mittee Of the Whole on the Legislative
Appropriation bill, and several amend
ments were adopted.
The Committee then rose, and on the
motion of Sir. Blaine, ordered the dis
charge of the two miscreant witnesses
from New York, Reeves and Bell, and
then again went into a Committee Of
the Whole on the Legislative Appropria-
ton bill, and pending its consideration
took 8 recess till evening.