Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-02
Proceedings In the House.

A bill was introduced and referred
| granting lands to the Tennessee and
Coosa Railroad Company.
Several bills to relieve persons from
political disabilities were introduced.
Mr.. Cook reported a bill to erect
bridges across the Ohio. Passed.
Mr.. Judd introduced joint resolution
requiring their Pacific railroads and their
branches to give bonds guaranteeing the
proper completion of the roads before re-
ceiving aid. Passed. ...
Mr.. Logan moved an inquiry into the
matter of returning to Gen. Lee the
Washington relics, and directing the
Secretary of the Interior not to deliver
them until report was made. Adopted
by vote of ll9 to Is.
On motion of Mr.. Schenck, the rules
prohibiting the passage of bills from the
House and presentation of bills to the
President within three days of adjourn
ment, were sustained ...
1t was ordered that the House meet
hereafter at 10 AN.
Mr.. Schenck moved to suspend the
rules and order that the House
proceed to business on the Speakers
table at 10 O'Clock tomorrow.
The rules were not suspended by a
vote Of y to 10, less than two~thirds
vote.
House bill passed paying Mrs. Susan
A. Shelby, of $4,000 for cotton captured
and sold by the United States.
The House went into Committee of
the Whole on the miscellaneous approN
priation bill, when Mr.. Spalding remarke ed
that the bill was highly important and
should be passed to-day. 1t involved
the appropriation Of about SS,000,0O0,
mainly embraced in three items, printing
OF bonds, treasury notes and bank bills,
the maintenance of revenue cutters, etc,
and the lighthouse establishment.
Amendments then followed, and pend>
ing discussion the House took recess.
In the evening large number Of pri-
vate pension bills were passed.
Mr.. ParlAm reported Hill relating 20
the operations of pension laws. After
some discussion and amendment the bill
passed. 1t provides that no claim of q
widow for pension, pay or bounty, shall
be allowed where she has voluntarily
lived separate and apart from her
husband without receiving any sup
port from him. That all pensions
granted in consequence of death from
wounds or sickness contracted in the
service, shall commence from the date of
the death OF discharge of the soldier,
with provision that nothing in the sew
eral acts relating to pensions shall de-
prive any person who vas in the service
Of the United States Between the Sd Of
| March, 1866, and the 9th of juno, 1866,
Of his pension during that period.
MIR. Newhall withdrew his joint reso>
luton for giving to members from Louisi-
ana, in the present Congress, the right to
nominate persons to fill existing vacan-
cies from that State as midshipmen in the
| United States naval academy.
! Nh. Schenck said the bill TO strengthen
public credit having come back from the
Senate with two or three amendments
hs proposed, he said, by way of abridg'
ing the consideration of the matter, tC
| ask the House to concur in them and
as to the Committee Of Conference, hi
had no doubt such committee would
come to an agreement.
The consideration of miscellaneous ap'
preparation bills was resumed-S50, 00C
was appropriated for the United StateI
buildings in Knoxville, Tenn.