Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-11
HOUSE,

HOUSE.
/ p. M.-Under the call of States, bills
were introduced and referred:
| By Mr.. Morrill, of Maine-TO change
the time of the meeting of Congress at its
second and third sessions TO the first Mon
day in January; also, to protect Ameri-
can citizens and passengers by steamers :;
also, to provide a reversory board for the
navy and to regulate naval rankst also, to
regulate the rank of naval medical men.
By Mr.. Poland-AuthOrizing the entry
of Canadian products without consular
certificates.
sReIief for Farmers, etc.
Among other bills introduced were the
following:
Exempting farmers and gardeners from
paying brokers' tax on the sales of their
product
Repeating tariff duties On animals i'm
ported for breeding purposes. 90
To promote the interests of general cd
ucation among the people of the United
States.
To admit Virginia 10 representation in
Congress.
To extend the privileges of the National
Banking act.
To repeal all the acts of Congress on the
subject of
Bankruptcy,
providing that the repeal shall not effect
any case or proceedings in bankruptcy
commenced before the passage of the act,
nor any of the pains, or penalties, or for
FIXTURES incurred under such acts.
To aid public schools in Arkansas.
To amerd the national currency act.
To establish boundaries of judicial cir
cults of the United State.
To amend homestead act by allowing
soldiers to enter 100 acres of the alternate
reserved sections along railroad grants, in
stead of eighty acres as now limited; and
that when any person enters for home
stead l60 acres of land not mineral nor
timbered, and only capable of cultivation
by irrigation, he may in addition enter
100 acres of land not mineral and not
capable of cultivation by irrigation, half
of which may be timber land, and that
any person entitled to homestead may
enter three-fOurth sections of land unCap
able of cultivation by irrigation, not
VI ll4ilBtlNu ldLlNls anu OlAA NthAN
able for grazing, and with it eighty
acres Of timbered land, by paying.
APPOrtiOumcnt of Representative
among the several States.
Section l., enscts that after March the
3, 1870, the House Of Representatives
shall be composed of 800 members, pro-
vided first, that if any new States shall be
admitted after the next session, there
Representatives shall be additional to the
300, second if any State shall be reduced
in number of Representatives by the ap
pOrtionment such reduction shall not take
affect in the forty-seCOnd Congress, but
It's Representatives in that Congress in
| creases of the number fixed by the ap-
portionment shall be additional to the
| 800, and third if the Representation of
any State, shall be increased by appoT-
tionment additional Representatives shall
be chosen by the State at large, unless
its Legislature shall otherwise provide.
Sec. 3 requires superintendent of cen
sus to submit TO the Secretary of the
! Interior before August Is, 1870, Te-
| iminary report, showing first the whole
number of persons in each State, terrific
ry, county and parish; second, the num-
Der Of male citizens therein twenty-One
years of age, and third, the number of
male citizens therein twcnty-One years of
ace, whose right to vote for certain Of
lenses is denied or abridged, except for
participation in the rebellion or other
| causes, with other necessary statistics.
Sec. 9 Provides that after the pre-
liminary report is made to the Secre-
tary of the Interior, he shall, in ac-
cordance with section 9 of the -
amendment of the Constitution, ascertain
therefrom such returns of subOrdinates as
he shall find it necessary to consist; first,
the basis of representation of each State;
and second, aggregate basis of represen-
tation of the United States; third, and
shall ascertain the basis of representation
of the congressional districts by dividing
/ its basis of representation by the basis
of the single districts rejecting the fac
tons; fourth, and shall apportion to the
State having the largest rejected faction
one to each enough Representatives to
make the whole 500.
| Sec. T. Requires the Secretary of the
! Interior TO transmit statement of his
proceedings under this act, duly sealed
and certified to the Speaker of the House,
and to each Governor on or before Sept.
10, 1871. o.
Sec. 5. Provides that the Secretary of
! the Interior shall inohde the basis of
! representation of each of the States of
Mississippi, Virginia, Texas and Georgia,
and in the aggregate masse of the United
! States, but shall moi transmit the state
ment of his proceedings TO their Govern
Ors until they are respectively admitted TO
representation in both Houses of Congress,
and that if the Fifteenth Amendment shall
be duly ratified before Dec. 10, 1870,
there shall be no reduction of basis of
any State on account of previous denial,
OF abridgement of any right which shall
be received by that amendment.
| OFFICIALS Using Governments Car
riages.
Mr.. Munger offered a resolution direct
ing the Secretaries of the Treasury, War,
| Navy, Interior, Postmaster General, and
Attorney General to report the number OF
carriages and horses and amount Of har-
ness paid for by the Government and
used for the convenience and pleasure OF
! such heads of departments and their
families, o. by the heads OF their res
peciive bureaus, and to state by what
| authority such property of the Govern
mcnt has been so appropriated, etc.
The House refused to second the pre-
vious question and Mr.. Benjamin, OF Mis-
souri,, rising 70 debate, the motion went
over under the rules.
Entiucd 10 Representation.
Mr.. Bingham introduced a joint reso-
luton declaring Virginia entitled to repre-
sentation in Congress, and demanded the
previous question on its passage.
The preamble recites that the people OF
Virginia have adopted constitution re-
publican in form, and have IN all respects
conforlned to the requirements of the
act of Congress of April 10, 1869, au-