Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-07-01
Weekly News Summary.
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! In the Senate, on the nth, bills were
\ reported-without amendment, the House bill &
amend the Homestead act, extending it to sol
| diers; with amendments, the bill continuing the
| st. Paul q Sioux City Railroad across the Terri
tory of Dakota TO Yankton. and for a land gran
in aid Of st.. The House joint resolution amend
aory of the joint resolution for the relief OF GER
tain officers of the army. passed in July, 1885, wa:
| amended go as to provide for compensation from
date of commission to officers who were commits
sioned while in Confederate prisons, the present
law dating the pay from the date. OF muster
Ia, and passed The a3ga House .o, nln to, con con
sions was passed. The bill to prohibit contracts
for servilelabor was taken up, and several amend
ments were suggested The bill for pension to
Franking bin came up, but was passed over for
consideration of the calendar, and a number oi
bills were read The post-oce st Appnropriat,oa a,
amendments were agreed Restricting free let.
ter deliveryto cities of over 40 900 con-
tinuing the present provisions of the law for the
free transmission of newspapers; to provide for
| two-cent letteEpostage. .EOther amendments were
offered and rejected. Adjourned. ..r..,.,.tr
In the House, on the 17th, a report was
| made from the Election Committee and agreed TO-
that Whittesey is not entitled to the seat, and that
Mckenzie, the sitting member, is. "A billwas re-
I ported and passed. to equalze the .bounties d
| soldiers, allowing $83 to non commissioned OIL
cers, soldiers, ard musicians for each months ser
vice between April IL, 1861, and May - 1902, de
ducting United States bounties already paid.
joint resolution was passed to transfer to the Lin
| coin Monument Association at Springfield. H.
to the late President Lincoln. and now in the
| crypt of the Capitol....A bill was intro
| duced and referred, to provide bounty for the
| min Benton and Bird were announced as Con
ference Committee on the bill defining the dates
Of pension agents. The bill granting the Yerba
Buena Island to the Western Pacific Railroad
Company for terminus was rejected. 80 to 81
and motion to reconsider was entered. Several
bills granting pensions were reported from tne
Committee on Invalid Pensions, and passed :;
were passed. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 18th, substitute
was reported from the Judiciary Committee for
the House bill in reference to the naturalization
laws, being the Senate bill previously reported,
with additional section authorizing United
States Marshals in cities having over 600 inhab
itants, to appoint many special deputies as nee
essary to preserve order at any election at which
members of Congress are to be chosen, The
House bill fixing the compensation ofgrand and
petit jurors in the Circuit and District Courts
Of the United States at 80 per day was re-
ported as amended. and passed. "A Ebll was
reported for the relief of purchasers of lands sold
for direct taxes in the insurrectionary States: "A
land grant bill in aid of the St.J james q Little Rock
aid Of the s Atcbson, Topeka Santa Fe Railroad
was passed . The Pest Office Appropriation bill
was taken up in Committee of the Whole, and an
amendment was adopted that the abolition & Of tne
gust !, after which an amendment abolishing the
franking privilege providing one cent postage,
etc, was rejected-16 to 3o.and TIE 0lh was ; re-
ported to the Senate, when, the alnendments abol
1shing the franking privilege, providing for one
cent postage, etc., were renewed. Adjourned.
In the House. on the 18th, the Senate
joint resolution for the appointment of Naval
Board to examine cases of officers who deem
themselves unjustly passed over by promotions
made in conformity with the act OF Congress OF
July 25, 1856, was passed.. Bills were reporsea
! and pa5sed-amending the act in relation TO the
sale of the st. Louis Arsenal grounds; to amend
the act of 1Sth june 1864, changing and defining
the boundaries of the eastern end western
districts of Virginia; the Senate Dill 10
authorize the settlement of the accounts OF
officers of the army and navy in cases where sthe
voucheris lost, and for Other payments, &C, win
an amendment limiting the settlements to sums
under $4,000, and to officers in whose accounts
there rs no apparent fraud. The credentials OF
3: F. Whittemore, from the First .Congress1onal
District of South Carolina, were submitted and
read, and objection was made to his being sworn
in, and, after considerable discussion, the ques-
ton was postponed to the DIST "A large number
OF private claims We're disposed OF, Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the goth, q joint reso-
luton was passed, granting condemned for
a monument to General Lyon, in Greene county,
Mo. "A petition was Presented and referred,
| from the Kentucky Congressional Delegation, for
the removal of the political disabilities of large
number of Kentuckians :. Joint resolutions were
MISUNDERSTANDING applications for alterations
OF railroad charters on the part OF companies VINO
have received land grant, unless the reasons are
set forth specially; bringing all foreign telegraph
companies, haying offices in the United States. un-
der the provisionsof the Internal Revenue laws.
resolution was adopted, calling upon the Presl-
dent for information as to moneys paid into
the United States Treasury on account of property
seized, condemned, and confscated in Virginia oy
virtue of an act of Congress The House amend
ments to the bill to authorize the settlement of
the accounts of officers Of the army and navy
were coucurred in. The Post Office Appropr1a-
tlon bill was taken up, and amendments were re- re-
jected- providing for one cent postage-19 to % !;
for two cent postsge--23 to 3s GLOWING $500 per
year for each member of the Senate and House for
to bona fde subscribers within the limits of the
| United States-23 to 25; and IN amendment was
agreed to--35 to 23--that the abolition, OF
until reoRkas ocoSssr GO not of
ence from the State Department, setting forth
that ithe French Cable Company have renounced
the exclusive privilege conferred gpon tnem e
| and ordered printed. The Texas Pacific Kali
road bill was taken up, and an amendment, pro-
/ yiding for tAe consolidation of the Alabama "a 4
| Chattanooga, Vcksburg q Meriden, and North
Louisiana d Texas Railroads and their junction
with che Texas Pacific Road at Marshall, was
adopted, with proviso continuing the existing
g aus auJoulneu. n ~ F.-s fs + F
In the House, on the Goth, bills were in
trosaced and referred authorizing the President
to open negotiations with the North American
Provinces for admission as States of the Union;
to annex Dominica; supplementary to the act for
the relief Of widows and orphans of the officers,
seamen and marines of the Oneida: to promote
the cultivation of public lands, offering annual
premiums for the best homesteads, sc. to repeal
all laws and resolutions as to spirit meters: max
ing grant of andst to the Preston, salina g. Den
yer Railroad Company. Resolutions were Of
fsred and referred-for the payment to
amount of compensation paid other mem
bers of the Forty-frst Congress-; instructing
the Committee on Ways and Means toAreport a
bill reducing the duties on potatoes and all kinds
of fish so per cent. THE Fortifcation Appropria-
ton bill, appropriating $50, was passed i'm
Committee of The Whole. s. The Senate amend
ed back from the Committee on Appropriate ons.,
The Army Appropriation bill, appropriating 3d.
97T 1867, was taken up in Committee OF the Whole,
for making meteorological observations and giving
notice to the northern lakes and ses-ports OF the
approach and force OF storm &; $4,000 for orna- %
nentss trees ana n hruhs as N fsnoptea
and recom7nitted, to authorize the peo-
pie of New Mexico to form Constitution and
such State into the Union as the State Of Lin
coin. "A bill was reported and passed, TO re-
quire National Banks going into liquidation TO
retire their circulating noteS....A Dill WAS re-
ported extending the provisions of the act in re-
lation to furnishing artificial limbs to ohicers
and men of the navy. =. Adjourned.a Sc 81 q
| In the Senate, en- the 21st, report was
made from the Finance Committee that the COM
mittee unanimously recommend concurrence
with the amendments of the House to the Senate
Currency blri and the appointment of a Committee
of Conference. :. A Joint resolution was adopted
to determine the construction of the Internal Rev
1 enue act so as to exempt indistributable sums