Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-06-24
Weekly News Summary.
CONGRESSIONAL.


Railroad for a land subsidy was taken up, and an
amendment was offered, agreed upon by both par
ties and which would not grant the central branch
any lands within the limits of Nebraska, but all
such lands should be given to the other branch
the aa anas
were ceded to the United States in trust by the
Cherokees; making uniform the salaries OF
Territories extending six months after
the passage of z the act the. time for
presentation of claims for additional bounty.
The report from the Committee of Conference on
the bill to provide artificial limbs for disabled SOL
sdiers was -adopted ~ The resolution granting
right Of wayto the Memphis, ri Paso & Pacific
Railroad Company was indefinitely postponed.
A joint resolution was reported, to pay the ex-
penses of the delegation of Indians visiting Wash
gwhc e pnresss s O
sents :. The FrankiDg bill was further considered
... Adjourned.
ate new judicial district in Kentucky was re-
ported adversely and tabled. The Senate bill to
regulate credits to prisoners for good behavior
was. passed 81. A bill was introduced-dona
Jour pieces Of condemned Cannon to the Soldiers
Monument kssociation OF Adrian. Mich. Bills
were reported and passed-to create St Joseph,
tlon district of New Orleans; amendatory OF
the sets for the removal of causes in certain
cases from State to Federal Courts, by ex-
ment, where the parties in interest are cit
izens of different States. -. The vote tabling
the Naturalization bill was reconsidered, and the
bill recommitted to the Judiciary Committee -.
Tie Senate amendments to the Legislative Appro-
priation bill numbering ass, nearly all adding to
the appropriations, were considered, and state
ment made that the Committee on Appropriations
opposed all the amendments Increasing salaries; I;
also those for the new State Department and en-
largement of the Capitol grounds, though the
committee were unanimous for the retention OF
the Capital at Washing ton; and also that exclud-
ing persons who participat in the rebel1on from
the Court Of Claims s report Of OF she
was agreed to, except that separate vote was de-
manded for the Senate amendment excluding from
the Court of Claims persons who participated in the
rebellion and substitute was adopted, that no
pardon or amnesty be admitted in cases before
that court except when granted for the discon-
tinuance Of active operations OF the rebellion, un
der the proclamation of President Lincoln. To
the Senate amendment making compensation to
females in departments the same as males, q sub
sstitute was offered, simply throwing open all
classes of clerkships to competent women. .Ad-
journed.
In the Senate, on the 18th, the joint
resolution to pay the expenses of the delegations
of Indians, appropriatipg $4,000 for presents,
was called up and passed. The bill relating to
the Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad,
making land grant, was taken up and, after dis
cussion, was passed-s2 to IL.
In the House, on the 18th, leave was
asked to report from the Judiciary Committee a
bill to repeal the Tenure Of Office act. The Ser
geant-at-A rms produced Patrick Woods, alias
Dooley, charged with an assault upon Mr.. Porter,
member. of the House from Virginia, committed
in Richmond, and, onrn otion, the matter was re-
ferred to the Judiciary Committee, with
power to send for persons and papers,
the prisoner, meantime, to be retained in the
custody of the Sergeant alarms. resolution di-
recting the Speaker to employ counsel for the
prisoner was offered and referred to the same
M apd the
| priating $500 600 for the commencement OF new
| building for the State Department, in relation to
the extension of the Capitol grounds, appropriat-
ing S1C0 900 for the expedition to the North Pole,
and increasing the salary of the Justices OF the Su
preme Court of the United States, were severally
priation for the Agricultural Department was con-
Cured in; a substitute for the Senate amend
mepts putting female employees In the depart
ed, with an amendment, that hereafter the
compensation of such officers, clerks and en-
ployes who are females shall be the same as is now
fixed by law for males Of the same class. The bill
was then referred to Committee of Conference,
Messrs. Dawes, Niblack and Logan being appoint
ed on the part of the House. The bill for the re.
|. Conference COMMITTEES, providing for a standing
army of 30,t 90 men from the first of July, 1871.
and providing for the pay OF officers and for their
promotion all officers not assigned by the first OF
January next to be mustered out, and the bill was
agreed to-. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 18th, bill was
introduced, regulating the manufacture of brandy
from grapes, apples, peaches, and other fruits.
Messrss;D Drake, Edmunds and McCreery were ap-
fnvaids Pension @ 81 Apr fopriation bih The commit
tee appointed having failed to agree; and Messrs.
appointed. a Committee Of Conference on the Leg
islative and Judiciary Appropriation bill. Bills
were passed-granting lands to aid the constr uc-
Cf fror
yer, Col granting land for railroad through Da-
| kota, amended to prohibit the company taking
any land in any Indian tS or rum tdhhnng
Icppying, orof the President OF the United States
-. The Apportionment bill was taken up, and,
after discussion, the amendment 1 increasing
4 the number of representatives to 300 was con
Cured in-31 to 21 /; further amendments were of
.fered and adOpted-requiringa report by the Su.
gs1sus e as Ct he
Population, so that the Secretary may ascertain
the basis of representation in the States that in
| there is an increase in the number of representa-
tives the additional number shal be elected to the
Forty second Congress on the general ticket, un
/ less the States have otherwise provided. Other
amendments reported by the Committee on the
dsd{csEy s Nsrs ass fse
/ President on Cuban affairs, which was read, and
| on motion, referred to the Committee on Foreign
/ Relations. 49, 80 - s~.s,f-g sssss.
In the House, On the 18th, bills were
introduced and referred equiring the substitu
| tion by certain National Banks of United States
4 bonds, for second mortgage bonds Of the Unior
| Pacific Railroad deposited in the Treasury; de-
;earing indianapolis port OF delivery; to author
ize the sale of pine timber on the lands Of the
Menomonee Indians, in Wisconsin ;. "A bill was in
| troduced and passed-120 to 46-to amend the
Naturali zat on laws, making false swearing in ap
plications, perjury, and punishable as such; pun.
fishing false personation and use or possession o.
forged records, or certificate, etc., and giving tC
the United States Courts jurisdiction of all of
fences under the BILL; "A melton to suspend the
| abilities imposed by the Fourteenth Amendment
was defeated-59 to no.. The River and Har
j Dor Appropriation BILL appropriating So 72Ss0tO
twas taken up, after consideration in Committee O
fhe Whole, and passed. The Speaker laid before
the House a message from the President con
| dehlpatory of the atrOcious manner in whichsthe
j resentShg sthe object of the Cubans who urge
Il their recognition as belligerents by the UutteG
4 States in the war with Spain, declaring hia in
abilityto see, in the present condition of the con
stit1te war in the sense of law, and inviting the
attention Of Congresseto all the bearings ofsh'
4 Affairs~. Adjourned.
p In the knate, on the 14th, the House
resolution ofsinauiry relative to trade with tn,
B Eilish provinces vas passed Bills were report
'ecr the Postal Appropriation bill, with an amend
tions for thslstter to cities halsnl
I forty thousand inhabitantss swithout amendnlent
the bill to regulate grant of land to the Statt
ofAlabama to aidin the construction of railI6at
| froHk the Tennessee River to Gadsen; the Arm,
| bill, ffom the Conference Committee-ordefet
printed. "A RESOLUTION was adopted, requesting
of the Pre4flent all the information in possession
ofsthe 20 oyetAmeft relating to the seizure o
American vessels OF the high seas, or the coshsca
ton or. embargo of the property of any Anaeri
can citizens, during the hostllltles IN OuDa,:an'