Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-03-25
Weekly News Summary.
CONGRESSIONAL.


troduced and referred-to promote the securing of
efficient seamen for the United States Navy for the
reorganization OF the navy; providing rules for
the government of ocean telegraph lines =. A CON-
munication was presented from the colo1ed Sena-
tors and members of the Georgia Legislature. pro-
testing against the adoption of a certain proposed
amendment TO the Georgia BILL. The Funding
bill taken up, amendments disposed OF, and the
bill was finally passed-32 to 10....Adjourned to
the 14th.
In the House, on the 18th, several bills
for the extension Of patents, and one providing for
two local inspectors of steamboats, at Evansville,
Indiana, at an annual compensation of $500 each,
were passed. i. The Tariff and Deficiency bills
were considered at length in Committee of the
Whole, after which the House adjourned, the ses-
sion on the 18th to be for general debate only.
In the Senate, on the 18th, bills were
introduced and referred-to strengthen the legal
reserves of National Banks and provide for the re-
sumption Of specie payments, January 1, 1871; in
cooperating the Southern Trans Continental Rail
way Company, and granting right of way and lands
maid of'consTuction; to amend the Bankruptcy act
of March 2, 1861, by making 1864 read 1868 in the
frst proviso; granting lands to Alabama to aid the
construction of the Chatahoochie d Mobile Rail-
way. The Bill to incorporate the National Boil
Wan Navigation Company passed. "A resolution
was offered requesting the Secretary of War to
transmit full report of the recent bombardnent
of the Indian village at Fort Wrangel Alaska -.
Executive session and adjournment.
In the House, on the 18th, bills were
introduced and referred-for bringing home the
remains of General Asboth, late minister to the
Argentine Confederation to extend the time for
completion Of the railroad between Madison and
Portage City; granting lands, &c, to the Sacra-
mento Drainage, Irrigating, and Navigation Com
pany; for the relief of Inhabitants of the cities
and towns on the lands of the Great and Little
Usage Indians; granting lands for railroads in
Dakota and Minnesota; to prevent prize-fg ghting;
to pension INDECENT officers and soldiers of the
of 1872; for preliminary survey for a ship canal
between the southern portion of Lake Michigan
and the Ohio River; providing Territorial Gov
ernment for the District OF Columbia; granting
lands to the Cape Giradeau q State Line Railroad,
Missouri; to abolish female cerkships in govern
ment departments. Resolutions of the Legisa-
ture OF Missouri asking for survey of the Usage
Resolutions were adopted-providing for the safety
or passengers on Western river steamboats,, pro-
hibiting the carriage as freight or stores of nitro
glycerine, coal oil, crude petroleum, naptha, ben
zine benzole, or campbene calling for information
as TO the cost of deepening the ST. Mary's Falls
Ship Canal to not less than fourteen feet Reso-
luti0ns were Offered-calling for information as to
the financial operations of the Freedmens Bureau;
declaring the present system of taxation exOrbi-
tant and needlessly burdensome, and that a reduc-
tlon of taxation to the lowest point consistent
with the demand for revenue should be made
both in tariff and internal taxation; that reform
ing the existing Tariff laws no duty should be i'm
posed on any article above the lowest rate that
Will yield the largest amount of revenue, that the
maximum revenue should be imposed on luxuries,
and that the duty should be SO imposed as to
operate as equally as possible through
out the Union, discriminating neither for nor
against class or section. Joint resolutions were
passedIdirecting, In consideration of the distin-
guished services of Edwin M. Stanton the payment
to his widow, for herself and children, of a sum
equal to one years salary of Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court; allowing owners Of homesteads
TO deduct interest paid on mortgages thereon from
their income returns. The Navy Appropriation
bill was made the special order for March 24....
The Deficiency bill was considered in Committee of
the Whole. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 10Th, the resolu-
tion giving years salary as Justice of the Supreme
Court, to the widow of Edwin NJ. Stanton, was
passed. Memorials were presentation an ap-
preparation to the Wilberforce University, near
xenia, Ohio; from the Society of Friends,
praying for an appropriation to aid the
civilization of the Indians Of the North
S tse of as
merchandise from the port of first arrival within
the United States to Chicago, Cincinnati and St.
Louis, without examination, inspection and ap.
praisement, was reported adversely from the Com
mlttee on Commerce, and indefinitely postponed
Bills were introduced-for the distribution of
to as e ba as4 s"ss o in the ss
had not been modified; to incorporate
and charter the Cincinnati & Chattanooga Railroad
Company to connect railroad between those
Cus
Post Office Committee to report upon the expe-
diency of establishing daily mail service on the
Mississippi river between New Orleans and Cairo
The concurrent resolution for the appointment
of special Joint Committee on Indian Affairs
was taken up, amended so to limit the action of
the committee to consideration of the general
policy OF the government with reference to Indian
treaties, when motion to lay the whole subject on
the table was defeated by the casting vote of the
vice. President. The Georgia bill was further
considered. Executive session and adjournment.
In the House, on the 18th, the Funding
bill was taken up, and, afer discussion, a motion
to refer to the Banking Committee was defeated
65 to 9-and the bill was then referred to the Ways
and Means Committee. "A bill was reported from
the Reconstruction Committee and passed, to ad-
NIT Texas to representation in Congress-the bill
being identical with the Virginia and Mississippi
bills with the exception of additional provision
that Its passage shall not affect the conditions un-
der which Texas was originally admitted into the
Union. :. The Deficiency bill was taken up in
COMMITTEE of the Whole and several amendments
were disposed Of and the bill was reported to the
House for final action. Adjourned.
In the Senate, ON the 10Th, a memorial
was presented and referred from committee ap-
pointed at convention of colored people residing
in the Choctaw and Chickasaw country, represent
ing that recent treaty violated their rights as to
lands owned by them, and was in many respects
outrageous A bill was introduced and referred,
to facilitate postal intercourse with foreign coun-
cussed, the principal speech being made by Mr..
Revels OF Mississippi. Executive session and
adjournment.
In the House, on the 18th, a resolution
was adopted, calling on the Secretary of the Navy
for information relative to the Oneida and Bombay
collision. A report was made from the Committee
on Elections in the Louisiana contested case OF
Hunt against Sheldon, declaring Sheldon entitled
to the seat. The Deficiency bill was taken up
and passed. The bill for Air Line Railroad
between New York and Washington was consid-
cred, and amended by reserving to Congress the
right to alter and amend the act Bills were in.
troduced and referred-to promote international
coinage to authorize the city of Buffalo to con-
struct tunnel under the Niagara river for the re-
demption OF outstanding notes and bonds of the
United States and resumption of specie payment
IA bill giving condemned guns te the National
Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers was passed
"A report was made from the Committee on
of Tennessee, stating that Mr.. Butler had ap-
pointed a nonresident of his district to West
Point, and subsequently received 5000 therefor;
and one-half the committee recommended the
adoption of resolution of censure and the other
half resolution for his expulsion. The Tariff
bill was considered in Committee of the Whole. ..
Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the nth, petitions
were presented-from conventions of Friends for
an appropriation for the benefit of the Indians of
the Northern Superintendency; for an appropria-
ton of $4,000 for the benefit of the colored stu
dents in Wilberforce University. "A bill abolish
ing the Thanking privilege was made the special or
DER Tor the 22d. "A bill introduced to organ
lze the Territory of Oklahoma, and consolidating
the Indian tribes under Territorial Government
Inc new Territory is bounded north by Kansas,
west Dy New Mexico and Texas, south by Texas
and east by Arkansas and Missouri - A bill was
reported from the Committee on Commerce. To
amend the act to regulate the diplomatic and cor
tain COnsulstes and changing the salsries of nnn,