Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-07-22
In the Senate, on the 18th, bills were

Railroad across Dakota TO 1anKton, and granting
lands in aid of the same; several private lie, In
cluding one for an increase OF pension to $40 per
month to the widow of General Hayes. killed at
the battle of the Widernessin 1864 The Sundry
Civil Appropriation bill was proceeded with, sew
eral amendments were agreed TO, ana the bill as
it's amendments to the Army Appropriation bill,
and appointed a Committee OF Conference con-
sstiDg of Messrs. Wilson, Cameron and Warner
. The report of the Conference Committee, on
the bill for compensation of grand and petit jurors
in United States and District Courts and for other
purposes, was adopted Adjourned.
In the House, on the 18th, the Senate
amendments to the Army Appropriation bill were
reported, and the bill to reduce the number of
army officers, as agreed to by the Conference
Committee but rejected by the Senate, was sub
stituted for the provision of the Senate on that
subject The six eenth and seventeenth rules
which prohibit bills being sent to either House or,
to the President the last three days of the ses
sion, were suspended. The Senate joint resolu-
tion to relieve insurance companies from liabill-
ties to the income tax for undistrbutable surplus,
carrying it to their contingent fund, was
passed, with an amendment applying it
companies to their poicy-holders. "A report
was made and rejected-90 to 101-frnm the Con-
ference Committee on the Judiciary bill, and
az other Conference Committee was ordered, and
the previous committee was reappolnted, con-
sistipg of ScheDck, Hooper, and Marshall. "A
Conference Committee was ordered on the
Hoyne were appointed. -. The Senate joint resou-
ton extending the time to construct railroad
from the st. Croix River or Lake. 70 the west end
of Lake Superior and to Bayfield,, was reported
back. wi h q substitute proposing to extend for
seven years The privilege OF the original grant OF
land to Wisconsin for the use and benefit OF
companies designated by that State In 1869. .Ad-
journed
In the Senate, on ike 18th, bills were
introduced-to settle and adjust all claims of the
Choctaw nation against the United States; giving
bounty to soldiers honorably discharged who en-
tered the service between the 4th of May and s2d
of july 1861 and to the widows and children,
fathers and mothers of soldiers killed. or who dled
in the service enlisted for less than one year "A
memorial was presented from citizens OF the west
ern part of Kansas for land grant in aid OF rail-
road through that section. Bills were passed
Annual Post.route bill; establishing port of de-
livery at Kansas City, Mo-; in aid or the New Or
leans Baton Rouge % Vicksburg Railroad Tor
the relief of the Kentucky University; making an
appropriation to pay for the destruction OF build
iDgs during the war; Deficiency Appropriation bill,
with amendments; exemptiDg pork packers, lard
renderers, and persons engaged in smoking hams,
from tax as manufacturers. Reports OF Confer
ence Committees were adopted-on the Tax and
Tariff BILL on the Funding BILL "A resolution was
adopted to print $4,000 additional copies OF the
bill to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment. ;. The
credentials of Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, reelected
Senator for the term commencing March 4th next.
were presented. The bill to grant pension TO
Mrs. Lincoln was briefly considered, and an
amendment to give her $4,000 in lieu of pension
was rejected :. :. Executive session and adjourn
ment.
In the House, on the 18th, resolution
was adopted directing the House visitors to West
Point-Messrs. Schenck, Logan and Slocum-to in
vestgate the complaint of the colored cadet at the
Military Academy :. The Senate amendments to
the Miscellaneous Appropriation bill were non
concurred in, and were referred to Conference
Committee, consisting of Messrs. Dawes, Beck
and Sargent. .Messrs. Dickey, Logan and
Archer were appointed Conference Com
mittee on the Army Appropriation bill. A
bill was passed to create port of delivery at
ference Committee on the Tax and Tariff bill
made and agreed to-. Joint resolutions
n the RTe and Habor bill
for the Improvement OF the Tennessee River to
be expended for the repair and completion of the
works between Knoxville and Chattanooga, and
below Chattanooga, including Muscle Shoals;
authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to ex-
anime and adjust the accounts of the late Collect
ors of the Third and Sixth Collection Districts of
Missouri; suspending the use of whisky meters
at disilleries until the further action of Congress
"A motion to suspend the rules and pass general
amnesty bill was rejected-75t to 1853. Majority and
minority reports were made in the case of the in
vestigaton of the charges against General Howard,
the majority resolution declaring that the House
acuuits Major General o. o. Howard of the ground
less and causeless charges lately preferred against
him, and the minority resolutions directing that
a copy of the testimony be referred to the Secre-
tary of War; with directions to order court mar
tal for the trial of General Howard, etc. Both re-
ports and evidence, covering nearly four Thousand
pages, were ordered printed. The Conference
report on the Funding bill was agreed to. ...Ad-
journed
In the Senate, on the 18th, bills were
passed-grsnting pension of $4,000 to Mrs. Lin
coln-2S to 20; to constitute Houston, Texas,
port Of delivery; dividing the State of Virginia
into two judicial districts; appropriating four
condemned cannon to each of the following places,
ofc cNld ,Nn1T naT1fS
Bridgeport and East Ford, Conn; Quincy and
Peoria, H.; Morristown and Trenton, n. j.;
Pittsburgh and ChambersDurg, Penn, and the Ma
tional Soldiers Cemetery in West Virginia; also
to the Lincoln Monument Association as much
bronze as may be necessary to cast the principal
figures of said monument; sppropriating
Indians and for the Indian service, with
anne ndment substituting the Indian Appropriation
BILL as passed by the Senate Tor the House Dill; to
construe the act of March 1, 1853, by allowing
drawback on cotton goods exported prior to May
1. 1859 where interna, tax was paid on raw cot
ton; large number OF House bills, among others
granting condemned ordnance to the Seventeenth
Regiment Monument Association, OF Ohio, and
for inventory Of accounts OF property OF the
United States in public buildings and grounds :.
The bill to encourage the building OF American
vessels to engage in foreign trade, was taken up,
debated and rabled-21 to 49,. The death of
sew. Thurman and Stockton were appointed IA
committee to attend the remains to their
place of interment. :. Conference Committees
tse0rs tSee Naval Tels AppropPation % bill; snndFy civil
Appropriation bill; Deficiency Appropriation
bill; on the Georgia bill, in favor of the
House bill, with an amendment declaring
that nothing in that or any other act of Congress
shall be constructed to effect the term to which
any officer has been appointed, or any member OF
the General Assembly. elected as prescribed by
the constitution of Georgia; Army Appropriation
bill. "A message was received from the President
and ordered printed, returning with bis objections
the bill providing for the payment OF bounties to
Alabama trOODS. II
session.
In the House, on the 18th, bills were
passed-donating for school purposes certain lot
of land, with the buildings thereon, known as the
Indian Dormltory in the village of M Mackinaw; to
allow the steamboats, of the Canadian Navigation
COMPANY built in the United States, to carry pas
sepgers and baggage between American ports !;
granting an ordnance for soldiers' monument at
Cleveland, cedlng to the ne 81 state q ONO lgrls-
for disabled soldiers; authorizing the Commission
ers of Inaan affairs to appoint guardians or trus
tees of minor Indian chi eutltled toPensions
or bouniies: placing $50G0 600 in the hands of the
President for Indian purposes; Senate bills, for
the relief OF the Third Arkansas Cavalry; grant
ing bronze ordinance for the erection of an eques
trian statue of General Rawlins: authorizing the
continuance OF the patent of the invention for post
marking mail packages; granting condemned ord
nance for the soldiers monument at Omaha;
amending the Bankrupt law; exemptiDg canned
and preserved fish from internal tax, with amend
ment including shell-fsh, meat, fruit aud vegeta-
bles Senate amendment to the bill in reference
to drawbabacks on cotton goods. Senate amend
ments to House bills were concured into dis
continue the Clarkinville, Ark, Land Dis
trict; to require National Banks going
Into liquidation TO retire circulating notes; TO de.
clare forfeited to the United States certain lanue
granted to the State of Louisiana Tor railroad pur-
poses; granting the Painesville 81 Southern Illinois
Railroad Company right of way 20 build bridge
across the Big Wabash river to vacate the Fort
mi Dakota