Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-04-08
Weekly News Summary,
CONGRESSIONAL.

| reported MISUNDERSTANDING the time for tn
completion of the Cairo & Fulton Railroad for tn,
appointment of board to examine into the case
of such officers as deem themselves unustly passed
| over by promotions made under the act of July 25
1866. THE bill TO incorporate the Southern Trans
| Continental Railway Company reported from
| the Committee on Public Lands, and referred tc
| he Committee on Pacific Railroads. "A jOnt
| resolution was introduced and referred, authoriz
ing the President to furnish steamer for avoyage
into the rctie regions, under the control of Cap
| tain Z. f. Hall, and appropriatlng 100000 to pay
| the necessary expenses. A bill was introduced.
| to reduce the number of officers and enlisted
men Of the army and fix their pay. Bills were
passed-to create additional land district in
Dakota; fixing the point of junction of the Union
| and Central Pacific Railroad companies, located
northwest OF the station at Ogden, and within the
limits of Section 81, of Township z, of Range 2,
situated north and west of the principal meridian
and base line in the Territory of Utah. and grant
| ing to the company six additional sections, one
section Of land in each4 township being reserved
for the benefit of schools in Utah. and these lands
| 10 be paid for at the regular government price,
50 so per acrc-no rights of private persons to be
affected by the act. Pending the consideration
| of the bill extending the homestead and pre-emp-
| tion laws to pubic lands in Alabama, Louisiana,
| Mississippi, and Arkansas, the Senate went into
| executive session on the San Domingo treaty. -.
| Adjourned to the 2Sth. IL s,fe ss
| In the House, on the 25th, resolution
was adopted, directing the Committee on Public
Lands to inquire into the propriety OF extending
| the land laws and government surveys to Alaska
:. Bills were introduced-to compensate the
office and crew of the Kearsarge for the destruc
ton of the Alabama to regulate the matter of the
payment of pensions. =. A age number of private
| bills reported and disposed of..-.The Pariff
| bill was further considered in Committee of the
Whole Adjourned, the session on the Goth to be
for general debate only.
In the Senate, on the 28th, resolutions
of the Iowa Legislature, in favor of Cuban bellig
erency were presented and referred. "A memo
rial of 1873 members of the ST. Louis bar in favor of
bill increasing the salaries of Judges of United
States courts, was presented and laid on the table
explanatory of the fourth article of the treaty of
February %, 1867, with the Quapaw, Shawnee, and
other Indians declaring the strip of land thereby
ceded to the United States open to entry under the
pre-empton laws. ..Billswe introduced -grant-s
highlands to aid the construction of arairoad from
the Central Pacific railroad in Nevada to the Col
orado rlyer granting lands and right Of way to aid
eastern Railroad; for the relief of pre-emption
settlers in the West Point District, Nebraska. -.
Executive session and adjournment.
In the House, on the 28th, bills were in
troduced and refered-to prevent the collection of
illegal taxes levied by State authority ncorporat
ing the Southern Trans Continental Railroad Com
pany and granting lands and right of way thereto;
authorizing the construction of bridge across the
Mississippi at St. Louis providing for the payment
of pensions in gold Resolutions of the Wiscon-
sin Legislature asking further appropriation for
harbors on Lake Superior, and memorial by the
Minnesota Legislature for the removal of certain
Indians from the frontier of that State, pre-
passed. authorizing the supply of arms, for instruc
tion and practice, to certain colleges and univers
ties :. Resolutions were adopted-calling on the
President for information relating to the San
Domingo treaty; granting leave to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs to present in print
for the consideration of the House, the majority
and minority reports on the Cuban question: April
6, to be the special order for that day and every
succeeding day until disposed Of. Petitions were
presentcd-of citizens of Ohio, asking Congress
to abolish National Banks; to Issue 600 in
greenbacks; to make them receivable and payable
on all dues, impoets and taxes, and to pay off
S340 GOO GOO of the .five-twenty bonds; also, Of
citizens of Newton Fails, Ohio, against any change
in the tariff laws, suggested by the Free Trade
League, for the reduction of the duty on tea coffee,
ETC. and for the readjustment of the duty on
manufacturers. The Tariff bill was discussed IN
Committee OF the Whole. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the Goth, bills were
reported provide for the better security of life
on board steam vessels; to relinqush the interest
of the United States in certain lands in the city
of San Francisco; the General Deficiency
bill sub stitute for the House joint resolu
tion declaratory Of the intention of the law
relating to the income tax, providing that after the
year 1870 there shall be levied and collected lax
of 3 per cent. per annu1n on the several incomes,
divdends and salaries described in the joint
resolution, and inthe mode and manner hereto
fore provided by law. "A bill was introduced
and referred. to prevent and punish election frauds
-, The bill for the appointments of special COM
mttee on Indian affairs laid over by the ing
vote of the Vice President ). "A motion adopted
to discharge the Judiciary Committee from further
consideration of the Texas bill, and the bill was
taken up the proviso that the act shall not affect in
any manner the condition and guarantee upon
which the Stateeof Texas was annexed and admitted
as State, was stricken out and the bill passed-47
to II being similar to the bills admitting Virginia
and Mississippi. The bill allowing the United
States Judge of the Eastern District of Texas to
resign, continuing his salary and providing for
his successor. WAS passed Adjourned.
In the House, on the goth, majority
report was made in the contested election case
from the Fifteenth Congressional District of Penn
sylvania, with resolution that John Reading, the
sitting member, is not entitled to seat, and that
the contestant, Caleb N. Taylor, is, and minority
report, with opposite conclusions, was also pre-
sented; an adverse report was made on the claim
of Segar, Representatives. Large from Virginia
" On motion ii was ordered that all general de
bate on the Tariff bill close on the Both, an hour
The Tariff bill was then taken up and debated in
Committee Of the Whole. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 30th, Commit
tee of Conference was appointed on the bill
smending the usury laws of the District of Co
lumbia. The bill providing for a Post Office
building at Little Rock passed Bills were in
troduced and referred fixing the Tuesday next
which the Representatives and Delegates of Con-
gress shall be elected throughout the county,; to
incorporate the Indian Territory Gulf & Paeifc
Railroad Company and enable the same to cC u
struct certain railroads and branches to giS
transit by rail through that Territory on equal
terms to railroads reaching its borders. "A bill
was reported from the Judiciary Committee, relat-
ing to the United States Circuit Court for the Dis
trict of Mis- our amended to make it a general
bill by pFovi6 NJ that nothing in the act approved
April, 10 1862 be construed to require a Circuit
Court to be held in any district where not held
under the existing law. Executive session and
adjournment
In the House, on the 30th, concurrent
resolutions were adopted unanimously, expressive
of regret at the death of Gen. Thomas and author
izing such arrangements in connection with the
obseques as win best show the sympathy Of Con
gress in the national bereavement Bills were
passed--removing disabilities from several Vir-
gnans; granting the Marine Hospital at Natchez
to the State of Mississippi. The Senate amend
ment TO the bill admitting Texas to representation
in the Union, striking out the provso that nothing
/ in the bill shall affect the conditions on which
Texas Was originally annexed to the. Union was
concurTed in--132 to 50.. Bills were reported
to establish a system of national education, in
tended only for those States which refuse to
establish a system of public. education 10
allow the school Trustees OF Arkansas TO ,enser
stead law, allowing them to take IN,
fence and improve forty acres for each scholar;
providing tnat thet Office of education in the De-
partment Of the Interior shall be hereafter named
the Bureau of Education, to which shall be trans
ferred the unexpended funds in the Treasury of the
| United States to the account of the Freedmen's
Bureau, for education and support of refuvees and
freedmen and also transferring to- the War Depart
ment the other duties of the Freedmens Bureau
| ...On motion, general debate ON the Tariff bill
was ordered closed on the s1st. "A message was
received nom the President announcing the pro-
Navigation of the ratification of the Fifteenth
Amendment =. The Tariff bill was further debated
in COMMITTEES of the Whole. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 31st, the -creden-