Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-06-01
F0RTY.-FIRST CONGRESS-.

WAsmNcroN Tuesday May 81
The Senate was engaged over the bill for the
sale ofthe Usage Indian Reservation and the APP
preparation bills
In the House Mr. Lynch's hill to revive Ameri-
can navigation was amended in many particulars
but the House refused TO put the bill on It's pas.
sage by a vote OFFS to 80, which is supposed to
be test Of its strength An animated debate
was had on the foreign policy Of the administra-
ton, in which that policy was generally denounc-
ed by the Democratic side of the House Mr..
voorhees, characterized the head Of the State De-
partment as dead man, and Mr. Cox said that
Grant administration has run its foreign policy
in the interests of land jobbers San Domingo Job
bers, railroad obbers steamship jobbers, and job
berry in general. Mr.. Banks said that the Com
mitteo on Foreign Relations were ready to bring
to the notice of the House the outrages committed
by the Spaniarls in Cula on American citizens.
WEDNESDAY, May %.
The Senate by vote Of Is to II passed the bill
to enfore the Fifteenth Amendment The Ieeis-
latiye Judicial, ard Executive Appropriation bill
was discussed
In the House the Pacific Railroad Committee
reported without amendment the Northern Paci-
fc Railroad bill, and Mr. llawley addressed the
House in support Of bis amendment, which tor
bids the company 70 sell its lands 70 other than
actual settlers in lots Of 100 acres, or at prices
above $3.50 an acre. lie showed from the report
Of the Senate committee that the land grant would
cover AZ 300 600 acres, which, at an average Of
$40 per acre, including town and city lots, would
amount to $i73 600 900, but as the company had
it in its power to lengthen the branch road land
grant, it might really be extended 80 a. to cover
IS, 900 900 acres.
After discussion the House rejected Mr.. Haw-
LEWIS amendment by IS to los, and MIR Sargent's 4.
submitting the lands granted to the operation of
the homestead and presumption laws, by 70 to
l05, and without further action adjourned.
THURSDAY, May 20.
The Senate devoted almost the entire session to
the consideration Of the Appropriation bill.
The proceedings in the House were important.
The Northern Pacific Railroad BILL which has
been 50 stoutly combated, was taken up and
passed by vote of l07 to s.. The members vot-
ing in the negative were mostly Democrats. The
bill to enforce the fifteenth amendment, as agreed
upon by the Conference Committee, was reported
and an attempt was made to force its passage
The Democrats having shown an intention to fiji.
buster, the majority consented to permit debate
to-day, and so the bill went over. Mr. Lyneh's
bill to revive American chipping was debated, and
the Western members were defeated in an effort
to lay it on the table It will come up again, and
without doubt will be passed
FRIDAY, May 27.
In the Senate the Appropriation bill was under
consideration. The amendment placing female
clerks in the departments on an equality With
males in the matter of compensation was adopted,
80 to 20. MIR. Drake thought the result would be
to end the employment of women by the govern
ment The amendment appropriating money for
the extension Of the Capitol grounds brought up
the question of the removal Of the seat of govern
ment to the West. Mr., Yates made speech in
favor OF building the new Capitol on the banks Of
the Mississippi Mr.. Carpenter argued for Mil
waukee, but other Western Senators were salts
fled with Washington, the salubrity of which was
praised by Mr.. Drake. The amendment was
9dOpted, and the maloontents defeated by a vote
of 40 to 10, The amendment appropriating
$780, 900 to the expedition OF the North Pole was
adopted. The amendment increasing the salaries
of United States judges was further amended and
passed. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
is to get $4,000 Associate justices IS 900
Circuit Judges 81 800,
The House opened its session with giving II seat
to Wallace, who failed of an election in the
Fourth Congressional District of South Carolina
by over 900 majority The Democrats protested
without avail. The bill to enforce the fifteenth
amendment, as reported from the Conference
Committee, was taken up, and spirited debate
followed. Mr.. Kerr (Dem.) denounced it as
" vicious, lawless, and revolutionary" Mr..
Potter insisted that it was designed to interfere
with the New York elections, and Mr. johnson
said that one of its motives was to force Chinese
suffrage on the people of the Pacific coast. The
report of the Conference Committee was finally
agreed to by strict party yote-yeas, 1873 !;
nays, 49,
SATURDAY, May %.
In the Senate, petition was presented asking
aid for telegraph cable from New York city to
the Azores, and thence to Lisbon, England, and
Amsterdam. Mr.. Chandler spoke ON the revival
of American commerce.
In the House, u bill was passed giving pen
sion Of s. per month to the veterans Of 1879.
The bill reducing taxation was debated and
amended.
MONDAY, May 3o.-Congress not in session.