Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-07-15
Improvement of the harbor at Duluth was passed
....The House amendments to the Funding bill

Improvement of the harbor at Duluth was passed
1.-THE House amendments to the Funding bill
were disagreed to, and Committee OF Conference
struction Of Of section 55 Of the National Currency
act, approved June fS, 1854 was reported without
amendment IA bill was introduced and referred,
to the TehuanepecI - FsToaE saSo am6 @ snip
with power to acquire from the Mexican Govern
msnt all the franchises aud privileges 1t may grant
80 The Tax and Tariff bill was proceeoed with,
gross receipts was reected-17 to Sand motion
to strike out the income tax sections was also re-
amendments were disposed Of, the bill was passed
Alto g.. Adjourned. eA
In the House, on the 9Th, the Con-
ference report on the bill granting right Of way
over public lands in California to ditch and canal
owners, was agreed to-. Majority and minority
reports were made from the Select Committee on
Postal Telegraph, on the bilto establish postal
telegraph system, and TO incorporate postal teIe,
bill, and the bill was ordered printed The
70 WAS hs an wtbov
division, and i've thousand dollars were voted for
the expenses Of the contestants. IA Dill was
passed to pay arrears ofpensions to some hundred
persons named therein, who have not made appli-
cations within the time required by law .The
Virginia contested election matter OF tucker
against Booker was discussed and taoled-99 TO
a4... Adjourned. .zs5SI8fA Sskf es tfi'tS siE
In the Senate, on the 9Th, bills were
passed-for the relief OF the United States and
Brazil Steam Navigation Company; incorporating
the United States Freehold and Immigration Com
pany, and to-connrm certain legislation in the
Territories of Colorado and New Mexico; ; Tor re-
funding to Massachusetts, interest due'on advances
to the United States during the war OF 1879; the
amend d. @ petition Was presented for the
Incorporation. OF colored people of Memphis I'm
der the name of the American Lincoln association
porating the Extension Railroad Company.
Messrs. Sherman, Sumner and Davis were an
nounced as the Conference Committee on
adopted from the Conference Committee on the
Currency bill the bill being the same rs passed by
the Senate, except that the amount OF new cur
rency was hxed at $54 oOe GOO, instead OF S4e,oOO
00o.. Adjourned. 80 a 800 lqasa ~. .,@
In the House, on the 9th, bills were in
troduced-g granting lands to the New Orleans q
Selma Railroad and Emigrant Association; to
amend the act OF 1864, granting lands for railroad
purposes in Iowa; in aid of the American Gable
Company Bills were passed-the Post Route
bi repeating the act of June IL. 1906, which con-
hrmed the grant Of certain lands to Joseph e.
Ohio % the W un.old 50 lands in the Virginia Military
Comfy, ILL.,, to certain United States lands
taeres pnqgsnng to certain as Of
ground in Fremont county; authorizing the issu-
ing to Stephen Marston, Of Hartford, Conn.,,
patent for certain lands in Michigan: to make the
Territory of Arizona separate surveying district,
and establish the once OF Surveyor General there
in; TO vacate the Fort Dakota military reservation
in Dakota; Senate bill to create port OF delivery
at Duluth, with amendment attaching Duluth TO 70
the collection district of Lake Superior instead OF
New Orleans; to pay $25, 900 to the daughters OF
Jethro Woods, the inventor OF the cast-iron ploW
carving into effect decrees of certain courts IN
cases Of English vessels Illegally seized by the
United States cruisers; authorizing G. ". Dick,
of Butler county, Ohio, to import from Scotland,
free of duty, a common road steam locomotive for
experimental purposes; to allow the Secretary OF
the Treasury to increase the pay OF inspectors OF
Customs; to construe the act of March 81 1865,
chanfar al Irnhi hit Inc mo y DaSA erQ-
vided for by Section of the act OF July 10, 1855,
Chapter 1874 of as many cents per pound of cotton
CLOTH yard of thread knit articles manufacture
exclusively from cotton, and exported prior 70
May 1859 az shall have been assessed and PAID ln
the form of an internal tax the raw cotton en-
tering into the manufacture of such cloth and other
- the special 0r.