Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-05-27
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.


SENATE, May 11-Bills were introduced
to establish mail service on the west coast of
and Tennessee rairoad.-The bill to provide for
artificial limbs to disabled soldiers passed.-The
legislative, executive and judicial appropriation
bill was taken up, Amendments were adopted APP
propriating $500 900 for new building the state
department.; for enlarging the capital grounds at
an expense of 100000; increasing the appropria-
ton to the Office Of the Comptroller of the Cur
rency from 900 to $50 900; requiring the Assist
ant Commissioner of Patents to be appointed by
the President subject to confirmation by the SEN
ate, to act as commissioner in case of temporar,
vacancy. Several amendments were rejected, when
without final action on the bill the Senate adj
journed. f
HoUsE-A bill was passed appropriating
$500, 900 to supply deficiencies in the miage fund.
The Northern Pacific railroad bill was taken up,
and after some discussion, the bill was refused
third reading by vote of " ayes to 90 noes. Mr..
Wheeler voted in the negative in order to be able
to move reconsideration Twenty-four amend
ments offered, and, with the bill, were refer
red to the Pacific railroad committee, who were
authorized to report at any tirne.-Several bills
were introduced when the tariff bill came up in
comm ittee of the whole. Tie duty on steel car
wheels was fixed at cents Der pound: steel blooms
and and locomotive ties, rolled or hammered to
patterns, x cents; steel carriage locomotive,
and other springs, 5 cents. Paragraphs were IN
serted taxing crinoline and corset steel wire cents
per pound and 10 per cent ad valorem; sword
blades 50 per cent. ad valorem, and swords IA per
cent. ad valorem Several other paragraphs We're
passed over without amendment. The committee
rose and the House adjourned.
SENATE, May 10. Howe introduced a bill
granting the right of way in Wisconsin to the Green
Bay and Lake Superior railroad.-The army bill
was taken up and amendments were adope ed re-
ducing the army to 80 600 instead of $4,000; that
officers to be reported to the retiring board shall be
only those unfit for duty from other causes than
wounds or disease received or contracted while in
al krf
board shall be entitled 20 hearing; that retired
officers shall receive extra compensation but
milage and expenses when assigned to duty on
their own request, except such duty be with troops
and as professors in colleges; prohibiting any Off
Ger of the army, either the active or the retired
list from holding office striking out the clause re-
lating to the pay Of officers. The bill was then
ported to the Senate and passed. Adjourned.
HoUsE--A bill was passed extending the
provisions of the presumption law to Colorado
After some discussion between Wood and Schenck
as to the propriety of laying aside the tariff bill,
the House went into committee of the whole on the
bill The paragraph taxing type two cents per Id
was struck out The paragraph taxing live animals
twenty per cent. was amended by raising the duty
to thirty per cent. and adding prov1so that emil
grant teams not exceeding one wagon and two ami
mails for each family be admitted free After some
further discussion the committee rose, and, after
recess, the bill to define the duties OF pension
7 agents and prescribe the manner OF paying PEN
sions was discussed, and, all amendments having
been rejected was passed. A large number of bills
granting pensions were passed. Adjourned.
,SRNATE, May 13--The resolutions of the
Illinois Constitutional Convention for the removal
of the national capital to the Mississippi Valley
were read and tabled.-Bills were introduced
granting land to aid the construction of railroad
from Chippewa River, Mimi, to Dakota Territory,
to the civil rights act giving equal
rights 70 all citizens railroads, STEAMBOATS, and
public conveyances, in theatres, homes, public
schools etc., and providing penalties for intrac-
ton bill passed appropriating $225,000 for the
~, of b,aak al
Legislative appropriation bill was proceeded with,
much time was spent N discussions, and amend
ments were finally adopted securing to naval ON
GERS aud surveyors of ports the full compensation
received by them under the act of 1871, until re-
Gently fixing the salary of assistants in each eSecu
tive department of the Second Comptroller, Comp
| troler OF the Currency Commissioner of Customs,
Solicitor Register, Auditors of the Treasury, Com
missioners of Pensions, Indian Affairs and Land
Office, at $1,000 each continuing in Office the So
citor and Naval Judge b t the usual a
HoUsE---SeveTal bills were passed, among
which was for the rel eff Of widows and orphans
| of the Oneida, allowing twelve months pay from
the date of the loss; approprang $685., 900 in gold
| COIN to be paid to the British government under
award of the commissioners to settle the claims of
the Hudson Bay and Puget Sound companies the
award fixing the payment at $65O, lin two annual
instalments, the first of which takes place the
10TH of September. The tariff bill was taken up
1 in committee of the whole. The tax on -four or
| meal of oats. wheat, rye, corn or buckwheat, was
stuffs, shorts and -four, and meal Of grain
| of any kind ground or mixed for feed,
thirty per cent ad valarem; on wheat, thirty cts;
rye, twenty; barley, twenty-five; corn, fifteen;
oats fifteen cents per bushel the tax on oranges
lemons, &C., increased from ten to fifteen per
cent ad vaorem; the tax ON potatoes was increas-
ed from fifteen to twenty five cents per bushel; the
duty on rice was fixed at two cents, and shelled at
three cents. The committee rose and the House
adjourned to Monday.
SENATE, May Is Bills were passed
granting public lands in Alabama to the Decatur &
Aberdeen railroad; granting lands to aid in the
construction of railroad from the western bound
airy of Minnesota at the junction of tie Sioux Wood
River with the Red River of the North to the Win
nipeg district of British America.-The appropr;s-
ton bill and the bill abolishing the franking priv.
lege were laid aside and the bill enforcing the NJ
tenth amendment was taken up. 1t was dlscuss-
ed until after Eve o'clock, when the senate went
into executive session, and soon sfter ADJOURNED
HoUsE-A large nunaiuer OF bills was IN
troduced, among when were these: by MI. Wal
SON. OF Ohio-Eo prevent cruelty TO animals wh1ie
in transport by railroads, ETC. BY Mr.. lawrence
Reltive to qualifications of assistant marshals TO
/ take the census SO not to exclude women. BY
Mr.. Roots Granting lands for railroad from the
Mississippi River to the Arkansas River along tae
| thirty -sixth parallel. By Mr.. Sawyer-To moor
porate the international Society of the United
States for the promotion of Protection TO lmlnl-
grants; granting right OF way TO the Green Bay
| and Lake Pepin Railroad Company across the
| Oneida reservation in Wisconsin. Mr. Van Wyck
ITO increase the pensions to invalid soldiers Wild
| oWs and minor children. BY MIR, Randail-grant-
ing bounty to enlisted men in the ordnance corps
who served through the rebellion. By Mr.. Conner
Ito repeal the provisions of the act OF April l2th,
1856, which authorizes the Secretary OF the Irea-
sury to fund the public debts also for the appoints
ment of select committee to take action concern
| ing the Indian outrages the western and south
western trontiers in violation of the Kansas trea-
/ ty of 1S69-Schenck, from the Committee on Ways
| and Means, reported a bill for the reduction OF
taxation by abolishing many of the special taxes.
The estimated amount of reduction is $685. 7i6.
The bill was ordered printed and recommitted
to the Ways and Means committee with Instructions
to report it at any tne.-A resolution was adopted
that motions to close the debate all paragraphs
of the tariff bill embraced in one general sNbject
shall be in orde IA motion to postpone all prior
orders until after the appropriation bills are dis
posed of agreed to- yeas 80, mays 7S.-The rules
were suspended and bill passed to enforce the
right of citizens of the United States vote in the
several states of the Union, who have hitherto
beef denied that right on account of race, color,
| or previous condition of vitude. Adjourned.
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