The Portland daily press., 1870-12-13
Among the bills introduced and referred were

Among the bills introduced and referred were
the following:
to harbor of refuge at the entrance of the
Cape Cod ship canal; By Mr.. Butler of Massa
chusetts, to amend the act of March 3, 1866
regulating the carrying of passengers in steam
ships; BY Mr.. Strong, providing tor a building
for the post office, United States courts, sc.
at Hartford.
By Mr.. Schenck of Ohio, to establish ocean
steamship lines for the transportation of mails
between the U. S. and Europe, Incorporating
an American and European Steamship Com
pany, with a capital stock of five millions,
which may be increased TO twenty millions, and
directing the Post master General to make
contracts for the conveyance of mails from
Portland, Boston, New York, Phila and ports
on the Chesapeake Bay and on the southern
Atlantic coast of the United States, to Liver
pool, southampton, Havre. Antwerp, Ham,
burg, Bremen, Cadiz, and other ports on the
Atlantic coast of Europe, and Marseilles, Ge-
noa and other ports in the Mediterranean at
the following rates of compensation for semi
monthly service $500 900 per annum: for week.
~ service, $1,000; for semi-weekly service,
100000; and for tri-weekly, daily and other
services,in this proportion; the steamships to
be iron. not less than 5000 tons burthen, with
all TIE modern improvements; the company
having the right to purchase at ST. per acre,
eighty acres Of public land for every ton of iron
shipping built by it. Under this law it shall
tracts not exdeeding 1900 acres each, and
shall be located at least IN alternate townships,
apart from each other; by Mr.. Churchill of N.
Y, authorizing an increase of pay of census
marshals of 1870; By Mr.. Cox Of N. Y, rela-
tive to repeating all the taxes on legacies and
distributing shares; by Mr.. Morey Of La, re-.
pealing the income tax; by Mr.. Munger, of
Ohio, relative to purchase of persons as chat
tells, whether under the head of territorial pur-
chase or otherwise; (allusion to San Domingo)
hxrM % IL
OF homesteads on public domain by honorably
discharged soldiers; by Mr.. Smith Of Oregon,
apprOpriating the proceeds of sales of public
lands in Oregon, to the support of common
schools in that state.
Mr.. Sargent of California, offered resolu-
ton, which was adopted, instructing the COM
mittee on appropriations to report what effect
has been given to the provisions of the last In
dian appropriation bill, requiring an investiga-
ton of alleged frauds in connection with In
dian affairs He said the President desired to
have the fullest investigation of charges, and
had called the attention of the Secretary of the
Interior to them for the purpose of having
them fully ventilated.
The House has at one o'clock P. NJ, passed
by vote Of 157 to %, the bill repeating the CIV
il tenure of office act
Mr.. Ranks of Mass, presented a resolution
for the appointment OF commission for the ac-
QUESTION of st. Domingo, and moved the pre-
viOus question.
Lug house reiuseu 10 second Lno preVl0nS
question by 66 to 50, and Mr.. Cox of N, Y,
moved to lay the resolution on the table,
The House refused to table the San Domingo
resolution, 81 to LII, and it was referred to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, with authority
to report at any time after giving five days
notice to the House.
The House passed concurrent resolution
for a recess of Congress from Thursday the
22nd of December to Wednesday, January
4th.
After long and acrimonious discussion on
the bill introduced sby Mr.. Logan of ILL.,, abol-
in the navy, it was passed under suspension
OF the rules and without division.
Mr.. ScOfeld of Pennsylvania introduced a
bill to regulate rank in the navy.
A resolution by Mr.. Niblack of Indiana. in
structing the Committee on Commerce to in
quire what additional legislation was necessary
to give increased efficiency to the law provid-
ing for the transportation of imported mer-
chandise to the interior ports, was adopted, as
was one by Mr.. Kelley of Pennsy lvania-164 to
6--that the true principle of revenue reform
points to the early abolition of the revenue
system and all its machinery except what was
necessary for the collection of taxes on wills.
key, malt liquors and tobacco.
Mr. Ingersoll of Illinois introduced bill for
railway between Washington and New York.
Referred.
Mr.. Cox of New York in reduced resolu-
ton, which was referred to the Committee on
Ways and Means, reciting that the ordinary
expenses of the government, exclusive of in
terest on the public debt and reasonable sum
FOR the reduction Of the principal, should not
exceed $10O,OOO,OOO year; that money raised
by taxation should not exceed $3.50, O0O, 900
year-$125, 100000 to meet the interest, and
$125, 900 to 60 to liquidate the principal of
the public debt; that the existing internal rev
enue system should be abolished, and the sum
raised by internal taxation assigned in Just
proportion to the several States, to be collect,
ed by the authorities thereof and paid into the
national treasury; that import duties be levied |
with view to the revenue only and not for
the purpose and with the effect of protecting
particular classes of trades and individuals at
the expense of the people; that there are many
dutla6le articles, as salt, coal, &c., which
should be entirely free, and others, such as
lumber, pig iron, leather, &C., ON which the
duty should be greatly reduced; ard instruct
ing the Committee on Ways and Means to IN
quire into the expediency of embodying these
principles in bill to be reported to the House.