Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-02-03
Congressional.

In the Senate, on the Goth, a resolution
was adopted accepting marble statue of Nathan
lei Greene, already placed in the old hall of the
House of Representatives, and rendered by Rhode
Island Bills were introduction the preserva.
ton of the harbors Of the United States against en-
croachment; to grant right of way through public
lands to the junction City Il Denver Railroad
Company; to promote the disposition of the pub
lie lands in California; to establish postal tele.
graph system and incorporate the United States
Postal Telegraph Company The Virginia Dill
was taken up and debated, after which the Senate
adjourned.
In the House, on the 20th,' bills were
introduced-for the relief of settlers on certain
lands in Iowa; for the grant of lands to Junction
City, solomon Valley Il Denver City Railroad
Company :. :. Resolutions were ad0pted-inquiring
into the right of Postmasters to refuse sending
through the mails ranked documents, not mailed
at where the Senator or member resides; inquir-
ing into contracts for transmitting mails by
railroad; for printing 1900 extra copies Of
the report of Special Commissioner of the Revenue
Wells A petition was presented from the cit-
zens of Ken0sha, Wis, asking for an appropriation
for Kenosha Harbor. memorial of ~, 600 citi-
zens of Utah. praying for admission as State, was
presented and referred =. The Military Academy
bill was considered in Committee of the Whole, re-
ported to the House and passed The bill for the
transfer of the Philadelphia Navy Yard to League
Island was further debated Adjourned.
In the Senate. on the 21st, memorials
and petitions were received and referred-from
army oiicers for an increase of pay; for a Six
teenth Amendment, giving suffrage to women; to
abolish the franking privilege Bills were intro
duced and referred-to abolish the Freedmen 3
Bureau, and to provide for Bureau of Education
to prohibit the sale of public lands In Kansas, ex-
cept for actual settlement; proposing an amend.
ment TO the Constitution of the United States, to
be known as the Sixteenth Amendment, declaring
I VT Ioat IF In
be that of citizenship, and all native and natural
lied citizens shall enjoy the same rights and privi-
leges of the elective franchise. The Virginia bill
was taken up aud amended so as TO provide
for the admission of the State upon GER
tain conditions, by prohibiting any change or
amendment of the State Constitution to deprive
citizens Of the right to vote nnder the same who
are now entitled to vote, and by providing that 1t
shall never be lawful for said State to deprive any
citizen of the United States on account OF race,
color or previous condition of servtude, of the
right TO hold office under the constitution and laws
of said State or upon any such ground TO require oil
him any other qualification for office than such as
are required of all other citizens, and also proyid
ing further that the Constitution shall never be so
amended or changed as TO deprive any citizen OF
the United States of the school rights and priv
leges secured by the Constitution OF said State;
substitute for the House preamble was also agreed
to, and the bill as amended was passed-47 10 IL
1.-The Currency bill was taken up and LAID over,
and the Senate adjourned to the 2ith.
In the House, on the 2lst, several pri-
yate bills were disposed of. In Committee of the
Whole, speeches were made on various subjects,
when the Committee rose and the House adjourned,
with the understanding that the session on the I'D
was to be for debate only.
In the Senate, on the cath, the creden-
tias of Hon. l.. NJ Morrill,, of Maine, were pre-
sented, and the oath Of Office administered. Pc.
titions cad memorials were pretented-for the re-
moval of duty on Canadian timber; for the aboli-
ton of the frankng privilege: against the continu-
ance OF the income tax x joint resolution grant
ing a pension TO Mrs. Lincoln was offered and re-
ferred. :. "A bill was introduced and referred for