Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1870-04-12
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEgDTHGs

FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. SECOND SESSION.
SENATE.-Tuesday, April 5-The House
joint resolutions relative to the sinking OF the
United States corvette Oneida by the British
ship Bombay were adopted unanimously. A
memorial of the "Colored Philosophical and
Historical Society of Richmond, asking that
the name of the country be changed from Amer
lea to Columbia, was presented by MIR. Viokers,
and laid on the table, A resolution was offer
ed iastruating the Committee on Military AT
fairs ''to inquire into the proprety of providing
some suitable memorial to the volunteers OF
Pennsylvania who, on the 18th of April, 1851,
and the volunteers of Massachusetts, who, on
the 18th of April, 1861. marched through the
streets of Baltimore to defend the Capital Of
their country Alter some discussion it was
referred to the Committee or Military Affairs.
The Georgia bill was then taken UP, and Mr..
Sumner delivered one of his Characteristic
speeches in oppositioa 70 the Bingham amend
ment, to which Mr.. Carpenter replied. The
Senate then went into executive session. and at
It's close adjourned
House. The bill to transfer certain funds
from the Freedmen Bureau to the Office of
Education was taken ID and passed. The dis
cussion of the Tariff bill was resumed in Com
mittee of the Whole, and the duty on clarified
sugar was fixed at . cents per pound, and on
refined, stove dried, IN loaf. lump. crushed,
powdered and graduated sugar. at cents per
pound. The paragraphs relating TO rnoiassas,
syrups, spices aud wines we're adopted re-
ported by the committee. The duty on brandy
and other distilled spirits was fixed at two dol
lars per gallon The committee then rose, and
the House soon after adjourned
SEEAEz-W ednesday, April Ga bill was
passed to remove tf.e POLITICAL disabilities of
Francis e. Shober, Representatives. from
North Carolina The Georgia bill was then
a.. IL q,
ate went into executive session, and, at its close,
adjourned It is understood that the Georgia
bill will not be taken up again for consideration
until Tuesday next
HOUSE Several new bills and resolutions
were introduced and referred. Mr, Wood made
personal explanation, In which he charged
General O. @. Howard Commissioner, of tie
Freedmen's Bureau, with having taken more
than FIVE hundred thousand dollars from the
funds of the Bureau without authority of law,
and offered a resolution directing the Commit
on the Freednen's Bureau to inquire whether
Gen. Howard has been guilty OF nlisappropria-
ton of Bureau funds After an excited discus
sion resolution vas adopted directing inquiry
to be made into the charges by the Committee
on Education and Labor. 4 bill was passed
authorizing copies OF documents and papers in
one Department to be used as evidence in an
other Department. The consideration of the
Tariff bill was resumed in Committee of the
Whole, and several amendments were adopted.
The duty on cigars and cigarettes was fixed at
two dollars and fifty cents per pound The
committee then rose, and the House soon after
adjourned.
SENATE. Thursday, April IA joint reso-
luton was passed extending the tine for the
completion Of the first twenty miles of the
Cairo and Fulton Railroad. The resolution of
Mr. Rice instructiug the Judiciary Committee
to inquire into the effect OF the Fifteenth A
menGalent upon the Indians was adopted. A
joint resolution was passed extending the in
come tax law during the year 1870. and provi-
ding for the collection Of taxes under IT, The
JOINT resolution authorizing the Northern Pa
clfc Hallway Company to issue its bonds for
the construction OF it's road aud TO secure the
same by mortgage was discussed, bnt 20 action
was taken Pending debate, the Senate, at
0 CLOCK 2. NJ adjourned
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. "A number
OF new bills and resolutions were introduced
and referred TO committees Several bills in
relation to revision of laws were reported from
the committee on that subject and disposed Of
AZ the expiration Of the morning hour Mir.
Paine, OF Wisconsin, made the point Of order
that, under the rules, the morning hour did not
terminate at the expiration of the sixty minu-
ties, and that to terminate The hour q successful
must be made. After considerable discussion
the subject was lett for future decision. The
discussion of the Tariff bill was resumed in
Committee of the Whole The entire para
graph relating to the duty on cigars, cigarettes,
&c, was stricken out, leaving the tariff as fixed
by the existing laws. Several other sections
were disposed Of Pending debate, the COM
mittee rose, and the House soon after ad-
journed.
l. 3 L.
Cd providing for survey along the west bank
of the Potomac river from a point opposite
Georgetown to Harper's Ferry, 10 view Of the
construction OF military railroad. The House /
bill to supply Deficiencies in the appropriations
for the salaries of the United States Ministers
was taken UP and passed The coaeurrent re-
solution providing for a Joint Committee on
Indian Affairs was taken up and discussed I'M
til one clock, when, out of respect of the me-