Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-06-15
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.

CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY
SENATE, June IA number of bills we,
presented-The bill to change the judicial circui
was discussed, amended and passed. 1t const
tutes the circuits follows: First-AIaine Ne
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts Rhode islam
and Connecticut; Second New York: Third-Ne
Jersey, pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland an
| Virginia; Fourth-Mississippi, Louisiana Texa
and Arkansas; Fifth-North Carolina, South Care
! lima, Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Tennessee
! Slxth-Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and West Virgin
Ia; Seventh-Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin
E1ghth-Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska Kansas an
| Missouri; Nintb-Caiifornia, Oregon and Nevada
The supreme Court Justices, except the Chief Jus
uce are required TO reside in their respective cir
cults, and the Chief Justice is to be known as tn
Chlet Justice OF he Supreme Court of the Unite
| States
HoUsE.-A number of petitions for relic
| from manufacturers We're presented, when tn
House proceeded to consider the bill to reduce in
ternaI taxes, but up to the hour of adjourning ha
! accomplished nothing OF note.
SENATE, June "A number of resolu
tons were presented. Among them was one for en-
couraglng an International Pacific road, and on
Tor rebuilding the levees on the NJ ssissippi. Th
Anolan Appropriation bill was discussed. Severa
amendments Were made, including an appropria
ton of 81, 900, 600 for treaty with the Sioux An
amendment to prevent the payment of claims fo
Indian depredations out of the money appropriaf
ed to pay annuities for tribes was agreed to.
HoUsE-Mr. Paine reported bill for The
payment of certain amounts to the contestants O
seats from Louisiana, amounting to S19,5O0 which
passed-77 to67. The Internal Tax bin was takel
up. After several amendments had been made Mr.
Beck moved an amendment to the forty-fourth sec
ton, taxing the interest on United States bonds
nve per cent. The vote on division was 90 to 60
The yeas and nays were demanded and pending
the vote, the House, amid much excitement ad
journed.
SENATE, June "a resolution vas adop
ted for the appointment of committee of five BY
the President of the Senate, with authority to con
slider the subject of redeening auyal lands on the
Lower Mississippi by levee system to sit DURING
the recess, and report by bill or othery ise.-The
Indian appropriation bill was taken up Amend.
ments We're adopted appropriating the following
sums to fulfill treaty stipulations, &C.: 1920, ,O0(
for the Arapahoes and other tribes; $4,000 for the
Navajoe Indians; $66,000 for the Wyandotte Indi
ans; $23,2O0 to the Winnebagoes. Another amend
Inent was adopted appropriating $4,000 to collect
locate and subsst rowing Indians on the borders OF
Texas and Mexico Adjourned
HoUSE-After some unlmportant buSi-
ness the tax bill was taken up. An amendment
Wus adopted reducing the income tax to per cent
yeas ia, nays II. An amendment making the
exemption 81, 900 was adopted, yeas 1873, nays 81
The allowance for house rent was limited to $500.
Other amendments were adopted prohi biting the
publication of the income returns reducing the
number of persons ehtitled to exemption in social
or religious communities to fives adding to the ex-
emption losses by floods; allowing assistant
sofs to increase the amount of returns if he has
reason to believe them understated, and not reouir-
ing income returns to include wages of minor chill
dren not received. The amendment to tax the in
terest on United States bonds was rejected yeas
79, nays ITO. The House adjourned without dis.
posing of the bill.
SENATE, June After some routine hu-
siness the Indian appropriation bill was taken up
and discussed at length, and an amendment adopt
ed appropriating 100000 for the purchase of wag-
ons, teams, agricultural implements, live stock,
Seeds ETC., and for erecting houses for Indians in
the Northern superintendency upon the In
dian Quaker policy.-After an executive session of
some length the Senate adjourned.
HoUsE-Several bills and resolutions
were introduced when the House proceeded with
the bill to reduce taxation. great deal of fill.
clustering was INDUCED in on Schenck's effort to
add section on the tariff, reducing the duties on
some articles. The measure defeated. During
this hlibustering the Senate bill passed provid-
ing for the appointment of managers of the Ma
honal Asylums for disabled soldiers also the Joint
resolution to amend the law appropriating $40 900
for survey of the Isthmus of Darien, so that it
may be expended under the direction of the War
or Navy Department. Adjourned.
SENATE, June 6-Several bills were intro
duced and some reported from committee.-A bill
was passed increasing the pay of assistant census
marshals; the increase is not to exceed fifty per
cent of the presel pay shall the whole pay ex-
ceed eight dollars per day exclusive of mieage,-A
Dill was passed repeating the existing laws author
lz1ng the transportation and expectation of goods
wares and merchandise to Mexico overland ), or by
inland waters. 1t is claimed that this will away
with much smuggling and save So 900 900 yearly to
the treasury.-The Indian appropriation bill was
considered, and amendments adopted appropriat-
ing $780, 600 for industrial schools among the va
rious Indian tribes and $4,000 for the Indian SER
vice IN Alaska. Pending the consideration of the
bill the Senate went into Executive session. ard
soon after took recess.-In the evening session
the House joint resolution granting right of way
to the Memphis, EIpaso ana Pacific Railway Com
pany was indefinitely postponed.-The bill for the
settlement of claims for quartermasters' and COM
mlssary stores furnished or taken by the United
Sttos within the states in rebellion during the
men without action.
HoUsE-A dozen or more bills were in
troduced and referred, but none of them were of
unusual interest.-The Ways and Means commit
tee was instructed, by vote of ayes I13, noes 49,
to report bill abolishing the tariff on oal-Tues-
day OF next week was set down as the day for con-
siderng the report of the Foreign Affairs Commit
tee on Cuba.-Schenck, from the Committee on
Ways and Means, reported bill for the funding
and consolidation of the national debt. Recon-
mitted and ordered printed.-The House then re-
sumed the consideration of the bill to reduce
ton, the question being on Mr.. Schenck's motion
to lay on the table the motion to reconsider the
vote whereby the main question ordered on
his amendment to the first section of the tariff bill
The motion was agreed to and the amendment
adopted-l39 to 43. The second section of the tar
III bl, being the free list, the third section, re-
neving from tonnage duties vessels in the coasting
trade and fisheries, the fourth and last section,
mod1hed so as to make 1T apply OnIy to imported
goods in bonded warehouses; were separately offer
ed and agreed to, and the bill passed by vote of
$50 to 55.-The postoce appropriation bill was ta-
ken up and passed. Among the amendments adop-
ted was one limiting the letter carrier system to
cities OF not less than 10000 inhabitants.-The
evening session was devoted to speech making
Adjourned.
SENATE, June AFTER the consideration
of some miscellaneous business, the Indian ap-
preparation bill was taken up and pending its con
sideration the Senate went into executive session.
and, after some two hours SO spent, adjourned.
HoUsE-Bills were passed, making Kan
sas City port of delivery, and authorizing terms
OF United States Courts to be held in Helena Ark
The bill to regulate the payment of members in
contested seat cases was taken up, discussed for
time, and laid on the table.-The banking and cur
rency bill was debated during most of the remain
der of the session without vote being TAKEN
The Senate amendment authorizing increased paw
to census-takers passed. Adjourned