Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1870-01-14
xLIst coNGREss-sEcoND SESSION.

Uu 4uuhuaE TIT 1EtAl AN WHICH tlliE allGNE
the bills introduced were the following
To promote the interests of general edu-
cation among the people Of the United
utates
To admit Virginia to representation in
Congress.
To extend the privileges Of the National
Banking act.
To repeal all acts Of Congress on the sub
ject Of bankruptcy, providing the repeal
shall not effect any case or proceeding in
bankruptcy commenced before the passage
of this act, nor any pains or penalties or
forieiures incurred under such acts
For the removal Of the Kansas and Usage
tribes of Indians from Kansas and the dis
posal of their lands to actual settlers only
For a commission to Investigate claims
arising from Indian depredations
Enabling actual settlers TO purchase GER
tain lands in Kansas obtained from the
Cherokee Indians, and extending the pre-
emption and homestead laws
To enlarge the boundaries Of Nevada
To disencumber public lands of so-called
Indian titles.
To re, define the present boundary line be-
tween Nebraska and Dakotah.
Granting land in aid Of public schools in
Arkansas
To amend the National Currency act.
To establish boundaries ofjudicial circuits
Of the United States.
To amend the Homestead act by allowing
soldiers to enter one hundred and sixty
acres of the alternate reserved sections
! along railroad grants, instead Of eighty
acres, as now limited, and that when any
person enters for homestead one hundred
aud sixty acres of land not mineral Hor
timbered, and only capable Of cultivation By
irrigation he may in addition, enter one
hundred and sixty acres of land not mineral
and not capable Of cultivation By irrigation,
half of which may be timbered land and
that any person entitled to a homestead may
enter three-quarter sections Of land iucapa.
bic of cultivation by irrigation, not mineral
nor timbered lands, only valuable for gra-
zing and with it eighty acres Of timber
land
APPoRuoNMENT OF REPRESENTATION
By Mr.. Paine-For the appointment o.
representatives among the several States
Section first enaets that after March 3,
1871, the House of Representatives shall be
composed Of three hundred members pro
vided, first, that new States shall be ad-
d!tiona to the three hundred second, If
any State shall be reduced in the number Of
representatives by the uppurtiunmeut, such
reduction shall not take effect ia the Forty
second Congress, but its representatives in
that Congress IN excess of the number fixed
by the apportionment shall be additional to
the three hundred, aud third, if the repre-
sentation Of any State shall be increased by
the apportinnment, the additional represeu-
tatives shall be chosen bv the State at large.
unless It's Legislature shall otherwise pro
vide.
Section second requires the Supcrinter-
dent OF the Census to submit to the Secre-
tary of the Interior, before August Is, 1870,
preliminary report showing, first the
whole number of persons in each State ter.
ritoTy, county and parish second, the num-
Der Of male citizens therein twenty -one years
Of age, and third, the number of male citi-
zens therein twenty-one years of age whose
right to vote for certain offices is denied or
abridged except for participation in rebel.
hon or other crime, with other necessary
statistics
Section third provides that after prelimi-
nary report Is made to the Secretary Of the
Interior he shall, in accordance with section
second Of the fourteenth amendment Of the
constitution, ascertain therefrom and from
such returns Of subordinates as he shall find
1t necessary to consult, first, the basis of
representation of each State and, second,
the aggregate basis of representation Of the
United States and shall, thirdly, ascertain
the basis of representation of The congress
sional districts BY dividing the aggregate
basis by 300, and SHALL fourthly, ascertain
the number Of representatives in each State
by dividing its basis of representation by
the basis of the single districts, rejecting
fractions and shall, fifth, apportion to the
State having the largest rejected fraction
one to each enough representatives to make
the whole number 500.
Section fourth requires the Secretary of
the interior TO transmit statement of his
proceedings under this act duly sealed and
certified to the Speaker of the House and
to each Governor on or before September
10, 1871.
Section fifth provides that the Secretary
OF the Interior shall include the basis of rem
resentation Of each of the States of Missis
sIppi, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia, in the
aggregate basis of the United States. but
shall not transmit the statement of his pro
ceedings to their Governors until they are
respectively admitted to representation in
both Houses of Congress, and that if the
fifteenth amendment shall be duly ratified
before December 10, 1870, there shall be no
euuO1ion VI DaSis ol any OLaLe on account
OF previous denial or abridgement of any
right which shall be secured by that amend
ment.
Section sixth repeats conflicting acts and
parts of acts
THE CASE or VIRGINIA.
Mr. Bingham introduced a joint resoIu-
tion declaring Virginia entitled to represen-
tation IN Congress, and moved the previous
question 90 It's passage.
The preamble recites that the people Of
y Yirginia have adopted constitution renub- /
iican in form, and have in all respects con.
formed to the requirements Of the act of
Congress OF April 10, 1869, authorizing the
submission Of the constitutions of Virginia,