The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-04-09
Congressional Summary.

FRIDAY, Aprll D.
SENATE.-Iu the Senate yesterday sum
dry bills were introduced, including one
by Pomeroy to transfer the Cherokee and
Creek Indian tribes In the Indian Terri
tory to the Western District of Arkansas.
The House appropriation bill, supplying
deficiencies In the salaries of u. 3.
ministers for the current fiscal year, was
passed. The calendar was taken up, and the
concurrent resolution of the joint Com
mittee on Indian Affairs was discussed,
mainly upon the proprtety of committing
TO the Joint committee the subjects which
involved the treaty making power. Har-
Ian, Stewart and Sumner favored, and
Drake opposed the proposition, the dis
cussion ofwhich was cut off by the expi-
ration of the morning hour, when the
ory of General Thomas, adjourned until
tomorrow.
HoUsE.-PAine introduced bill provid-
ing that after the present Congress the
House Of REPRESENTATIVES. shall be COM
posed of 275 members, and of such menu
bers as any State thereafter admitted may
be entitled TO, and directing the Secretary
of the Interior to ascertain. from the pre-
IIminary census Of 1870. the basis of repre-
sentation, and the apportionment of each
State. Referred. Dawes offered q resolu-
tion directing the Clerk to report by what
authority Sl,S72 had been paid to the
washington Chronicle for advertising GER
tain seatements Ia relation to the Thirty
seventh Congress. Adopted. Various
private bills were reported from the Post
office Committee and Committee on In
dian Affairs, and passed. Among those
reserve from the monies due the k1oWa
Indians, the sum of $40, GOO for the benefit of
white captives, recovered from them after
| the massacre OF their parents and rela-
| tives. and who are to be known as Helen
and Heloise Lincoln. The morning hour
| having expired, Paine from the Commit
/ tee on Elections reported the credentials
| of Henry w. Barry, member elect from
the third district of Mississippi, as regular.
Barry come forward and took the oath
OF once. Coke moved that when the House
adjourn to-day IL be until Monday, but
this was opposed by Dawes, and rejected
by 6S against 80. The House at 2 O'Clock
went into a committee on the tariff bill
the paragraphs under consideration being
that as to cetton spool thread, cotton yarn
Warps or warp yarn, cotton shirts, drawers
and other articles knit or woven or
frames; cOrsets, lace composed of cotton
and fax not prepared by needle; Lace
shaWls, scarfs, &c. The paragraph taxing
wool on skins, provoked considerable dis
cussion, affordlng some OF the member
| and Causing all the other members L
laugh. When the committee rose the.
had disposed of less than eight pages O
the bill, which consists of nfty pages
| After an Intellectual effort to adjourn, TN
| Speaker presented letter from the Clerl
| of the House in reply TO resoiutlo
adopted this forenoon as to the paymen
OF 81 SIS TO the Washington Chron1ctt
stating that IL was paid on the 3lst day G
March, 1869, by direction of the Commltte
on Accounts, and that he had untfornI
declined to order such publications, Whlc
had now been stopped. Dawes disclafme
J any supposition that the Clerk had don
anything wrong in the raatter-