Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1870-04-28
CONGRESSIONAL.

the Committee on public Lands. Ms
Edmunds introduced bill to enforcr.
the Fifteenth Amendment, which wac
referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Mr Chandler endeavored to have the
inquiry into improper influences to
obtain votes on the Georgia bill extend
ed SO as to include what attempts have
been made by Southern rebels to secure
votes for the Bingham amendment, but
was prevented by an objection from Mr..
Ferry. The Committee ON Foreign
Affairs reported resolution for one or
more Arctic explorations toward the
North Pole, under the direction of the
President and the National Academy of
Sciences, 500, 900 TO be appropriated for
the purpose. Matchmaker introduced
resolution to appoint two commits
siOners to consult with the people of the
Winnipeg country of Canada for their
annexation to the United States. The
Georgia bill was taken up and debate
continued. During the evening session
AR. Pomeroy's substitute to the bill was
adopted, 1t provides that the present
Government of the State is provisional
until the State is admitted to Congress,
and that an election for Legislature
shall be held on the first Tusday of
September next, TO assemble iL Novem-
State. .s
HoUSE.-A futile attempt was made
to introduce resolution enquiring by
what authority the Secretary of the
Treasury had used surplusscoin for the
purchase of bonds. The census bill was
attempted to be taken up that it might
be referred to Committee of Conference
but objection was made. a bill to
prevent the Importation of goods manu-
factured abroad in imitation of Ameri-
Can articles was referred to the Foreign
Affiirs Committee. The case of the
contested election from the First Louis
lana District was debated and went over
until to day. The Tariff bill was taken
up and motions made to reduce the
duty on scrap iron, but no vote was
reached on account of the small attend
ance of members.
SENATE, Wednesday, April 20.-The
Ohio Legislature were given the priv
i:eges of the floor. A bill was introduce
ed and referred to incorporate the Pacific
Submarine Telegraph Company. The
Pacific Railroad bill was taken up. BY
{, vote of IL to 10 Harlan's amendment
striking out an additional land grant
and allowing the company to make up
its present deficiency from sections on
elch side of the road ten miles beyond
the present limits was rejected. Several
other amendments were rejected, and
having agreed the bill should be disposed
of on the 2lst the Senate adjourned
HoUSE.-The Postotfice Appropriation
bill WAS reported, and made the special
order for Tuesday, the 26th inst. 1t
appropriates Sd, ll0, ,09S out Of the Dos
tai revenues and S725, 900 out of the
Treasury. \ bill was introduced and
referrei, to improve the water COM
nunication between the Mississippi
river and Lake Michigan, by the Fox
and Wisconsin rivers. A resolution of
inquiry was adopted as to the expedien-
cy of coming silver coin worth twenty
cents. Mr. Pain introduced bill pro-
viding that after June 80, 1870, there
shall be a reduction of 10 per cent, on
the duties imposed on all foreign i'm
ports, except liquors and tobacco. The
contested election case in the Fist Louis
lana District was taken up. At first, by
a vote of rs to 75, Sypher was given the
seat, but the vote was reconsidered, and,
by a vote of95 to 6S, the election was
declared invalid, and a new one ordered.
The Senate substitute for the Census bill
was not concurred in, and went to a
Conference Committee. The Senate
substitute for the Georgia bill came up.
Mr.. Logan agreed with Mr.. Bingham
Oh the substitute, which provides that
an election for the Legislature shall
take place in 1870, under the Constitu-
ton of 1855. 1t also declares the State
entitled to representation in Congress,
The bill and substitute were referred TO
the Reconstruction Committee. Mr..
Butler wanted to bring in his San Do
mingo resolution, but Cox objected.
Adjourned.
SENHTE, Thursday, April 2I.-A bill
was introduced to exempt farmers sell
ling their own produce from the brokers'
tax. The Australian mail service bill
YVES sent to the Committee Oh COM
Inerce. The bill Incorporating the Gin
cinnati & Chattanooga Railroad. with a
capital of lO,O00,000, was favorably re-
ported without amendments. A bill
was introduced relative to collecting
debts due the United States, from GER
tain Southern railroads. The Northern
Pacific Railroad bill came up. 1t was
amended SO as to provide that American
rails shall be used; that Congress NAV
alter or amend the joint resolution, and
that all lands not sold in five years shall
be subject to preemptiou OF So so per
acre. Thus amended, the bill passed
40 to ii. The Senate then went into
executive session, and then adjourned.
would not be proceeded with owing to
the illness of Mr.. Schenck. Mr. Stokes
wanted to presents a petition of the loyaI
citizens OF Carroll county, Tennessee.
for protection, but Mr.. Brooks objected.
The Louisiana contested election came
up on q resolution of Mr.. Kerr to notify
the Governor Of the vacancy. The res
olutiOn was finally tabled. The bill
revising and amending the patent and
copyright law was passed. being amend
ed so as to reduce certain salaries in the
Patent Office. The House went into
committee on the Naval Appropriation
oil, which appropriates $l6,6i1 ,S45. Mr..
Washburn, of Wisconsin, said the
United States war ships were disgrace
to the country, and he compared them
unfaverably with the iron steamships
of England. Mr.. Hale defended our
ships. Adjourned.
SENATE, Friday, April 22.-Mr.
Chandler's resolutions requesting Pres;
dent Grant to appoint Commissioners to
treat with the people of the Red River
settlement, with view to annexation
TO the United States, was debated at
length and referred to the Committee
on Foreign Relations. The bill to paw
Deputy Collectors and Assessors of
Internal Revenue, acting as Collectors
and Assessors, the pay of such, was
indefinitely postponed, and this action
defeats the measure. A bill repeating
an act passed in 1903, which Mr. Sumner
stated was the last on the statute books
connected with slaveTy-forbiding per
sons of color from going from one State
TO another-was passed. The bill pre-
venting the counterfeiting of foreign
trade marks also passed. The bill to |
enforce the Fifteenth Amendment was