The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-03-01
coNGR. R.EssIONAL SUMMARY


SENATE.-The Vice President yesterday
presented resolutions from the Rhode Is
land and Virginia Legislal ures; tue former
ratifying the -Four teenth and the latter the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
A number of bills were introduced, in.
Guiding one to enforce the Fifteenth
Amendment; any person hindering
another from voting, TO be fined not less
than 800 nor more than $500 and impris-
oned not less than thirty days or more
than one year; a refusal to register the
name or receive or cast the vote OF any
citizen on account of color, ODE punished
by a fine of not less than $500 or more than
"a, 900 and Imprisonment for not less than
three months or more than two ears.
United states District Attorneys are given
exclusive jurisdiction in these cases, and
REQUIRED to enforce the law. The Dill
authorizing the North Pacific Railroad
Company to issue its bonds for the con-
struction of It's road, was taken up and de-
bated at length. The Funding Bill )min g
up, Sherman made q long speech in expia-
natiSn of the pill. In the course of his re-
marks, he said theseventh section redeem
ed the. pledge of the United States by es
tablishfng a sinking fund of one per cent.
/ on our whole Indebtedness. Since the close
of the war the government had reduced
the debt $50, ,0O0, 900, aud had paid S60J,OOO,-
| 600 of unliQutdated debt due at the close OF
! the war, but not then aScertained OF COM
puted. This had all been paid out of the
/ Surplus revenue; 1t was now our duty to
make permanent appropriation Tor the
I sinking fund, before we reduced the taxes,
and this bill supplies the best mode.
/ HousE.-In the House sundry bills were
I introduced and referred including one to
provide for enforcement of judgments in
/ laWfulmOney of the United Statesi TO
regulate the civil service; to amend the
Internal Revenue laws, and many others.
1 The Speaker presented the designations OF
! GolIaday of Kentucky, and Devices oi
/ North Carolina, who are understood to be
I Implicated in the sale of Cadet Ships The
\ Indian appropriation bill was con.
4 sidered in Committee of the Whole, and
| Bakers massacre was further discussed
| Birch introduced joint resolution to eX-
! tend the time for Withdrawing distilled
! spirits from bonded warehouses to three
/ Years from date of entry. Harper offered
| q substitute, imposing an additional tax
| of one cent per gallon, for every montn
/ after the first year. ProSser hOped tne
/ Government would not exact a per ceot
interest in halfway, thus DISCRIMINATING E
/ in favor OF foreign i'm pOrters ana d1StlL'
/ lerS, against home distillers. Hooper re-
| marked that foreign liquors and me r
chandise, kept in a bonded warehouse,
one day over year, have 10 pay
| ten per cent. on the duty ano
that the duty on imported HQu ors Is " d
in gold. Breck argued in favor of his pro-
position, and against the Government
charging any interest. Butler, of MasSa
chusetts, and Covode sustained Breckf
proposition. Allison preferred to have th'
matter left to the Committee on Ways a1C
Means, TO be provided in the general Rev
enue bill. GARFIELD asked that the Com
niItee on Banking have leave to repor
at any time on the gold panic. Cox asked
leave to report tile views of the minority
! Agreed to. Cullom's polygamy bill wa
made the special order for the I'D o
March.