Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-03-08
Summary Of Important Congressional
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bill, with amendments repeating 81
much of the law regulating evidence
as makes the possession of a pardon
evidence of d1sloyalty /; consolidating
the public grounds south of Pennsyl
vania avenue for a grand park and
raising the salaries of the judges of The
Supreme and District Courts, and Of the
Comptroller and Auditors of the Treas
ury department, the Assistant Post
master, and the Commissioners of Gus
toms and Pensions The Judges sala,
ries now stand in the bill as follows
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court S., ,50(
Associate Justices OF the Supreme
Court 8,oot
United States Circuit Court. t...... 6,0ot
Chief Justices of the Court of Claims
and the Superior Court of the District
of Columbia. ................... 6,00t
Associate Justices of said Courts. - $500
United States District judges. ......... 5,Q0(
The salaries of the other oficser
named are increased to Sd, 900,
The House has passed bill reported
from the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
authorizing the President of the United
States to appoint Joint committee to
establish the northwestern boundary
line. During the debate on this bill,
Dawes stated that there had been ex-
pended on this matter III the last ff
teen years $500, 400, yet nothing had
been accomplished toward the settle
ment of the question. A further sum
of $780, 900 will be required.
The House has adopted joint reso-
luton in relation to the McGarrahan
claim, directing the Secretary of the
Interior to cause record of the patent
to the Panoche Grande to be tran
scrlbed into the records as the same
stood on the record book Of the General
Land Office at the time it was exam
ined, without any mutilation or erasure
whatever, SO that the legal effect of the
as if the original record had never been
mutilated; and it requires the Presi-
dent to do in the premises whatever
may, in his judgment, be equitable,
without regard to any action or pro-
ceeding had subsequently to the 14th
of March, 1861, the date of the patent
recorded.
The House has passed the Senate
Southern Pacific railroad bill with two
amendments: first, changing the name
and some of the corporators, and re-
ducing the capital to $50, 10000 and,
second, prohibiting consolidation with
other roads hereafter to be built.
Senator Warner presented in the Sen
ate a petition from citizens of Dublin,
Fayette county, Alabama, praying fol
protection against Ku-Klux outrages,
and asserting their preference for mill
tary rule to their present unprotected
condition.
The House has passed deficiency
bill which appropriates SO, 677, ,525.
The Senate has passed bill amend.
ing the bounty law so that all soldiers
who were mustered into the service Of
the United States for three years, be-
tween May 4 and July %, 1861, and
who were honorably discharged before
serving two years by reason of disabil
ity contracted in the service, shall be
entitled to. 500 bounty. The aggre-
gaze of these bounties will be about
100000.
After debate which continued until
after midnight, the Senate passed the
House bill to guard the purity of cleo
tions, entitled can act to amend al
act approved May 31st, 1870, to enforce
the rights of United States citizens to
vote in the several States of the Union,
and for other purposes" by strict
party vote-yeas SO, nays 10.
Trapeze Accident.
The visitors at the Adelphi Music
Hall at Oldham seem to have had an
unusual treat few evenings since. II
was the benefit of the Brothers Ban
vard," performers on the trapeze
"whose aerial flights and reckless risk
of limb have" 1t is said, frequently
made the house resound with rapturous
applause" It seems, says the Bal
Mall Gazette, that one of these gifted
brothers having suspended himself by
his toes from the shoulders of the
other gifted brother while the latter
was standing erect on the bar of s
trapeze, at a preconcerted signal slip
ped, as it were, from this position, st
as to make it appear as if he were fall
ing headforemost on the people be
meath him, the intention being that he
should arrest his downfall by catching
with his feet on the horizontal bar OF
which the other was standing. He ha6
before frequently performed this inter
esting feat, rendered doubly attractive
by the fact of s'generally elicitine
screams from the female portion of the
audience, and frequently from the
sterner sex ALSO On the night il
question both sexes screamed, and witt
good reason, for the Brother Banvar6
| missing his hold tumbled into the
orchestra, breaking his arm, smashing
the fingers of his left hand, and sprain
ing one Of his ankles most severely
Some little time ago the same individ
ual is reported to have met with a sim
liar accident in London, and one o
these days the public will probabl,,
have the pleasure of seeing him killed
and some of those also on whose head
he will fall as they are gaping at th'
exhibition.
A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., recently ap
poinfed on fhe New Jersey coast mad