The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1871-12-07
xLIID CONGREss..sECOND SESSION.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-Mr. Anthony intro
duced a bill to amend the 10th section of the
act to enforce the right of citizens to vote in the
several States so as to prohibit the employment,
not only OF direct force menace and bribery to
prevent the free exercise of the right of stuff
rage, but also the use of any writing, device,
token, word or gesture, and indirectly procur-
ing the use of any such means of intimidation.
MIR: Anthony also introduced bill to prevent
and punish bribery and corrupt practices in the
election of Presidential electors and members
| OF Congress- it being the same bill introduced
by him at the last Congress.
The resolutions that the two witness who re-
| fused to answer the subpoena at Columbia, S.
| e., to appear before the Ku-Klux investigating
committee be arrested and that another who
refused to testify, also be arrested by the SER
| geant-at-arms, was laid over
After Intellectual efforts to take up the gener-
al amnesty Dill, o message from the President
transmitting the correspondence relative to the
removal of the Russian Minister Catacazy, was
laid before the Senate when it went into exc
cutve session.
After the execuae session the Senate ad-
journed
A remonstrance was presented from nine
publishers of Poughkeepsie against the inter-
ference of the Post Office in the manufacture
of stamped envelopes.
A resolution was adopted that the Railway
Committee inquire into the expediency of con-
Meeting Lake Michigan and the Mississippi
river by a ship canal. ..l..r' 9-.
Mr.. Banks, of Mass, offered resolution cal
ling on the President for the instructions of
naval commanders in Cuban waters for the pro-
lection of American life and property and the
maintenance of the dignity of the flag for infor-
nation of the recent executions in Havana and
IN relation to the failure of Spain to carry out
the promised reforms in the West Indies All
were adopted.
"A resolution of enquiry as to the means of
preserving the archives in the State Department
from fire was adopted.
A resolution was adopted calling for copies of
the proceedings of the military commission in
the case of Gen. Buell..
Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, objected to the
introduction of a resolution calling on the Pres
ldent for information of the invasion of North
carolina by troops.
Several bills were introduced and referred;
one for the construction of life stations at Cape
Cod. s6
:, Messrs: Kelley Hooper, Conger, Lynch,
Perry, Willard, Wood, Marshall and Holman
We're announced as the select committee on the |
reorganization of the civil service.
"A resolution for new drawing of seats was |
pressed, put after several points of order and
some n,i,iibusterng the project was defeated.
A bill consolidating the Post Office statutes |
was taken up. The morning hour expired be-
fore the reading of the bill was concluded, and
it went over until tomorrow
APPoRTIoNMENT BILL.
The House, at 8 o'clock, went into Committee
OF the Whole, Mr. Buffinton in the chair, on
the apportionment bill reported at last session.
The bill provides that after the Sd of March, |
1873 the House of Representatives shall consist |
OF PSI members, to be apportioned as follows:
Maine, 8; New Hampshire, 2; Vermont, 3;
Massachusetts,, IL; Rhode Island, 2; Connecti-
cut, 4; New. York, 80; New Jersey, Z; Della
ware, 1; Maryland, 6; Virginia, s; North Caro-
lima, 8; South Carolina, s; Georgia, 8; Ala
bama, z; Mississippi, s; Louisiana, 5; Ohio 10;
Kentucky, 10; Tennessee, 8; Indiana, -; Hi |
mi o.. Il, NJ.
9; Florida, 1; Texas, 6; Iowa, 8; Wisconsin, s;
California, A; Minnesota, 5; Oregon, l; Kansas,
;; West Virginia, 3; Nevada, 1; Nebraska, l. |
The second and third sections, proving for ad- |
ditlonal members in the AID Congress, were, on
motion of Mr.. Farnsworth, struck out After |
considerable discussion and offering of various |
amendments, the committee rose without any
disposition of the bill.-Adjourned.