The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-02-09
CONGRESSIONAL.

JAN. 3l.-ln the Senate, the Income
Tax Repeal bill was returned to the
House, and a conference asked. Res
olutions were introduced asking aid
for the suffering poor of France. Bills
were introduced establishinga system
Of national registration, and establish
ing a steamship line between this
country and Europe. The Georgia
Senatorial case was further debated.
In the House, bill was reported
instructing the Secretary Of the Navy
to institute proceedings to recover
damages for the Oneida disaster. The
bill extending the bounty land sys-
tenn to soldiers was passed. A Con-
ference Committee was appointed on
the Income Tax Repeal bill.
FEB. lin the Senate, a remon-
STRANGE against woman's suffrage was
presented by women Of New England.
Mr. Pomeroy brought in again his
resolution commanding the suffering
people of France to the charity Of the
American people, and it was passed as
a concurrent resolution. Mr.. Sher-
man offered a resolution, which was
referred, requesting the President to
communicate to the French govern
ment the sympathy of the American
people-to extend every proper en-
eouragement to forming a republic.
The resolution for the admission Of
Joshua Hill as Senator from Georgia
was adopted, and Mr.. Hill took the
oath of office. The Diplomatic and
West Point Appropriation bills were
passed. There was considerable dis
cussiOn on a motion TO take up the
Steamship Subsidy bills, but the Sen
ate adjourned without action.
In the House, a petition was pre-
sented from the tobacco men Of Cow
ington, KY, against the special tax
and tax on sales. The Senate bill,
passed April 22d, prescribing the oath
of Office to be taken by those who par
tieipated in the rebellion, but are not
disfranchised by the 14th Amend
ment, to be the same as that pressrib-
ed in the act Of July Is, 1858, to be
taken by those whose disabilities have
been removed. There was at times
much confusion and angry and per-
sonal dispute between members.
Messrs. Platt, Morris, Garfield and
Farnsworth favored the bill, and
Messrs. Long, Maynard, Shanks, Por-
ter, Van Wyck, Arnen and Butler op-
posed it. The bill passed. Bills pass
ed, to divide the StAte of Virginia in
to two judicial districts; to allow
claimants an appeal from the Court Of
Claims to the Supreme Court in all
cases where the consent Of the Court
of Claims is given for such appeal; al
lowing parties in certain cases to tes-
tify, making the laws of each State
govern as to the competence Of wit |
nesses in all criminal trials in the |
United States Courts in such State; to |
divide the State of Ohio into three ju-
dieial districts; for the relief Of pur-
chasers Of lands sold for direct taxes
in the insurrectiOnary States; provid- |
ing that where a railroad is operating
in a State, and has officers there, it
should be deemed as a citizen of the
State in so far that it shall not be per-
mitted 70 remove causes brought
against it by the citizens Of that State
from the State Courts to the United
State Courts. A majority report Of
the Judiciary Committee against the
McGarrahan claim was presented, and
also minority report. Adjourned.
FEB. 2-In the Senate, the Com-
mittee on Commerce was discharged
from further consideration Of the res
olution to prevent the obstruction Of
the Ohio, and it was referred to the
Judiciary Committee. A bill sus-
pending the use of the Tice meter was
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then laid over. The House bill to IA
eilitate the expectation of spirits was
passed, with an amendment that no
drawbacks shall be allowed till after
the passage of the act. The House
amendments to the bill dividing Vir-
ginia into two Judicial Districts were
eoncurred in. The bill 70 subsidize 4
line Of steamships liz the Gulf of Mex
leo was then taken up. Mr.. Kellogg
advocated the bill at length. Ad-
jOurned.
In the House, bill passed for the
relief Of Captain D. L. Wright, Of the
51st Indiana Volunteers. Bills also
passed as follows: Authorizing the
issue Of duplicate bonds Of the United
States under certain conditions, in lien
Of bonds lost or destroyed; in refer
ence to the United States District and
Circuit Courts in Indiana; giving the