The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-03-24
Congressional Summary.

of last session, supplementary 10 the civil
rights act, intended to secure equal rights to
colored people in all public conveyances,
places of amusement, churches, benevolent
| and other institutions, etc. He gave notice
that he would press the bill to a vote.--A
few bills of no general importance were in
| troduced, when the Senate adjourned.
In the House, Hale introduced a bill to re-
peal the duty on salt Referred to Commit
| tee of the Whole.-Hale then introduced a
bill for the repeal of the duty on coal. Re
| ferred TO Committee Of the Whole.-Cox
moved to 90 into Committee of the Whole,
for the purpose of taking up and passing
these two bills. Agreed to.--The House
| thereupon, at o'clock, went into Committee
of the Whole, Dawes in the chair, and took
up the bill to repeal the duty on salt-Af-
ter debate, motion that the Committee rise
was agreed to.-Hale then moved that all
general debate be closed in Committee of the
Whole on the bill to remove the duty on salt.
Agreed to.-McCreery offered resolution
against paying compensation to contestants
for seats, who may be declared by the House
not entitled to them, bnt that the House may
allow them actual expenses. Refereed
Murcur introduced bill for the apportion-
ment Of Representatives to Congress among
the several States, according to the ninth
census. Referred.-The House then adj
journed at 4:3O p. IN.
moved TO proceed with the election of COM
mttees, and the motion was agreed to. He
then submitted a resolution with list of
| the standing committees determined upon
| by the Republican caucus.-Sumner asked
that his name be stricken from the Committee
on Privileges and Elections. Agreed to-
| The resolution for the removal of Sumner
from the Foreign Committee and the appoint
ment of Cameron in his stead then came up.
Schurz denounced the resolution in the
strongest terms, and asked why such
change was demanded Howe replied, in
brief, that the Senator from Massachusetts,
had refused to hold personal intercourse with
the Secretary of State that it was deemed
best that the committee have head who
would be on the best speaking terms with the
President and Secretary of State. Schurz
replied that he was very credibly Informed,
and that from best authority, that the Sena-
tor from Massachusetts (Sumner) had not re-
fused to enter into any official relations either
with the President or Secretary of State.
Howe asked that his friend would not change
the issue. He did not speak of their oGfcidt
relations; he spoke of their personal relations.
Wilson followed, denouncing the resolution
ia the bitterest terms. He stated that this
movement would wound or offend hundreds
of thousands of the best members of the party
in the country, and he believed those who
persisted in CARRYING it out were committing
ate in favor of removal. He was followed by
Logan, Upton, Trumbull and others, who
denounced the action as low-lived and UNI
precedented, declaring that the movement
was an effort of the President to secure a
majority in the Committee in favor of the
annexation Of San Domingo, to which sum-
ner is so much opposed.-There was great
excitement, and in the heat of the discussion
the Executive was handled without gloves.
The motion to postpone consideration until
tomorrow was finally lost and vote being
taken on the resolution, it was adopted
yeas, 33 nays, 9.-After a short EXecu
tive session the Senate then, at o'clock,
adjourned until Monday.
The session of the House, on the 10th, was
unimportant-Dawes introduced a de-
fciency bill appropriating Sal $50. Passed
After lengthy discussion on the salt
and coal bills, and without coming to def
mite conclusion, the House adjourned until
Monday.
The Senate re-assembled on the 18th,
when a motion was made and carrie to re-
fer a ! bills and petitions previously intro
duced to the new committee.-Severaln new
bills were introduced and appropriately re-
ferred.-The bill regulating the custom
service at the various ports of entry in the
United States was referred TO the Committee
on Finance.-Sumner called up the bill
for the relief of Nicholas p. Trist. Passed
On motion of Thurman, the Senate took
up the House resolution tor final adjourn
ment on Wednesday, thereby making it the
first business o-morrow.-After a short
Executive session, the Senate then, at 3:i5,
ad journed.
In the House, large number of bills
were introduced and referred, and will
probably lie over until the next session.
Dawes offered the following resolution /:
Resolved, The Senate concurring, that the
Speaker of the House and the President of
the Senate adj ourn their respective Houses
of the first session of the Forty second Con
gress on Wednesday, the 18th inst, at II
o'clock M, thout day. Agreed to-yeas,
1875; nays, 67.-Hale offered the following
RcSOiced, By the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentatives, that from and after the passage
of this act, salt shall be placed on the free
list, and no further import duty shall be
collected on the same. The rules were
suspended, and the resolution adopted
Farnsworth moved a suspension of the rules
in order to pass joint resolution now Of
fered by him, that from and after the pas
sage Of this Joint resolution no tax or duty
shall be levied or collected on foreign coal.
Adopted-Yeas, 1872; nays, 55.--Randall
moved to suspend the rules in order to pass
bill that from and after the passage Of this
act, tea and coffee be placed on the free list,
and no further import duty shall be col
lected on the same. Passed.-Adjou
In the Senate on the 14th, the reso-
luton to adjourn sine die on the 18th was
tabled by a vote of 80 to 13.-Frelnghuy
sen wanted TO know how many States had
ratified the 18th amendment to the Constitu-
ton of the United States since the issue of
the proclamation Of March 80, 1S70-The
bill repeating the duty on coal was laid over.
The resolution in regard to Ku-Klux
outrages in the South was taken up, pending
which the Senate adjourned.
In the House, after the disposition eff few
bills of minor importance, Cox offered the
following, and demanded the previous ques-
ton:
Reso{red, That economy requires that the an
nual taxa ion should not exceed $3.50 5000, in
Guiding the s.25,OOO.OOO principal of the public
debt
Resoired, That the tariff should be for revenue
only, and not for protection to certain class of
interests at the general expense.
Resoired, That in case this session adjourn with
out the appointment of Committee of Ways
and Means special committee of seven be ap
pointed to consider and report upon n reform in