Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-04-25
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
FIRsr SEss1oN oE 4aNn CoNeRrss


SENATE. Saturday, April 18th. The mo
tlon OF Mr. Robertson, to amend the order o.
business so as to admit Of the consideration ot
the House Amnesty bill, was taken up and sev.
eral speech es were made upon it, Pending
debate, the Senate went into executive session,
and at its close adjourned.
| HOUSE. The consideration of the Defeien-
cy Appropriation bill was resumed. and a num-
Der of additional amendments were made
The bill was then passed. The Ku- Klux bill,
with the Senate amendments thereto, was ta-
ken up, and several of them were concurred
H. The House refused concurrence in the
amendment changing the time when the bill
should take effect from July l, 1872, to the
end of the next regular session The amend
ment to strike out the House clause repeating
the test-oath for United States jurors, was also
rejected, as we'll as Sherman s proposition to
assess damages upon communities in which
outrages or injuries may occur-the latter by
| l3l yeas to rs nays, The House also refused
to assent to the additional seventh section
The bill was then referred to conference com
mittee, and Messrs. Shellabarger, SohoGeld and
Kerr were appointed on the part of the House.
The House then adjourned.
| SENATE Monday, April I7th.-The Com
mlttee on Public Buildings was authorised to
sit during the recess of Congress. A Joint res
the Smithsonian Institute, to accept title and
decoration from the King of Sweden.
Alter short discussion the request of the
House for conference committees upon the De-
ticlency Appropriations and Ku-Klux bills was
agreed to, and the committees were appointed
by the presiding officer. A motion to recede
from the Senate amendments to the Ku-KIux
bill was voted down-yeas, II, nays 33. At
T. M the Senate went into executive session,
and at 1885 p M, the doors were reopened.
Unanimous consent was refused Mr.. Stewart
to introduce an amendment to the Constitution,
providing for system of free common schools
Several new bills were introduced and referred
to committees. The Senate, at 3:35 P NJ,
adjourned.
HOUsE.-The Speaker announced the confer
ence committee upon the Deficiency Appropri-
alton bill.
The usual number Of Mondays bills and res
olutions were introduced and referred. Mr.
Coburn attempted to manufacture little po-
litlcal capital by reading a despatch from the
United States Marshal at Nashville, to the ef-
feet that one of his deputies had been assassi-
mated and another badly wounded, on Sunday
night while in the discharge of their duty in
W White county, Tennessee 1t appeared, how
ever, that the disturbance was caused by an at
tempt to break up an Illegal whiskey distillery.
The Committee on Public Buildings was grant
ed leave to sit during recess.
Several bills and resolutions were offered,
but their consideration was refused by the
House. Among them was one by Mr. Butler,
authorizing the President to present the claims
of Fenians for damages sustained by ncarcera-
ton in British prisons, to the Joint High Com
mission now in session in Washington city, for
adjudication and settlement
A resolution was adopted requesting the
President to intercede with the authorities OF
the Dominion of Canada for the release of
American citizens now in Canadian prisons -
Several bills Of minor importance were passed.
A resolution was offered by Mr. Potter, in
structing the Committee on Ways and Means
to bring in bill imposing duty on Bessemer
bars and rails, not exceeding $40 per ton-
Pending debate the House, at 2:45 Z. H. ad-
iourned
SENATE. Tuesday, April 1Stb.-After dis
posing Of some unimportant business, the Com
mittee of Conference on the Ku-Klux bill sub
nitted a report. Mr.. Thurman moved that
the report be printed and lie over until to-mor-
row. Mr. Trumbull opposed the amendment
OF Mr.. Sherman, leyying damages upon prop
erty IN the vicinity Of outrages committed for
political reasons, which, with some little modi-
| tications. had been retained by the Conference
| Committee. Messrs Stevenson, Davis, Cas-
serly and Thurman opposed the bill During
the debate report was submitted from the
Committee of Conference on the Deficiency
Appropriation bill. At $50 2. NJ, recess
was taken until 7:30, when the discussion was
renewed Mr.. Thurman's motion was reject
ed-yeas 49, nays 90.
| Mir. Bayard then addressed the Senate in op-
position to the bill
HOUsE.-Mr. Butler asked leave to make
personal explanation, but objection vas made
by Mr., Beck.
Mr.. Bells resolution in relation to internal
taxation was discussed until the expiration of
the morning hour.
The Speaker announced the Joint Special
Committee on Southern Affairs, and also the
COMMITTED on the Mississippi Layee.
A large number of bills were taken from the
Speaker table and passed Among them was
the General Post Route bill; bill creating a
port OF delivery at Potomac, Virginia, and a
bill regulating the inland transportation of
bonded goods.
REQUISITES FOR A GOOD PRINTER.-A wri-
ter in Our Monthly has evidently been in
side composing room, if he has not 'dug a
living out of a case" He thus sums up the
| results of his experience:
w orklng tor forty editors and scores of au-
thors, every one of whom is as sensitive as
sore thumb, and as lively and interesting as
hornet, no wonder that printers die young, and
| only pachydermatous, grizzly, mulish speoi-
mems get their share of life.
Happy Infants early blest
Rest in peaceful slumber rest
Rescued from the thumps and jeers
Which increase with growing years.
The writer wishes he could offer himself as
! an awful example of the 'perils which environ
the man who NEEDLES with cold-type A
| thoroughly trained printer should have had
stepmother and then stepfather, aud then
have been bound out to tanner, and then have
house, and have had family Of babies who
were afflicted with the collie. He should have
had his hearing damaged with the measles.