Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-03-02

and the Rocky Mountains, and IN appropriation
OF 500 900 annually for the expense Of the work.
was 10 Of the Wnole aaG
Committee on the McGarrahan claim was debated
Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the Goth, House bills
were reported favorsbly, to guard the purity Of
election; without amendment, allowing home
stead settlers in case OF sickness to make final an
davits at their residences; without amendment, sx
act OF July g. 1885, TO Jan. Ii, 1870 The Legis-
latve Appropriation bill was taken up, and amend
ments were disposed o. one repeating that part Of
the law regulating evidence In the Court OF Claims
which makes the possession Of pardon proof Of
disioyalty, which ives concarred In. Adjourned.
In the House, on tue Goth, resolutions
Of the Wisconsin Legislature in favor Of the re-
moval Of railroad grants were introduced and re-
ferred. "A memorial was presented and referred
from the Kansas Legislature for the immediate re-
Mississippi. The bill reported from the Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs, authorizing the President
to appoint Joint commission to establish the
after discussion % was passed. "A dispatch from
the Associated Press announcing the safety of the
Tennessee, was laid before the House by the
plating plating ssooe sSoS Including e a Sol p' for
pensions under the recent law, was
ported and made the special order for the
mittee on the McGarraban Claim was con-
idered, and the substitute offered by the min ority
was adopted-110 to 9l-directing the Secretary Of
oehe Grande to be Il into the records as
the same stood on the record book In the General
Land Office at the time 1t was examined, without
Of Se be
the same as II the original record had never been
interfered with or mutilated, and authorizing and
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just and equitable, without regard to any action
proceeding had subsequent to the l4th Of March,
1853, the date OF the patent recorded. .Ad-
journed.
In the Senate, on the 21st, bills were in
port of public schools in States lately in rebeion
to increase the internal revenue derived from lot
teries, and for other purposes. Bills were
passed authorizing the United States Circuit
reserve fund to provide for Solicitor for the De-
partment Of the Interior; the Legislative, Exccu-
tive and Judicial Appropriation bill, with amend
ments. Adjourned.
In the Hou:e, on the 21st, the Senate
bill entitled an act 10 incorporate the Texas Pa
cidc Railroad Company, and to aid in the construc
ton Of the road, and for other purposes, was dis
cusEed at length, amended and passed1N to 70.
IA report was made from the Committee on
Elections, In the Missouri Contested election case
Shields against Van Horn, and resolutions were
adopted declaring that Shields, the contestant is
not entitled to the seat, and that Van Horn, the
sitting member, IL, and that Shields shall be paid
5000 for expenses. Adjourned.
In the Senate, ON the ed, the creden-
tails OF Lot N. Morrill,, as Senator from Maine for
six years from the 4th Of March next, were pre-
scented and read. IA petition was presented and
ty, Ala, praying for protection against Ku.Klux
Outrages /. the annual Post Route bill
sidered and passed :. The Indian Appropriation
bill was considered, and several amendments were
dieposed Of = AdiOurned