Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-03-01
Summary of Congressional Proceedings.

Ihe Senate has passed bill extend
! ing the time fot the completion of the
railroad between Madison and Portage
City, and giving construction to the
acts of Congress granting lands to the
Stste Of Wisconsin to aid in building
railroads; throwing open the lands
within the cofnpany's grant to actual
settlement, and imposing other restric-
tions.
The House has passed the Senate bill
authorizing the sale of the military
reservations at Forts Line and Walla
Walla, Oregon Fort Serah, Kansas !;
Camp McGarry, Nevads; Fort Sumner,
New Mexico; Forts Wayne and Smith,
Arkansas, and such portions of Fort
Abercombie as east of the Red River
ct the North, and such portions of Fort
Bridgef; Wyoming, as are no longer
required for military purposes.
The Senate bill extending the laws of
concurred in by the House.
a bill has been passed by the House
for the sale Of timber lands in Califor-
MIA and Oregon and Washington Terri
tory. It authorizes the sale of timber
land in quantities not exceeding 640
acres at the minimum price of ST. 25 per
acre, except alternate sections within
railroad grants, which may be sold at
double the minimum price
Miller, Senator from Georgia has
been admitted to his seat.
The House has passed bill to en-
able the Jackson, Lansing and Saginaw
railroad company TO change the north
ern terminus of the road from Traverse
Bay to the Straits of Mackinaw.
The Senate has concurred in the
House Joint resolution appropriating
five thousand dollars to George F. Rob-
inson, in recognition Of his services in
saving the life of Secretary Seward.
The House has passed bill, by
vote of 144 to "a, to enforce the rights
of citizens Of the United States under
the fifteenth amendment to vote in the
several states. It Is principally an
of some of the details of
the bin of the 31st of May, 1870, on the
same subject. 1t provides for the ap-
pointment by the United States Cir
cult Judge, of two supervisors of
election of different politics in
towns having over O,00o inhabitants,
and prescribes their powers and
duties. It also authorizes the United
States Marshal to appoint special dep
uty marshal to assist in the supervision
of the election, and prescribes their
powers and duties, and authorizes them
to call to their aid bystanders or
posse conaitatus direct. The authority
to cali on the military authorities is
struck out It also provides for
the appointment, III each iu-
dicial district, of q chief su-
pervisor of elections, and prescribes his
powers and duties It extends the ju-
risdiction of the United States Circuit
Court to all cases in law and equity
arising under the act It also provides
that hereafter all elections for Eepre-
sentatives to Congress, to which cleo
tons the whole bill is confined, shall
be by ballot, written or printed, any
thing in the law of any State to the con
trary Notwithstanding.
The House adopted resolutions di-
recting the restoration of cadets Baird,
Barnes and Fleckinger, who were ex-
PEELED by the members of the 1st class,
and ordering the dismissal of the lead
ers and instigators of the first class and
the court-martial of the others.
The army appropriation bill was tax
en- up on Friday and discussed at length
in the House, but not disposed of. It
S27, ,475, 900.
The House has concurred in the Sen
ate bill establishing a territorial form
of government for the District of Co.
lumhia.