Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-02-15
UNITED STATES CONGRESS.


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The Committee on Pensions was dis
charged from further consideration %
the grievances Of the homeopathic doctor
rejected Is an examiner by the Pension
Commissioner.
A bill 10 incorporate the japan Steam
Navigation Company was taken up, and
after some debate on the expediency Of
Congressional action IN such cases, was
recommitted.
In the Senate the repeal Of the resolu-
ton authorizing the payment Of the
Chorpenning claim was carried
A determined effort was made 10 get a
chance for the Airline Railroad bill, but
its opponents secured its pOstponement
A bill for the relief Of certain citizens
Of Virginia, for cattle taken by order Of
Gen. Sheridan, in 1854, was passed.
Three messages were received from the
President; one vetoing a bill for the re-
lief OF certain contractors for building
iron vessels one recommending that the
Berlin Mission be made first class. and
one communicating correspondence with
naval officers in Dominican waters.
Among the bills introduced in the SEN
ate was one for the punishment Of brib-
cry at elections.
A resolution Of the Oregon Legislature
rejecting the Fifteenth Amendment, and
denying the right of Congress TO inter
fere with suffrage in that State, was pre-
scented and laid on the table.
In the Senate, bills were introduced,
for the better security of life on steam
vessels, and regulating the carrying OF
passengers in steamships and other
vessels.
The Conference Committees were ap-
pointed.
A petition from the New York Reform
League, for q Committee of Inquiry TO
report on the condition OF the freed
people, was submitted to the Senate.
HOUSE.
In the House a bill passed for the pay
ment of claim of SIP, 740 to Theodore
Adams, formerly an army contractor in
Missouri.
Several bills were reported by the
Committee on Territories, and passed.
among them one forbidding the Terri
torial Legislature to grant private char
tiers one limiting the sessions of the
Legislature to forty days and the COM
pensation of the members to Sc per day,
and one annulling a tenure-of-office act
of the Legislature of Montana. An act
was also passed organizing Alaska as a
county of Washington Territory, with
its county seat at Sitka,
In the House bills were introduced to
facilitate commerce with China and
Japan.
Authorizing the purchase and regis
tration of foreign built ships.
To encourage and regulate immigra-
ton from abroad.
In relation to the Zona Libre and the
protection of commerce on the Mexican
border
To provide Government for the Ter
ritory of Chippewa.
The House refused to suspend the
rules and order an inquiry in regard to
the treatment of colored cadets at West
Point.
A resolution was adopted inquiring in.
to the use of the military at elections in
California.
The bill authorizing the stationing OF
) vessel at New York, to take supplies
contributed for the sufferers in France
and Germany, was passed, amended sc
as to authorize the stationing of Others
at Boston and Philadelphia for the same
purpose.
A motion to restore the bill relating tC
the central branch of the Union Pacific
Railroad to the Speakers desk was re-
iected, after lively debate, by vote o.
125 to II.
A motion to suspend the rules and re-
store to the Speakers desk the Southern
Pacific Railroad bill, was agreed to-12s
to 81.
A request for leave to introduce q reso
luton allowing the use of the hall fol-
speechmaking on woman suffrage, wa
denied by vote of AZ to 149,
The bill to appropriate $40, 900 fol the
expenses of the Committee on Southern
Outrages was taken up and amended SC
as to give $40, 900, and then passed.
In the House petitions were presented
protesting against land grants to rail
roads.
. The bill providing for national sys
TEN of education was taken up, and wen
over.
A bill was also reported and passed
providing that claims against the Gov
eminent when once settled shall not b,
reopened after six years from the time o
their origin, except in certain specia
cases. 1t also prohibits employees of tn
Government from prosecuting claims il
Departments in which they have served
In the House a petition was presented
from large number of New York ship
{ owners, against subsidies and in favor o
the privilege of buying foreign vessels.
A bill was reported in favor of remov
ing the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and res
olution was offered for like removal o
the yards at Charlestown and Kittery
A substitute for the bill was offered, con
stituting Secretary Robson, Admira
Porter, Gen. Sherman, Brig. Gen. Hum
r phreys and Capt. Patterson, Of the Coas
, Survey, committee to inquire into tn
) expediency of selling the Brooklyn Navy
, Yard.
A bill for the better protection of tn
frontiers of Texas, providing for the or
r ganization of mounted rangers to fgh
: the Indians, was defeated, and final,
laid on the table by a vote of rs to SO.
t In the House Mr.. Whitley, membe
from Georgia, took the oath Of Office.
Mr.. Hooper moved to go into Commit
tee of the Whole for the purpose of reach
ing the bill for the repeal of the incom
9 tax The vote, which is regarded as
: test on the general question for repeal
was taken amid considerable excitemen
and resulted in the rejection of tn
motion, 103 to LOT.
A resolution was adopted directing tn
Committee on Foreign Affairs to inquir
5 into the expediency of putting the mis-