Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-04-28
Weekly News Summary.
CONGRESSIONAL.

the yeas and nays were called the Senate went
into executive session, and Afterwards adjourned.
In the House, on the 10Th, the remain
ing Senate amendments to the Deficiency bill
were considered and disposed Of, and motion to
lay the bill on the table was rejected-yeas IS.
nays l25-when Conference Committee was or
dered on the disagreeing votes. The Senate
amendments to the KuKlux bill were taken up,
p,rt spd .9e amendment m extending the right to The
the end OF the next regular session of Congress,
instead OF till June II, 1872, was rejectedyeas So,
nays 93; the amendment in relation to the oath of
jurors was rejected without yeas and nays, and the
amendment assessing damages on localities was
also relected-yeas 49, nays 135-when Commit
votes, and Messrs Shelabarger, Scoheld and Kerr
were appointed. Adjourned.
In the Senate, ON the nth, Mr. Sumner
was chosen President pro tenn. of the Senate, in
the temporary absence of the Vice-President. "A
motion that the Senate recede from the three
amendments to the Ku-Klux bill nOn-concurred I'm
by the House was reected-17 to 33 and the bill
was referred to Committee of Conference con-
sisting OF Messrs. Edmunds, Sherman and Steven
son. A Committee of Conference was also
ordered on the disagreeing votes of the two houses
on the Deficiency Appropriation bill, and Mesers.
Cole, Morrill, (Vt.) and Bayard were appointed.
Joint resolution was passed authorizing Pro-
fessOr James Henry of the Smithsonian Institute,
to accept title and decoration from the King of
Sweden, :; House bills were passed donating
condemned cannon to the Pennsylvania Military
Legion IN Philadelphia for their cemetery: author
izing the name of the vessel William Ii. Slower to
be changed to Hamilton Fish, and to grant new
registration. Adjourned.
In the House, ON the 18th, bills were
introduced granting bounty lands to those who
served in the army or navy during the rebellion; to
promote commerce among the States, and to
cheaper transportation; to incorporate the Louis
iana Arkansas & New Mexico Railroad Company;
for bridge across Portage Lake, Mich. for pay
ment to the State of Arkansas of money expended
for the United States for enrolling, provisioning,
ana eGoiPping militia , tS aid In sappressng the
education; providing for commission to deter
mine the claims Tor damages committed on
American commerce by the Alabama, She
nandoah, Florida, Georgia, and other British
cruisers; joint resolution of the Legislature Of
Mississippi relating to the subject of aid by grant
Railroad Company; memorial of the
st. Louis County Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton. The preamble and resolution declaring
that the money annually raised by taxation upon
the people should not exceed the sum of $780, co.
OU0, and disapproving of the "inordinate taxation
to pay off immense sums of the public debt, as
Treasury, and limiting the sum for the principal of
said debt to $25000,000" were considered, and
motion to lay on the table was rejected-3 to 1b9-
and the House refused to second the previous
question on the adoption of the resolution--60 to
II. Messrs. Dawes, Kelley and Beck were ap-
pointed as Conference Committee on the Deli
cheney bill IA telegram was read announcing
the murder, on the 18th of April, of two Deputy
Marshals OF the United States, In White County,
Resolutions were adopted-reQuesting the Presi-
dent to intercede with the authorities of the
dominion oil Canada for the release OF American
citizens now confined in Canadian prisons author
iZing the Committee on Elections to take testi
mony in relation to the credentials of the sitting
members from Mississippi, the validity of the cleo
ton under which they claim seats, with authority
to send for persons and papers. Bills were
passed-authorzing the Legislature of New Mexi-
CO to convene on the first Monday of December,
1871; Senate bill to enable the Leavenworth, Law
renee Il Galveston Railway Company to relocate
portion of its road. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 18th, resolution
was adopted requesting the President to detail an
officer of engineers to assist in the survey now
being made under the auspices of the State of
Louisiana for strengthening the Mississippi levees
In that State. "A report was submitted from the
which, after considerable discussion was adopted
81 to IL. The report recommended, in regard to
the jurors test oath, provision repeating that
part of the present law which makes the giving of
encouragement or aid to the rebellion, either di-
rectly or indirectly, a ground for challenge
or disqualification of juror, leaving 1t dis
and with the Court to impose the oath;
the suspension of the writ of hdbedS cOTDas Is
continued until the end Of the next regular session
of Congress, as fixed by the Senate; the provision
assessing damages upon localities where outrages
are committed is amended, among other, par
ticuars, to require suit to be brought against the
individual perpetrators of outrages, and where
judgment remains unsatisfed for two months, the
loss or damage may be assessed upon the county
.
ference Committee on the Deficiency bill, which
was rejected, after debate, by tie vote-26 to 20
80. Executive session and adjournment.
In the House, on the 18th, the resolu-
ton on the subject of the reduction of taxation
was debated at considerable length. "A number
passed, among them the following: authorizing
the payment of duplicate checks of dsbursng Off
GERS; enabling the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad
Company to mortgage its road; amending the act
of June H. 1870, in reference to the transportation
of bonded goods by railroad; authorizing the trans
fer of the United States Branch Mint at Dahlon-
ega, Ca, to the North Georgia Agricultural So
eiety, for educational purposes and to pay Mich
olas P. Trist, negotiator of the Guadaloupe-Hi-
dago treaty, $780, with interest the latter being
amended by reduction of the amount to s11 coo,
aud the omission of interest. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 10Th, a new Con-
ference Committee, consisting OF Messrs. Edmunds,
Carpenter and Thurman, was appointed on the
Ku-Klux BILL who subsequently reported the bill as
from the previous conference except that a sub
stitute had been agreed upon for the section
known as the Sherman amendment, the substitute
making the whole body OF the inhabitants of
vicinity who have knowledge that conspiracy is
formed to destroy property, or to njure the per-
son Of any peaceable inhabitant, and who have
power to assist in suppressing it, responsible for
their neglect refusal so to do After debate the
report was adopted-36 to 49,, The Conference
report on the Deficiency bill was agreed to The
bill for the sale Of the Cherokee Indian lands in
Kansas was passed. A resolution was passed to
adjourn sine de at two p. m. on the Goth. .Ad
journed.
In the House, on the 10Th, the report of
the Conference Committee on the Ku Kux bill
was debated at considerable length, and finally re-
| jected-yeas ~, nays 1l6-and another committee
was ordered, and Messrs. Shelabarger, Poland
and Whitthorne were appointed .., resolution
was adopted instructing the Committee on Mill
tary Affairs to consider and report what additional
legislation is necessary to equalize soldiers boun
ties, and report what would be the additional an
| nual expense of increasing, by 25 per cent, the
pensions of those who are totally disabled. Res
olutiOns were introduced making Toledo, Ohio, a
port of entry, and Knoxville, Tenn, port of de-
| livery report was made and agreed TO from
the Conference Committee on the Deficiency bill.
| Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the Goth, all bills on
| the table, petitions, etc. were ordered to be re-
ferred to the appropriate committees. "A bill
was introduced and referred, to incorporate the
| Louisiana, Kansas & New Mexico Railroad Com
| pany. IA committee appointed to wait on the
President, reported that he had no further commu-
| nicatOn to make, and at two O'Clock p. m, he
President pro tenn of the Senate declared the first
session Of the Forty-second Congress adjourned
| sine die.
In the House, on the goth, announcement
was made OF the Senates agreement TO the con.
ference report on the Ku-Klux bill, and the pas
sage of a concurrent resolution for final adjourn
ment at O'Clock. The conference report on the
Ku-Klux bill was, after considerable debate
agreed to-93 to "a, The Senate concurrent reso
| luuOu IOT Hnhl duJOurnmenl AT o CLOCK Wdt
passed "A joint resolution was passed asserting
hepower Of the House to make or Withhold ar
appropriation to carry out treaties requiring ap
| prOpriations of money. Bills were passed-for
new land district in Nevada; for the re-establish
ment of the Monroe Land District Louisiana.
During personal explanations by Messrs. Butler
and Farnsworth bitter personalities were INDUCED
In up to the hour OF adjournment, when the
Speaker announced that the first session of the
House of Representatives for the Forty-seconC
Congress was adjourned without day.
FOREIGN. r'
A Paris dispatch of the 10Th says dele