The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-03-17
CONGRESSIONAL.
Forty-ssoOnd cOngress-.Firsts Session

Forty-sscond Congress- First Session
In the House, on the 7th, 8 resolution to
proceed at once to appointment of House Com
mittees, was entertained, and after debate
laid on the table, it being the evident desire
of the House, not to have the Committees ap-
pointed and set to work, lest it would lead to
long session. Bill appointing Commission
er TO International Congress on Penitentiaries
and Reformatory discipline passed. Notice was
given that bills to encourage emigration, to
provide for the apportionment of the forty
second Congress providing homesteads on the
pubic lands for Union soldiers, and one to re-
duce the duty on salt fifty per cont would be
introduced, when the House adjourned till
Thursday.
In Senate, bill introduced to establish steam
ship communication between New Orleans and
ports in Mexico. To incorporate Southern
Express Company. To amend the act incor-
porating Texas Pacific Railroad. To aid in
constructing road through Missouri and Kan
sas. To organize Territory Of Oklahamn. To
remove political disabilities from people of
Southern States. To grant Missouri public
lands in aid of schools. To protect settlers
on public lands To encourage construction
of ocean steamships. To opromote construction
of Cincinnati, and Southern Railroad. To Sc
cure cheap transportation of breadstuffs Nu-
merous other bills were also introduced. Joint
resolution to appoint Commissioner to Inter-
national Congress on Penitentiaries, passed.
Congress viii be held at Florence. All bills
introduced were laid on the table to await for
nation of Committees, Senate then adjourn.
ed till Thursday.
In the House, on the 9th, bill was intro
duced to repeal the duty on salt. Referred to
Committee Of the Whole A bill TO repeal
the duty on coal was similarly referred. House
then went into Committee of the Whole, where
the bill was debated and loaded with amend
ments to defeat it, but without disposing of it
Committee rose. Shellabarger introduced
bill providing for the use of the military in
States or Territories, in cases of instruction
which could not be suppressed by the ordinary
means Resolution offered against paving con-
testants more than actual expenses of contest.
Bill introduced to apportion representation on
the basis of the ninth census. House then
adjourned
In Senate, bill supplementary to civil rights
bill was introduced. Rev. J. P. Newman was
elected Chaplain. Various bills were intro
duced, but nothing of Importance consummat-
ed when Senate adjourned
On the 10th, in the House, Deficiency Bill |
was introduced, which was passed, after sew
eral amendments House then went into |
Committee Of the Whole, and most of the day |
was spent in discussing the bill to repeal the
duty on coal, but without reaching a vote,
Committee arose: A bill was introduced to
repeal all legal and political disabilities, when
the House adjourned till Monday.
In the Senate, on motion of Mr.. Howe 70 /
proceed to election of Senate Committees, led
to lengthy debate upon the removal of Sum
ner from the head Of Committee on FOREIGN
Affairs, in which Schurz, Howe, Wilson, and
others Joined, without concluding which Senate
adjourned
On the 18th numerous bills were introduced
in the House. A resolution to adjourn on
Wednesday, 18th, was passed. Farnsworth
moved to suspend the rules and pass joint res
1Iution removing the tax on coal Rules sus-
,ended and resolution passed. A similar res