Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-04-27
Weekly News Summary.
CONGRESSIONAL.

III Tic Dtudlc, Ou Juc lObI, du tuOTb Was
made to pass an amendment to the order of busi-
ness, SO as to allow the House Amnesty bill to be
considered this session, and pending a motion to
defer the vote on the pending motion, on which
the yeas and nays were called, the Senate went
into executive session, and afterwards adjourned.
In the House, on the 18th, 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 125-when Conference Committee was or
dered on the disagreeing votes. The Senate
amendments to the Ku-Klux bill were taken up,
and the amendment extending the right to the
President to suspend the writ of hdbedS corpus till
the end of the next regular session of Congress,
nays 90; the amendment in relation to the oath of
jurors was rejected without yeas and nays, and the
amendment assessing damages on localities was
also rejected-yeas As, nays 135-when a Commit
tee of Conference was ordered on the disagreeing
votes, and Messrs. Shellabarger, Scofed and Kerr
were appointed. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 18th, 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 in
by the House was rejected-17 to 80 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 dsagreeing votes of the two houses
on the Deficiency Appropriation bill, and Messrs.
Cole, Morrill, (Vt. and Bayard were appointed.
A joint resolution passed authorizing Pro-
fessor James Henry, of the Smithsonian Institute
to accept a 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. Stover to
be changed to Hamilton Fish, and to grant new
registration Adjourned.
In the House, on the 18th, bills were
Misunderstanding bounty lands to those who
served in the army navy during the rebellion; to
promote commerce among the States, and to
cheaper transportation; to incorporate the Louis
ArEa Na Rai
for bridge across Portage Lake, Mich; for pay
ment to the State of Arkansas of money expended
for the United States for enrolling, provisioning,
and equipping militia to aid in suppressing the
rebellion; grsntiDg public lands for purposes of
education; providing for commission to deter
mine the claims for damages committed on
American commerce by the Alabama She
nandoah, Florida, Georgia, and other British
cruisers; joint resolution of the Legislature of
of lands to the Mobile Northwestern
Railroad Company; memorial Of the
ton. The preamble and resolution declaring
that the money annually raised by taxation upon
QUO, and disapprovng of the inordinate taxation
to pay off immense sums of the public debt, as
heretofore practiced by the Secretary of the
said debt to S25 100000" were considered, and
motion to lay on the table was rejected-3 to 159-
and the House refused to second the previous
question on the adoption of the resolution-6O to
II. .Messrs. Dawes, Kelley and Beck were ap-
pointed as Conference Committee on the Def
the murder, on the 18th of April, of two Deputy
Marshals of the United States, in White County,
Resolutions were adopted Oreouesting the Presi
dent to intercede with the authorities of the
Dominion of Canada for the release of American
citizens now confined in Canadi an 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 We're
passed-authorizing the Legislature of New Mexi-
1871; Senate bill to enable the Leavenworth, Law
renee & Galveston Railway Company to relocate a
| portion of its road. Adjourned.
| In the Senate, on the 18th, a 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 M submitted from S the
which, after considerable discussion adopted
81 to IL. The report recommended, in regard to
part of the present law which makes the giving of
encouragement or aid to the rebellion, either di-
rectly or indirectly, ground for challenge
cretionary with the District Attorney to move,
| and with the Court to impose the oath /;
the suspension of the writ of hdbeds corpus 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
ticulars, to require suit to be brought against the
| individual perpetrators of outrages, and where
| Judgment remains unsat1sfed for two months, the
loss or damage may be assessed upon the county
or parish "A report was submitted from the Con-
ference Committee on the Deficiency bill, which
was rejected, after debate, by tie vote-26 to 26
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
of private and other bills from the Senate were
| passed, among them the following: authorizing
the payment of duplicate checks of disbursing Off
| GERS; enabling the Atlantic 81 Pacific Railroad
| Company to mortgage its road amending the act
of June A. 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-H Hi
dalgo treaty $1,000 with interest, the latter being
| amended by reduction of the amount to S11, ,0O0,
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
from the previous conference, except that sub
| stitute had been agreed upon for the section
| known as the Sherman amendment, the substitute
making the whole body of the inhabitants of q
| vicinity who have knowledge that a conspiracy is
| formed to destroy property, or to iDjure the per
| son of any peaceable inhabitant, and who have
power to assist in suppressing it, responsible fol
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 die at two p. m. on the 20th.. ..Ad
journed.
In the House. on the 10Th, the report Of
the Conference Committee on the Ku- -Klux bill
was debated at considerable length, and finally re
jected-yeas 49, nays 1O6-and another committee
was ordered, and Messrs. Shellabarger, POLAND
and Whitthorne were appointed. a resolution
was adopted instructing the Committee on Mill
tary Affairs to consider and report what additional
legislation is necessary equalize soldiers boun
ties, and report what would be the additional an
nual expense of increasing, BY . per cent; thu
olutlons were introduced making Toledo, Ohio.
port of entry, and Knoxville, Tenn, port of de
livery "A report was made and agreed to from
the Conference Committee on the Deficiency bill
Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the Goth, all bills OF
the table, petitions, etc., were ordered to be re
ferred to the appropriate committees....A bill
{ was introduced and referred, to incorporate tn
Louisiana, Kansas 6 New Mexico Railroad Com
pany "A committee appointed to wait on tn
President, reported that he had no further commu
, nication to make, and at two O'Clock P; m, h
session of the Forty-second Congress adjourne
, sine die.
; In the House, on the Goth, announcement
was made of the Senate's agreement to the cor
ference report on the Ku-Klux bill, and the pas
sage of a concurrent resolution for final adjourn
r menr at o'clock The conference report on th
2 Ku-Klux bill was, after considerable debate
agreed to-93 to IA. The Senate concurrent resC
| luton Tor nnal dQJOurnrenI al = o CLOCK wa
: passed "A joint resolution was passed assertin
e the power of the House to make or Withhold a
appropriation to carry out treaties requiring al
i preparations of money Bills were passed-for
new land district in Nevada; for the reestablisl
ment of the Monroe Land District, Louisiana
4 During personal explanations by Messrs. Butlt
: and Farnsworth bitter personalities were indulge
in up to the hour Of adjournment, when Il
f Speaker announced that the first session of Ii
n | House of Representatives for the Forty-secon
Congress was adjourned without day.
y FOREIGN.
! A Paris dispatch of the 18th says del
/. gates from the Commune to Versailles hs
o returned with Thiers conditions, whic
;, rendered the insurgents very violen
!, Rochefort demanded that Vinroy, Gallipe
!. Favre, Picard and Mcmahon should
IS brought chained in couples to the Chaml
h Elysees, where the relatives of Nationa
killed shOuld he allowed tn do what thu