Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1871-03-14
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS,
FIKsT SESSION or 42ND CONGREss.


SENATE.-Saturday, March 4th.-Business
Of no general interest was considered until II
NJ, when the Vice President declared that the
Senate OF the Forty-6rst Congress adjourned
sine de-
The Vice President, without leaving his seat,
called to order the Senate Of the Forty-second
Congress-. The roll was then called and the
new members were sworn in. The names of
Messrs. Vance, of North Carolina Alcorn, of
MN MISSISSIPPI s an and Clayton, of Arkansas, were
not called. The credentials of Messrs. Goldt-
waite, OF Alabama Blodgett, of Georgia;
Hamilton and Gen. Reynolds, of Texas, were
laid over to await investigation. The usual
committees were appointed to notify the Presi-
dent and the House of the organization of the
Senate, and at 2. NJ the Senate adjourned
until Tuesday.
HoUsE.-The committee or conference on
the bill to abolish the Offices of Admiral and
Vice Admiral, reported that the committee
had been unable to agree, and an effort was
made to obtain assent to the Senate amend
ments to the bill Pending vote. the hour of
IL NJ. arrived, and the Speaker, in brief ad-
dress, declared the House adjourned, sine die.
The House of Representatives of the Fsrty-
second Congress was then called to order By
the Clerk of the last House, and the roll cali
ed The election of Speaker was then in or
der, and Mr.. Blaine, of Maine, was elected
over Hon. G.. w. Morgan, of Ohio, by a vote
of 126 to 90. The Speaker was conducted to
the chair, and after short address took the
oath of Office. The members of the House
were then sworn in, and officers elected The
usual committees were appointed to wait on the
President and Senate. A concurrent resolution
was passed, providing for the adjournment
of Congress SINE die on Wednesday next-yeas
LAT, nays 33. After disposing of some routine
business, the drawing of members for seats took
In o1i
ed until Tuesday.
SENATE.-Tuesday, March 7th.-The COM
mittee appointed to wait on the President, re-
ported that they had performed that duty, and
the President had informed them that he had
no communication to make to Congress at pres
ent, but would, in the course of week, and
expressed his wish that Congress would not
this week, fix day of adjournment
A large number of bills, of no general in
terest, were introduced.
A joint resolution was passed authorizing the
President to appoint Commissioner to the in
| ternational Congress on Penitentiary Reform
Discipline in Europe. The House resolution
| fixing a day for the final adjournment of Con-
gress was laid on the table. The Senate, at
o'clock P. NJ, adjourned until Thursday.
HOUsE.-The committee to wait on the Pres
| in the Senate. A resolution directing the
| Speaker to proceed to the appointment of COM
mittees was laid on the table, after considera-
| BILE discussion. During the debate, Mr.. But
ler advocated additional legislation in relation
| to affairs in the South, and intimated that the
President desired the same thing. Several
new bills were introduced and laid over to await
the appointment of committees. The House,
at 1:30 P. M. adjourned until Thursday
|
LARGE FARMING.-E. w. Stewart gives an
| account of the extensive farming of John L.
Alexander of Illinois, who cultivates some &c.
600 acres. One cornfeld was twelve miles long,
and from one-half to mile wide, containing
$500 acres. Standing on corn-crib, the eye
could see over five miles of corn in opposite dl-
rections A little boy visited this farm with
his father, and after riding miles and miles, he
became thoroughly tired, and exclaimed, PA,
let's 90 home-I don't want to see no more
corn, never!' During spring So ploughs were
run constantly to plough it; Is planting ma
chimes nut in the seed and 20 cultivators
dressed the rows This field yielded 100000
bushels, or 40 bushels per acre. A meadow of
3 500 acres of timothy and blue grass, yields
g. 900 tons of hay. Fifteen machines are run
in moving it, and horse-forks stack it. Tim
, otby for seed is cut with header, cutting ten
! feet wide, and 400 acres yield 1,500 bushels
, There are 5000 acres of prairie pasture, and
$4,000 seeded to timothy, blue grass and clo-
YER carrying about 1900 head of cattle. Ar
Usage orange hedge encloses 27 900 acres, and
, several intersect the farm, making a tota
length of hedge equal to 130 miles There
e are 80 miles of board fence on the farm.-Rs
raj Neao Yorker.