The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-02-21

makes the possession OF pardon proof OF
disloyalty, was concurred in: ,
The amendments increasing Judicial
salaries and consolidating public
grounds of south Of the Avenue from the
Presidents house to the Capitol, were
concurred in.
4 After further amendments and an
agreement to take the final vote on the
bill tomorrow,
The Senate after short executive
session adjourned.
HOUSE.
The following bills were introduced
and referred:
By Mr. Clark, Of Kentucky-A me-
mortal of the kentucky Legislature for
the removal of the national capital to
the Valley of the Mississippi.
By Mr.. Van Trump-ln relation TO
the non-payment by the New York Cen
tral Railroad Company OF tax OF hve
per cent. upon their issue of script, re-
citing the facts in the case and the dis
trust which the non-payment of the tax
has caused in the public mind as to the
equal, honest and impartial admlnistra-
ton of the revenue laws. and request
ing the Commissioner OF Internal Reye-
nue. to enforce the collection OF this
Sl,l5I,SOO leaving the liabilities of the
company to he determined, as in the
case of individuals, by the proper au-
thorities
The bill reported from the committee
on Foreign Affairs on Friday last ALL
thorizlng the President Of the United
States to appoint joint commission to
establish the Northwestern boundary
line, was next taken up. ,
Mr.. Swami, who reported the bill from
the committee on Foreign Affairs, ex-
plained the necessity for its passage.
He replied to the objections OF MIR.
Dawes on Friday, and expressed his con-
fidence in the estimate submitted, hX-
ing the cost at $3OO,OOO
Mr.. Dawes stated that within the past
fifteen wears there had been expended
in running this boundary line 5000, 400,
and that it was only after the year
1869, when notice was given that no
more appropriations would be made, 1t
was discovered that the whole thing
was a mis-fre. He suggested the pro-
priety of postponing the subject for
this session, and if after the sitting OF
the High Commission was closed, it
it then became necessary to 90 on with
the work an appropriation, could he
made
Mr.. Banks advocated the passage Of
the bill and expressed great doubt
whether the High Commisso would
ever concede that territory to the United
States. as the question did not appear to
lie within the list of matters to come
under its consideration. lie disclalmed
the idea of the aommittee on Foreign
Affairs having any personal or private
motives in urging the bill.
The bill was then passed.
A dispatch from the Associated Press
announcing the safety of the Tennessee,
was laid before the House by the
Speaker. Its reading afforded general
satisfaction.
The House then proceeded with the
report OF the Judiciary committee on
the McGarrahan claim.
Mr.. Cook modified the resolution
offered by him last Saturday, so as to
make it read;
Rcsolced, That in the opinion Of the
House there is no sufficient evidence
that either VIM McGarrahan or the
New ldra Mining Company, has title
to the land known as the Panache
Grande in California, and that such
proceedings be at once instituted as will
recover possession Of the same and as
scrt the title Of the United States there
in.
After debate closed the House pro-
ceeded to vote on various propositions
which were all negatived except the
substitute offered by the minority OF the
committee for the resolution reported
by the majority of the committee. The
substitute directs the Secretary of the
Interior to cause the record Of patent
TO the Panache Grande to be trans.
cribcd into the records as the same
stood on record in the book of the gen
eral land Office at the time it was ex.
amined, without any mutilation or
erasure whatever, so that the legal
effort of the record so trans
cribed shall be the same as if the
original record had never been interfer-
ed with, and it authorizes and requires
the President of the United States to do
in the premise whatever may in his
judgment be just and equitable with
out regard to any action or proceeding
had subsequent to the l4th OF March,
1868, the date Of the patent recorded.
The substitute was adopted.
Mr.. Dickey moved to lay the whole
subject on the table, which was mega
tived.
Mr.. Bingham moved to reconsider
the vote 10y which the substitute was
agreed to, and also moved that the
motion to reconsider be laid on the
table. The latter motion, which is par
liamentary in form, making the vote
irrevocable, was agreed to- Yeas, 100 ;
nays, "a.
The joint resolution on Ringhams :
substitute was Their passed
Adjourned.