The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-03-10

the manufacture Of vinegar exclusively, but
not to be construed TO authorize the distilla-
ton of fermented liquors anywhere except
in authorized distilleries. Passed.--The
omnibus bill was recalled from the table,
and substitute emitting several items con-
tanned in the original bill was agreed to by
a vote of l0S yeas to SO nays. The bill was
then passed-yeas, 1l2; nays, 73.--The
rules were suspended, and bill passed re-
pealng the laws imposing duty on foreign
coal.-The Senate amendment to the
House bill allowing the issue of duplicate
registered bonds, in cases where the origl-
nails were believed to be lost or destroyed,
was concurred in, and the bill passed.
The Senate bill passed in April, 1870, for
giving effect to various grants Of public lands
to the State of Nevada, and allowing the Sc
lection Of school lands in California, was
passed.--The House then, at $50, adj
journed.
In the Senate, on the lst of March,
the sixteenth and seventeenth joint rules,
imposing restrictions upon business to with
in three days Of the end of the session, were
suspended. Senate took up the reso-
luton to continue the investigation, by
special committee, of the Ku-Klux outrages
in tie South during the first session of the
Forty second Congress. Considered and
adopted. -The Senate then took up the
on McDougall's amendment to pay for quar-
termaster's and commissary stores furnished
| the army by loyal citizens Of the South AT
ter various notifications the amendment
was adopted-yeas, "a nays, 22.-The bill
repeating the duty on coal was received from
| the House, and read for the first time. Wick
ers objected to its second readng.-The
army appropriation bill was again taken up,
when Salisbury opposed its passage because
| L., Ill
! ing the expenditure of any money appropri-
ated by the bill for the payment of troops
at elections. He regarded that rejection as
a sufficient indication that the dominant
party intended TO use the army to carry the
elections. He said there was man at the
other end of the avenue who, though inlet
tered, and knowing little of his country's
history, possessed an indomitable will and
undoubted courage. When the House OF
Representatives came TO count the electoral
vote for the next President, that man
would, perhaps, be found willing instru-
ment in employing the army, to whose sup
port the Senate was now appropriating this
money, in the re-establishment of himself
for four years more He Salisbury would
now serve notice on the dominant party that
if the Democrats, by q fair vote, elected
their nominee for President, they intended
to inaugurate him, if they had to wade
knee-ueep IN DlOOd. Alter lufJner REMARKS
by others, vote was taken on the bill, and
it was passed. after which the Senate went
into Committee of the WHOLE The even
ing session was spent in Committee of the
Whole on the naval appropriation bill.
In the House, on the LIST, the Journal was
corrected in certain cases.-Resolutions
were adopted to pay Rogers, of Tennessee
and Eggleston, of Ohio, contestants for seats
1900 and $4,000, ectively.-Allison
from the Committee on Ways and Means
reported back the Senate bill providing that
no tax shall be imposed upon any sums add
ed to the contingent funds of insurance com
panies, or on unearned premiums. Passed
The business on the Speakers table was
next taken up, and number of bills passed
Bills on the calendar were then called
in their order, and a number of Senate bills
of private character were passed.-IhC
Conference Committee on the Indian appro
priation bill then made their report, which
was agreed to.-The House again went tC
business on the Speakers table, and, after
voting down motions to suspend the rules IL
the cases of several land grant bills, at 3:4;
adjourned.