Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-02
Weekly News Summary.
CONGRESSIONAL.

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CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate, on the 18th, the House
bill authorizing the construction Of bridges ovel
the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, by the Louis
the Senate Committee on Post Offices, was passed
=. On motion the Judiciary Committee was dis
charged from the further consideration OF various
petitions referred to that committee for female
| suffrage The Legislative Executive and Judi
clai APPROPRIATION Dill was inrthei censiqerea anc
| session and adjournment.
In the House, on the 18th, the Army
Appropriation bill was considered in Committee o
the Whole, reported to the House and passed.
| The bill reported by the Committee Foreign
1 Affairs authorizing the President to cooperate
| with the Government of Great Britain In the ap-
| pointment of joint commission for determining
/ the boundary line between the United States and
British Territories between the Lake of the Woods
| and the Rocky Mountains, and an appropriation
of 800, 900 annually for the expense OF the work
was considered in Committee of the Whole and re-
ported TO the House. The report of the Judiciary
Committee on the McGarrahan claim was debated.
| ....Adjourned.
| In the Senate, on the Doth, House bills
were reported to guard the purity oi
election; without amendment, allowing home
stead settlers in case Of sickness to make final aft
extending the time for filing bounty claims under
/ the act of July %, 1866, to Jan. 13, 1870 The
| Legislative Appropriation bill was taken up, and
| amendments were disposed of, one repeating that
| part of the law regulating evidence in the Court
| of Claims, which makes the possession of par
| ---.Adjourned.
In the House, on the Goth, resolutions
of the Wisconsin Legislature in favor of the re-
newal of railroad grants were introduced and re-
ferred - "A memorial was presented and referred
from the Kansas Legislature for the immediate re-
moval of the National Capital to the Valley of the
Mississippi. The bill reported from the Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs, authorizing the President
| to appoint joint commission to establish the
northwestern boundary line, was taken up, and,
the Associated Press, announcing the safety of the
| Tennessee, laid before the House by the
priating $3O,0OOOO0, including S4,5O0,OO6 for
| pensions under the recent law, re-
ported and made the special order for the
mittee on the McGarrahan claim was considered,
| and the substitute offered by the minority was
adopted-110 to 91-directing the Secretary of the
Interior to cause a record of the patent to PAN
oche Grande to be Transcribed into the records as
the same stood on the record book in the General
Land Office at the time 1t was examined, without
| any mutilation erasure whatever, SO that the
legal effect of the record transcribed shall be
the same as if the original record had never been
interfered with mutilated, and authorizing and
requiring the President of the United States to do
| in the premises whatever may in his judgment be
just and equitable, without regard to any action
or proceeding had subsequent to the 14th OF
March, 1868, the date of the patent recorded
Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 21st, bills were
| introduction aid in the establishment and sup
port of public schools in States lately in rebellion
to increase the internal revenue derived from lot
teries, and for other purposes Bills were passed
authorizing the United States Circuit Court for
Indiana to make partition of the Miami reserve
fund; to provide for Solicitor for the Department
of the Interior; the Legislative Executive and Ju
dicial Appropriation BILL with amendments. ..Ad-
| journed.
In the House, on the 21st, the Senate
bill entitled act to incorporate the Texas & Pa
cifc Railroad Company and to aid in the construc-
ton of the road, and for other purposes, was dis
| cussed at length, amended and passed-13i to 20.
| "A report was made from the Committee on
Elections in the Missouri contested election case,
sdOped the
not entit ed TO the seat, and that Van Horn, the
sitting member is, and that Shields shall be paid
5000 for expenses. Adjourned.
In the Senate, ON the 22d, the creden-
tials of Lot NJ Morrill,, as Senator from Maine for
six years from the 4th of March next, t,-were pre-
sented and read IA petition was presented and
| read, from the citizens of Dublin, Fayette Coun-
| ty, Ala, praying for protection against Ku-Klux
| outrages. The annual Post Route bill was con-
| sidered and passed.. The Indian Appropriation
bill was considered, and several amendments were
| disposed of. Adjourned.
In the House, on the 22d, the Deficiency
Appropriation bill, appropriatng s1O6T7, ,525, was
considered, and lengthy and personal debate en-
sued, after which the bill was passed-96 to A..
| Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 23d, the House
joint resolution relating to Panoche Grande, being
the MGarrahan claim, was received from the
House and temporarily disposed of by being laid
on the table. The Texas Pacific Railroad bill
was also received from the House, and action
ppassedWHoase bill to extend the provisions of the
fftyfth section of the banking act of June, 1864,
Furnishing embeZZlement by bank officers, to
ing act of February, 1868; Indian Appropriation
bill; Senate bill to amend the bounty laws, pro-
! viding that all soldiers who were mustered into
the service of the United States for three years be.
tween May and July %, 1861, and who were
| honorably discharged before serving two years by
reason of disability contracted in the service are
entitled to receive 500 bounty. Bills were
| reported-Army Appropriation bill, with
amendments; to facilitate commerce between the
United States aud China, Japan, and countries of
| Asia, incorporating the Asiatic Commercial Com
pany for the purpose of carrying on general
mercantile and shipping business, with amend
| ment; adversely, TO increase internal revenue
arising from lotteries and other purposes .Ad-
| journed.
In the House, on the 23d, bills were
passed-relative to taking dispositions in Courts OF
the United States; for extension of the time for
the completion of the Portage Lake and Lake
| Superior Canal; making appropriations for the
construction, preservation, and repair of certain
fortifications, and other works of defense; with
amendments, making appropriations Ine COHl-
pletion and preservation of certain public works
on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes.
The Senate resolution prescribing the oath to be
taken by Senator-elect Miller, of Georgia, was
passed. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the oath, the creden-
tials of William Window, Senator elect from
Minnesota, were presented and read. Bills were
reported-favorably, repeating the test oath; to
provide for Assistant United States Treasurers at
Cincinnati and Chicago. The bill relating to
bridges across the Mississippi River was consid-
cred and passed. Mr.. Miller, of Georgia, was
sworn in. The House Enforcement bill, entitled
an act to amend the act approved May 81, 1870, to
enforce the right of citizens of the United States to
vote in the several States of the Union, and for
other purposes, was taken up, and lengthy de-
bate ensued, when the bill was passed by party
vote of 80 to 10. Adjourned.
In the House, on the 24th, the bill
making appropriations for the sundry civil ex-
penses of the government, known as the Omnibus
BILL appropriating S335S3, ,992, was taken up, and
its consideration occupied the greater portion of
the days session, twenty pages out of ffty-iye of
| the bill being disposed of, Adjourned.
FOREIGN. ..f
The official declaration of the result of
the election for the Assembly was made in
Paris on the 17th, before the Hotel de
| Vile, in the presence of large concourse