Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-04-06
UPPER SANDUSKY, OHIO, THURSDAY,
Weekly News Summary,
CONGRESSIONAL.

Weekly News Summary.
CONGRESSIONAL
In the Senate, on the 25th, Powell Clay
ton, senator-elect from Arkansas, appeared and
took the oath OF office. The cases OF Messrs.
Blodgett and Goldthwaite, claiming seats from
The Deficiency Appropriation bill was consid-
cred and passed, with various amendments -Ad-
iourned.
No session of the House on the 25th.
In the Senate, on the 27th, Mr.. Sumner
submitted and had read additional resolution
on the San Domingo question, and then proceeded
to deliver a lengthy speech against the annexation
scheme of the administration, characterizing II as
a disregard of law and precedent, etc. Senators
Morton and Howe responded to the speech of Mr..
Sumner. The attendance in the galleries and cor
rdors listen this debate Is said to have been
the largest ever assembled in the Senate chamber.
Before concluding his remarks Mr.. Howe yielded
the door for an adjournment.
In the House, on the 9th, bills were in
troduced-to secure suffrage to the people Of Utah,
without distinction of race, sex or previous con-
dition OF servitude to place the mission to Russia
sions to Great Britain, France. and Germany. A
series of resolutions were offered and referred,
declaratory of what the financial policy OF the
government should be: thst. he taxes should be
for only, and not for the benefits OF class
interests at the general expenses that economy re,
Quires there should be raised only S25O,OOO,OOO
revenue, including interest; So, 900 600 toward
paving the principal of the public debt; and that
IN case Commituee OF Ways and Means shall not
be appointed at the present session. special COM
mittee of seven he appointed to report reform
revenue tariff, without discrimination In favor of
particular interests. Adjourned
In the Senate, on the 2Sth, a memorial
was presented and tabled asking for the adoption
of such measures as will secure court OF nations
all he dacfdad and
that in the points at issue between Great Britain
and the United States, every effort may be made to
linton was offered and objected TO instructing the
Committee on the District of Columbia to inquire
into the exclusion OF Frederick Douglass and his
son from the privileges OF common travellers on
the mail steamer between Aqua Creek and Wash
fngton and to consider what remedy can be ap-
piled to prevent the repetition of such treatment on
account of color. After the expiration of the
morning hour, consideration of Mr.. Summers San
Domingo resolutions was resumed. and Mr.. Howe
concluded his reply to Mr.. Sumner. after which
MT schurz took the floor in behalf of the position
taken by Mr.. Sumner Pending an animated de-
bate between Messrs. Schurz and Morton, the
Senate went into executive session and afterwards
adjourned.
In the House, on the 2Sth, a memorial
was presented from Archie B. Fisk, claiming that
he was elected member OF Congress from the
Fourth District OF Mississippi, and protesting
against the right of all the sitting members from
that State bI was reported from the special SPECIAL
the pr DIVISIONS Of the Fourteenth Amendment to
the Constitution ofthe United States and for other
purposes which bill was read the first and second
time, and motion was made to recommit the bill
to the committee, and general debate ensued..
Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the Goth, the San Do
mingo discussion was resumed, and Messrs. Schurz,
Morton and Harlan debated the question, when a
motion to lay Mr. Summers resolutions on the
table was carried-yeas SO, nays 16-the Repubh
cans voting in the negative being Messrs. Patter-
son, Robertson, Schurz and Sumner. The reso-
luton instructing the Judiciary Committee to
report bill to repress disorder In the South was
taken up, after which the Senate adjourned.
In the House, on the 29th, the bill
reported from the select committee for the sup
preston Of disorders at the South was further con-
sidered and debated. The Speaker announced
the following standing eommees HT. on f Mss MScGnh1s
pi, Archer and Lewis. On Printng-Messrs
Beatty, Elliott, Roberts and Price. Adjourned
In the Senate, on the Both, resolution
was offered and laid over, calling upon the Secre-
tares of the Treasury, of War, and the Navy, to
report to the Senate at the next session schedule
of the property by classes with its estimated value
which has been seized taken possession of since
January l. 1861, by ORDER authority, or in the name
tion 4t has BEEN made of said property; what por
tions sold, and what became of the money pro-
ceeding therefrom, etc The motion to recon
bill, and to carry out the decision OF the
Supreme Court was adopted. e. The amendment
to the order of business, TO allow the considera-
ton Of any bill on the South passed by the House
of Representatives, was debated and adopted
The resolution instructing the Judiciary Commit
tee to report a bill for the suppression OF out
RACES at the South was further considered. .Ad-
journed.
In the House, on the Both, the Senate
bill granting Phoebe scofeld pension of s. per
month from June 5, 1867, she being at that time
one hundred years old, and the widow of Reyo-
bill was debated at considerable length. Ad-
journed.
In the Senate, on the 31st, debate on the
resolution directing the Judiciary Committee to
report in favor of Ku-Klux legislation was con-
tinued, Mr. Pool advocating the adoption of the
resolution in a lengthy speech, after which Mr.
went into executive session, and adjourned to the
Sd.
In the House, on the 31st, resolutions
were adopted directing the Secretary OF the
Treasury to furnish estimate Of the number OF
pounds of paper that will be required to replace the
present bank circulation and the cost pound OF
the distinctive paper now used for legal-tender
notes, fractional notes and bonds prior to 1870,
amount paid for paper now used, etc. requesting
the Secretary of State to communicate copies OF
any correspondence between the department and
our Minister Plenipotentiary at Florence IN rela-
ton to the occupation OF Rome by the King OF
Italy, and what correspondence has taken place
since December 1, 1870. A bill was passed au-
thorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to change
the name of the ship William T. Slower to that OF
Hamilton Fish. The bill to enforce the Four
teenth Amendment was debated. Adjourned, the
session on the let to be for debate only.