Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-01-20
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

JAN. 9.-SENATE.-A bill was intro.
duced by Ramsay appropriating $25, 900 for
the completion of the harbor at Duluth,
Mimi The House joint resolution appropri
ating So 500 year for Minister Schenck was
passed. Thursday next was fixed for the
consideration of the bill to re; mburse the
States for moneys advanced during the re-
bellion. The Senate then took up as the
regular business of the morning hour Mr..
Sherman's bill revising the laws relative to
minis and coinage. The bill makes the
mint of the United States bureau of the
Treasury, to be under the control of direc-
tors to be appointed for five years by the
President, and consolidates the laws on the
subject and prescribes regulations for assay
ing and coinage, including the duties of as
savers, refiners and coiners, and the STAN
dard of gold, silver, and copper coinage. AT
ter long debate the Senate, at o'clock,
without disposing of the bill, adjourned.
HoUsE.-A large number of bills were in
troduced and referred t. their appropriate
committees. kellogg offered a resolution re-
questing the Committee of Ways and Means
to report bill for the repeal of the in
come tax. Adopted. Starkweather offered
resolution referring all bills, resolutions, petit
tions and papers now before Congress, or any
committee in either House, on the subject of
ocean telegraph cables, to joint committee
of five members of the Senate and eight of
| the House, with power to send for persons
and papers, and report. Adopted. Ortiz
moved to suspend the rules, and take from
| the Speakers table and pass the Senate Joint
resolution authorizing the appointment of
commissioners in relation to the annexation
| of Dominica. Adopted. After considerable
discussion, it was agreed to suspend the rules
and fix 2 o'clock tomorrow for taking the
| vote on the resolution. Wood then addressed
the House at length against tie resolution.
| The Speaker presented communication
| from the President, sending information call
ed for by a resolution in regard to the Re-
public of Dominica Referred to the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs. The House, then,
at o'clock, adjourned.
| JAN. 11.-SENATE.-Yates presented a
| petition from the citizens of Illinois, asking
| for an amendment to the Constitution of the
| United States recognizing the Supreme Be-
| ing. He stated that this subject had been
| agitated for five or six sessions, and he had
been notified that large number of similar
| petitions had accumulated. Carpenter, from
mmittee on Judiciary, reported back the
| bill authorizing the President to accept the
resignation of any United States Judge,
whenever satisfactory proof shall be pro-
| duced of physical or other infirmities, said
Judge to receive his salary during his natu-
raj life, provided that if, after his retirement,
he shall accept any other Office of profit his
salary shall cease. Ross offered resolution,
which was adopted, calling on the Secretary
of the Interior to transmit to the Senate CO.
pies of all the correspondence relative to the
disposal of the Miami Indian Reservation or
any part thereof, subsequent to 1865. The
Senate resumed consideration of TrumbulPs
joint resolution prohibiting members of Con-
gress frow soliciting office from the President
and heads of departments. He proposed an
amendment, making violation of this act a
misdemeanor, and any person found guilty
liable to fine of 81 900. Marion moved to
lay the matter aside, for the purpose of TAX
| ing up the Senate Dominica joint resolutions
as returned from the House, with the amend
ment providing that nothing contained in
/ them shall be understood or construed as
committing Congress to the policy of an
nexation of the said Republic of Dominica.
| Agreed to. After considerable discussion on
the amendment, the Senate determined to
decide the question by o'clock tomorrow /;
and then, at O'Clock, adjourned.
HoUsE.-Garfeld presented remonstrance
| of 307 women of Ohio against woman suf-
frage. The House then resumed the consid-
Grafton of the joint resolution for the ap-
| pointment of commissioners to San Do
| mingo. There was long debate, when the
vote was finally reached ON Mr.. Ambler's
amendment declaring that nothing in the
resolution was to be construed as committing
| Congress to the annexation of Dominica.