Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-03-09
Summary Of Important Congressional
Proceedings.

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Proceedings.
The Senate has passed the Legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation
bill, with amendments repeating so
much of the law regulating evidence as
makes the possession Of pardon evil
dence of disloyalty; consolidating the
public grounds south of Pennsylvania
Avenue for grand park, and raising
the salaries of the judges ofthe Supreme
and District Courts, and of the Comp
troller and Auditors Of the Treasury
department, the Assistant Postmaster,
and the Commissioners of Customs and
Pensions. The judges salaries now
stand in the bill as follows:
Chief Justice Of the Supreme Court. =. $500
Associate Justices OF tho Supreme
court. Observation-Disclosures. 5000
United States Circuit Court. ........ 5000
Chief Justices of the Court of Claims
and the Superior Court of the District
of Columbia. Observation-Disclosures. 5000
Associate Justices OF said Courts So. $500
1 United States District Judges. ... 5000
The salaries of the other officers
named are increased to 81, 600
The House has passed bill reported
from the Committee on Foreign
Affairs, authorizing the President of
the United States to appoint joint
committee to establish the Northwest
ern boundary line. During the debate
on this bill, Dawes stated that there
had been expended on this matter in
the last fifteen years $3.50, 400, yet moth
ing had been accomplished towards the
settlement of the question. A further
sum of $500, 600 will be required.
The House has. adopted joint reso-
luton in relation to the McGarrahan
claim, directing the Secretary of the
Interior to cause record of the patent
to the Panoche Grande to be transcrib-
ed into the records rs the same stood
on the record book of the General Land
Office at the time it was examined,
ever, SO that the legal effect OF the re-
cord so transcribed shall be the same
MS If the original record had never
been mutilated; and it requires the
President to do in the premises what
ever may, in his judgment, be equita-
bic, without regard to any action or
proceeding had subsequently to the
14th of March, 1861, the date of the
patent recorded
The House has passed the Senate
Southern Pacific railroad bill with two
amendments: first, changing the name
and some of the corporators, and re-
ducing the capital to $50, 900, 900; and,
second, prohibiting consolidation with
other roads hereafter to be built
Senator Warner presented in the
Senate petition from citizens of Dub
lin, Fayette county, Alabama, praying
for protection against Ku-Klux out
RACES, and asserting their preference
for military rule to their present unpro-
tected condition.
The House has passed a deficiency
bill which appropriates SO, 677, 525.
The Senate has passed bill amend
ing the bounty law so 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 disabil-
ity contracted in the service, shall be
entitled to 800 bounty. The aggre-
gate of these bounties will be about
$4,000
After debate which continued until
after midnight, the Senate passed the
House bill to guard the purity of cleo
tons, entitled, Gan act to amend an
act approved May 31st, 1870, to enforce
the rights Of United States citizens to
vote in the several States of the Union,
and for other purposes" by strict
party vote-yeas 80, nays 10.