Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-03-16
Weekly News Summary.
CONGRESSIONAL.

II
In the Senate, on the morning of the
4th, motion was agreed to to postpone the bill
to repeal the duty on coal. "A report was made
that the President had been waited upon, and had
no further communication to make to the Senate
when a resolution was offered and adopted with.
out objection, rendering 1.-THE thanks of the Sem
ate to the Hon Schuyler Colfax, Vice President OF
the United States, for the eminent ability, court
esy, and impartiality with which he has presided
over the deliberations of this body. The hour
OF twelve O'Clock, the time fixed by law for the
expiration of the session, having srrived, the
VicePresident returned thanks to the Senators for
their approval of his official course, and then
declared the last session of the Senate of the For
ty-flrst Congress adjourned without day.
The time fixed for the assembling of the first
session, according to law, of the Forty-second
Congress having arrived, the Secretary proceeded
to call the roll of the Senators elect, and the fol-
lowing St new Senators came forward and Iook the
Ferry Nieh5 Hitcheoek, (Nebl keiiy, toregon},
Stevenson (Ky.), Salisbury, Eli Oel.). Cooper
Tenn, } Wilson, {Mass ;; Wright Gowa); Window
elect Aicorn CMississippD and Clayton
| (ArK.) were not called. The Vice-Presi-
dent stated that the name Of MI Vance Senator
legal and political disabilities of that gentleman
had not been removed The credentials of Mr..
Goldthwaite, of Alabama, were temporarily laid
on the table, also the credentials of Foster
Blodgett, of Georgia, and the two sets of creden-
Senator Hamilton had BEEN elected for ' the next @
term, and the other certifying to the election of
Reynolds. The committee of notification to the
President and House, of the organization of the
Senate. were then appointed. Adjourned to the
| 7th.
In the House, on the morning of the
4th, the Omnibus bill was received from the Senate
with a number of amendments attached to it, all
of which were finally concurred in. Several
Executive communications were received An
nouncement made that the committee ap-
pointed for that purpose had waited on the Presi
dent and were authorized 10 INFORM Congress that
he had no further communication to make, when
the hour of twelve having arrived the Speaker re-
turned his thanks to the members for the commen-
dation they had been pleased to bestow upon his
official conduct, and declared the last session of
the House of the Forty-first Congress adjourned
sine die.
Soon after the adjournment of the Forty first
Congress, the new House was summoned to order
and the names of the members by States was
resentation being 243 --.Jas. G. Blaine (Rep.) of
Maine, was reelected Speaker over Gen. Morgan
Dawes the senior membeq Of the III t House 10 admins.
tered the oath of Office to the Speaker, and the
Speaker proceeded to administer the oath to the
members: "A resolution was adopted declaring
the following persons officers of the House for the
Forty-second Congress-; Edward Mcpherson,
Clerk; N. G. Ordway, Sergeant Arms; o. S.
J. G. Butler, Chaplain, being the officers of the
last House Messrs. Hooper, Niblack and Seho-
field were appointed q committee to join like
committee on the part of the Senate TO wait upon
the President and inform him that Congress was
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olution was adopted-147 TO 17-for an adjourn
ment sine die on the Sth After the drawing for
seats the House adjourned to the 7th.
In the Senate, on the 7th, the COM
mitee appointed to wait on the President reported
that they had performed the duty, and the Presi-
dent informed them that he had no communications
for Congress at present. but should make one in the
course of a week, and expressed the wish that
Congress should not this week fix day of adj
iournment Bills were introduced-to abolish
the tax incomes. to DrOVlQe additional COM
mercial facilities for New York-the Submarine
Tunnel bill; to remove the legal and political
disabilities from all persons on whom such are i'm
posed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Con-
stitution; to enable honorably discharged SOL
diers and sailors, andheir widows and orphans, to
acquire homesteads public lands OF the
United States-the same bill which passed the
House last session and failed in the Senate "a
memorial was presented from Jas. C. Abbott, of
North Carolina, in which he claims to have re-
ceived clear majority of all the legal votes cast
by the Legislature of that State in the recent cleo
ton for United States Senator, the ground that
T. B. Vance, being ineligible under the constitu-
tion not entitled to be voted for and has not,
therefore, been elected. "A joint resolution was
adopted authorizing the President to appoint a
Commissioner TO the International Congress on
Penitentiary Discipline, ETC., in Europe. The
House concurrent resolution to adjourn on
Wednesday, March s, was laid on the table, Ad-
jOurned to the 9th.
In the House, on the 7th, the claim of
Mr.. Roles to seat from the Third District of Ar
kansas, instead of Mr.. Edwards, was presented,
and referred to the Committee on Elections.
The Speaker stated that with the exception of
those on elections, mileage, accounts and public
buildings it was not his intention to appoint the
standing committees until the December session,
to which most of the members were favorable.
The Senate joint resolution was passed for the ap
pointment of a Commissioner to the international
Congress on Penitentiary and Reformatory Disci-
pline Adjourned to the 9th.
In the Senate, on the 9th, memorial
was presented for general disarmament through
out the world, and repeal of the war clauses of
the Constitution of the United States: Bills were
neutrality-suspicious. to the civil rights act,
intended to secure equal rights to coored people
in all public conveyances, places of amusement,
churches, benevolent and other institutions, etc..
to incorporate the Japan Steam Navigation Com
pany, confined to the navigable waters of Japan;
to facilitate commerce between the United States
and China, and other Asiatic countries; to ratlfy
and carry into effect the constitution, and form
government for the Indian Territory; to provide
for the erection of government building at
Grand Rapids, Mich. granting right of way to GER
tain railroads in Colorado; to provide for the trans
Europe, and other purposes; declaring the true
construction of the second section of the act OF
March 3, 1857, to settle certain accounts between
the United States and mississippi; to aid IN the con-
structon of a railroad from Lincoln, Nebraska, to
Denver, Colorado; to incorporate branches of the
Texas Pacific Railway Company, under the name
of the North Carolina Extension Railway Compa-
ny-the companies to be the Eastern and Western
Divisions, Western North Carolina Railroad, Will
mington, Charlotte & Rutherford Railroad, and
the Spartanburg & Union Railroad, of South Caro-
lima; reviving grant of land to the North Louisl
d Texas railroad, 10 connect NlckS-
burg with the Texas Pacific Railroad; in
cooperating the Shreveport & Red River I'M
provement Company; creating Shreveport port
of delivery; to provide for the segregation and
survey of swamp lands in Oregon - Adjourned.
In the House, on the 9th, bills were intro
duced-to repeal the duty salt; for the repeal
of the duty coal; providing that in all cases of
insurrection or obstruction to the law, either of
the United States of any State or Territory. by
a combination too powerful to be suppressed by
q ordinary Judiciary nr0ceeQlnpa.
where the constitutional authorities of any State
Territory shall fail or refuse to execute the laws
it shall be lawful for the President to employ the
land or naval forces of the United States to sup
| press such combinations and to execute the laws
even though the Legislature or Executive of such
State may not call for such forces for the appor-
| tionment of Representatives to Congress among
the several States according to the ninth census.
-. The Committee Elections announced,
| as follows: Messrs. W. W. McCreary, Stevenson,
Hale. POLAND, Finkelnburg, Thomas, Kerr, Pot
| ter and Arthur "A resolution was offered and
| referred against paying compensation to contest
| ants for seaGs, who may be declared by the House
not entitled to them, but that the House may al.
1 low them actual expenses. The bill to repeal
| the duty on salt was considered in committee of
| the whole. Adjourned
| In the Senate, on the 10th, motion was
| agreed to to proceed to the election of standing
committees, and resolution was submitted with
list as agreed upon by the Republican caucus
and request was made by Mr.. Sumner of Mas
| sachusetts, that his name be eliminated from the
| Committee on Privileges and Elections, and mo-
] uOn to that effect was agreeu TO- n lengthy ana
| bitter debate then ensued on the question of the
removal of Mr.. Sumner from the Committee on
Foreign Relations, of which he had been Chairman
| for a number of years, Mr.. Cameron, of Pennsyl-
| vana, being substituted in his stead. motion to
postpone the consideration of the question was
finally lost and the resolution confirming the
| mittees agreed upon in caucus, with the excep-
ton of the change made in the Committee on
Privileges and Elections, was adopted-33 to o..
Majority and minority reports were made from the
| select Committee on Southern Outrages and were
ordered to be printed Executive session and ad-
| journment to the 18th.
In the House, on the 10th, joint reso-
luton was passed constituting the Internal Rev
enue act of July IA, 1870 as to provide for the
admission of animals, especially those imported
for breeding purposes, free of duty, from the Do
minion of Canada. Bills were introduced to
abolish the franking privilege; to repeal the in
come tax; to authorize and regulate the construc-
ton of bridges across the Mississippi, Missouri
and Ohio rivers; to amend the act regulating the
carriage of passengers by steamers; to remove all
legal and political disabilities. Bills were passed
to grant certain articles oil machinery to the In
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