Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-12-28
General News Summary.
CONGRESSIONAL.

III lHc Ccudte, Oil tllC lCtn, coNNi" pCb-
tions were presented and referred....A memorial
was presented from the Presidents of the Ononda-
ga. Ohio and Saginaw Salt Companies, charging
that some Eastern salt importers have issued cir
cular throughout the country soliciting names to a
petition for the repeal of the salt duties, and aeg
ing that the statements in said circular are false
they ask Congress to delay action on such petitions
until said Presidents forward documents giving a
faithful exhibit of the facts. "A bill was intro
ducCd and ordered printed, providing that National
Banks on the LIST OF January 1872 shall have three
per cent. in gold coin hand of the aggregate cir
cuation. increasing annually thereafter until they
have fifteen per cent, thereafter to keep reserve
in gold instead of legaienders.. A resolution
offered instrtcting the Committee of Investigation
and Retrenchment to inquire into the matter ot
the existence at New York and its maintenance by
the Government officers under the name of the
General Order Business, of an alleged monstrous
abuse. fraudulent in character and particularly
whether any collusion IMPROPER connec-
of any officer OF the United States. and to fur
ther inquire whether any officer has been or is
known by his superior officer to be guilty Of brib-
Ors, and that the committee he authorized to send
for persons or papers. Consideration Of the res
olutiCi was postponed until after the appoint
ment of the committee A resolution was then
offered for the appointment of the following Com
mittee on Investigation and Retrenchment: Buck
Ingham, Pratt, Howe, Harlan. Stewart Pool and
Bayard. lengthy discussion followed, it being
claimed by Messrs. Trumbull, Sumner, Schurz
nnTan etc & that the pr2pGseI members I OF 1.-The the
inal supporters of the resolution authorizing its APP
pointment, while Messrs Anthony, Howe, Conk-
ling, Morton, etc, contended that the Senators
named as the committee were in favor of full and
searching investigation into any chdfses of corrup-
ton which might come before the Senate.
In the House, on the 18th, a large num-
Der of bills introduced. including the follow
ing To punish bank insurance, State and govern
ment officials for bribery and corruption to pre-
vent cruelty to animals in transit railroads to
prevent the appointment of dishonest and incom-
petent government officials. and making the officers
appointing them, and the members of Congress
commencing them responsible for their misconduct;
for preliminary survey for q ship canal from the
southern point of Lake Michigan to the Mississippi
Riv.r near the month of The ohio for holding Of
the United States District Courts at ST. Joseph and
Springfield Mo: to refund the cotton tax collected
in 1865: 6G, and 81; to legalize polygamist mar
riages in Utah. and to dismiss all criminal pro-
ceedings in Utah against polygamists to authorize
the Chicago & Northwestern Railway to change the
directien of their f6ad ii Michigan also, for
change in the direction of the Ontonagon & Lake
Superior Railroad; for the improvement of the
navigation of the DesMoines Rapids: for public
buildings at Oshkosh, Wis; for the admission of
Utah as State: declaratory of the rights of
suffrage. declaring woinen entitled to suffrage
der the Fourteenth Constitutional Amendment. :.
A bill was passed modifying the steamboat act
to allow boats on the Mississippi and tributaries to
carry $50 instead of 40 pounds of steam to the
square inch on standard boilers of ~ inches diam
eter, and on plates quarter of an inch in thick
ness. RESOLUTIONS were adopted-inquiring into
the cause of removal and condition of accounts of
General Bullock of the Freedmcns Bureau de-
foreign governments to be beyond its jurisdiction.
it deeply sympathizes with all efforts to establish
sef-governmpnt and republican institutions, and
with the families and friends of all persons who
have lost their lives either in the field on the
scaffold or elsewhere in the cause of civil liberty
....Adioarned.
In the Senate, on the 10Th, the House
bill appropriating s4,OOO,OOO for public buildings in
Chicago was passed. A resolution was introduced
providing for Sixteenth Amendment to the Con-
stitutOn, prohibiting giving aid to sectaran schools;
and notice given of an amendment to the Con-
stitutiOn providing that the President shall be in
eligible for reelection The President was re-
quested to give information to the relations of
the United States with Spain, concerning her treat
ment of Americans in Cuba "A substitute
reported for the bill declaratory of the act of July H.
1870 to reduce internal taxes and for other purposes
....A bin was introduced and referred to
punish stock gambling by public officers, and for
other purposes. The resolution directing the
Committee on Retrenchmcnt to inquire into the
charges made in reference to the general order bus
mess in the New York Custom House taken up
and several amendments were offered and accepted
instructing the committee to inquire whether any
charges for storage carting not authorized by
law have been made by custom officers: also
whether presents have been accepted by officers of
the Custom House from other officers subordinate
to them or acting under their control; also, whether
the officers or employees of said Custom House
have used their influence to con-
troll either of the last two State Conventions of the
Republican party of the State of New York, and
whether assessments of money have been made
to be used to control primaries to secure delegates
10 State conventions CT Tor Other pOiltlcal puT-
| poses also, whether any officers in said Custom
House have been are being used as instruments
of political or party patronage The resolution as
! amended was adopted-yeas 81. nays none An
other resolution was then adopted, directing the
same committee to inquire whether any Minister
of the United States in any foreign country is
| engaged in any mining company. and
using his official position for the pro-
motion of its interests and if so, whether his do
ing is compatible with his duties such Minis
/ ter. Mr.. Pool, at his own request, was ex-
| cused from serving on the Committee of In
yestigation and Retrenchment- "A resolution,
declaring Mr. Norwood, of Georgia, entitled 10 a
seat in the Senate was agreed to- and he was sworn
i in. A resolution was adopted, directing the Ser
geant-at-A Arms to arrest Saunders, the refractory
witness in North Carolina. Executive session and
| adjournment
In the House, on the 10Th, number of
bills were referred. A resolution was adopted
for an investigation by the Banking Committee OF
| the recent failure of National Banks A message
relative to civil service reform was received from
the President, read and referred A lengthy dis
passed appropriatng $27,S3O to supply deficiencies
| in the expenses of the ku-klux Committee .Ad
| journed.
In the Senate, on the Goth, bills were
introduced and referred-to grant Missouri all tho
remaining public lands in said State for the benefit
of the school fund; to authorize the Court Of
Claims to try the suit of Carondelet The United
| States Resolutions were adopted-asking infor
nation about the United States naval vessels SEN
| to San Domingo: authorizing the Committee on Re
trenchment to sit in the city of New York, and au
thorizingits subcommittee to administer oaths ant
| take testimony: directing the payment out of the
contingent fund of the Senate, of 5000, or Sc
much of it is necessary to defral
expenses of the Retrenchment Committee
"A bill was reported from the Committee OF
Finance to reorganize the custom service. :. Al
appropriation of $250.OOo for the expenses of thu
| Geneva Commission, and one of 100000 for th'
Mixed Commission expenses at Washington, wer'
passed go. a petition was presented from Osag
settlers, asking for settlement to the title TO
their lands. Fifteen thousand copies of the re
port of the Civil Service Commission and its &C
conpanying message were ordered printed. :.
The House General Amnesty bl
was taken up, and an amendmen
was offered providing that the act shall not he con
strued to date back to validate the election o
appointment of any person to the position o
Senator member of the House of Represent
aves or to any office, civil or military, under tn
United States, which person then was at the time
such election or appointment Ineligible to the pc
siton; after considerable debate it agreed tina
a vote should be taken the bill and amendmen
on the 21st.. Executive session and adjournment
In the House, on the Goth, the selec
Committee on Civil service were instructed to in
quire into the expediency of providing for tn
election of Postmasters by the people. The Pos
! Route bill was passed. Mr.. Galegas, Delegat
for New Mexico, was sworn in. The Labor bi
providing for the appointment of a commission c
three persons to hold Office for one year. who sha
investigate the subject of wages and hours of labC
and of the division of the joint profits of labor an
educational. and sanitary condition of the aborin
classes of the United States. and how the same ar
affected by the existing laws regulating commerc'
finance and currency, said Commissioners TO be al
pointed irrespective of political or partisan consit
eratons, and from civil life, debated at engtl
and passed-13i to Sc. Adjourned: the sessio
, on the 21st to be for general debate only.
, In the Senate, on the 21st, a preambl
and joint resolution proposing an amendment
the Constitution was introduced, providing that
person who has once held the Office of President
!, the United States shall be thereafter eligible
that office. the proposed amendment to take effe
after the 4th of March, 1873; read and laid over.
The House General Amnesty bill was taken u
and the amendment providing that the act shall n
be construed so as to validate tine election of an
: body to an Office under the United Stat
0 Government who was at the time of b
: election ineligible by law, was reiected-ycas :
: : nays 2a-and substantially the same amendmer
Z clothed in different language. was subsequent
l. adoptcd-29 TO pc. Several proposed amendmcn
We're rejected, but the Senate adjourned witho
taking action on the bill.
a The House met on the 21st for gencr
e debate. During the debate message was rcceiv
3 from the President in answer to the resolution ca