Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-03-29
Proceedings i'm Congress.

In the Senate on the 18th the bill for the
erection of public buildings at ST. Louis passed.
The Legislative Appropriation bill was taken up.
An amendment was adopted increasing the salaries
of United States District Judges and the Judges of
the Court of Claims to So 0o0 and the bill passed..
The Tariff bill was discussed without action....Ad
In the House on the same day bill was passed ap-
propriating 1887 900 to reimburse Kansas for her
IA bill authorizing the Southern Characterization
to appoint special commissioners to take testimony,
mttee on the bill for the ST. Louis Custom House,
@" od a report the site and
and the House adjourned. 60
In the Senate on the 18th bill was
passed authorizing the President to appoint Pay
master General in the army.....The House bill
tending the time for the completion of the Portage
and Lake Superior Canal was passed: The remain
the Tariff BILL
In the House on the 18th the Wisconsin Land Grant
vote of 90 to S. providing that all lands granted by
Congress in 1856 and 1864 for lands for the construction
of the st. OroiX and Lake Superior railroad, such
grants having expired by limitation. declared for
feted to the United States, and shall henceforward be
Homestead act of the goth of May 1872 and that no
part Of such lands shall be selected by or nure to the
grant from the United States and that no land
pany shall in any case revert to the Northern Pacific
kallroad COMPANY and repeating all acts or parts of
thus amended was passed, and the House adjourned,
There was no session of the Senate on tho
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In the House on the16th the attendance was slim
and no business transacted beyond the reading or
filing of speeches on miscellaneous subjects. -
In the Senate on the 18th Mr.. Conkling's
resolution calling for the number of applications for
appointments made by certain Senators came up.
An amendment to include the Senators from Indiana
was accepted by Mr.. Gonkling, and the resolution
amended was adopted....The Chicago Relief bill was
nj hnt hn dfn1rr I'D tlnrt
o vote Us-.ts e'E ftfssE..-l
In the House on the 1Sth after the introduction of
proprietors of the Congressional Globe rreportiRg
and publishing the long debates in Congress for two
years. was taken up but the House adjourned without
dispOsing of the bill
In the Senate on the 10Th the bill for the
relief of the officers and crew of the Kearsarge
passed Il directs the Secretary of the Treasury to
pay them 100000 III prize money!. The Chicago RE-
proposed and were
In the House the 10th the bill in relation to the
THE bill providing for reporting and publishing
the debates In Congress was taken up: An amend
proceedings Of the House without the approval
al e to n on Pfbe
to publish for three months an advertisements in at
proposals for reporting and printing the debates Of the
Forty third Congress and also to have estimates
bates by the Congressional printer and providing that
no del shall be reported and published after the
tract therefor by authority Of Congress- The ameud
ment was agreed to- The bill amended was then
passed without division.... MIR. Cox offered resolu-
tion nstructing the Committee on Rules to report a
rule restrct the publication of debates to debates
which actually occurred. Agreed to.....The House
the went into Committee of the Whole on the Pacific
Mail Subsidy bill, but adjourned before reaching a
vote.
In the Senate on the goth the Chicago Re-
lief BILL as reported from the Finance Committee,
was passed by a veto of 20 to 17....Bs were intro
duced authorizing the construction of bridges across
the Mississippi river at Quincy, Ill.,. and Red Wing,
MIMI. The Tariff bill discussed until adjourn
ment.
In the House the goth the bill authorizing the
construction of bridges across the Ohio river. and
prescribing their dimensions, passed....The
amended bill passed authorizing the construction
OF bridge the Mississippi river at Clinton,
Iowa, for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rail-
road..A resolution calling on the Secretary of State
for information to the amounts paid to newspapers
for publishing the laws of the United States, was
adopted. The Postoffice Appropriation bill was
passed. and the House adjourned.