Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-02-07
PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS.

TUESDAY, January 23-SENATE. Mr..
Trumbull reported the amendment apportion-
ment bill. Mr.. Sargent reported bill for the
development of the mineral wealth OF the
country, which declares that all land grants,
whether surveyed or not, are free and open to
exploration and purchase. and defines rules
for governing newly discovered mines. Mr.
Pomeroy reported a bill setting apart Ger
tain lands near the headwaters of the Yellow
stone River as public park. bill to allow
the importation, free of duty, of certain ma
chinery designed for experiments In mining
ia Louisiana was passed The amnesty Dill
came up in the regular order, and was debated
by Messrs. Morton, Thurman, Blair, and
Scott The Senate then went into Executive
session.
TUESDAY, January % HOUSE. Mr..
Pierce reported a bill to establish an educa-
tional fund, and to apply the proceeds of
public lands. The House went into Committee
of the Whole on the legislative and executive
appropriation bill. After progressing through
thirteen pages of the bill the committee rose.
The Senate amendments to the bill author1z-
ing the importation of machinery were non
concurred in, and committee of conference
appointed Adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, January 24.-SENATE.-
A bill making an appropriation to carry out
such Civil Service rules as we're adopted by the
President, was referred Mr.. Morton modified
his resolution SO as to fix the 29th of May for
adjournment. The Chicago Relief bill came
up. Amendments were offered to include
Peshtigo. Manistee, Holland and Saginaw in
the provisions of the BILL and voted down.
The bill in its original form then passed.
WEDNESDAY, January 24.-HoUsE-
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Committee on Commerce to inquire into vari-
GUS matters connected with the commerce of
the country. The civil appropriation bill was
then considered.
THURSDAY, January 25.-SENATE.
memorial was presented from the Choctaw
Indians, protesting against the establishment
of territorial government in the Indian Ter
ritory. Mr.. Wilson introduced bill to pro-
hibit the deportation of South Sea Islanders
by American citizens. On motion the vote
upon the Chicago relief bill was reconsidered,
and pending discussion the amnesty bill came
up in it's regular order. After this the appor-
tionment bill came up for consideration.
THURSDAY, J January 25.-HoUsE.
educational bill was discussed by Messrs
Hoar, Beck and Burchard. Mr.. Poland re-
ported from the joint committee OIL southern
outrages, recommending the adoption of a
resolution calling on the President for the
information on which he acted in exercising
in the state of South Carolina the power con-
ferred upon him in the act of April 29th, 1871,
the Ku-Klux act, with all particulars Mr..
Beck offered substitute confining the
information asked for to the state of South
Carolina, which was rejected, and the original
resolution adopted. Mr. Hale. from the Com
mittee on Appropriations, reported the naval
appropriation bill, which was made the special
order for Tuesday next. The bill appropriates
$17, ,943, ,347. The house went into Committee
of the Whole the general Legislative appro
priation BILL and upon rising adjourned.
FRIDAY, January 26.-SENATE.
credentials of VIM. B. Allison, Senator elect
from Iowa, were presented. A bill was pre-
sented authorizing the erection of bridge
over the Ohio river at Evansville. Mr.. Nor
tons resolution, fixing the time of final
adjournment May %, was taken up, and after
much discussion and many attempts to amend,
passed by vote of Sc to H. The apportion-
ment bill was considered but no definite action
taken.
FRIDAY, January 26.-HoUsE-After
some unimportant preliminary business. the
House went into Committee of the Whole on
the legislative appropriation bill. The total
sum appropriated by it Is $17,0OO,000 The
committee then took up the pension appropri-
alton BILL appropriating $50, ,408000, and dis
posed of it. Upon rising, both bills were
reported to the House. They we're passed.
Adjourned.
MONDAY, January 29.-SENATE. Bills
were introduced as follows: Authorizing the
Secretary of the Treasury to pay for cotton
seized by the United States after June 30th,
1865 by Mr. Howe, allowing homestead set
tiers and heirs of homestead settlers burned
out in the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Michigan until the first of January, 1873, to
rebuild on and reoccupy their homestead
lands. The apportionment bill came up.
Numerous amendments were offered and
voted down, and the bill finally passed in the
shape in which it was reported.
MONDAY, January 20 HOUSE,
number of bills were introduced, among them
the following: For arming the whole mill
tary force of the United States; to utilize the
/ burned timber of public lands in Michigan
and Wisconsin; to allow women to vote and
hold Office in the territories for the organiz-
| alton of new territory out of the northern
| portion of Dakota. A resolution was adopted
instructing the Committee on Public Build
ings and Grounds to inquire into the propriety
and feasibility of procuring for the
United States the title to Independence
Hall and Square in Philadelphia A bill
for the recognition of a state of war between
Spain and the Republic of Cuba, declaring
both parties entitled to belligerant rights, in
cluding the right of each to carry their respect
i've flags on the waters of the United States,
was referred. A resolution was adopted
instructing the Committee on Manufactures to
inquire whether materials for steamship build
i ing can be supplied by the United States, and
as to the difference in prices between domestic
| and foreign materials. The Senate resolution
for final adjournment on the 29th of May came
up, and, after discussion, was referred to the
Committee of Ways and Means, by vote Of
l29 yeas to n nays. The House refused te
suspend the rules and adopt resolution ask
! ing the Senate to return to the House the
pension bill passed last week.