Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-01-31
PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS.

| AhVCEGDlNUEJ 1N SONUleAkJkS.
TUESDAY, January 16.-SENATE. A
bill repeating duties on salt and iron was re-
ported from the finance committee and recon-
mitted. Logan calledup the bill to provide for
the relief of Chicago, but no action was taken
upon it. A bill amendatory of the act to re
duce internal taxes and for other purposes,
passed in July, 1870, came up, but was COM
PEELED to give way to the amnesty bill, which
was in the regular order. Senate then went
into executive session.
TUESDAY, January 16.-HoUsE.-A
bill was passed for the relief of sufferers by
the Chicago fire. 1t provides that goods,
wares and merchandise, sent as contributions
for the relief of sufferers by the fire shall be
admitted free of duty at the port of Chicago );
that a drawback of import duties shall be
allowed on merchandise used in the repair of
buildings erected on the burned ground. The
tariff on ship building materials was discussed
by Banks, Shellabarger Kelly, Brooks and
Myers-the discussion springing from the in
PRODUCTION of bill fixing the salary of the Uni
ted States consul at Iien Tsin, China. bill
was passed approprating $50 600 for marking
the boundary between the United States nd
the possessions of Great Britain, from the
Lake of the Woods to the summit of the Rocky
Mountains.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 17-SENATE.-
Sawyer reported, with amendments, the bill to
provide for the appointment of a labor COM
mission. The amendments fix the salary of
the clerk of the commission at 81 400 per an
mum, and make an appropriation of 416, 400 for
all salaries of the commission, and 81 900 for
stationery and postage. Messrs. Sumner and
Frelinghuysen addressed the Senate on the
amnesty bill.
WEDNESDAY, January 17.-HoUsE.-
Mr.. Garfield, from the Committee on Ways
and Means. reported the legislative, executive
and judiciary appropriation bill. appropriating
$17, ,000 900. which WAS made the special order
for Tuesday next. A resolution aimed at Civil
Service Reform was referred to the Committee
of the Whole, and afterwards discussed. A
bill was passed, after much discussion, per-
mltting the Calcasien Sulphur and Mining
Company, of New Orleans, to import, free of
duty, certain machinery and accompanying
implements, to be used only in making a
series of experiments in mining for sulphur in
the parish of Calcasien, La, the value of the
Importation not to exceed S25, ,000 and also
permitting a like importation of machinery by
any person employed in the manufacture of
plate glass in the United States.
THURSDAY, January 1s.-SENATE-
Mr.. Trumbull, from the Judiciary Committee,
reported adversely to the woman suffragists
asking TO De nCdTu DSlOE0 LILO C0Hdt0, anu
asked that the committee be discharged from
it's consideration. He promised early to re-
port upon the claim that women have a right
to vote under the constitution as amended.
Mr. Chandler, from the Committee On Com
merce, reported, without amendment, the bill
for deepening the st. Clair Flats Canal to six
teen feet also, the House bill to make Pitts
burgh, Pa, a port of entry and delivery.
Senator Carpenter spoke at length on Civil
Service Reform aiming to prove the unconsti-
tutionalty of the measure. He was replied to
by Senator Trumbull. Senators Sherman,
Schurz and Morton also participated In the
debate. Mr.. Edmunds announced that on
Monday he would speak in reply to Mr.. Car
penter. The Senate then adjourned until
Monday,
THURSDAY, January 1S.-HoUsE.-A
large number of pension bills passed. The
postoffice appropriation bill was reported, and
made the special order for Wednesday, I
appropriates $26, ,225, $50, including half mil
lion for China mails, $15O 900 for Brazil, and
525,000 for the Sandwich Islands. The pension
bill was reported, and appropriates $50, $780,
900. 1t was made the special order for next
Thursday. Mr.. BraXton was declared entitled
to seat from Virginia. Adjourned.
MONDAY, January 22.-SENATE.
joint resolution was introduced instructing
the President to open negotiations with Spain
for the cession of Cuba. Mr.. Dawes present
ed a petition from the widow of General r. E.
Lee setting forth that the sale of the Arlington
estate was unconstitutional, and asking Cor
gress to appropriate $500, 900 to purchase the
estate from her, whsreupon she will give the
government clear title. The postal telegraph
bill was reported. The amnesty bill came up
as the unfinished business, and was debated,
after which the Senate adjourned.
MONDAY, January 22.-HoUsE.-Va-
rious measures we're introduced, among them
the following: To amend the constitution,
making Senators and Representatives ineligible
to the Presidency or Vice Presidency; to ex-
tend the time for completing the railroad from
st. Croix to Lake Superior also to aid in
| completing the harbor at Kenosha, Wis. to
suppress polygamy, and enable the people of
! Utah to form q constitution and state
| government appropriatlng twenty thou
sand dollars for the completion of the
Washington Monument. Mr.. Dawes, from
the Committee on Ways and Means, presented
a report declaring that the Secretary of the
| Treasury, in negotiating the loan authorized
Dy the act of July IA, 1870 has neither in
creased the bonded debt nor incurred an ex-
penditure contrary to law. bill was passed
extending the time for presenting claims foI
additional Eounties to the 3Oth of January,
1878. A resolution was adopted ordering an
| investigation of the charges of corrupt prac-
tees nnder the new territorial government of
| the district of Columbia. A bill creating an
additional land district IN Minnesota was pass
ed. A motion to suspend the rules and pass a
joint resolution proposing to amend the con
stitution by making naturalized citizens eligib,e
to the Presidency and Vice Presidency. Neg
atived-yeas 81 nays rs less than two-thirds
A bill removing political disabilities from
Herschell V. Johnson and other citizens Of
Georgia, was passed. Also bill appropriatine
$50, 900 to defray the expenses of the japanese
embassy now in this country. An exciting de-
bate upon existing difficulties in New Orleans
followed, at the close of which a resolution
was adopted instructing the clerk of the Hous'
to furnish funds to the select committee OF
investigation to be sent there. Adjourned.