Connecticut western news., 1872-05-10
UNITED STATES CONGRESS-.

 SENATE. Tho Senate Committee on Commerce agreed to report favorably on the House bill for the appointment of shipping commissioners, with few amendments; the principal one being restriction of the penalty of $1 ,000 against shipping a sailor while drunk to cases in which the sailors were drunk when they signed the articles.
 In the Senate MT. Ramsey introduced bill granting right of way to the Utah, Idaho, and Montana Railroad Company. MT. Sumner presented petition, signed by more than 13,00O citizens of the United States, against recognizing God in the Constitution. The report of the committee appointed to consider the &C., tion of the Senate in amending the House bill repeating the duties on tea and coffee expresses the opinion that the action of the Senate was not altogether iustifable.
 In the Senate the following bills were introduced To facilitate improvement in the postal service authorizing rights of way for the use of pneumatic tubes, electric, magnetic, or stationary steam power to incorporate the Helena and Northern Utah Railroad, and granting it right of way through the public lands. A set of resolutions from the Council of Congregational Churches of the United States, held at Oberlin, Ohio, approving the Treaty of Washington, and asking Congress to take measures for the estab- lishment of a general system of inter- national arbitration was received.
 In the U. s. Senate the Goat Island bill was laid before the Senate by the l
 A report from the Committee of Con- ference on the Legislative Appropriation bill fixed the salaries of the justices of the Court of Claims at $4, 500, and had made no increase in the salaries of the U. $. district judges.
 The unfinished business Defcien- cy bill-was then taken up. The pending question was on concurrine in the amend ment to equalize the pay of the men em- ployed in government workshops under the Eight-hour law.
 |. It was argued that the attempt of the government to regulate the hours of la bor was an insult to the workingmen of the country that instead of being sign of progress it was going back to the tif- teenth century.
 After further discussion the commit tees amendment was rejected, and the section was passed substantially as it came from the House-providing that the proper accounting officers be and they are hereby authorized and repaired, in the settlement of all accounts for the ser vices of laborers, workingmen and me chanics employed by or on behalf of the government of the United States from the 25th of June, 1868, to the 18th of May, 1869, to settle and pay the same without reduction of the hours of labor by the Eight hour law, when it shall be made to appear that that was the sole cause of the reduction of wages. It also makes a sufficient appropriation to pay these claims.
 An amendment was offered appropria- ting $525, 258 72 to Kentucky for expen- ses in equipping troops during the rebel lion, and an argument was made for its adoption. Laid on the table.
 The Committee on Post offices and Post-roads reported bill directing tue Postmaster General to increase the pres ent steamship mail service to Brazil to a semi thly service for ten years, at a cost to the United States not exceeding S450, ,O00 per annum.
 The Finance Committee reported ad- versely on the House bill authorizing free importation of certain Highland uni forms, &c., for the Seventy fourth Regi- ment of Highlanders of the New York National Guard.
 The resolution reported to exclude ! from the floor of the House lobbying ex- E members was taken up. A proposal by MT. Butler to lay the motion on the ta- ble was withdrawn and the resolution I was recommitted. The bill granting to . the Central Pacific Railroad Company the : use of one-kalf the Is land of Yerba r Buena or Goat Island, was called up. A , very acrimonious discussion ensued, in , the course of which personalities and s unparliamentary language was freely in dulged in. Very little progress was :. made, but the friends of the bill were , evidentally in majority.
 The House Committee on Territories heard the arguments of Mir. Frank Full U Ter on behalf of the admission of Utah :, or, as he claims, the State of Deseret . into the Union. He spoke of the credit due to the Mormons for subjuga. ! ting the wilderness, their honesty, indus n try, and sobriety, on the stipulations of Q the treaty made on the cession of the . territory, and of the gross abuses by IT, ; responsible Federal officers. permitted by z a territorial form of government. Q In the House MT. Dawes gave notice e that he would move to take up the Tar ' bill at the first opportunity. Mir. Banks
 introduced resolution calling upon the
 President to demand the immediate re
 lease of Dr. Houard and the restoration V of his property from the Spanish govern v ment. The bill known as the Goat Is + land bill, with several slight modified r tions, was passed by vote of 101 to S5 e In the House the Howard resolution wal l passed after spirited debate. = The Judiciary Committee reported ! 7 bill to remove political disabilities iron g some sixteen thousand persons, whicl ! was ordered to be printed and recommit
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 The House then went into committed ] of the whole on the tariff bill. t MRS. SHEtMAN CONVICTED, - Mrs
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