Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1872-01-04
UNITED STATES CONGRESS-.
IN THE SENATE.

hour men was referred to the Finance
Committee.
Mr.. Akerman having resigned his Of
fee as Acknowledgement, thu President
nominated ex-senator Williams, OF Ore
gon, to the vacant office. The Senate in
executive session confirmed the nomina-
ton.
Bills were introduced appropriatin9
$4,000 600 for the repayment Of the duties
collected on Russian hemp since Aug. 5,
1871, in excess of the rate levied and paid
on Manila hemp; amending the bank
ruptcy act to encourage the laying of
new telegraph cables; bill to facilitate
specie payments. 1t provides that each
National Bank shall, on the LIST of July,
1879, have on hand at least three per
centlm in gold coin of its aggregate
amount of notes in circulation, and shall
increase the amount Of gold coin on hand
three per centum every six months up to
July LIST, 1874, making then Is per
centum and thereafter shall keep its
reserve in gold coin, instead of legal
tender notes, to the extent of its aggre-
gate amount of notes in circulation.
Laid on the table and ordered to be
printed
The Senate was occupied an entire day
in discussing the caucus resolution for
IN Investigating Committee, which was
finally passed in an amended form.
IN THE HOUSE.
In the House, bill was introduced
for the appointment of three commits
sioncrs to investigate the subject of the
hours and wages of workingmen, and
the relations of labor and capital
A resolution was introduced calling
upon the Secretary of the Treasury to
furnish that body with a statement show
ing the expenses of the collection ofcus-
toms in the United States, including the
salaries and fees of the officials engaged
therein, with the separate expenses of
the ports of New York, Boston, Phila-
lclphia, New Orleans, Baltimore, and
San Francisco for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1871.
The Apportionment bill was passed.
1t provides for Representatives from
each State as follows Maine, 5; New
2; Vermont, 2; Massachu-
'etts, II; Rhode Island, 9; Connecticut,
/; New York, 80; New Jersey, 7; Penn
,ylvania, 26; Delaware, |; Maryland, 6;
Virginia, 8; North Carolina, s; South
carolina, G; Georgia, 8; Alabama, 7;
G; Louisiana, 3; Ohio, 20;
kentucky, 10: Tennessee, 9; Indiana, u;
Illinois, 10; Missouri, 10; Arkansas, 4:
Michigan, 9; Florida, /; Texas, 6; Iowa,
}; Wisconsin, s; California, 4; Mime
ota, 3; Oregon, 1; Kansas, 3; West Viz
ginia, 3; Nevada, /; Nebraska, !. Total,
.S3.
The House in Committee of the Whole
passed the two bills reported from the
Committee on Foreign Affairs, making
appropriations to pay the expenses to
AIRY out the Treaty of Washington.
Also the bill approwiating $23, 900 to
meet the deficiency caused by the defal-
'ationS of f. A. Mccartney, the late Dis
oursing Clerk of the Post-otlice Depart
nent.
\ bill appropriating $1,000 1000 for
public buildings in Chicago passed with
)ut a division
In one day in the House near one hun
lred bills were int eluced. Among them
we're the following: To reduce internal
axes and abolish the office of Collector
II Internal Revenue; to authorize the
payment of 80 per cent. of custom duties
N leGal-tender notes; TO punish bank,
insurance, State and Government Off.
.ials for bribery and corruption; chang
ing the standard weight Of silver coins,
md limiting the amount of their issue.
further to facilitate the immediate trans
portation of certain importations to the
port of destinations; granting bounty
lands to soldiers; regulating the mode
Of the payment of duties on imports;
also to refund to judicial officers taxes on
salaries collected from them under the
income tax; to prevent cruelty to animals
in transit by railroads; to prevent the
Of dishonest and incompe-
tent Government officials, and making
the officers appointing, and the members
Of Congress recommending them, re-
sponSIbe for their misconduct; TO abol.
lsh the export bonded warehouses for
tobacco and snuff; also for the repeal of
the special tax on manufacturers and
dealers in tobacco and segars; to refund
the cotton tax collected in 1865, 1866 and
1867; also, for Government building in
Nashville, Tenn; to secure the public
lands to actual settlers under the Home
stead and Presumption laws; for pre-
survey fora SLIP canal from the
southern point of Lake Michigan to the
River, near the mouth of the
OHIO; to legalize polygamist marriages
in Utah, and to dismiss all criminal pro-
reedings in Utah against polygamists; to
amend tue National Banking act; also,
to repeal the bankruptcy act; toprohibit
contracts for servile labor; for the admis-
sion of Utah as State.
MI Ealdemm Dem, Penn asked
leave to offer resolution expressing
The profound regret Of the House ut
leaning Of the angry severity with
which the present Government, of which
NJ, Theirs is President, has pursued the
prisoners captured from the Govern
ment of the Commune at Paris.
Objection was made, when Mr.. Halde-
man moved to suspend the rules so that
the resolution might be offered and
adopted.
Mr. Cox Dem, n. Y. wished to offer
m amendment condemning the atrocities
Of the Spanish Government but the
Speaker stated that no amendment was
in order.
The House refused to suspend the
rules Yeas, 95; Nays, Sc.