The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-04-12
CONGRESSIONAL.
Second session-xLII Congress.

In the Senate, on Monday, 1st,
Joint resolution to erect a colossal
statue to the memory of Admiral
Farragut was adopted-The In
dian Appropriation bill principally
engrossed the attention of the
Senate.
In the Housea petition was pre-
sented from four thousand Califor-
mans, praying for the passage of a
sixteenth amendment giving suffrage
without distinction of sex.-A bill
was passed repeating all laws giving
portions of fines and penalties to in
formers in internal revenue cases.
In the Senate on Tuesday, the
Constitution adopted by the Utah
State Convention was presented, but
not acted upon.-For want Of
something better at which to be en-
gagged, the Senate spent several
hours in hearing speeches and let
ters denying that Generals Wade
Hampton, Kershaw and Butler were
connected with the Ku- -Klux Klan.
The Utah Constitution was pre-
snted in the House also.-A bill
was passed making it unlawful for
any Register, or Surveyor of Public
Lands, his wife or clerk, to locate or
purchase any tract of land, or act as
agent for the purchase of real estate,
or for the location of lands for any
person.
The Senate on Wednesday adopt
ed II resolution directing the Com
missioner Of Agriculture to com
municate to the Senate a statement
of the comparative importations of
wool and woolens each year of the
last decade, all facts in fluctuations
on productions, sheep and price of
wool-Further than this there was
little of general interest done.
The House passed a bill granting
the right of way through public lands
for railroad from Salt Lake City to
Portland, Oregon.-Several hours
we're taken up in the discussion of
bill to regulate steamboat naviga-
tion on rivers.
The Senate on Thursday, passed
bill giving the assent of Congress
to a subscription by the District of
Columbia to the Piedmont and Po-
tomac Railroad Company.-Ab bill
was introduced to promote ship
building and commercial interests
in the United States, Itprovides for
the payment Of drawback equal to
duties paid on timber, metals and all
other articles which may be imported
and used in the construction and
equipment of vessels of all kinds
built in the United States and en-
ployed exclusively in trade with for
eign countries; and in case Ameri-
can material is used in the construc-
tion of such vessels, the Secretary
of the Treasury is to pay bounty
equivalent to the duties imposed on
similar material or articles of for
eign manufacture, when imported.
In the House the Steamboat bill
was passed.-Mr. Hadley, of Ala
bama, sitting member, was declared
entitled to his seat, and the contest
ant voted his expenses, amounting
to $5,92S.
On Friday, the Senate passed the
House bill granting the right of way
to the Railroad from Salt Lake CITY
to Portland, Oregon Mr.. Schurz
introduced lengthy bill for regu-
lating charges for the transportation
of passengers and freight on the
Union Poetic Railroad. Adjourned |
till Monday.
The House passed bill author
izing the joint entry by -emtion
settIers.-Tbe Indian Appropria-
tion bill was passed; also the bill |
giving the officers and crew of the |
gunboat Kearsage $e9O,OOO prize
money; also the Army Appropria-
ton bill.