Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-05-29
PROCEEDINGS In CONGRESS-.

accept the peninsula in Lake Erie, at Erie Pa; to
amend the act to regulate the foreign and coasing
trade on the northern northeastern and northwest
en fronters and for other purposes; for the better
preservation of harbors, hayens, channels of navi
gable r1yers and other navigabe waters In the Unit
ed States; authorizing the city of Buffalo to
struct tunnel under Niagara river, and to. erect
and maintain inlet pier tierefrom for the pur-
pose OF supplying the city with pure water.
HOUSE. The Speaker presented q let
ter announcing the resignation of Mr.. Brooks, of
Massachusetts. Several pension bills, and bill
codfyng the pension laws, were passed. The House
then took up and disposed of the Senate amen dment
to the naval appropriation BILL and ordered con-
ference committee the dsagreeing vote. The tar
! if and taxation bill was considered in Committee of
the Whole. The Speaker, IN the evening, announced
a message from the President calling the attention
of Congress to the hardsbips and prvations endured
| by immigrants. ...s. .=..Ef ffi
SENATE. E.--The report of the confer
ence Committee on the deficiency bill was taken up
and agreed to. Mr.. Trumbull reported, without
amendment the House bill supplemental to the ap-
portionment act of Feb. 2 1872 No other business
of Importance disposed of. faa
| HoUsE.-A bill was passed to estab-
lish uniform time for Presidential elections. The
House then took up and disposed of the Senate
amendments to the Military Academy app ropriation
pill, and conference committee appointed on
the dlsagreeing votes. The Senate amendment to
wh1ch continues the mission to the Central Ameri-
can states, was rejected. The House went into
GoInlnlttee OF the Whole on the tax and tariff BILL
Upon rising Mr.. Garfield made conference report
on the deficiency bill. .E. tE /.
| SENATE. 1.-The Baltimore and Potomac
Railroad depot bill was passed--also bills to create
an additional land district in Minnesota to secure
homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain
for the establishment of agricultural college to
settle land titlesin Iowa in relation to settlers on
certain reservations in Minnesota; in relation to
settlers lands adjacent to the West Wisconsin
Railroad authorizing the construction of bridge
across the Mississippi at or near Red Wing, and to
establish it post-route. bill introduced to
provide for an equestrian statue of the late General
Rawlins The postal telegraph bill was considered.
HoUsE-A bill was passed authorizing
defendents of the United States Courts to testify
in their own behalf. The tariff bin was then taken
up in committee of thswhole The duty on quinine
reduced from 25C910 per cent saltpeter placed
the free list the duty santOnlne reduced to
one dollar per pound; strychnine to 30c per ounce
on rum essence or oil, and bay rum essence or oil,
to so cents per ounce Books for public libraries,
colleges, schools, philosophical societies, etc.,
exempted from tax, and the duty all paper fixed
at 80 per cent, of the existing tariff Mr. Butler, of
Massachusetts, offered resolution for fnaladjourn-
ment from the Sd of June to the last Monday in
November next. Mr.. Dawes moved, a substitute,
a resolution for adjournment on Monday, June Sd,
! which agreed to. The Senate bill for the
! ton of land districts passed, with substi-
tue. Bills also passed for the relief of certain
settlers on public lands; to confirm entries of land
under the act of August 4th 1854; to graduate and
reduce the price of public lands, and granting right
/ of way to several railroads. 'fAtt' ..55
/ SENATE-The House resolution for
final adjournment the sd of June was referred The
Committee ON Commerce reported the river and
I harbor appropriation bill with amen dments, and
it made the special order for next Tuesday. The
House bill to amend the act to provide for gIeater
security of life vessels propelled in whole
/ part by steam was passed. report of the confer
ence Committee on the West Point appropriation
bill coneurred in The hdbeGs corpus suspension
/ act came up, but not disposed of. The confer
/ ence repore the Indian appropriation bin was
agreed to. The army appropriation bill was consid-
| cred.
| HoUsE.-A report from the Confer
ence Committee on the bill to provide houses for the
Pottawatomie and Shawnee Indians of Kansas, in
the Indian Territory, agreed to-. The House
went into Committee of the Whole on the tax and
| tariff bill An amendment was adopted making the
duty on printing paper whether sized or unsized,
equal to twenty per cent. ad UGtOre Mustard seed,
/ brown white, were placed the free list. The
following duties were fixed: On vermuth forty per
cent. dd Ud0reH; ground or bulk, ten cents apound
in glass; on currents cent per pound; ON figs,
/ two and half cents pound; raisins, two and
half cents apound; aceteous and pyrolgneous aclds
of specific gravity of IS:47, or less five cents per
pound. and that specific gravity thirty cents
per pound; copper in ore two and half cents per
pound; all regular or black "copper" three
cents; on old copper, three and a half cents, in
plates, bars and copper in rolled plates, etc., and
on all manufactures of copper, forty per cent? -ad
UdLOTem; en- emery ore, So ton; on emery grains,
| two cents pound; on prepared or condensed milk,
thirty-ive per cent ad oato'en plate glass, ne
ty per cent of the existing duties: tin in sheets
or plates, hfteen per cent dd Daiorsn; on wood
4 screws, two inches over ir length, four cents
pound; less than two incher, six cents; and less
than three-quarters, nine cents. Moosic iron,
made from sand ore, $3.50 per ton Mr.. Beck NOV
ltTfin
TO be paid III legal tender. which agreed to-
The committee then passed to the next section,
which, on motion was amended so to read, ''that
all acts requiring duties to be assessed on packages.
commissions, brokerage, cost of transportation,
shipment, transhipment, and other like costs and
incidental charges incurred in packing and ship
ping merchandise are hereby repealed" Cocoa :;
SKINS, excepting sheep skins with the wool on books
printed IN foreign languages, and books in the Eng
ilsh languages of an edition unrevised in twenty
\ years; quicksilver: jute and jute bulbs, bulbous
roots and tropical and semi-tropica fruits of all
knds; saltpeter gunpowder; extracts of bark for
tanning purposes; quinine; licorice elnery and
seeds of forest trees were added to the free list and
per1shable fruits stricken therefrom. The commit
tee then passed on to the eighth section which allows
lumber, timber, hemp, MANILA, iron, steel and cop
per to be imported free of duty. to be used in the
construction of wosden sailing vessels for foreign
trade including the trade between the Atlantic and
Pacific ports OF the United States. An amendment
was adopted allowing vessels built under the provi-
sons OF the section to change in the coastwise trade
two months in any one year, the amendment to ap-
ply to steamboats, on the interior waters of the
United States.
SENATE.-A bill authorizing the Sec
retary to issue bonds in lieu of bonds destroyed was
passed. The conference committee on the consular
diplomatic bill made a report, which laid over.
The army appropriation bill was taken up and pass
ed, with amendments appropriating 100000 to en-
large the military depot at Fort Leavenworth Kan
sas, and SlS0,000 for experiments with and testing
heavy ordnance. .'.t .-
HoUsE.-The Senate bill to establish
collection district at Duluth, and create st. Paul.
Mimi, port of delivery, was passed. The confer
ence Committee Military Academy appropriation bill
was agreed to. The House then proceeded to act on
private bills reported from the Committee Claims.
A conference committee was ordered on the
steamboat bill. -t.i -t
SENATE. supplemental appor-
tionment bill was called up, but went over. The bib
Tor prevention of cruelty to animals in transit also
went over and the Senate resumed the considera-
ton of the habeas corpus suspension BILL which, af
ter discussion, was postponed until December.
HOUSE. tariff and tax bill, as
amended i'll Committee of the Whole, WIS passed
under suspension of the rules-ayes lat, nays
81. The Senate resolution for final adjournment
on the 29th of May was eoncurred in. A bill was
passed directing the Secretary of War to employ
Benjamin Pittman the Photographic reporter of the
court OF inquiry in the of General Buell. to fur
nlsn Two trsnsations, one for the War Department
4 ana one tor Congress. The House spent
some time in Committee of the Whole on the
civil service appropriation bill. A resolution
requesting the President to join with the Ital-
ian Government in a protest against the intol-
erance and cruelty practieed towards the Jews OF
Roumania, was adopted Bills were passed to APP
point Commissioners to the International Exposition
OF Agriculture, Industry and Fine Arts at Vienna
Ia 1873 to appoint Secretary of Legation at Japan
with salary of $500, and two American students
as interpreters; and to appoint consul to Brazil
resolution of enquiry concerning the supple
mental treaty offered by Mr. Butler, of Massachu-
sets, was referred to the Committee on Foreign
Affairs. g. -.
A CLEVER old lady, apparently just
arrived on a train from the country, en-