The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-03-14
CONGRESSIONAL.


dent.
Nr. Trumbull addressed the Senate
on the civil service bill. In the course
Of the speech he said he challenged
any man to say that he had ever uttered
one word in disrespcct 10 tho President
OF had assailed him; he had not uttered
fulsono penegyrics on the President, be-
cause he believed the President to have
too much sound sense to be pleased by
any such adulation."
An appropriation Of $4,000 passed
through. Sixteen Republicans voted
my.
HOUSE.
The Filibustering Supplementary
Civil Rights bill occupied over the NOR
ming hour. 1t comes up every Monday
morning I'm order.
A large number of bills were intro
duced and referred.
The Select Committee was ordered to
investigate Secretary Bobeson and IA
val affairs generally,
Mr.. Brooks moved to suspend the
rules and adopt his resolution regard
ing Mexico, offered last Friday. Rejec-
ted, ayes, u; nays, 80.
Mr.. Farnsworth, from tho Postollics
Committee, reported a bill to suppress
the system of straw bids for carrying
the mails providing that person who
has put in a bid that has been actuGted,
and who then lnils to enter into Il cou-
tract and to perform the services shall
be deemed guilty OF misdemeanor and
be liable to a penalty OF five thousand
dollars and II years imprisonment.
Mr.. Patti offered an amendment au-
thorizing the Postmaster General to ac-
cept new securities from contractors in
the place of the existing suretio5.
Agreed to. The bill AZ amended was
then passed.
A bill making ono-third Of tho Gus
toms receivable in legal tender, failed
by a vote Of 80 to Is.
Mr.. Killinger offered y resolution, de-
claring that the policy Of granting sub
sides Of public lands to railroads and
other corporations ought to be discon-
tinued, and that every consideration Of
public policy and equal justice % the
whole people require the public lands
to be held for homes.elds for actual
settlers and for educational purposes,
which was agreed to without division.
Mr.. HEREFORD moved to suspend the
rules to adopt a resolution declaring ii
to be an unconstitutional and t~yrannical
uourpation Of power for Congress to at
tempt to force "mixed schools" on the
States or to pass any law interfering
with churches or public carriers. Re,
jected-ayos so, nays 80.
The Speaker announced as the Sc.
lect Committee on the charges aglilst
the Secretary Of the Navy. hiessrs. BAN
of Michigan, Sargent, Peters, VOORHEES,
and Warren.
Mr.. Get2 offered n resolution instruct.
ing the Committee Of Ways and Mean.
to report on the propriety Of abolishing
al internal revenue laws and imposing
taxes on the States in proportion to the
population. Agreed to.
a number Of Amnesty bills were pre-.
sented and passed by unanimous con.
sent without being read.
Washisnton, March l2-The bill for
the Southern Railroad, of Florida, was up,
The bill as amended gives one hundred
feet on either end of the road and forty
acres For each station.
The Senate considered the apprOpria-
tons all day.
johnson introduced a bill providing
for the payment for claims for rent, ari-
sing in States declared to be in rebellion;
also to provide an adequate supply oil
circulating medium for States needing it
1t directs the Secretary of the Treasury,
on application of the Governors of States
to supply them treasury notes, to tho
amount which in connection with the Ma.
tlonal Bank notes already furnished, shall
make eight dollars for each inhabitant,
provided real estate security is given for
the repayment Of such sums in future
years.
HOUSE.
In the matter Of amnesty it was order.
ed that NJ bills hereafter be pass ed un
less the names in it we're read. The trou.
be grows from the nameof Ex-Governor
Vance, of n. c., which is on ono of the
House bills. james NJ. Leach presented
Nance'S name. Leach claimed he had
violated no pledge or understanding in
including his name in the list.
The Yerba Buena bill was recommit
ted to the Pacific Railroad Committee.
The Post-oilice appropriations were re.
sumed.
y long debate occurred over the qucs.
ton Of subsidies to steamship lines.
A widower was recently rejected by q
damscl who didn't want q warmed
over" man.