Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1872-01-25
FORTY-sECOND CONGRESS.


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WARRINGTON, January 17.---SENATE-
Cole introduced a bill to admit tea and coffee
free of duty. saa1H fa9 aslAn
BY Stevenson, % bill to indemnify the State
of Kentucky for expenses incurred in the
defense of the United States.
The bill for the relief of United States
Marshal Campbell of the Northern District
of Illinois passed. 4 ani tn tIH 41
rsl Trumbull called up the bill to restore the
records of the United States Courts in the
Northern District of Illinois. 5'>.1ia 8l'i
Sawyer, from the Committee on Education
and Labor, reported with amendments, q bill
to provide for the appointment of Labor
Commission. The amendment to fix the
salary of the clerk of the Commission at g.
400 per annum, and make an appropriation
of GIG, 400 for all salaries of the Commission,
and 81 900 for stationery and postage, was
discussed until Sumner called for the regular
order, it being the amnesty bill. The pend
ing amendment was supplementary to the
civil rights bill, upon which Sumner addressed
the Senate.
He said that he regretted to again occupy
but the allegations of the opponents of this
bill, that the colored people did not desire its
passage, and that they preferred the removal
of the rebels disabilities to the removal of
their own, made it his duty to lay before the
Senate testimony in favor, !of, the, measure
which had come up to him from the colored
people In all parts of the country. He then
read a great number Of addresses, afesolu
tions of colored conventions, and letters
from representatives of the colored men, and
private individuals, setting forth the griey-
ances of which they complain, and expressing
an earnest desire for the immediate passage
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for two hours, and closed with an appeal for
bill, so that the rebels might always remem-
Der that amnesty came to them coupled with
justice to the colored race. gsi Il II 5. i 5Is
Frelinghuysen followed. He criticised the
phraseology of Summers amendment, and
proposed certain verbal changes, which Sum-
ner said he would consider and accept if
possible. Frelinghuysen then addressed the
Senate on the merits of the amnesty bill, ex-
pressing some doubts of its wisdom, and
thought it important that the exceptions con-
tained in the bill as it came from the House
should be retained. He would give his vote in
favor of amnesty in some degree, because of
the opinion expressed by representatives of
the people and by the President, in whom he
had confidence. In this connection he eulo-
gized the Presidents wisdom and fidelity,
patriotism and integrity. .a4
Wilson gave notice that he would move to
amend Hoar's labor bill, so as to have five
commissioners instead of three, to serve two
years instead of one, and be paid $4,000 a
year instead of $4,000. ~,
Carpenter gave notice that on Thursday he
would call up his resolution condemning the
civil service reform and would address the
Senate upon it. Adjourned.
HOUSE-A large number of petitions were
rQfnTro6 onH Of
passed. The bill fixing the date of pensions
at the time of the discharge or death of
soldier, and extending the time for applica-
ton to July l, 1874, was passed. One of the
bills passed and to which there was consider
able opposition, established the principle of
granting pension to the widow of soldier
after she had contracted a second marriage
and entered second widowhood. The vote
on the passage of the bill was 10S to S5.
Garfield reported the Legislative, executive
and judiciary appropriation bill. The appro-
priation is about 81, ,O00, 900. The bill was
made the special order for Tuesday next III
Snapp, offered a resolution, that q commits
sion of seven men had addressed document
called report to the President, recommend
ing set of rules for the examination of ap-
plicants for Office, declaring it inexpedient
that such recommendations be adopted and
do not meet the approval of the House or the
people. Referredto the Committee iof the
Whole. at, Ia i.,ters.n..I.fygt s~,s-n f,ag
Maynard reported bill permitting pachin-
cry to be imported free Of duty BY persons
employed in the manufacture of plate glass
in the United States. Passed. = hDa:a
The House went into Committee of the
Whole on the State of the Union, Blair in the
Chair. =" @' '.s.~ ''a ''' - =. 49,
snapp made an address in support of the
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the proposed mode of reforming the civil
service. -.
Poland made a personal explanation in con-
nection with the resolution offered by him
some days ago for the establishment of a rule
that will refer to a committee all resolutions
calling on departments for information, and
which proposition had been attributed, in an
article in the Washington Patriot, to a design
to shield the Postmaster General and the Post
Office Department from an inquiry into mail
contracts He repudiated the insinuation,
and defended his proposition as eminently
proper. 7@r
reason for the rule, the enormous amount of
printing the present rule necessitated. He
enlarged at length on the cost of government
printing, saying that Congress was asked and
would have to appropriate more than $2, ,000,-
600 to run the government printing house the
next fiscal year. -,
Eldridge and Randall opposed the rule as
one of the worst ever offered in the House,
the fact that Representatives could
with facility obtain from officers of the gov
The answers to the interrogstories
was one of more importance than any other
Kt the sohclusi6np lSf the debate the. COM com.
pittee rose and the House adjourned: 80 -, :,