The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-06-01
PROCEEDINGS In CONGRESS-.

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| except the peninsula in Lake Erie at Erie. Pa to
amend the act to regulate the foreign and coastine
tfade on the northern, northeastern and northwest
ern frontiers, and for other purposes for the bet
| ter preservation of harbors, Ravens, channels of
aVeapie rivers, and other navigable waters in the
United States authorizing the city of Buffalo to
| construct tunnel under the Niagara River and to
erect and maintain inlet pier therefrom for the
purpose of supply the city with pure water
HoUsE.-The Speaker presented let
ter announcing the resignation of Mr. Brooks, of
Massachusetts. Several pensions bills and q bill
coonyihg the session laws, were passed. The House
then TOOK up and disposed of the Senate amendment
10 the naval appropriation BILL and ordered con-
terence committee Oh the disagreeing vote The
tariff and taxation bill considered in Committee
OF the Whole. The Speaker, in the evening" an
nounced message from the President calling the
attention OF Congress to the hardships and pryations
| endured by immigrants.
SENATE.-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-
pertlonment act of Feb. 2. 1872 No other business
| OF Importance was disposed of.
HoUsE-A bill was passed 60 estab.
iish uniform time for Presidential elections. The
House then took up and disposed of the Senate
anne ndInents to the Military Academy appropriation
bill, and conference committee was APPOINTED on
| the dsagreelng votes. The Senate amendment to
the diplomatic and consular appponriation hin
which continues the mission to the Central Amerj-
can states, was rejected. The House went into
Committee of the Whole on the tax and tariff bin
| Upon rising, MIR. Garfield made conference report
| on the deficiency bill.
SENATE. The Baltimore and Potomac
Railroad bill passed-also bills to create an addi
tional land district in Minnesota to secure home
steads To actual settlers the public domain: for
the establishment of agricultural college, to set
tie land titles i'll Iowa. in relation settlers on
tain reservations in Minnesota in citation to settlers
he Wpst ID
authorizing the construction of bridge across the
Mississippi at or Red Wing and to establish it
| as post route bill was introduced to provide
for an equestrian statue of the late General Rawins
The postal telegraph bill considered
HOUSE. "A bill passed authorizing de.
PENDANTS i'll the United States Courts to testify in
their own behalf. The tariff bill was then taken up
n Committee of the Whole The duty on ouinine
was reduced from % to 10 per cent. satpetre placed
upon the free list the duty santonine reduced to
| Que dollar per pound; strychnine to 80 cents per
| ounce on rum essence oil, and BAY rum essence
or OIL to so cents per ounce Books for public libra
rles, colleges schools, philosophical societies etc
We're exempted from tax, and the duty on all paper
hAed at 80 per cent. of the existing tariff Mr. But
Ter, of Massachusetts,. offered resolution for final
adjournment from the Sd of June to the last Mon
DAY IN November next. Mr.. Dawes moved, as sub
stltute. resolution for adjournment ON Monday
| June 3D. which was agreed to. The Senate bill for
the erection of land districts was passed. with
substitute. Bills also passed for the relief of
certain settlers on public lands to confirm entries of
land under the act of August 4th, 1854 graduate
and reduce the price of public lands and granting
right OF way to several railroads.
SENATE.-The House resolution for
final adjournment the Sd of June was referred The
COMMITTEE on Commerce reported the rlver and
harbor appropriation bill with amendments, and
1t was made the special order for next Tuesday The
House bill to amend the act to provide for greater
security OF life on vessels propelled in whole or in
part by steam passed. report of the Confer
West Poi mt rri.t
Dill was concnrred in. The habeas corpus suspension
act came up, but was not disposed of. The confer
| ence report on the Indian appropriation bill was
agreed TO- The army appropriation bill was consid-
cred.
HoUSE.-A report from the Confer
ence Committee the bill to provide houses for the
| Pottawatomie and Shawnee Indians of Kansas i'll
the Indian Territory, agreed to. The House
went into Committee the Whole on the tax and
tarh blll. Au amendment adopted making the
duty on printing paper, whether sized or unsized,
equal to twenty per cent al udidrea. Mustard seed
brown or white, were placed on the free list. The
following duties fixed: On vermuth. forty pei
cent al Udt0reBa; ground or bulk ten ceuts pound
IN glass or currants cent per pound ON figs
two and half cents pound; raisins, two and 8
half cents pound; aceteous and pyrolgDeOus acids
of specific gravity of 1S:47, less five cents pei
pound, and that specific gravity thirty cents
per pound; copper in ore two and half cents pei
pound; and regular or black coarse copper three
cents; on old copper, three and halt cents, i'll
plates, bars. and copper in rolled plates, etc,
rdtefeni; on emory ore, Sc ton; on emory grains
two cents pound on prepared condensed milk
thrty-hye per cent, al tdt0re; plate glass, nine
ty per cent of the existing duties, tin sheets
or plates fifteen per cent, al rdi0yem; on wood.
screws, two inches or over in length, four cents
pound; less than two inches; six cents and less
than three-quarters, nine cents; on Moosic iron
made from sand ore, $500 pei ton. Mr. Beck NOV
ed 10 insert paragraph authorizing custom duties
! to be paid in legal tender, which was agreed to-
The committee then passed to the next section
which, on motion was amended to read, " that
all acts RECURRING duties to be asssssed packages
| commissions, brokerage, cost of TRANSFORMATION
shipment, transhipment. and other like costs and
incidental charges incurred i'll packing and shipping
merchandise are hereby repealed Cocoa: skins ex-
ceptiug sheepsbias with the wool on; books printed
III foreign languages and books ii The English la1-
guage OF an edition unreyised in twenty years quick
silver: jute and ue bulbs, bulbous roots and tropi-
cal aud semI-tropca fruits of all kinds: satpeter
gGnpowder; extracts of bark for tanning purposes;
gunine hcorice, emery ore, and seeds of forest
trees were added to the free list. and perishable
fruits stricken therefrom. The committee then
passed TO the eighth section which allows lumber
tinber} hemp. manila. iron steel. and copper to be
imported fret OF duty, To be used in the construe-
ton of wooden sailing vessels for foreign trade,
Guiding the trade between the Atlantic and Pacific
ports of the United states An amendment was
adopted allowing vessels built under the provisions
of the section to change in the coastwise trade two
months in any one year, the amendment to apply to
steamboats, the interior waters of the United
States,
SENATE. "A bill authorizing the Sec
rotary to bonds in lien of bonds destroyed was
passed The conference comhhttee on th6 consular
diplomatic bill made report, which laid over.
The army appropriation bill taken up and pass
| ed, with amendments approprating 100000 to en-
large the military depot at Fort Leavenworth Kan
sas, and SlS0,0O0 for experiments with and testing
heavy ordnance,
HOUSE The Senate bill to esta blish
a collection district at Duluth and create st. Paul
Mimi, port Of delivery, passed. The confer
| erce committee report on the Military Academy ap-
preparation bill was agreed to. The House then pro-
ceeded TO act private bills reported from the
| Committee Claims conference committee was
| ordered on the steamboat bill.
SENATE The supplemental appor-
tionment bill was called up, but went over. The bill
for prevention of cruelty to animals in transit also
went over, aud the Senate resumed the considera-
| ton Of the hdb.as corpus suspension BILL which, af-
| ter discussion, was postponed until December.
HOUSE. The tariff and tax bill, as
der suspension of the rules-ayes l47, nays g.
The Senate rcsout ION for adjournment on the 29th
of NAV was concurred IN. A bill was passed directing
| the Secretary of War to employ Benjamin Pittman,
the phonographic reporter Of the court of inquiry
i'll the of General Bue to furnish two transla-
| lions, one for the War Department and for
| Congress. The House spent some time in Commit
| tee of the Whole the civil service appropriation
| bill A resolution requesting the President to join
with the Italian government in protest against the
intolerance and cruelty practIce1 towards the Jews
| of Roumania, adopted. Bills were passed to APP
| point commissioners to the International EXPOSE
ton of Agriculture, Industry and Fine Arts, at Vi
emma, 1878; to appoint Secretary of Legation at
| japan, with a salary of $780, and two American
| students as interpreters and to appoint Consul
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