The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-24
Proceedings i'm Congress.

Proceedings i'm Congress.
IN the Senate on Tuesday, May Z, Mr..
Chandler offered resolution for the appoint
ment of select committee of five to in
quire whether any steamboat lines should
! be subsidized by the Government, and if so,
which lines and TO what extent Mr.. KEEL
! logg objected, and the resolution went over.
THE Postoffite Appropriation bill was
/ taken up. An amendment was adopted in
creasing the subsidy to the Pacific Mail
steamship line to 81 900 900 on the existing
contract. The mail service with Brazil was
increased to 100000 per annum for semi
monthly service. Adjourned
In the House on Tuesday, May 7, the
! Committee on Elections made a report on
! the Texas contested election case of Gid
dings against Clark, that the sitting member
is not entitled to his seat, and that GidIings,
! the contestant, is....The Committee on
Ways and Means reported back the Senate
! bill allowing rebate of the tax on whisky
destroyed by fire or other casualty while in
bonded warehouses, with an amendment
excepting cases where the tax has been
actually paid. Passed.....A number Of
military bills were passed, among which
were the Senate bill to establish the pay Of
enlisted men of the army, and the Senate
bill to establish system of deposits to pre-
vent desertiOn and TO elevate the condition
Of the rank and file of the army.".Ad-
journed.
In the Senate on Wednesday, May s,
the Louisiana Election bill was called up
and discussed until the expiration of the
morning hour, when the Postoffce Appro-
priation bill was taken up and passed.
The Amnesty bill was discussed until the
hour of adjournment. An agreement was
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amendments shall terminate at 3 o'clock
Friday, and that the bill shall be sat out
In the House on Wednesday, May s, the
Supplementary Apportionment bill, increas-
ing the aggregate number, 2S3 Representa-
tives, as fixed by the Apportionment law Of
this season, 10 292, the additional nine being
TO New Hampshire, Vermont, New York,
Pennsylvania, Indiana, Tennessee, Louisi-
ana, and Florida, to be elected by separate
districts, except for the Forty-third Con-
gress, when they may be elected on a gem
eral ticket, was passed without division .....
The details the of Tariff and Finance
bill We're debated to-day, and The
duty raised on soft coal from the rate of
80 cents named in the bill to IS cents per
bushel. The existing duty is 1925. The
rest of the day was spent on salt, without
any result.."Adjourned.
In the Senate on Thursday, May 9
there was another conflict between the
Civil Rights bill and the Amnesty meas
ure, which finally resulted in the latter be-
ing tackled on the former, and this SO con-
shutting it as TO prevent it receiving the
required two-thirds vote. The vote stood
ayes 80, nays 22"".Adjourned.
In the House on Thlr sday, May g, the
Tariff and Tax bill was discussed in Com
mittee of the Whole. A long debate, and
dozen votes on the salt duty, failed to secure
free salt. The Michigan and New York
salt interests likewise failed 10 secure an
increase Of duty, which was finally left as
1t is in the bill, at eight cents per 100
pounds. The Committee then rose, after
having disposed so far of but 20 lines of the
bill."..The South Carolina contested cleo
ton case was taken up, and Mr.. Wallace,
the sitting mem Der, declared entitled to his
seat, and the contestant was allowed S2,l54
for his expenses...."Adjourned.
IL the Senate on Friday, May 10, Mr..
Wilson called up the bill authorizing the
issue of goo breech-loading arms to the in
habitants Of Montana, for defense against
the Indians. Passed. The Louisiana Elec-
ton bill, after q desultory political discus
sion, was passad..".The Senate then held !
brief executive session, after which open
session was resumed, and the bill to amend |
the Enforcement act taken up and disc used |
without action, until the hour of adjourn
ment.
In the House on Friday, May 10, num-
Der of private bills were reported and acted |
on in the morning hour ...... The House went /
into Committee of the Whole on the Fortif- |
cation bill. 1t appropriates 81 ,9S5 900. |
Passed".".The committee then took up the /
Tariff and Tax bill, and discussed it until |
In the Senate on Saturday, May II,
Mr.. Morton offered resolution, which was
agreed to, authorizing the Committee on
Privileges and Elections to investigate the
election of Senators Pomeroy and Caldwell,
Of Kansas. The COMMITTEES have power To
send for persons and papers at Washington
or elsewhere during the recess of Con gress
1.-THE Enforcement act was taken up, and
an amendment adopted providing that as
preliminary TO the appointment of Election
Inspectors, any voting precincts request for
such appointment shall be made by not less
than ten citizens of the precinct. After the
adoption OF an amendment authorize 1g each
OF the Circuit Judges to appoint one or moro
District Judges to discharge the duties con-
templsted by the enforcement bill, the
Senate adjourned.
In the House on Saturday, May IL, Mr..
Dawes renewed his motion TO close the
debate on the first section of the Tariff bill.
reducing the time from ten minutes TO one
and it was agreed to-. The bill
revising and codifying the pension laws was
taken up, and an amendment adopted pro-
yiding THAT whenever a widow shall forfeit,
her pension on account of re. MARRIAGE il
will revive on her again becoming widow
q she be in INDECENT circumstances......T The
House went into Committee of the Whole ON
he Tariff and Tax bill, but got into such an {
nextricable tangle on account of the variety
If amendments that no progress was made. ,
Adjourned.
In the Senate on Monday, MAY -. !