Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-03-27
PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS.

MONDAY, March 11-SENATE. "A bill
was introduced appropriating 100000 for publ
buildings at Carson Nevada. The appropriation bill
came up, and after discussion the amendmen
adopted in Committee of the Whole, appropriatins
$4,000 for civil service reform, was ag1 eed to-
yeas 25, nays q. Adjourned.
MONDAY, March 11.-HoUsE.- - Among
the bills introduced were the following: To tax in
comes over 81, 900; to abolish the grades of vict
Admiral and Rear Admiral and correct other abuses
in the navy; to connect the telegraph with the
postal system. The supplementary civil rights bill
came up, but no action was taken. great deal OF
time was consumed in voting upon dilatory motions
A resolution was adopted for investigating the
charges affecting Secretary Robson. The Speaker
announced as the special committee on the charges
against the Secretary Of the Navy, Messrs. Blair o
Michigan, Sargent, Peters, Vorhees and Warren
After some further business of no Importance the
House adjourned.
TUESDAY, March - SENATE.
bill granting right of way to the Great Southern
Railroad in Florida came up and passed. A
resolution adopted asking the President to in
form the Senate what amount of money has been
expended by the Government during the past three
years for telegraph service including cable dispatch
es and the rate paid. Bills were introduced to
prevent the destruction of timber public lands
to provide adequate supply of circulating medium
for states needing it. It directs the Secretary of the
Treasury, application of the Governors of States,
to supply them with treasury notes to an amount,
WHICH, IN COnneCt1On WITH the DdJ1OQdl DdnK HOUe5
already furnished shall make S8 for each nhabitant,
provided real estate security s given for the repay
ment of such sums in fifteen years. The consldera-
tien of the legislative appropriation bill was resumed
TUESDAY, March IL. .-HoUsE.
bill granting to the Central Pacific Railroad Compa-
ny half of the island of Yerba Buena, in San Fran
cisco Bay, was taken up, and after discussion
recommitted to the Pacific Railroad Committee,
The Speaker called the attention of the House to ne
fact that yesterday the Of 2. B. Vance was in
cluded in the general amnesty bil He considered
this an abuse of the privilege conferred by the
House. as there had been an implied obligation that
no person should be included in such bill who had
been member of Congress, and had resigned and
given aid to the rebellion. Mr.. Bingham moved to
reconsider the vote by which the amnesty bill was
passed. The appropriation bill came up in Commit
tee of the Whole. Adjourne :.
WEDNESDAY, March 13.-SENATE. A
bill was passed authorizing survey for the mark
ing of the boundary line between the United States
and the British possessions, from the Lake OF the
Woods to the summit of the Rocky Mountains Mr.
Conkling called up his resolution asking the Presi-
dent to communicate to the Senate the number of
for Office made by Senators from
New York, Illinois, Missouri and Nebraska, and pro-
posing to add an amendment. An animated discus
sion followed, which interrupted by call for
the regular order, the appropriation bill. The
sderaton of this bill occupied the remainder of the
session.
"WEDNESDAY. March 13.-HoUsE.- "A
bill was passed granting to the Davenport and st.
Paul Railroad right of way over the government
Rock Island bridge, the company to contribute one
third of the expenses of maintaining the bridge.
The session was principally occupied with the post
office appropriation bill, the amendment increasing
the subsidy of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company
being under consideration.
THURSDAY, March 14.-SENATE. Mr..
Logan introduced bill furnishing trusses to disa-
bled soldiers. The Senate resumed the considera-
ton of the legislative appropriation bill The pend
ing question was on the amendment to increase the
salaries of United States District Junges to S 000
The amendment adopted and also the amend
ent increasing the salaries of Judges Of the Court
of Claims to S., ,000 Mr. Trumbull offered an amend
ment providing for the transfer of judges from
district to another, according to the exgences of
the OCCASION which was adopted. The bill then
passed The tariff bill was next taken up, with the
that the Chicago relief bill shall come
up on Monday.
THURSDAY, March 14.-HoUsE. "A
bill passed appropriating $685., 900 TO reimburse
Kansas for expenditures in equipping, subsisting
and paying the troops called into service by the
Governor on the requisition of Gen. Curtss IN 1864
to repel an invasion of rebels under Gen. Price.
bill was passed authorizing the Southern Claims
Commissioners 40 appoint special commissioners to
AXE testimony A large number of private bills
we're passed, including for remission of taxes
IN spirits destroyed by the Chicago fire. The bill
TO extend the time of the state of Wisconsin to
after some discussion went over Mr. Garfield,
from the Conference Committee on the bill for the
St. Louis Custom House, made report appropriat-
ing $780, 600 for the site, and ST. 750, 900 for the
building, which was agreed to Adjourned.
FRIDAY, March 15.-SENATE-NIr.
Trumbull made personal explanation, after which
he consideration of the tar if bill was resumed.
Mr.. Sherman spoke at length upon the measure.
When he had concluded he called for the yeas and
nays his amendment TO place tea and coffee on
he free hst but Mr.. Ferry, of Michigan, by unaui-
nous consent, called up the House bill extending
he time for the completion Of the Portage Lake and
Lake Superior Canal, which passed. bill authors
zing the President to appoint Paymaster General
If the army was also passed. No other business of
was transacted.
FRIDAY, March Is. -HoUsE.-The
House resumed the consideration of the Senate bill
extending the time for Wisconsin to complete the
Lake st. Croi1 Railroad. Eldridges motion to strike
,ut the amendment reported by the committee for.
bidding the construction that the act granted any
ands in lieu of which other lands might be selected
oy the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, or as
granting any coal lands, prevailed. The amend
nent requiring the rails used to be OF American
was rejected The House then adopted
Mr.. Ketchun's substitute for the original BILL pro-
7iding that all lands granted by Congress In 1896
md 1864 for lands for the construction of the st.
Jroix and Lake Superior Railroad, such grants
lavhg expired by limitation, declared forfeited
@ the United States and shall henceforward be
subject to homestead entry and settlement under
he homestead act of the 10th OF May, 1852. The
rote on the substitute was ayes a. noes S5. Hay-
ng thus efectually killed this measure, the House
MONDAY, March 1S-SENATE. E.-Mr.
Carpenter presented memorial of 800 officers and
soldiers of Wisconsin regiments, and asked for a
of the land laws in favor Of soldiers
Bills were introduced granting the Fort Kearney
military reservation Nebraska for the benefit Of
he State Deaf and Dumb and Insane Asylums to
lid in rebuilding the levees the Mississippi River
providing for the issue of United States 1040 bonds
the rate of SIC per mile to the Mississippi Valley
Leyee Company to aid in the construction of leyee
from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to Fort Jackson,
Louisiana. Conkhng's resolution asking the Presi-
lent for statement of recommendations to Office
made by the Senator'S from New York, Illinois, Mis-
souri, and Nebraska, was taken up and passed in a
modified form. The Chicago relief bill taken up
md discussed, but without action the Senate went
INTO executive session, and soon aftsr adjourned.
MONDAY, March 1S. -HoUsE.-Among
he bills introduced was one by Mr.. Burnell, con-
,erning lands granted for a railroad from Lake ST.
Jroix to Lake Superior, allowing settlers who paid
TWO dollars and fifty cents an acre to the government
for land on even sections to enter equal quantities
IN the odd-nunbered sections without cash. Mr.
Hoopers supplementary civil rights bill up,
but as much time consumed djlatory mo-
lions on the bill, it went over. The Senate bill to
contract with the propretors of the Congressional
Globe for reporting and publishing long debates OF
Congress for two years, occupied the remainder of
the session.
Q TUESDAY, March 19.-SENATE. "A
bill for the relief of the officers and of the
passed. It directs the Secretary of the
Treasury to pay them $4,000 prize money. The
Committee on Finance reported adversely bill to
substitute compound interest notes for legal tender
notes; also the bill to reduce internal taxes, and
abolish the office of Commissioner of Internal Reye
nue.; and the bill to provide adequate supply of
circulating medium to the states needing it. The
consideration of the Chicago relief bill resumed.
The amendment offered by Nh. Morrill,, of Vermont,
specifying the articles to be admitted free was reject
ed. Also the substitute appropriating 100000 for
the relief of sufferers by the fire. The substtutere
ported by the Finance Committee was agreed to.
Without reaching final vote the Senate adjourned.
TUESDAY, March 19.-HoUsE.- res
olution was passed calling for information relative to
the case of DrJ.E. Howard native of Philadelphia,
and citizen of the United States, who has been
justly arrested, condemned and transported by the
Spanish authorities of Cuba to penal settlement in
Africa bill in relation to the capture of the rebel
ironclad Albemarle passed. The bill for pub
fishing the debates of Congress was passed with an
amendment that reporter shall be employed with
out the approval of the Speaker After the transac-