The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-02-08
42d CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, February Z.
1OJISE. IU

The amendment offered by Mr.. Hor,.
MAN, providing that hereafter no public
lands shall be sold to exempt mineral
lands, town sites and all public lands
adapted TO agriculture shall be reserved
for actual settlers under the homestead
laws, subject however, to land warrants.
The college scrip issued by the authority
OF Congress, grants which Congress shall
hereafter make in the territories and new
States, for the purposes Of education, was
rcjected-yeas 103; nays 107. 1N
The next amendment, offered by Mr..
BUTLER, Of Tenn, requiring distribu.
tion to be made on the basis Of schoolj ago
and population, was agreed 10. is'.f'
The amendment offered by Mr.. Coon.
RICH, requiring distribution basis of
illiteracy, was agreed to-yeas 19G, nays 8.
The next amendment was one offered
by Mr.. HEREFORD against recurring
mixed schools, and 1t was agreed to. Yeas
IA, nays 80.
The next amendment was one offered by
MIR. TAFFR, providing that the bill shall
not affect the existing laws and rcgula-
tions in regard to the ad djustment and pay
ment TO States upon their admission into
the Union OF 8 per cent of the net pro.
ceeds OF the sales OF public lands within
their respective limits, and 1t was agreed
to without division. '
The next amendment was one offered
by Mr.. POLAND, that the act shall not re.
peal, impair, or suspend any prc.cmption
or homestead law, and 1t was agreed TO
without division.
The House then proceeded 10 vote on
the various substitutes offered by Messrs.
MCINTYRE, BURCHARD, KING, BRIaHT,
CAMPBELL and CoBURN.
All of the substitutes on which votes
were taken were rejected, but Il motion
was made by Mr.. PIERCE TO reconsider tho
vote by which Mr.. BURCHARD's substitute
was rejected. Pending that question the
House adjourned by n vote OF 115 TO "a,
the Democrats generally voting against an
adjournment 10 US TO defeat the recon.
structtOn of Mr.. BURCIARDs substitute
referring the original bill as amended on
the subject OF mixed schools. ..r
SENATE.
Mr.. SCoTT presented petition from
many Irish citizens against Tree trade.
MIR, CoNEMNG, in n personal statement,
had read an editorial from the Chicago
Tribune, charging that in the debate on
the resolution for u final adjournment he
disturbed the Senate by loud cries of
"Question !" Question " and that he
afterwards had them excluded from the
Globe report. lie also had read note
from an official reporter denying that he
CoNKLING) had interlered with the re.
port, and stating that nothing had been
Intentionally omitted by the reporters.
MIR. llAMLIN, who was also charged BY
the Tribune with having suppressed Ills
suggestion that the Senate should sing
"Old Hundred" before voting on the
amendment offered by Mr.. SUMNER, said
he had made the suggestion rs a rebuke,
Mr.. SUMMER having made a motion which
he thought was bit oil legislative bun.
cOmbc
Mr. SHERMAN, from the Finance Com.
mittce, reported without amendment, the
House bill extending privileges, OF the act
of July Nth, 1870, 10 the port Of Toledo
Ohio; also the House bill authorizing the
transfer from one car or vessel to another
Of goods in bonded transportation, under
the regulations Of the Secretary of the
Treasury. lie also reported adversely on
the bills raising the salaries of clerks in
the Executive Departments, and author.
izing the purchase of secured obligations
of the real estate bank OF Virginia.
Mr.. SCOTT, from the Committee on
Claims, reported bill for the relieiOi the
U. s. Express Company, by replacing
U. s. bonds destroyed by fire.
A bill was introduced by Mr.. POMERoY,
to provide for the appointment of u Com.
mission on the subject OF prohibitOry leg
islatiou for the suppression of intcmper-
anCe.
Mr.. EDMUNDs, from the Committee on
Appropriations, reported with an amend.
ment, the annual pension bill, which was
passed. 1t appropriates over thirty mil.
lion dollars.
Mr.. CHANDLER offered the following
resolution which was adopted: 4s
ReSOlueti, That the Committee of Inves.
tigatiOn and Retrenchment be directed 10
inquire whether any United States Sena.
tor has received money under cover of
counsel fees or otherwise, from the Treas.
ury of the United States IN violation of
law, and to report the result of their in.
quiry as early rs practicable.
At the expiration of the morning hour
the amnesty bill was taken up. The
pending question was on Mr.. CARPEN-
TER's substitute for Mr.. SUMMERS supple.
mentary civil rights bill.
Mr.. SUMNER called attention to the
difference between the substitute and the
original bill, and urged the Senate to sup.
port the latter as it is more comprehen-
sive and complete than the substitute.
Mr.. FERRY, Of the committee, said that
for three years he had been trying to get
q vote Of the Senate for the removal Of
political disabilities, and now when
the time had come when a bill for that
purpose might be passed, an attempt was
made to assassinato it by proposing
amendments, which were not only not ger.
name to the bill, but in fact its deadIiest
enemies. Tho bill If hampcred by either
of these amendments, must surely fail.
Mr.. CoNKI.ING asked why he (FERRY)
thought the bill II amended, must fail.
MIR. FERRY replied that the constitution
ofthe House between the two political
parties, was such that the bill could not
pass II encountered with this amendment.
MIR. CoNKLNG said the House had al.
ready passed this bill and 1t would not
require q two.third vote to concur in any
amendment that might be made by the
Senate, and said he, Is the Senator from
Connecticut authorized 10 say or prepar.
ed to believe that with the working ma.
jority oi the party TO which he and be.
long In the House, proper bill securing
civil rights will fail Of a majority vote.
MIR. FERRY-I don't agree with the Sen.
ator from New York, (Mr. CoNKLINe)
as to parliamentary law, l do not
belieYe that this amendment if
adopted here can become a law with.
out two.third vote Of the House, but il