New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-03-12
EXCITEMENT IN FRENCH AssEMBL
THE TUMULT UNPRECEDENTED
MEMPHIS COTTON EXCHANGE
THE WARRENTON CONFERENCE
CONGRESS-.

Bills Introduced and Referred-COmnii.
tee to Investigate Secretary of the
Navy-Mexican ProtectOrate Resolu-
tions-1IOtion to Suspend the Rules
Rejected-Bill to Suppress Straw Bids
for Mail Contracts-Bill Lost to Re-
ceive a Third of Customs Duties in
Legal Tenders-Bnl Against Land Sub.
sides to Railroads. Proposition to
Abolish Revenue Laws and Impose Di-
rect Taxes-Anti.Social Equality Bill
Rejected - Individual Amnesty Bills
Passed-Trumbull on Civi! Service Bill.
WASHINGTON, March ll.-House-A large
number of bills were introduced and re-
ferred.
A select committee was ordered to inves-
tigate Secretary Robson and naval officers
generally.
Mr.. Brooks moved to suspend the rules
and adopt his resolutions regarding Mexico.
offered last Friday. Rejected: yeas -,
nays 30.
Mr.. Farnsw orth from the Postotiice Com
m;ttee reported a bill to suppress the sys
tenn of straw bids for carrying the mails,
providing that any person who has put in a
bid that has been accepted, and who then
fails to enter into contract and to perform
the service. shall be deemed guilty of a
nisdemeanor. and be liable to penalty of
| 5000 fine and on; year imprisonment.
|
| izing the Postmaster General to accept new
| sureties from contract rs in place of exist
! ing parties. Agreed 10. and the bill as
| amended was then pae''-d.
| A bill making one-th i Of the customs
duties receivable in lega lenders failed by
! eighty-uine to sixty-eiGh'-
Mr.Killinger offered al .olution declaring
that the policy of grai, ;ng subsidies in
oublic lands to railroads Ia i other corpora
! h., nd ha
every consideration of put 3 policy and
| equal Justice to the whole ople require
the public lands to be held :, homesteads
| for actual settlers and for ed, cational pur
| poses. Agreed to without division.
Mr.. Hereford moved to suspend the rules
! and adopt resolution declaring 1t TO be an
unconstitutional and tyrannical usurpatlon
| of power for Congress to attempt to force
mixed schools on the States, or pass any
law interfering with churches. public car
rierS or innkeepers. Rejected-yeas %
| NAYS 81.
The Speaker of the House announced as
the select committee on the charges against
the Secretary of the Navy Messrs. Blair (O
Mlchiganl, Sargent Peters. Voorhees, anG
| Warren.
Mr.. tietz offered resolution instructin2
the Committee on Ways and Means to re
port on the propriety OF abolishing all in
terual revenue laws and imposing taxes OF
the States in proportion to population
Agreed to.
number of amnesty bills were pre-
sented and passed by unan;mous consen
without being read.
The Elections Committee unanimousl,
resolved to report in favor of IIundley, il
Norris VS.. Hundley, from Alabama.
The votes in the House to-day indicate
that Hooper's civil rights bill would pas
oo,11 a ynta he reached
Senate-Senator Trumhull addressed thu
Senate on the civil service bill. In thu
course of his speech he said that he chai
lenged any man to say that he had eve
uttered one word in dsrespect OF the pres
ident. or had assailed him. He had not ut
tered fulsome panegyrics on the President
because he believed him to have too mucl
sound sense to be pleased by any such adu
iation.
The appropriation of $5o.00o for civil re
form passed, though sixteen Republican
voted nav.