Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-11
CONGRESSIONAL.
Proceedings of the Second Session Of
the FOrty-SecOnd Congress.
WAsHNGToS, December 10, 1872.
SENATE.

. Senator Trumbull presented a memo
rial from citizens of Illinois against the
passage of the bill TO perfect the naviga
ton of the Mississippi.
Senator Cooper presented memorial
Of the Southern Methodist Association
of Tennessee, asking payment for the
destruction of their property during the
war.
/ Senator Sherman, from the Finance
Committee, reported the bill of Senator
/ Pomeroy, prohibiting the sale of liquors
/ in the District of Columbia, and moved
to refer the subject TO the Judiciary
| Committee. The Finance Committee
was in favor of law imposing penalty
/ for the benefit of the wives or creditors
of drunkards upon those who sold them
liquor; but thought it rather question
of morals than finance.
Senator Pomeroy said the Judiciary
Committee was not committee on
morals.
Senator Sherman-Not exactly, but it
is a committee on laws.
Senator COnkling opposed q reference
TO the Judiciary Committee, and asked
whether the question did not belong to
the Finance Committee.
After some discussion the Senate re-
fused to discharge the Finance Commit
tee from the consideration of the sub
ject.
The following bills were reported:
BY Senator Sherman: To authorize
the Secretary of the Treasury to issue
coupon bonds in exchange for registered
bonds.
BY Senator Cameron: To authorize
the President to release the Empire of
Japan from the ayment of the indem-
nifty due to the nited states under the
convention of 1864.
Senator Harlan introduced a bill
transferring to the Extra, DenisOn and
Sioux City Railway Company, of Iowa,
all rights or interests heretofore vested
in the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River
Railroad Company, by the acts of May
Is, 1856, and June 2, 1864, to any public
lands lying within twenty miles of the
line, between DenisOn and Onowa City,
Iowa. Referred.
Senator Cole offered a resolution d.
recting the Judiciary Committee to in
quire into the expediency of so amend
ing the constitution as to provide for
the election of President and Vice-Presi-
dent and United States Senators by a
direct vote of the people.
Senator Sherman, from the Commit
tee on Finance, reported a House bill
for the relief of the sufferers by the Bos-
ton fire, and stated that the committee
was equally divided on the subject. The |
bill was placed on the calendar, the cal |
endar of business was then taken up. |
Most of the bills upon it were passed |
over.
The bill relating to writs, executions,
and other final processes in the United
States Court, was indefinitely postponed; !
also, bill to provide for the erection of
public buildings at Quincy, Illinois. |
The Nice-President announced the ap-
pOintment of Senator Stevenson Ken |
tucky,) as a member of the Board of
Regent of Smithsonian Institute, in
place of Senator Garret Davis, deceased. |
The bill to authorize the construction of
a bridge across Ouachita river, at or
near Arkadelphia, passed; also, bill to
provide for the removal of a sunken |
wreck obstructing the channel Of Sandy |
Hook.
At three O'Clock, the Senate
went into executive session, and soon
after adjourned.