Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-02-15
General News Summary,
CONGRESSIONAL.
late not in session on the %

In the House, on the Cd, a memorial
was presented against the passage of the Chicago
Relief bill as impracticable, unjust unsetling val
ues, completing the collection of revenue; opeh-
ing way to fraud ahIi Imposing oh FEW classes
burden of relief which ehotiid be borne equally
alike by all. All amendment to the Indian APP
preparation bill was adopted, providing that no
that deductions for Indian depredations are
to be made and then the bill was passed sevsys,
for ins m 5
the proceeds of the public lands to the education
of the people, was taken up and lengthy and ami
mated debate ensued; "A bill was introduced ex-
tending to Toledo the privileges of the 35th sec
ion of the Internal Revenue act allowing goods to
be taken there in bond E. Adjourned, the ses'
sion on the Sd to be for general de5a.e only.
Ii tie Senate, on the 5th, the creden-
tials of Mr. Ransom, as Senator-clect from North
Carolina, presented and referred =. Memo
rails were presented from Michigan ,iumberin6n
against the Chicago Relief BILL - Bills were re-
ported from the Committee on Public Lands
without amendment to extend the time for the
State Of Wisconsin to complete the road from
Lake St. Croix to Lake Superior: to create two
additional land districts in Minnesota to
continue in force the grant to NevaHa For
College purposes relative TO-; homestead
Aiichis,ah, with an amendment allowing them one
year from the passage of the act to rebuild and
occupy said homestead lands The Amnesty bill
was taken up, and motion to table the pending
bill and take up the last Amnesty bill passed by the
House was lost-20 yeas, SO nays-after which
amendments offered to the pending bill were dis
cussed at considerable length. Executive session
and adjournment.
| In the House, on the 5tb, bills were in
! misunderstanding the Freedmen's Bureau for
the organization of the Indian Territory of Okla
hannah; for railroad bridge the Mississippi
for the Western Union Railroad Company A
bill passed removing political disabilities from
all persons who took the oath to support the Con-
stitution of the United States pQstmastefs
clerks to uPtsd STAGES Marshas and
Judges of Probate and Judges of other
courts of inferior jurisdiction in any State, and
clerks or other officers of such courts; clerks
and registers of equity courts and masters and ex-
aminers in chancery; sherffs and deputy sheriffs:
justices of thespeace and all municipal officers, in
Guiding Mayor, Aldermen, and other officers of any
city, town, or village constabies and all other ex-
| ecutive and administrative officers who were by
law elected to office previous to the rebellion and
whose general duties were restricted to the city,
county town. village or parish for which they were
elected; rocided that the benefit of the act shall
not extend to any persons, although included in the
foregoing classes, who resigned their seats as Mem
bers of Congress- or who resigned officers of the
army or navy, and afterward Joined the rebellion
| or members OF the convention in any State which
| adopted the ordinance of secession. Provided
that persons so relieved take the oath Of allegiance
| to the United States before clerk of the United
States Court of the district in which they reside
Motions were agreed toto suspend the rules and
| adopt resolution declaring that the highest pa
aequiescence nc in the Thirteenth. Fourteenth M 1 and
| Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution, and
such reasonable legislation of Congress as may be
necessary make them, in their letter and spirit
the most efectual-120 to 81: to suspend the rules
teenth Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments as
valid parts of the Constitution-166 to %. ..Ad-
| journed
In the Senate, on the 9th, petition
was presented from New York merchants, favoring
reform in the Civil Service in the seizure of books
| of merchants. Memorials were presented-of the
householders of the District OF Columbia, asking
the aid of Congress to protect them against the
travagance of the Territorial Government, and set
| ting forth that it has already incurred debt of
$13000000, equal to one-sixth of the value of the
whole district; of Lucy Stone and others. for wo-
mans suffrage and the right of office the Terri
| tories "A bill was reported making it an Of
| fense punishable by one years imprisonment, and
81 900 fine, for any private corporation, firm, or in
dividual to issue any obligation or promise to pay
| to be used as circulating medium or currency.
A resolution was offered, asking the President to
send to the Senate any information in his posses
sion relative to the alleged intention of Great
Britain to revoke the Treaty of Washington, on
which resolution an animated debate ensued, when
the resolution went over, and the Amnesty bill
up in regular order, and was further discussed
Executive session and adjournment
In the House, on the 9th, bills were in
| troduced-for the construction of bridge across
the Mississippi from st. Clair County, ILL.,, to South
St. Louis: for the establishment of the ocean mail
| service to Australia, to promote teegraphic COM
| muncatiOn between America, Asia and Europe; for
the sale of the Miami Indian lands in Kansas grant
ing pensions to certain soldiers, pilots, and others
in the Back b Hawk war; for 5 bridging the Msss; ISL,
recommitted, refunding all taxes heretofore
collected on any income from salaries of officers
of the Radical Reform Club of Philadelphia against
| the introduction of religious test laws into the
or an Of
establish educational fund, and to apply the pro-
ceeds Of the public lands to the education of the
| people. was further considered and amendments
| were debated. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 7th, a petition
was presented of many Irish citizens against free
trade. Bills were reported from conmittees-w
out amendment, House bills extending the privi-
leges of the act of July IA, 1870, to the port of
| Toledo, Ohio authorizing the transfer from one
car or vessel to another Of goods in bonded trans
portaton under the regulations of the Secretary of
the Treasury adversely, raising the salaries OF
ing the purchase of secured obligations of
the Real Estate Bank of Virginia. "A bill was
Commission on the subject of prohibtory legisla-
ton for the suppression of intenperance. -. The
annual Pension BILL appropriating over $40, 900 900,
was reported from committee, with amendments,
and passed. A resolution was adopted directing
inquiry as to whether any United States Senator
has received money under Of counsel
United States, in violation of law. The Amnesty
bill was taken up, and Mr.; Carpenters substitute
for Mr.. Summers Civil Rights bill was rejected
year, II; nays. 35. A motion was made to strike
out the seventh section of Mr.. Summers BILL which
! would repeal all laws whether State or National
which discriminate against race and color by the
use of the word white; to this Mr. Sumner con
sented, but objection being made, the question
went over Adjourned.
In the House, on the 18th, the Educa.
tional bill was taken up, and amendments were
agreed to-that the bill shall not abridge the power
of Congress to interfere with granting bounty
lands requiring distribution to be made on the
basis Of school age of the population also, the
basis of iteracy; against requiring mixed schools
| DrOyidinp that the bill shall not affect existing
laws and regulations in regard to tht
adjustment and payment to States upon their ad
mission into the Union of five per cent. of the ne
proceeds of sales of public lands within their re
spective limits that the act shall not impair o
suspend any Pre-emptlon or Homestead law; Al
rejected, but pending the consideration of mo
tion to reconsider one Of them the House ad
journed.
In the Senate, on the 8th, memorials
were presented from merchants of Wisconsin, Chi
cage and elsewhere complaining of hardships anc
. injustice arising under the administration of th
Revenue laws. Bills were passed-authoriAng tn
Secretary of the Treasury to redeem three million
per month of three per cent certificates; to restor
the records of the United States Courts in tn
Northern District of Illinois bill was reported
to establish the Territory of Ozibaway, to conss
of that portion of Dakota lying north of the 46tl
parallel, with an amendment changing the name o
the proposed territory to Pembina. "A bill was in
roduced to prevent the increase OF the debt OF tn
$4,000 900 loan act of 1871 and also the act authorz
ing the issue of S6O0,o0O in favor of the Piedmon
Railroad i. The Amnesty bill was taken up, an
Mr. Sumner withdrew his consent to the strikin
out of the seventh section, repeating or annullin
all laws discriminating against any person on tn
ground of color, and the motion to strike out thi
section was lost-yeas 25, nays 80. A motion t
strike out all reference to churches was agreed +
80 to 23-and motion to strike out the fourt
section in relation to jurors was lostyeas H. nay
A.. Adjourned.
In the House, on the Sth, report wa
made from the Committee on Elections in the Penn
sylvania case of Cessna against Myers, that Myer
was entitled to the seat The Senate bill refund
ing 2H per cent dividend tax on banks insuranc
companies, etc, during the last five months wa
tabled. and original bill the same effect va
referred. ... The Educational bill was taken up a
pending substitutes were rejected and the bill a
amended was passed-115 to SO :. The member
proceeded to draw for seats, after which the Hous
1 adjourned.
: THE OLD WORLD.
A London dispatch of the LIST. says ThieI
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