Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-05-23
PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS.

SENATE. bill providing that the
Presidential election in Louisiana shah be held the
day with the state election, the first Monday in
November discussed until the expiration Of tie
morning hour, when the Post-offce appropriation
bin was taken mp and passed. The House amnesty
blll occupied the remainder Of the session.
HoUsE.-The supplementary appor-
tionment bill was passed thont division. The
House then went into committee Of the whole on
the and tariff bill. The duty on tea ard coffee
stricken out and the tax coal fixed at 75c per
ton. An evening session was held to dispos. of
business reported from the Committee on Military
Affairs. Bills were passed amending the act Of Feb
ruary, 1865, to establish and protect national GENE
terles, ana providing that all retired officers Of the
army shall be retired al their actual not their bre
vet rank, and with the pay prescribed for retired
officers OF tie same rank in the regular army.
SENATE. The House steamboat bill
was reported with amendments. The Goat Island
bin was taken up and read second time. The
Wet Point appropriation bill passed and the
amnesty bill taken up, the pending question being
on Mr.. Summers motion to substitute his supple
nentary civil rights bill it from the House
Mr., Blair offered an amendment, providing that the
people IN each city, county or state. shall decide for
themselves, by a popular vote, the questions of
mixed seperate schools Rejected yeas D. nays
30. Mr.. Trumbull moved to strike out the civil
rights bU his object being, he said, to get direct
vote on amnesty. Los--ayes %, noes 80, the Vice
President giving the casting vote The question was
then taken ON the adoption of Mr.. Summers civil
rights bill, amended as substitute for the amnesty
bill which was lost--ayes ~. nays 49, This vote
brought the House amnesty bill before the Senate.
MIR. Sumner then moved his civil rights
amendment merely. The vote was-yeae 49, nays 2S.
The Vicepresident voted in the affirmative, the
amendment was agreed TO. Several amendments
were offered, and either accepted or rejected when
the question was taken upon the blll and 1t was de-
feated by decisive vote
HoUsE-The House spent most of the
day in Committee Of the Whole ON the tariff and tax
bill. The South Carolina contested election case WAS
decided in favor OF Mr.. Wallace, the sitting member
His contestant allowed s2,154 for expenses.
SENATE. MIR. Simmer introduced his
supplementary civil lights bill, and moved to have
it placed on the calendar. Ordered. The bin
authorizing the issue o? thousand breech-loading
arms to the inhabitants of Montana for defense
against the Indians passed The Louisiana election
bill also passed. The Senate then held its
cutive session. after which tn open SESSION was
sumed. and the bin TO amend the enforcement act
was taken up and discussed.
HOUSE. "A number of private bills
were reported and acted on in the morning hour
The fertilization bill passed 1t appropriates
81 1886 900. The tariff and bill then acted
in Committee Of the Whole.
SENATE. "A bill was passed to increase
30 per cent, the pension to soldiers and sailors who
lost both eyes, both hands, were otherwise totally
disabled also bill to create an additional land dis
trct in Kansas. At the expiration of the morning
hour the Senate resumed the consideration of the
bin to amend the enforcement act MIR. Cole, from
the Conference Committee on the deficiency appro-
priation bill, made report. An evening Sc sion
~ held, at which the following bills passed.
among others Granting pension of $4,000 per
anuum to the widow of Admiral Farra.ut fixing
the rank Of Professor of Mathematics in the navy:
for the relief of the widow of Charles H. Pcudleton
late of the navy granting ten years additional ser
vice on the active list to Lieutenant Commander
". b. Gushing, for the capture of the rebel cruser
Alhcmare to pay Chas w. Whitney $4,000 for the
enlargement of the iron-clad steam battery keoAuk
TO be IN fun of all claims to pay the heirs Of Geo
G. Bcsar of Peoria, $4,000 for he construction of
ron-cad steam battery i'll 1863
HOUSE,. Several bills were introduced
under the call of states. Mr.. Voorhees,, OF Indiana,
made a personal explanation in which he declared
himself uualterably opposed to Horace Greeley. Mr.
Bird sad he would not vote the Cincinnati ticket
even il endorsed ~ the Baltimore Convention
Mrssrs. Randall and Niblack stated that they would
vote for Greeley and Brown If endorsed at Baltimore
4 bin appropriatlng $4,000 for life size marble
statue of Senator Baker, of California passed.
j.. c. Giddings declared entitled to the seat oc
cupied by Mr.. Clark, of Texas. ON motion, all de-
bate the tariff bI ordered to be closed by
three O'Clock next Thursday, by ~ TO "a. Other bus
mess of no general importance was transacted.
SENATE. The bill 10 amend the en-
forcement act passed. Bills were also passed
granting the right of way 20 the Davenport and St.
Paul Railroad to authorize the Secretary of War to
except the peninsula in Lake Erie at Erie, Pa, TO
amend the act 10 regulate the foreign and cpasting
trade the northern, northeastern ana northwest
ern frontiers and for other purposes for the bet
ter preservation of harbors, Ravens, channels of
navigahle rivers, and other navigahle waters in the
United states authorizing the city of Buffalo to
construct a tunnel under the niagara River, and To
erect and maintain inlet pier therefrom for the
purpose of supply the city with pure water.
HOUSE. The Speaker presented a let
ter announcing the resignation of Mr.. Brooks, of
Massachusetts. Several pensions bills, and 4 bill
coifyiug the session laws, were passed. The House
then took ND and disposed of the Senate amendment
20 the naval appropriation bin, and ordered con-
ference committee the disagreeing vote, The
tariff aud taxation bin considered in Committee
of the Whole. The Sp aker, in the evening, an
nounced message from the President ling the
attention Of Congress to the hardships and ptivatous
endured 10y immigrants.
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