The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-04-12
CONGRESS-.

But little of public interest was done
on Wednesday OF last week in the Sen
ate or House Of Representatives. In the
Senate after the general business of the
morning hour the bill giving the assent
of Congress for the District of Columbia
to subscribe for tho stock OF the Pied
mont and Potomac Railroad Company
was taken up and discussed until ad.
journment. In the House several bills
were passed giving certain railroads in
Utah and Oregon the right of way
through the public lands. A bill was
also reported from the Committee on
Public Lands securing the public do
main to actual settlers.
In the Senate on Thursday of last
week bill to promote the shipbuilding
and commissariat interests of the Unit.
ed States was reported from the Com
| mittee on Commerce. The House bill
for the appointment of a labor commits.
sion was taken up, but at the expiration
of the morning hour it went over. The
Railroad bill was discussed, amended,
and passed.
The House of Representatives passed
the Steamboat bill substantially as it
left the committee. The bill reported
from the committee on Public Lands,
reserving the public lands for actual
settlers only, went over and the House
took up the report on the Alabama con-
tested election case, declaring Hadley,
the sitting member, entitled to his seat
and allowing the contestant his expenses
In the United States Senate on Friday
last several bills were passed, one fol
the relief of settlers on the public lands
in Iowa under the Homestead act, and
another granting the right of way
through the public lands for n railway
from Salt Lake TO Portland, Oregon. a
the expiration of the morning hour The
consideration of the Indian Appropria
tion bill was resumed, pending whicl
Mr.. Schurz introduced bill in referenc,
to the carriage of freight and passenger
by the Union Pacific Railroad and it
branches.
| III tllO tbC bOi DlSI
ness done during tho morning hour wa
the passing of the bill appointing ship
ping commissioners, and the bill report
ed by the Naval Committee paying the
officers and crew of the Kearsarge. Th
House then went into committee of tbs
7 whole on the Army Appropriation bill
which elected a strong debate, in tn
course of which Mr.. Beck made start
ling exhibit of governmental delin
quencies. The bill passed without di
vision.
Monday last was busy day in th
3 United States Senate. A large number c
bills, most ofwhich, appropriating mon
ey to compensate parties for loss o
damage to property during the recen
war, were passed. The Indian Appro
l priation bill was debated, but, withou
q vote, the Senate adjourned.
In the House q resolution declarin
t DR.. Houard an American citizen an,
9 instructing the President to demand {
! Spain his immediate release and tn
restoration of his confiscated estate wa
referred to the Foreign Committee, an
another adopted instructing the Bank
ing and Currency Committee to investi
l gate the recent conspiracy in Wal
i street to lock up currency. Thirty-thre
0 of the Senate's amendments to the Leg
/, islative, Executive, and Judicial Apprt
t priation bill were disposed of.
| In the Senate on Tuesday q remor
r STRANGE was presented against the rt
, newal of the Wheeler & Wilson sewing
1 machine patent. The House bill aware
!, ing $4,000 to the officers and crew {
: the Kearsarge for destroying the Al,
bama was passed.
The House wents through seven SCI
, tions of the bill revising and amendin
y the laws relative to the coinage, aftt
rejecting Mr.. Brooks motion to strik
> out the first section on the ground tbs
= to consider such bill when there wa
no coin in circulation was solem
e farce. SiXty-two sections Of the bill r(
"a main TO be considered.