The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-06-21

passed ...... The Senate Enforcement bill was
taken up. Mr.. Poland moved a suspension
of the rules in order TO pass il, and the re-
suit was SO 70 10 so the question was de-
cided in the neg stivs, there not being the
required two thirds...,.. The Kiux bill
was similarly disposed of--the vote on the
motion 10 suspend the rules in order to pass
it being SO to 56......The Senate bill appro-
priating 81, 000,o0o for the payment Of tho
Kentucky war claims was passed.. =. "A
large number Of private bills were passed.
The Senate was in session the whole
of the night of the 7th, debating Mr.. Kel-
logg's Enforcement amendment to the 0mni-
bus bill. Numerous motions were made to
postpone the bill, TO adjourn, ETC., and other
filibustering tactics were resortec to by the
opponents of the measure. A vote was
finally reached, at 9 o'clock on the morning
of the Sth, and the amendment of Mr.. KEEL
logg was sdopted-yeas, 32j nays, 10. A con-
ference committee on the bill was then APP
pointed. ..... Immediately thereafter the SEN
ate adjourned until p. m.....,The Senate
met at 8 p. M, on the Sth, Mr.. Anthony in
the chair ...... Resolutions Of thanks to Vice
President Colfax for his impartial discharge
of the duties of presiding officer were unani-
mously adopted...... House bill refunding
duties on goods in bond on August 1872,
was passed. likewise the bill authorizing
the President TO appoint commissioners to
the. Vienna International Exhibitions.
Considerable time was spent in discussing
the conference report on the River and
Harbor bill. The report was non-con-
Cured in.
In the House, on the Sth inst, the conf fer
ence report on the bill increasing pensions
for disabilities was agreed to......T The follow
ing bills were passed Granting the right
of way to the Eastern Nevada Railroad
Company; restoring to sale all lands re-
naming undisposed of in the reservation of
the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians in Michi-
gan; restoring the right of homestead entry
to certain soldiers and sailors who had for
feited the right on technical grounds.....
The House, at $3.50 p M, took up the 0mni-
bus Appropriation bill. After much time
spent IN flibustering by the opponents of
the Kellogg amendment, DUNG which the
yeas and nays were called some halt dozen
times on various motions, il was finally
voted TO non concur ia the Senate amend
ments, and commit them to a conference
committee.
The proceedings of the Senate, on the
10th inst, were marked by the usual con-
fusion and disorder that attend the closing
hours of Congress. Very little legislation
was tranacted, the feature OF the days SEES
sion being the contention over Kellogg's
Enforcement amendment to the Civil APP
preparation bill. The dispute was finally
ended by eliminating what its opponents
considered the most Objectionable features,
the House concurring The bill, as passed,
provides that, on demand OF two citizens,
one of each party shall be endued with
powers already possessed by all citizens, to
challenge voters, but not with the power OF
calling in the Federal forces......The bill
relating to a site for Government buildings
at Cincinnati was passed ......At o'clock p.
m the presiding officer, Mr.. Anthony, an
nounced the Senate adjourned without day.
The House was even more turbulent than
the Senate-the Kellogg amendment TO the
Omnibus Appropriation bill, as In the case
of the latter, being the bone of contention.
The debate was very acrimonious, and al
times personal. This was especially the
case with Messrs. Bingham (Rep.) and Nor
gan Dem. both of Ohio, between whom
epithets of a not very elegant nature were
freely passed. The difficulty was finally
bridged over, however, without any serious
results, and the bill, shorn of those features
10 which the opposition so strenuously OBJ
jected, was finally passed-l02 TO S9......A
bill was passed giving the widow of Gen.
Anderson $4,000 instead of pension......
Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker created considerable
merriment and not little confusion, by
appearing upon the floor of the House and
attempting TO harangue the honorable MEM
bers in the interest of wsmen nurses in the
army. She was promptly led out of the
hail by the assistant doorkeeper-not, how
ever, without a vigorous protest on her part
against such uagallant and unrepublican
treatment.....The testimony in the Buell.
court-martial case was presented and ordered
printed. The following bills were passed
Abolishing the ranking privilege after Sept.
/; extending the right Of homestead to
soldiers widows, eldest child or father and
mother of soldier, il dead; appropriating
SlOO 900 for public buildings ut Raleigh, n.
c., $500 900 for the same at Pitts Ourgh and
5000 900 for a similar purpose at Evansville,
Ind..".At 9 p. III. the Speaker declared the
House adjourned for the second session of
the Forty Congress.