The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-03-29

Legislative Appropriation bill, after
being further amended on Mr.. Trum-
bulls motion, so as to increase the
salaries Of United States District
Judges and Judges of Courts OF
Claims from $4,000 to $4,000 each
per annum, was passed.
In the House bill was passed
appropriating 1887, 900 to reimburse
Kansas for expenditures in equip
ping, subsisting and paying troops
called into the service by the Gov
ernor on reqmsition of General Cur
tiss, in 1854, to repel invasion Of
rebels under Price.-A bill was
passed authorizing the Southern
Claims Commissioners to appoint
special commissioners to take testi-
mony,-A large number of private
bills were passed, including some
for the remission of taxes on spirits
destroyed by the Chicago fire.
On Friday, the 18th, the Senate
passed q bill extending the time for
the completion of the Portage and
Lake Superior canal.-Mr. Sher-
man made very able speech in favor
ofhis bill reducing the tariff about
twenty millions of dollars annually.
Adjourned till Monday.
In the House, Mr.. Beatty, from
the committee on Printing, an
nounced that the committee had pre-
spared bill for printing Congles.
sional proceedings, which would re-
duce the expense one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars year.-The
bill to extend the time for Wiscon-
sin to complete the the st. Croix
and Lake Superior railroad, was eff
fectually defeated by the adoption
of substitute which provides that
all lands granted by Congress in 1857
and 1854, for the construction of this
railroad, such grants having expired
by limitation, are declared forfeited
to the United States, and shall hence
forth be subject to homestead entry
and settlement under the Home
stead act of Goth of May, 1862.
The session of the House on Sat
urday was for general debate only.
On Monday, 18th, the Senate ad-
opted Mr.. Conkling's resolution
asking the President for a statement
of the number of recommendation
to Office made by the ''liberaP' Sen
ators from New York, Illinois, Mis-
souri, and Nebraska.
The session of the House was to-
tally barren of Fruits.
In the Senate, on Tuesday, 10Th,
a bill was passed directing the Sec
retary Of the Treasury to pay the
officers and crew of gdnboat Kear-
sage 100000 prize money.-Mr.
Sherman from the committee on
Finance, reported adversely on sew
eral bills which were indefinitely
among them, one to abolish the
income tax.
In the House, the bill for publish
ing the debates of Congress was pas
sed. 1t provides, among other
things, that the committee on Pub
lie Printing shall publish for three
months an advertisement in at least
pne leading newspaper in each State
inviting proposals for reporting and
printing the debates of the Forty
third Congress, and also to have es-
Inmates made of the cost of reporting
and publishing the debates by the
Congressional Printer, and provid-
ing that no debates shall be reported
and published after the close of the
present Congress, except on a writ
ten contract entered into therefore
by authority Of Congress.
On Wednesday, the 10Th, the Sen
ate passed a bill to admit free ofim-
port duty at the port of the of Chica
go lumber and other material intend
ed to enter into the rebuilding of
that city.
In the House a bill was passed re-
quiring that all bridges hereafter
constructed across the Ohio river
above the mouth of the Big Sandy
river shall have one span Of not less
than ninety feet in height above low
water, and forty feet above the high
est water; all below that point to
have one span Of not less that one
hundred feet high above low water,
and forty feet above highest water.
The Senate spent Thursday, 21st,
considering Mr.. Sherman's bill re-
ducing the tariff Free trade and
tariff speeches were made. Mr.. Sum
ner and others thought the the ex-
pensive machinery of the Internal
Revenue Department ought to be
abolished.
In the House, about the only
thing accomplished was the defeat
of a b4l Incorporating and subsidiz-
ing the Asiatic Commercial Com
pany, for the transaction ofcommer-
cial business with Asiotic Country. !