Connecticut western news., 1872-12-27
UNITED STATES CONGRESS-.
SENATE.

MT. Cole (Cal) offered a resolution directing. thes Judiciary Committee to 1 inquire into thesexpediencyo of so ameud- ing the Constitution as to provide for the electionof President Vice President ] and United States Senators by direct vote of the people. Adopted.
 1 The Vice President announced the ap- pointment of MT. Stephenson (Ky.) as member of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institute, in place of Garret Davis, deceased.
 Among other bills passed was one pro- viding for the removal of the sun ken wreck obstructing the channel off Sandy Hook.
 The Senate. after lengthy debate some members, passed the bill abolishing the office of assessor of internal revenue. It was claimed that in the larger cities the assessors could not dos the work which would deyolve upon them.
 The Senate passed 8 bill admitting the statue designed for Admiral Porter free of duty, but subsequently, reconsid- cred their action and refused to pass the bill. ''
 The Finance Committee reported back the House bill abolishing the office of Internal Revenue Assessor, with certain amendments.
 The Senate Naval Committee reported navy, amended to ten sloops-of-war, in- stead of six.
 The House took up the bill reported last sessisn, by MT. Coburn, of Indiana, from the Military Committee, to enable honorably discharged soldiers and sail ors, their widows and orphan children, to acquire homesteads on the public lands, with authority to assign their certificates and to locate their quarter section of land through an ageAt or attorney. MT. Stoughton said that the soldier might make his entry any time. He might not do so until his children I grew up, and then assign it to them, but l whenever he did make it the year com- menced to run, and within that time the soldier must go on that land and settle 1t, or else his assignee must do so.
 The House passed the bill allowing the exchange of registered bonds for coupon bonds.
 The soldiers bounty land bill as amended was also passed, and the bill appropriating $50, 48O, ,Oo0 for pension purposes.
 The Senate bill appropriating $15,OOO to remove the wreck at Sandy Hook was non-concurred in, when, after ordering conference committee, the House ad- journed.
 The House in Committee of the Whole took up the Indian Approp1i ation bill In the course of the discusslon, Conner. of Texas, declared that there was no such thing as a civilized Indian to be found on this planet, that the long haired fellows who frequented Washington playing Indian had three .fourths or seven-eights white blood in them, and that the only peo ole who were prosper ing in the Indian Territory were white men who had married Indian wives and had thus become incorporated in the tribes. The only official who thorough ly understood the Indian question, he sad, was General Phil. Sheridan, and he scotted at and ridiculed the Quaker policy of the Government. Mir. Shanks ([nd. attributed the outcry against the Indians to the desire of white people to get the Indian land. The trouble was that Indians owned property which white menswanted, and the latter found that they could get it by raising the inn II pression that the land was needed in the interest of progress and civilization. The Committee rose and reported the bill, which was thereupon passed by the House-yeas, III ; nays. 43.
 The House in Committee of the Whole took up the bill to reimburse the College of William and Mary for property de stroyed during the war. An amendment to the Jill e1icited some debate. The amendment was adopted, but on report ing the bill to the House the approptia , ton was defeated by decided majority The blll abolishing internal revenue assessors, as passed by the Senate, wa' taken mp, and after some debate concur renee was refused and the subject re ,, ferred to conference committee.