Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-03-14
General News Summary,
CONGRESSIONAL.

In the Senate, on the 1st, the creden-
tias of Mr. Sargent, Senatorelect from California,
were presented. Mr.. Sumner, in personal ex-
PLANTATION, stated that his health would not permit
| his serving on the Committee for Investigation
| into the alleged sale of arms to the French Gov
ernment. He regretted this, but his physician had
imperatively prescribed repose: Bills were re-
| ported-Naval Appropriation bill, with amend
ments; to establish branch mint at New Orleans.
A bill was passed providing for reporting and
| printing the debates of Congress, renewing the
old contract with the Globe until the end Of the
| present Congress, with an amendment for a less
expensive index. "A motion made that the
| VicePresident appoint the Investigating Commit
tee into the alleged sale of TO French agents.
when the Vice-President declined, and resolution
was offered that Senators Hamlin, Carpenter. Sher-
man, Sawyer, Logan Stevenson and Harlan be the
committee, and suggestion was made that, in view
of the declension of Mr.. Sumner, Mr. Schurz
should be placed on the committee, when motion
was adopted to lay the resolution and amendment
on the table The Legislative Appropriation bill
was further considered. Executive session and
adjournment.
In the House, on the 1st, the Senate
amendment to the bill removing the stamp duty on
canned fruit, ETC., concurred in. A bill was
passed for more effective system of quarantine in
Southern and Gulf ports. "A resolution was
agreed to authorizing the Speaker to extend an
invitation to the Japanese Embassy to visit the
House of Representatives at such time as should
be convenient to the Embassy. aud consistent with
public business. The Deficiency Appropriation
bill furthered considered in Committee of the
Whole. Adjourned, the session on the I'd to be
| for general debate only.
In the Senate, on the I'd, number of
memorials were presented from lumbermen in the
Northwest, setting forth their reasons why the
Chicago Relief bill ought not to pass and letter
was read in favor of the passage of the bill .
Memorials for the modification of the Homestead
laws, and petition from leading bankers and mer-
chants of San Francisco for a reform of the Civil
Service were presented. The bill to release to
the State of Indiana the lands known the bed of
Beaver Lake. in Newton County, was called up
and debated. Adjourned.
The House, on the I'd, went into Com
mittee of the Whole, and number of speeches
were made on miscellaneous subjects. .Ad-
| journed
In the Senate, on the 4th, bills were
passed-to appoint a Medical Purveyor in the
army; to create an additional land district in Ne
vada, and also an additional land district in Mime
sofa; authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to
purchase site for United States public buildings
| in Cincinnati "A memorial of the Wisconsin
| Legislature in favor of Niagara ship canal was
| read "A remonstrance was presented from Mich
gan grocers against the sudden repeal of the duty
on tea and coffee. Bills We're reported, with
amendments, providing for the erection of Gov
ernment buildings at Utica, N Y, Raleigh, n.
G., and Little Rock Ark, .appropriating for the
On motion, the Secretary of the Treasury was di-
rected to ascertain on what terms sites for public
ondangs nd are to pc OBTAINED IN haspurg Pa,
alton bill was considered. Executive session and
adjournment.
In the House, on the 4th, bills were in
troduced-to reorganize the Land Office; to repeal
the act authorizing the seizure of books by
officers; to test plan of storm and flood signals;
approprating S22, 900 for damages by the destruc-
occupied by Federal forces for aid for narrow
gauge railroad in Colorado The Senate bill to
continue in force the grant to the State of Nevada
for college purposes passed A petition was
presented from business men of Chicago against
the reduction of duties on foreign salt. The De-
ficiency Appropriation bill was further considered
in Committee of the Whole. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 9Th, a resolution
was offered and tabled that the election of Senators
in Kansas in 1867 and 1871 be referred to an In
vestigating Committee, to report what action
should be taken by the Senate - A bill was passed
to extend the act of 1870 relating to the transporta
tion of merchandise in bond to the City Of Pitts
mitfee of investigation into the alleged
sales of arms to the French came up.
ceeded to ballot for the Committee, and the follow
ing named Senators were chosen: Messrs. Hamlin,
Carpenter Sawyer, Logan, Ames, Harlan and Ste
venson. Mr.. Stevenson asked to be excused, but
the request was denied-yeas D, nays 20. The
Legislative Appropriation bill was considered, and
Of the apo
900 to enable the President to put in fierce the Civil
Service Reform rules. Executive session and ad-
Journment.
| In the House, on the 5th, bill sup
Elementary to the Apportionment bill was reported
and recommitted. allowing additional Repre-
sentative to each of the States of New Hampshire,
Vermont, New York, Tennessee, Louisiana, Ala
bama and Florida, such additional Representatives
to be elected from the State at large unless other
wise provided by legislation. :. The Deficiency
Appropriation bill was taken up and debated.
Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 9th, attention was
called to circular signed Sc Giles A. Smith,, and
addressed to leading railroad men throughout the
country. stating that movement foot to
secure the passage of an act to increase rates paid
to railroads for the carriage of mails fifty per
cent, without reference to existing contracts and
proposing that they should join the movement
and make contributions to aid it, The circular
gives list of railroad Presidents, who, it says,
among them William H. Vanderbilt, Thomas A.
the Philosophical Society Of Philadelphia was pre-
sented and referred, asking Congress to make an
appropriation to enable American astronomers to
join those of other nations in observing the transit
of the planet Venus the SUMS disc in Decen-
ber 1874 The Legislative Appropriation bill was
further considered, and several amendments were
disposed Of. Executive session and adjourn
ment. - -a
In the House, on the 9th, a reception
was given to the japanese Embassy, who were for
mally presented by General Banks, and welcomed
in speech by the Speaker, to which Iwakura re-
| sponded. There was an immense assemblage
priation bill was further considered in Committee
| of the Whole, and an amendment to pay laborers,
| workmen and mechanics in Government employ
ment at the rate of full days wages for eight
hours work, was offered, and modified by pro,
viso that laboring men in the United States who
work ten hours shall not be taxed to make up the
| deficiency for those who only work eight hours
4 and the amendment amended was rejected. The
bill was then reported to the House. Adjourned
In the Senate, on the 7th, bills were
passed-for the erection of public buildings at St
l.. F.
ton of that portion of the military reservation a
! Fort Ripley, Mimi, lying east of the Mississippi
| River. "A resolution was adopted directing the
| Committee on Commerce to make thorough in
quiry into the subject of immigration and treat
ment of immigrants after their arrival iii this
try, and also into the quarantine and health regu
Baltimore, and that the inquiry extenS
also to the treatment of immigrants by rail
road companies. The Legislative Appropriation
bill was considered, and all the amendments mad'
in committee where concurred in, except thos
reserved to be voted on separately. An amend
ment authorizing the employment of forty addi
tiona clerks of Glass in the Land Office was laiC
on the table. A substitute offered for tn
amendment appropriating S50,0O0 to be expended
by the President in putting in force the Civil Ser
vice reform acquisitions, providing for the repea
of all laws parts of laws under which the Civi
Service Reform Commission was appointed by tn
President of the United States, and a motion to la
the substitute on the table was carried-40 to 10
when considerable discussion ensued on the origins
amendment, but, without reaching vote, the SeI
ate adjourned.
In the House, on the 7th, a bill wa
passed to allow the Chicago & Northwestern Raj
road Company to change its projected line of roa
between Fond du Lac and Escanaba, Mich, tn
grant of lands not to be increased or change
thereby. :. The Senate bill for the redemption c
the temporary three per cent. loan certificates ;
the rate of three millions month was reported aC
versely, and tabled by large majority. .Leav
was asked and refused for the introduction OF
resolution stating that charges have appeared
, newspapers of large circulation, in New York an
elsewhere, calculated to affect njuriorsy the repI
tation of the Secretary of the Navy, and to car
.Ss on se 9r ms snd tbsrefor
providing for the appointment of a seleC
7 Committee of five to investigate an
| Irregularities charged, and to inquire general
into the administration of affairs of the Navy D.
partment during the incumbency of the preseI
Secretary. The Deficiency Appropriation bi
, was taken mp, and all the proposed amendment
were disposed of, the one for the payment of
full days wages to laborers and mechanics in nav
!, yards, ETC., who had worke d only eight hours, b.
ing agreed to, when the bill passed :. The bi