The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-04-04
CONGRESSIONAL.

the bill for publishing the debates Of
Congress was concurred in. The Bay
field & st. Croix land grant bill was
referred to a committee of conference,
consisting of Messrs. Carpenter, Pom
eroy, and Kelley. The House amend.
ment to the Chicago relief bill was
agreed to. The tea and coffee bill was
then taken up. The amendment add
ing the free list of the tariff bill was
agreed to. A motion to reduce the
duty on steel rails 10 per cent. was
} llost-yeas, 25; nays, %. The second
section of the tariff bill was added as
an amendment by a vote Of 80 to IL.
1t reduces the duties on cottons, WOOL
ems, silks, mon, earthen and glass
wares, &c. Afterward, by a vote of
% to "a, the duty on silks was left as
now. The third section of the tariff
bill was added, and Mr.. Hamlin NOV
ed to add the whole of it, leaving out
rice and iron wirecloth from the first
section, and making the duty on tea
s cents, and on coffee II cent. This
was rejected-yeas, Is; nays, q.
An amendment making salt free was
lost-yeas, Is; nays, 20. A motion
to insert a provision that tea and cof-
fee be free after July 1st was lost
yeas, 81; nays, 25. Mr.. Hamlin's
amendment, with the part as to tea
and coffee left out, was adopted
yeas, %; nays Is. An amendment
abolishing all internal taxes, except
those on whiskey, tobacco, malt liq-
uors, and banks. Messrs. Morton and
Sherman opposed this, but it was
agreed to by vote of yeas, 2S; nays
IL. The bill then passed amid great
confusion by vote of 95 to 4-name-
ly, Messrs. Boreman, Hamlin, Ere
linghuysen, and Scott. Adjourned
till Monday.
In the House a great deai of time
was spent in wrangling over the Bal
timore & Potomac Railroad Depot
bill, but as heretofore nothing was
done. The Chicago relief bill was so
amended as to except lumber from its
operation, and then passed. A COM
mittee of conference was ordered on
the st. Croix & Bayfield, land grant
bill. The steamboat bill was taken
up, and considerable progress made.
The House adjourned till Monday
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
MARCH 2S.-In the Ohio Senate
bills were introduced providing that
if any Justice of the Peace, Constable,
Clerk of Court, or Sheriff shall charge
or receive more than the legal fees or
costs, he shall be fined not exceeding
500, shall be liable for treble the dam
ages to the party injured, shall forfeit
his Office, and be ineligible to Office
for five years after. A bill was also
introduced to abandon two miles of
the bed of the Ohio Canal, at Cleve-
and, for city purposes. The House
bill to punish by heavy penalties the
unlawful cutting or taking of timber
was passed. The bill to provide for
The erecting of monuments to the
ofex-President VIM. Henry
Gen. ThOs. L. Harmar, and
Simon Kenton was defeated. A res
)lution was offered and ordered print
ID asking the Ohio members of Con-
yress to support proposition to coD-
struct a canal around Niagara Falls,
IN the American side if, intheir judg-
nent, the same will insure cheap
A resolution was Of
ered and ordered printed for the ap-
of three Commissioners to
visit the refOrmatory and correctional
of the State, and examine
nto the present system of convict
abOr, and report what legislation is
APL. 2.-Mr. Hooper, of Utah, pre-
ented a memorial from the COnsti-
utionaI Convention of Utah, asking
omission to the Union with the name
( Daseret. Mr.. Dawes spoke of the {
House tariff bill which had been
.mended in the Senate by having its
,ody cut off, and asked that the Sen
tie substitute be laid on the table.
After some discussion, this was car
led by a vote of I5S to 9. The steam
oat bill was then taken up end dis
used. In the Senate most of the {
lorning was spent in discussing the {
slations of Messrs. Stanbary aud t
ohnson TO their South Carolina Ku- e
lux clients, and Of Gems. Hampton, O
haw, and Butler to the order. Mr.. q
raft, of Ind, discussed the claims of T
hiO, Indiana, and Illinois against {
le general government. The Senate L
seeived q message from the House b
nnouncing the disposition that had T
cen made of the Senate tariff bill, I
card Mr.. Merrill characterize that n
,tion as extraordinary, and then ad- :,
urned.