Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-06-20

| passed......The Senate Enforcement bill was
taken up. Mr.. Poland moved suspension
of the rules in order to pass it, and the re-
suit was Sc to 73- so the question was de-
cided in the negative, there not being the
| required two-thirds.. The Ku-Klux bill
was similarly disposed of---the vote on the
motion to suspend the rules in order to pass
it being SO to 56.....The Senate bill appro-
priating 100000 for the payment. of the
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 Omni-
bus bill. Numerous motions were made to
postpone the bill, to adjourn, ETC., and other
| hlibustering tactics were resortec to by the
opponents of the measure. A vote was
finally reached, at o'clock on the mornin o
OF the Sth, and the amendment of Mr.. KEEL
logg was adopted-yeas, 80; nays, 10. A con-
ference committee on the bill was then ap-
pointed. $500. Ina mediately thereafter the SEN
ate adjourned until p. m......The Senate
met at p. M, on the Sth, Mr.. Anthony in
| the chair ...... Resolutions of thanks to Vice
President Celfax for his impartial discharge
of the duties of presiding officer were unani-
mously adopted...... House bill refunding
duties on goods in bond on August L, 1872.
was passed; likewise the bill authorizing
the President to appoint commissioners to
thel Vienna International Exhibition
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 8th inst, the confer
ence report on the bill increasing pensions
for disabilities was agreed to......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 Omni-
bus Appropriation bill. After much time
spent IN filibustering by the opponents of
the Kellogg amen dment, during which the
yeas and nays were called some half dozen
times on various motions, it was finally
voted TO non-concur in 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 ses-
sion being the contention over Kelloge's
Enforcement amendment to the Civil APP
preparation bill. The dispute was finally
ended by eliminating what it's 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 site for Government buildings
at Cincinnati was passed......At O'Clock D.
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 at
times personal. This was especially the
case with Messrs. Bingham (Rep.) and Nor
gan (Dem.) both of Ohio, between whom
epithets OF not very elegant nature were
freely passed. The difficulty was fually
bfidged over, however, without any serious
results, and the bill, shorn of those features
to which the opposition so strenuously OBJ
jected, was finally passed-I02 to SEA
bill was passed giving the widow of Gen.
Anderson $4,000 instead of a pension..
Mrs. DR.. Mary Walker created considerable
merriment, and not a little confusion, by
appearing upon the floor of the House and
attempting to harangue the honorable mem
bers in the interest of w.men nurses in the
army. She was promptly led out of the
hail by the assistant doorkeeper-not, how
ever, without 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
l.; extending the right of homestead to
soldiers widows, eldest child or father and
mother of soldier, if dead; appropriating
100000 forpublic buildings at Raleigh, n.
c., $500, 900 for the same at Pittsburgh, and
100000 for similar purpose at Evansville,
Ind......At p. m. the Speaker declared the
House adjourned for the second session of
the Forty-second Congress.