River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-01-17
Proceedings i'm Congress,

SENATE. Congress re.assembled on
January 6, after the holiday recess In the
Senate, Mr.. Howe offered resolution re-
questing the Secretary of War, when he re-
| spends to the resolution Of inquiry in regard
to the effect of the late storm at Duluth, to
communicate, Also the opin on OF the chief
engineer as TO the best method of procuring
safe harbor at that point. Mr.. Morton offered
a resolution directing the Committee on Privi-
leges and Elections to examine and report at
the next session OF Congress on the best and
most practicable mode of elecing she Presi-
dent and Yice-President OF the United States,
and Of providing tribunal 10 adjust and de-
eide all contested questions connected
Herewith. A resolution of inquiry as
TO the expenditures in suppressing Indian
hOstllties In Washington territory and Ore
gon was agreed TO. Also resolutions of in
quiry whether the Secretary of the Treasury
has power under the existing laws TO issue
United States notes in lieu Of the forty-five
million bank notes cancelled under the act of
1866 and into the propriety of repeating the
national bankrupt law from and after January
l, 1874, and providing for the immediate re-
peal OF so much of said act a. relates to invol-
untary bankruptcy. The Goat Island bill was
referred to the Military Committer. Mr. Pratt
introduced bill ceding to the several states
within which they respectively lie, the beds
OF surveyed lakes and other bodies of water
Mr.. Ferry introduced bill setting apart that
portion OF MackiHac Island now held by the
United States as military reservation for
national park. The Indian appropriation bill
was next considered, and agreed to, The
amoHnt appropriated by the bill is s5,43I,165,
which IS S9l7,997 less than last year Mr.
morrill, introduced bill increasing the grant OF
lands to several states for educational pur-
poses.
HOUsE-Number o. bills introduced.
the most prominent among them beino for
canal )nnecting the waters of Lake Michigan
and the Illinois, Mississippi and Rock rivers
to give officers of the Missouri militia three
months pay-also pension to widows and or
phans Of soldiers murdered in Missouri in
1854; making Sioux City, Iowa, port of de-
livery. AT the expiration Of the morning hour
Mr.. FRYE offered a resolution for public SEES
slons ofthe Credit Mobilier Investigating Com
mlttee, which was ad0pted-130 to 7. A bill
introduced bv Mr.. Hooper, to provide for the
converting OF United States notes into coin af-
ter the first OF May, 1874, was referred. Mr.
RandalFs resolution relative to the Union Pa
clhc Railroad was also adopted. Mr.. Wilson
OF Indiana, offered a resolution for another Sc
cret committee Of five to inquire whether anv
stockholders Of the Credit Mobilier held bonds
Of the Union Pacific Railroad Company: whetb-
en- they obtained them for valuable consider
alton, etc. Adopted. The Senate amendments
to the deficiency bill were taken up and con-
Cured IN. A message from the President We
tong the bill to remit the entries of spirits de-
stroyed In bond was presented, read ard laid
on the table. A resolution was adopted call.
ing Tor information as To suitability of the
White House for the President as an official
and family residence