Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-12-18
CONGRESSIONAL.

Senate not in session on the 5th. In the
House, bills were introduced and referred-to es-
tahlsh an educational fund, and to apply the pro-
ceeds of the public lands TO the education OF the
people; to reduce postage; 10 strengthen the
credit OF the reconstructed States, and to afford
them financial relief; To permit publishers of
newspapers and periodicals to exchange, and pub
fishers of weekly newspapers to send within the
county OF their publication copy thereof TO
actual subscribers free of postage; to aid in the
establishment of free schools throughout the
United St9Ses; to afford cheap transportation by
water from the interior to the Atlantic seaboard
by way OF the Great Lakes; to complete the James
River \ kanawha Canal. The Senate bill for
the redemption of the loan of 1858 was taken up,
debated and referred, The Speaker announced
the Standing Committees Adjourned to the Sth
In the Senate on the Sth, joint resolu-
tons of the Legislature OF Michigan were pre-
sented and laid on the table, asking for the con
struction OF Niagara ship canal, and asking for
the survey OF canal across the State :. Among
the bills introduced and referred were to incor-
porate the Southern Trans Continental Railway
Company and to grant the right OF way through
the public lands to the same; amendatory
OF the Bankruptcy act; TO provide cheap and
permanent transportation for persons and
{rrirhts between New York and Chicago The
Rev. Byron Sunderland was elected Chaplain and
james X. Young, Executive Clerk of the Senate
-. The bill to repeal the Increased Salary bill
called up, and Mr.. Wright spoke in favor Of the re-
peal, and the bin was referred to the Committee
on Civil Service and Retrenchment ;. Executive
session and adjournment,
In the House, on the Sth, large num-
Der OF bills were introduced and referred, among
which the following for the admission of
Colorado State; to provide SIS 100000 add-
tional bank-notc circulation for States having less
than their due proportion; for the payment Of
losses by the Morgan raid; 10 repeal the act to
enforce civil rights, 10 repeal all axes on whisky
and tobacco and to provide for the fciency in the
revenue thereby occasioncd, 10 provide for cheap
transportation between Chicago and New York !;
several bills for public buildings and improve
ments Bills were passed modifying the steam
hoat-passenger act, by allowing tow-boats on the
Ohio and Mississippi Rivers 20 carry $50 pounds Of
steam pressure, in place OF ITO pounds, on stand
ard boilers Of forty-two inches diameter with
plates q quarter OF an inch in thickness !;
removing all disabilities imposed or
remaining on any person by the third section Of
the Fourteenth Article Of the amendments 70 the
Federal Coustitudon,s~an substituting for the
iron clad oath the modified oath which is now adj
minstered 10 persons from whom disabilities had
been removed-l4l to %. ;. The Select Committee
on the Salary question reported bill repeating
SO much Of the Salary bill a. increases the COM
pensation Of the Vice President, Speaker, SEN
ators. Representatives, and Delegates TO Congress
A minority report In favor OF also reducing the
incidental allowances Of the Presidential Office
was made. a report was made that Mr.. Shanks