Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-30
General News Summary.
CONGRESSIONAL.

CONGRESSIONAL. s-'.
In the Senate, on the 17th, bills were
| passed-appropriating ssOO.ooo to defray the sx-
penses incident to representation Of the United
States in the Vienna Exposition; repeating the act
perintendency -, The resolution instructing the
Committee on Elections to inquire into the de.
fects of the present Electoral system, aud
| the best means for remedying them, was taken
| up, and Mr.. Morton spoke at length In behalf Of
the resolution, giving his views Of the
followed in the election of President and Vice
President. He was followed by Mr.. Trumbull, who
agreed with Mr.. Morton as to some Of the defects
and dangers Of the existing Electoral system, but
dissented from some Of his views as to the prop
er remedy. Adjourned to the 2oth.
In the House, on the 18th, a large
number Of bills Of private character were report
ed from the Committee on Claims, and disposed
II TO Se s saa
| the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific Railroad Com
panies, was taken up and debated, and the main
| question was ordered--SS to 73... Adjourned.
| In the House, on the 18th, bills were
passed-to revise the Pension laws; to quiet land
titles in Iowa. providing that the title to lands in
Iowa heretofore approved and testified by the De-
partment of the Interior for railroad purposes to
| aid in the construction of q railroad from Daven
ade sS By lc@ According to the %
thereof made at the General Land ONCE shall be
confirmed TO the Mississippi Missouri Railroad
| Company and the Chicago, Rock Island q Pacific
Railroad Company, and their assigns, the corpora
tions to whom lands were certifed-this act to be
other interest which the United States may have
/ in the lands, and all lands settled upon In good
faith. and now occupied by homeeteads or pre-
emption settlers to be excluded from Its opera
tons "A large number of bills of private char
acter were disposed of....Adjourned
| In the Senate, on the Goth, petition
was presented for a prohibitory liquor law....
Several bills to amend the Bankrupt law were re-
| ported adversely from the Judiciary Committee,
| and majority of the committee reported rev
bin repeating the Bankruptcy act Of March ., 1867
and all supplementary and amendatory acts, said
repeal to take effect on the list day of next July
| provided that the repeal shall not in any
way affect any proceedings in bankruptcy com
was introduced fixing $2.5O as the minimum price
at which the Government shall sell all the lands
fr 70 ra .ae road sde ands
within the indemnity limits, and the claims of pre-
emption settlers, and the privileges accorded by
| the existing homestead laws to soldiers and
1 sailors
In the House, on the Goth, bills were
| introduced-providing for bringing suits for
claims against the United States in the United
States Circuit Courts for the distribution of the
Geneva award; organizing the Indian Territory Of
Oklehama; to repeal the law taxing deposits in
savings banks; to punish pretended counterfeiters
of United States currency and coin. A bill was
passed repeating the Bankrupt law.
In the Senate, on the 21st, bills were
passed-for the protection of owners of saw-mills
on the Mississippi River; for the erection Of pub
lie buildings at Nashville, Tenn for the sale Of
portion of the lighthouse reservation at Fort Ora
tiot, Michigan; to enable the Commissioner of In
within the Nez Perces reservation in Idaho Bills
were Notwithstanding the titles Of seven
years settlers on lands to which Indian titles
| had been extinguished; authorizing the Texas &
| Pacific Railroad Company to make payable in law
full money the bonds which it has hitherto been
1 snol %1s til - ID u c
| Pinchback as Senator-elect from Louisiana were
Preserted. The bill to authorize the construc-
| ton of six new sloops of war was taken up, snd
an amendment was agreed to limiting the aggre-
gate tonnage of the vessels to 600 tons and The
| aggregate cost to 81, ,0O0, 900.
In the House, on the 21st, the Commit
tee on Appropriations were instructed to inquire
into the present value of existing telegraph lines
the cost of constructing the same and the probable
cost of new lines. "A bill was passed, authoriz-
| ing settlers on untimbered land to enter forty
acres of umbered land for every hundred and sixty
acres OF untimbered land, at 81 Is per acre "A
that Mr.. Niblack, contestant was entitled to the
seat from Florida, as against Walls The bill for
bated The bill reported from the Committee on
| Commerce, for the encouragement of the foreign
commerce Of the United States. was considered.
| In the House, on the 22d, bills were
passed-to amend the act granting the right of
way to the Walla Walla & Columbia River Rail-
sS
| Mixed Commission on American and British
claims. The bill for the admission of Colorado
as State was taken up and debated A message
was presented from the President, vetoing the act
reducing from two years to six months the time in
which new trials may be, on motion of the United
| States, granted in the Court OF Claims.
/ In the Senate, on the 22d, bills were
passed-House bill abolishing the grades Of Ad-
miral and Rear-Admiral of the Navy; to authorize
| fhoC 70 tha
Creek Indians for portion of the lands occupied
| by them; supplemental to the act incorporating
for the construction of ten new sloops of war; to
abolish the franking privilege on the list of July
nekt-s3 to 16... "A substitute for Mr.. Morton's
| bill to regulate the distribution of the Geneva
/ award was reported from the Judiciary Committee
- The bill to allow women to vote and hold
The credentials Of Mr. Mcmillan, elected by
| the Warmoth Legislature to fill the unexpired
term OF Mr.. Kellogg as United States Senator from
Louisiana and the credentials Of Mr.. Ray, elected
by the Kellogg Legislature, were presented and
| referred. -. -
In the Senate, on the 23d, Mr.. West
was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Committee
on Pacific Railroads. and Mr.. Ames on the Com
mittee of Commerce. "A bill passed appropriat
in regard to the elections in Kansas
Louisiana and Arkansas Petitions were
presented-for the repeal Of the Bank
pass passage T Of the Bounty Land i biii An amend
ment to the Appropriation bill, for increasing the
pay Of members Of Congress to $1,000, was tabled
81 to Is.
In the House, on the 23d, bill wa,
passed relieving from taxation all alcohol used
for scientific purposes. "A resolution passed
| reciting the allegation that members OF
the House who have been interested with
| the Dubuque & Sioux City Railroad
which has received subsidy in lands, had beer
managed by the Credit-Mobilier and directing
that the Select Committee, the first Committee ap
pointed (Poland's), investigate the matter and re
| port what members have been interested with the
Dubuque & Sioux City and the Central Pacific
Railroads.