Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-06
CGNGR EsSEONAL
Roster of the House Committees
Thursday the Senate adjourned till Mon
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WASHINGTON, Dec. Bills were intro
| duced and referred as follows:
Bill to establish an educational fund AM
to apply the proceeds of the public lands Z
the education of the people.
| By Mr.. Eames, to reduce postage.
BY Mr.. Harris, to pay for quartermaster
and commissary stores whenpurchased AM
receipted for without requiring oath OF pas
| loyalty.
By Mr.. Morey, to strengthen the credi
of the reconstructed States and to affor'
theEl financial relief.
| BIZ Mr.. Tyner, to permit publishers o
| newspapers and periodicals to exchange AM
publishers of weekly newspapers to senc
within the county of their publication on'
| copy thereof to actual subscribers free o.
| postage.
By Mr.. Burchard, to require National
| banking associations to retain as part o
their reserve the coin interest received OF
| the bonds deposited as security for theli
circulation; also to aid the establishment
| of free schools throughout the United
| States.
BY Mr.. Buckner to abolish the tax OF
| cigars, tobacco and snuff.
BY Mr.. Loughridge, to complete TIN
| James River and Kanawha canal.
By Mr.. DOMAIN, to afford cheap transpor
| tation by water from the interior to thu
Atlantic seaboard by way of the grea
lakes.
A committee presented a petition o
All mariners, of the port of New York
asking the repeal of the act authorizing TIN
appointment Of Shipping Commissioners.
The Debt of 1858, etc.
On motion of Mr.. Dawes, the Senate bill
passed yesterday, for the redemption Of the
loan of 1858, was taken up and explained
and advocated by Mr.. Dawes. After dis
cussion, the bill was referred to the Com
mittee on Ways and Means.
G. F. Hoar offered a resolution directing
the Secretary Of the Navy to communicate
the facts tending to show what legal o.
equitable claim owners or officers or crew
or any other persons may have~on tn,
United States for assistance rendered the
crew of the Polaris. Adopted.
Mr.. Rainey offered a resolution to abol
ish the Committee on Freedmen's Affairs
Referred.
Standing Committees.
The Speaker announced the standin.
committees of the House, as follows:
Committee on Elections Smith of New
York, Thomas of North Carolina, Halle
ton, Todd of Pennsylvania, Pike, Robinson
of Ohio, Harrison, Hyde, Speer, Lamar
Grassland.
Ways and Means-Dawes, Kelly Burch
ard, E. 81. Roberts, Kasson, Waldron, Shell
don, Foster Of Ohio, Beck, Niblack, Woo
of New York.
Appropriations-Gar Hale, Wheeler
O'Neill, Starkweather, Laughridge, Tyner
Parker of Missouri, Marshall, Swami, Han
cock.
Banking and CurTency-Maynard, Fair
well, Merriam, Hawley Of Connecticut, Hun
ter, Phelps, Hubbell, Miles, Randall.
Pacific Railroad-Sawyer, Sypher, Kel-
linger, Highton, Crosker, Willard, COrwin
of Illinois, McGill of Iowa, Wells of Mis-
souri,, Barnum, Stanford, Dreamer, Neal.
On acooants-Hawley of Illinois, Shoe
maker, Lansing, Dunnell of Minnesota,
Smith of Ohio, Burrows, Howe, W. Il
Roberts, Eden, Hamilton.
Commerce-Wheeler, Sawyer, Conger
Hooker, Negley, Standard, Parsons, Clay
ton, Holman, Bromberg, Willie.
Public Lands-Townsend, Dunnell,
Orth, Bundry, Morey, st. John, Phillips
Brady, Hereford, Herndon, Clymer.
War Claims-Lawrence of Ohio, Harel
ton, Cobb, Kellogg of Connecticut, Wood,
Scudder, Smith of Pennsylvania, Wilson of
Iowa, Holman, Harris, Morrison.
Postoffices and PostroaC s-Packer, Stow
ell, Plat, Nye, Williams, Page, DanfOrth,
Cobb, Cannon, Randell, Read, Atkins.
Manufactures-Farwell, Hawthorne
Very, Ransier, Field, Witty, Woodwork
Waddell, Bowen. BloHnt.
Agriculture-Hays, Lamport, Hazeton,
Begale, Wilson, Coma, Ray, Cain, Davi
of Virginia, Hatcher, Mclean of Texas.
Indian Aflairs-Ayerill, Lowe, Butler OF
Tennessee, Rainey, Richmond, McNulta
Lawson, Harris, Mays, Adams, Coming
| Giddens.
Military Afairs-COburn, Donnan, Haw
| lev of Ills, Hawley of Conn, GUtnkle
Albright, McDougal, Thornburgh, Nesmith
Young and Hunter.
EEOn Militia-Butler of Tennessee, Hazel
ton, SNYDER, Ross, Grouse, Elliott, Walls
Storm, SlOss, Hereford and Cook.
On the District of Columbia-IIale q
New York, Hammer, Cotton, Rice, HerdiC
| Clark, Pelham, Lofand, Eldridge, Barnun
and Leach.
On Judiciary-Butler of Mass, Wilson
| of Ind, Poland, Tremain, Fry, Cessna
White, Ward, Eldridge, Potter, Nye an,
| Jewett.
Public observation-disclosures, Whitley
Richmond, Pike, WILDER, Smith Of n. c
Begole, Haynes, Clark, Robbins and Lut
trell.
Private Land Claims-Myers of Penn
syIvania, Eames, Sessions, Barriere, Pratt {
Iowa, Henlee, Freeman, Bright, Sayler o
Ohio, Dewitt and Bucker.
Naval Affairs-Scofeld, Gooch, Ray
Plat of Va, Packard, Scudder, Burleigl
Purnan, Archer, Whitthorne and Jami
son.
Foreign Affairs-Orth of Miss, Penn
Willard, E. r. Hoar, Clark, Ward, Albeit
Williams of Wis, Robinson of ILL.,, Co
| and Barring.
Observation-Disclosures of Miss, Curtis
Williams of Ind, Ravens, Hoskins, Crouns
| Fort, Hynes, Schumacher of n. Y, Brow
of Ky. and Mills.
Revolutionary Observation-Disclosures {
Pennsylvania, Lansing, Sprague, William
of Michigan, Smith of Louisiana, Crutch
field, Bland, Caldwell, Vance, Rails.
Invalid Pensions-Rusk, Wallace, Barry
McJunkin, Mellish, Martin, Small, Sene
Young of Kentucky, Crittenden, O'Brier
Railways and Canals-AIcCrary of low;
G. F. Hoar, Hurlburt, Bass, Sherwood
Lewis of Tennessee, Taylor, Smith of Vii
ginia, Arthur, Wolf Stone.
Miners and Mining - Lowe, Negley
Burlington, Rusk, Hubbell, Page, Shcat:
Lynch, Kendall, Southland, Harris Of Geo
gia.
Freedmen's Affairs-CObb, Mum, Raine
Townsend, Sener, Comingo, Eden, Coltol
Morey, Barbee, Adams, of Kentucky
Education and Labor-Monroe, G..
Hoar, Elliott, Darrall, Field, Crooke, McDil
Rapier, Storm, Whitehead, Glover.
On Revision of Laws-Poland, E. Il
Hoar, Lawrence, DUEL, Barbee, Pendletol
Moore, Cason ofIndiana, Stephens, Kindal
Knapp.
Coinage, Weights and Measures-Hoope
H0ughton, Hammer, BaTere, Willard (
Michigan, Saylor Of Indiana, Strait, Mill
Berry, Bell, Ashe.
On Patents - Conger, Eames, Smar
Clements, Crutchfield, Dobbins, SaylOr {
Indiana, Smith of North Carolina, Slos
Parker, n. H. Magee.
Public Buildings and Grounds.-Platt,
Virginia, Sessions, Killingers, Spragu
Hersey, Pierce of Massachusetts, Loundt
Strait, Wells, Perry, Milliken.
On Reform of the Civil Selvice-KellOg