Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-02-18
Investigations of Credit MObilier
Frauds, and POmerOy and
Caldwell Elections.
The General Appropriation Bill
The Fraud In Favor Of Wall
Street Brokers and
Bankers.
Lands in Aid of Public Schools =
Prize MOney-GOld Medals
HomesteadS -COpy-Right
Law.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, February Il. - The
House met at eleven o'clock this morn
ing, which is to be the regular hour of
meeting for the remainder of the session.
The following bills were introduced
and referred:
By Mr.. Boles: Authorizing railroad
bridge across the Arkansas river at Dar-
danelle.
By Mr.. Mitchell: Relating to the
hight of the railroad bridges across the
Mississippi.
The bill authorizing anincreased issue
of twenty-five millions of National
bank notes in the States having less
than their proportion of circulation, was
rejected.
BY Mr.. Armstrong CDaeotah) TO en-
able the people of Dacotah Territory to
elect a Governor and other Territorial
officers.
Mr.. Merrirnan New York introduced
bill for free banking, and providing for
specie redemption.
Mr.. Hoar made a point of order that
this was not the bill of which he had
given previous notice. His bill simply
authorized free banking. The bill was
not sustained.
Mr.. Ely introduced a resolution di-
recting the Secretary of the Treasury to
state whether some system should not
be established for use in the Merchants
Marine. Adopted.
Mr.. Storm moved the passage of bill
to reimburse William and Mary Col
lege, Virginia, for property destroyed
during the war. Adopted-1l1 to 70.
Mr.. Monroe (Ohio) moved to suspend
the rules, so as to call up the bill to in
crease the issue of National Bank notes
to twenty million dollars for those
States having less than their proportion
of circulation by the census of 1870. Re-
jected.
Consent was given Mr. Banks to offer
an amendment to the Sundry Civil Ap-
preparation bill when it came up for
consideration. The amendment prohibits
the printing of books by the Govern
ment for free distribution.
Mr.. Packard moved to suspend the
rules and pass the bill to encourage and
promote telegraphic communication be-
tween America and Asia. Agreed to.
The bill passed-yeas, 1885, nays, %.
The bill gives the American and East
ern Telegraphic Company the right to
construct land and mountaif lines of
telegraph, and a submarine cable on the
Pacific coast of the United States, to
connect the American and Asiatic
coasts, provided the company shall be-
gin to lay the cable within two years,
and it also provides that one or more
Government steamers shall be detailed
to aid in the work.
Mr.. Maynard moved to suspend the
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the evening sessions on Monday and
Friday next to the consideration of the
bill to refund the taxes collected on raw
cotton. Negatived-yeas 73, nays s.
not twO-thirds in the affirmative.
Mr.. Pierce moved to suspend the rules
and bring up for consideration the SEN
ate bill for the further Endorsement and
support of Agricultural Colleges. The
bill was agreed to-yeas 13S, nays 56.
Mr.. Pierce then moved q substitute
for the bill, with the provision that for
every five hundred dollars annual in
come accruing to a college, there shall
be one free scholarship, and that when
the annual income shall reach fifty
thousand dollars year, all tuitiOns of
that college shall be free.
The substitute was agreed to and the
bill passed-yeas III, nays SO.
House adjourned.
IN THE SENATE.
WASHINGTON, February Ex-senator
Logan, from the Military Committee,
reported the Goat Island bill without
Recommendation. The bill was placed
on the calendar, and testimony ordered
to be printed.
Senator Morton reported the evidence
in the Caldwell case and offered the fol-
lowing resolution:
Resolved, That Caldwell was not le-
gally elected to a seat in the United
States Senate by the Legislature OF
Kansas.
Senator Logan indicated his dissent
from the report of the majority.
Senator Morton, from Committee on
Elections, reported favorably a resolu-
ton to rescind the twenty-seeond joint
rule, in regard to determining disputes as
to electoral votes.
Senator Morton, from the Committee
on Privileges and Elections, reported
favorably on the resolution to rescind
the twenty-second joint rule, which
prescrlbes the method of determining
disputes arising during the counting OF
electoral votes for President and Vice
President.
Senator Trumbull said he did not
agree with the majority as to the pro-
priety of resembling the rule, but thought
it ought 10 be modified.
Senator Anthony announced that he
also dissented from the report OF the
majority ON the Caldwell case.
Senator Pool, from the Committee on
the Judiciary Committee, reported with
1, Ii Hill laaeorir1r,
1t to have been the true intent and
meaning of the act of June Sth, 1872,
amendatory of the bankrupt law, that
exemptions allowed bankrupt by said
amendatory act should be the amount
allowed by the constitution and laws OF
each State, respectively, as existing in
the wear 1871, and that such exemptions
are valid against debts contracted be-
fore the adoption and passage of such
State constitution aad laws, as well as
afterward, and against liens by decree
of any court, Notwithstanding any de-
cisiOns since rendered.
Senator Edmunds offered resolution
directing the AttOrney-General to pro-
cure aud report to the Senate at its De-
cember session, complete Information as
to the emoluments of marshals, clerks,
registers and assignees in bankruptcy,
and the established fees in bankruptcy
proceedings in all the districts in the
United States, for each year from the
passage of the bankruptcy act of 1867 to
the present time, with statement of
the bankruptcy cases which have been |
entertained and the disposition made OF
them, and q statement of those now
pending.
Senator Conkling said he wished to
examine the resolution, and it was laid
over.
A special committee was appointed |
to inquire into the charges of bribery in |
the last Senatorial election in Kansas.
and obtained leave to sit during the
session of the Senate.
Senator Stewart introduced bill
granting the State of Nevada one mill
lion acres OF public lands for school pur-
poses, to be selected by the State and
disposed of TO actual settlers, In lieu OF
the sixteenth and thirty y-second sections
heretofore authorized to be selected for
the same purposes.
Senator Nye, from the Committee on