The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-02-28

Office Appropriation bill was reported, with amend
ments, among which are the following: Prohibiting
the transmission of any free matter whatever, not
even excepting newspaper exchanges; requiring
persons receiving mails by carriers 10 provide proper
boxes at their dwellings 20 facilitate rapid delivery
authorizing the employment Of an additional special
agent To detect persons sending obscene matter
striking out the provision requiring railroad COM
panies To make contracts for postal-car service
condition II receiving increased pay providing that
additional pay may be allowed for daily postal-car
service An Intellectual attempt made 10 take
mp the Two-pcr-cent. bill The Naval Appropriation
bill wac taken up, and the amendment relative 10
retired naval ofhcers their pay and employment,
was agreed to-yeas, 20; nays, Is. The amendment
providing that the act Of 1864 shall not retire any
officer before the age of CO. was agreed to- Sawyer
introduced bill to incorporate the Southern Home
stead Emigration Company giving IT power to lease
or tell land anywhere in the United states.
HoCsE.-A bill Was passed making unlawful any
contract with the Indians relative to land claims
entered into prior TO the act Of May IL 1872 unless
such contract be in writing, and approved by and
entered in tle Department of the Interior Viii
lard asked leave to introduce joint resolution
graduating Spain on the establishment Of Re-
public. Banks objected, the ground that
II proposition to recognize slavery
i'm the colonies of Spain" The Presidents
message relating To Utah affairs received and
referred 10 the Judiciary Committee. "A bill Was
passed removing the political disabilities If eX-Ciov.
william {" Extra Billy'0 Smith, of Virginia The
House then resumed consideration Of the Geneva
Award bill. long debate ensued, which degen-
Grated finally into bitter personal wrange between
Kerr Of Indiana, who opposed the bill, and Butler.
of Massachusetts,. who favored IL. Tie bill was
passed-yeas, 122; nays, 81.
MONDAY Feb. 17.-SESATE.-1h ma ority
of the investigating committee in the Caldwell case
reported his election as Senator from Kansas III
valid. The amendment to the Naval Appropria-
ton bill, giving increased pay to retired officers
concurred in. The bill was then passed
Morton, from the Committee on Privileges and Fec
tions, reported fayOrably on the resolution 10 re-
scind the tweity-second joint rulc, which prescrlbes
method Of determining disputes arising during the
counting of the electoral votes for President and
Nice-Presdent Stewart introduced bill grant
ing the State of Nevada l,O0O,OOO acres Of public
land for common school purposes Sawyer, from
the Committee on Education and Labor, reported
adversely 10 the bills granting lands To aid in esah-
fishing public schools i'll States lately in rebellion
and granting the public lands remaining in Mis-
souri, for the benefit Of the school fund in that
State.
HoUsE.-The bill appropriating 1000 TO rem-
burse the College Of William and Mary, of Virginia
for destruction of property during the war, was
passed. An amendment was offered TO the Sundry
Civil Appropriation bill prohibiting the printing of
books by Government for free distribution The
American and Asiatic Telegraph bill was passed. II
authorizes the America and East India Telegraph
Company to lay submarine cable from the Pacific
coast Of the United States TO the Asiatic coast and
that one or more Government steamers may aid il
the work A substitute for the Agricultural Col
lego bill, providing that for every $500 of annual
income derived from the benefits Of the act there
shall be free scholarship, and that when the in-
amounts TO $4,000 tuition shall be free,
agreed to aud the bill passed.