Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-12-12

establish an educational fund, and to apply the
proceeds of the public lands to the education of
| the people; to reduce postage TO 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 one copy thereof TO ac-
ual subscribers free of POSTAGE to aid IN the es,
tablishment of free schools throughout the United
States: TO afford cheap transportation BY water
from the interior to the Atlantic seaboard by way
of the great lakes; bill to, complete the James
River and Kanawha Canal. :. The Senate Dill Tor
the redemption of the loan OF 1905 was taken up.
debated and referred. The Speaker announced
the standing committees. Adjourned to the oth.
In the Senate, on the 8th, joint resolu-
tons of the Legislature of Michigan were present
ed and laid on the table, asking for the consruc-
ton of Niagara ship canal, and asking for the
survey of a canal across the State. =. Among the
bills introduced and referred were-to incorporate
the Southern Trans Continental Railway Company,
and to grant the right of way through the public
lands to the same; amendatory of the Bank
TePy and
freights between New York and Chicago. The
Rev. Byron Sunderland was elected Chaplain and
james r: Young, Executive Clerk OF the Senate 9e;
was called up, and Mr. Wright spssN IN favor OF
the repeal. and the bill was rslerred to tn
Committee. on Civil Service and herenchment'
-. Executive session and adjourpf7ent.
In the House, on the 9Th, large num-
Der of bills were introduced and referred, among
which were the following-For the admission of
Colorado as a State; to provide $25, ,000000 addi-
tional bank-note circulation for States having less
than their due proportion; for the payment of
losses by the Morgan raid; to repeal the act to en-
force civil rights; to repeal all taxes on whisky
and tobacco and to provide for the deficiency in the
revenue thereby occasioned to provide for cheap
TRANSPORTATION between Chicago and New York;
several bills for public buildings and improvements.
80. Bills presented-modifying the steam
boat-passenger act, by allowing tow-boats on the
Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to carry $50 pounds of
steam pressure, in place of 110 pounds, on
standard boilers of forty-two inches diameter,
with plates a quarter of an inch in thick
ness; removing all disabilities imposed or
remaining on any person by the third section OF
the Fourteenth Article of the amendments to the
Federal Constitution, and substituting for the
iron-clad oath the modified oath which is now ad
ministered to persons from whom disabilities had
been removed-14 to 29.. The Select Committee
on the Salary Question reported bill repeating
so much of the Salary bill as 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
was entitled to the seat from the Ninth Indiana
District, and he was sworn in. The Supple
mentary Civil Rights Bill referred to the Judi
ciary Committee. Adjourned.