Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-02-27

office Appropriation bill was reported with amend
ments, among which the following: Prohibiting
the transmission of any free matter whatever not
even excepting newspaper exchanges; requiring
persons receiving mails by carriers to provide proper
boxes at their dwellings to facilitate rapid deli
authorizing the employment of an additional specai
agent to detect persons sending obscene matter.
striking out the provision requiring railroad COM
panles to make contracts for postacar service as
condition of receiving increased pay providing that
additional pay may be allowed for daily posta-car
service; An Intellectual attempt was made to take
upthe Two-per-cent. bill. The Naval Appropriation
bill was taken up, and the amendment relative to
retired naval officers, their pay and employment
was agreed to-yeas, 90; nays Is The amendment
providing that the act of 1864 shall not retire any
officer before the age of g. was agreed to- . SAWYER
introduced bill to incorporate the Southern Home
stead Emigration Company, giving it power to lease
or sell land anywhere in the United States
HoUsE.-A bill was passed making unlawful any
contract with the Indians relative to land or claims
entered into prior to the act of Nav 81 1872 unless
such contract be in writing and approved by and
entered in the Department of the Interior Will
lard asked leave to introduce joint resolution con-
public. Banks objected, on the ground that
1t was proposition to recognize slavery
in the colonies of Span.". The Presidents
message relating to Utah affairs was received and
referred to the Judiciary Committee. A bill was
passed removing the political disabilities of e1ov
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 wrangle between
Kerr, OF INDIANA, who opposed the BILL and Butler.
Of Massachusetts,. who favored it. The bill was
passed-yeas, 122; nays 81.
MONDAY, Feb. 17.-SENATE.-The majority
Of the investigating committee in the Cadwal case
reported his election Senator from Kansas in
valid. =. The amendment to the Naval Appropria-
ton Dill, giving increased pay to retired officers
was concurred in. The bill was then passed
Norton from the Committee on Privileges and Elec-
tions, reported favorably the resolution to re-
sclnd the twenty-second joint rule which prescrbes
method of determining disputes arising during the
counting of the electoral votes for President and
Nice-President Stewart introduced bill grant
ing the State of Nevada 100000 acres of public
land for common school purposes :. =. Sawyer from
the Committee on Education and Labor reported
adversely to the bills granting lands to aid in esah
hshlng public schools in 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 sos, 900 to reim-
burse the College of William and Mary of Virginia
1or 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 go The
American and Asiatic Telegraph bill was passed 1t
authorizes the America and East India Telegraph
Company to lay submarine cable from the Pacific
coast of the United States to the Asiatc coast and
that one or more Government steamers NAV aid il,
the work. A substitute for the Agricultural Col
lege bill. providing that for every $500 of annual
income derived from the benefits of the act there
shall be a free scholarship, and that when the in
come amounts to $4,000 tuition shall be free was
agreed to and the bill passed.