Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-02-13
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.

bill increasing the salary of the President
and Vice-President $4,000 and $4,000 re-
spectively, and asked for its immediate con-
sideration. Mr. Sherman objected and it was
referred to the committee on Privileges and
Elections. A bill to authorize the consolida-
ton of national banks was referred. Pend
ing the discussion of Sherman's bill for the
resumption of specie payments, the Senate
went into executive session. In the House
the Committee on Invalid Pensions was called,
and large number of private bills granting
pensions were reported and passed-among
them, one allowing a pension of $50 per
month to Mrs. Wood, widow of Surgeon
Wood and daughter of the late President
Taylor. Pending motion to 60 into Com
mittee of the Whole on the post office appro-
priations the House adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 9th, several petitions
pro and con in regard to the repeal Of the
bankrupt law were presented. The finance
bill, resuming specie payments this year, and
free banking next year, was tabled by yeas
20 to nays 81. The bill removing the politi-
cal disabilities of Ex-Governor Graham, of
North Carolina, was passed. The House bill
granting pension of $50 per month to Mrs.
Wood was referred to the Committee on Pen
sions. In the House, Mr.. Beck from the
Committee on Ways and Means, reported a
bill amending the internal revenue laws, so as
to permit producers of tobacco to sell at the
place Of production to consumers, to an
amount not exceeding one hundred dollars
per year; and also to increase the fractional
parts of barrels of spirits requiring to be
stamped, by including thirds Of barrels; and
permitting the manufacturer Of wine made
from grapes by himself, to soil it at the place
of production without paying the special tax
of twenty-five dollars, now required. The
amendments passed. The remainder of the
day was consumed in discussing bill report
ed by the Committee on Roads and Canals,
authorizing the construction of a bridge across
the Mississippi river at Memphis. The bill
went over without action.
In the Senate, on the 9Th, motion to refer
to the Committee on Elections and Privileges
whether Arkansas has legal State govern
ment, on the question of precedence, was lost.
The report of the Conference Committee on
amendments to the bankrupt bill to relieve
insurance companies who were sufferers by the
Boston fire, was adopted. 1t now goes to the
President. In the House, the bill with Senate
amendments sappropriating $4,000 for public
buildings at Atlanta, Georgia, passed. The
report of the Conference Committee providing
for the construction of eight sloopsof:war at
cost not to exceed one million two hundred
thousand dollars, was adopted. Thirty thous-
and dollars was appropriated for the investi-
CATION of the elections in Arkansas, Louisi-
ana and Kansas. The consideration of the
post Office appropriation bill was resumed and
occupied the remainder of the day.
The Senate, on the 9TH, was occupied the
greater part of the day discussing the Gene
va award. The President having vetoed a
bill for the relief of a citizen of Paducah,
Kentucky, whose property was destroyed by
the Union army for war purposes, Mr. Howe,
from the Senate Committee on Claims made
an elaborate report upon the same, recon-
mending the passage of the bill notwithstand-
ing the veto. On motion of Mr.. Norwood, Of
Georgia, the bill relieving certain persons in
Georgia and other southern States, of political
disabilities, was taken up. The bill was
amended so as to include some additional
names, when Mr.. Flanagan, of Texas, moved
to insert the name of Jefferson Davis, saying
that if rebels were to be- relieved SO freely, he
wished to relieve the chief one and get on
with the business. He demanded the ayes
and nays on his amendment, but they were
not ordered. A vote was then taken on the
bill, which resulted in ayes 27 to nays 7. No
quorum voting, the Senate adjourned. Du-
ring discussion in the House on PROPOSE
ton allowing Professor Of the Spanish Ian
guage at West Point, Butler spoke of the ac-
QUESTION of Mexico as thing that would take
place in this generation, and Coburn predicted
that the American boy was born who would
issue proclamations from the Moro Castle in
Havana.
On the 9Th the Senate was not in session.
The House was occupied with private bills
and claims. Among the latter was one of
$4,000 in favor of Wheeler Hubbard for
fuse and explosive shell inventions during the
war, which passed.