Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-12-25

ton instructing the Committee on Elections to ex-
anime and report on the best mode of electing the
President. Passed. .Hoar offered a bill to estab-
lish an educational fund. 1t enacts that the net pre-
ceeds of sales of the public lands shall be for
ever consecrated and set apart for the education of
people the provided that this act shall not repeal,
impair, or suspend any law authorizing presumption
or homestead entries, nor abridge the power of Con-
gress over the public domain, nor interfere with
granting bounty-lands to the soldiers and sailors of
the late war....A resolution was adopted calling
on the Postmaster-Genera for such information re-.
garding the Postal Savings Bank and Postal Tele-
Ibe salary bill came up, and was discussed until
past the usual hour for adjournment, when the pre-
resulted ayes, 100; nays, I45. So the House re-
fused to second the previous question, and Kasson,
troll of the subject. He yielded to Orth, who moved
to recommit the bill to the Select Committee, with
what they shall as certain to .have been the average
pay and allowances of the FOrty-hrst Congress, ex-
elusive of any estimate of the franking privilege.
FRIDAY, Dec. 12.-Sendte.-Not in session.
HOuese-Atter some business of an unimportant
character, the House proceeded to the consideration
of the measure in regard to salaries, the result of
which was that the matter was recommitted to the
Select Committee, with instructions to report a bill
members of the Forty-frst Congress as the COM
pensaton for members of the present Congress.
Adjourned to Monday, Dec. Is.
MONDAY. Dec. 1~5.-Senate.-The contested
case OF Pinchback and Mcmillan, from Louisiana,
was turned over to the Senate by the on
Elections, and the matter postponed IA bill was
introduced to repeal the tax of ten per cent. on the
circulation of bank The bill to provide fer
the redemption of the loan of 1858 was passed..
Sherman's financial resolution was called up and
discussed without action.
House-An immense number of bills were intro
duced. The titles of the important ones are ap-
pended For the issue of convertible bonds to put
printing paper, type, ETC., on the free list to allow
producers to sell leaf tobacco without tax authoriz-
ing national banks to withdraw their bonds in
proportion to the reduction of their circulation in
aid of the execution of the laws in Utah for the
survey of a ship canal from Lake Michigan
to the Wabash river repeating the Bankrupt
law; providing for a double-track railroad from
Omaha to New York, with branches to Chicago and
st. Louis providing that newspapers shall circulate
in the mails free within the counties of publication
and within twenty miles of the office OF publication
to make Sioux City a port of entry to impose a tax
on incomes of s., 900 and ovef; to regulate commerce
rates for railroad charges for freight for a trans
continental railroad; to transfer to the War De-
partment the management of Indian affairs to
establish a Territorial Government in Pembina. 80.
Tremain, from the Committee on the Judiciary, re-
ported a bill to repeal the Bankruptcy law. The
h1st section repeats the Bankrupt law and all its
amendments. The second provides that, where
jority Gin value) of its creditors whose claims have
been proven, or are provabe, to determine in what
the estate of the bankrupt shall be admin
istered, and such resolution shall be Immediately
confirmed by the Court. Further sections ar
range the details -. The question of increased
taxation was discussed at length, the debate arising
on the recommendation of Secretary Richardson for
an increase to the amount of $40, 200, 600. A resolu-
ton was finally adopted that the President be re-
Quested to cause a revision of said estimates to be
made by the several Executive Departments, and
cause a report to be made to the House setting forth
in detail what public expenditures for the current
fiscal year and what estimates for the next fiscal
year can be reduced, and he amount of such reduc-
ton without serious detrinent to the public service.
-. The House voted to adjourn on Friday, Dec. 10,
till Tuesday, Jan. 9.
TUESDAY, Dec. 16.-Senate.-The Finance
Committee reported unfavorably on the proposition
that one-half of the import duties may be paid in
legal tender. "A bill was introduced to establish an
iron ship-building yard on the waters of the Allan
tic, and one in the Mississippi valley also, to per-
init the national banks to issue a circulation of 80
on their present issue. The Louisiana contested
election case of Pinchback VS.. Mcmillan came up,
and was discussed at length without action.
House-A resolution was adopted instructing the
Civil Service Committee to inquire into the expedi-
also of the feasibility of providing that no official
A bill absolutely repeating the Bankruptcy law was
passed by a vote of 900 to A. 1t provides that all
bankruptcy proceedings now pending shall be set
tied under the law as it now is, except that the fees
shall be reduced one-half. The Salary-Repea1 bill
was reported to the House by the Select COMMITTEES.
The amendment of Kasson, providing that the
monthly pay of members of the present Congress
shall be decreased for the rest of the session SO that
their compensation il the aggregate for this session
shall not exceed $500, was adopted by q vote of 172
to II. Butler offered an amendment to confiscate
the back pay, which was lost by the close vote of
121 to 129. Hurlbut, in a spirit of sarcasm, pro-
! posed an amendment that there be three classes of
Congressman, to-wit Class A, to receive $500 a
year; Glass 3, 5000; and Glass c, $4,000, with the
privilege that every member shall select his own
class.