The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-12-27
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pointed to take into consideration the subject OF
the repeal of the Salary Bill, so called, ana
that the said committee be instructed to
report at the earliest practicable day and
that all bills on the subject be referred to
.ne sasd eommilaee. Inc Tes9laslon sl was
the subject were introduced and referred. By
consent of tue House the committee WAS allowed
10 report at its earliest convenience, Tbs
COMMITTEES. was subsequently announced as
follows: Messrs. Hale of Maine, Maynard,
kasson, Seofeld, Hale of New York, Niblack
and JewetD Bills were introduced and re-
ferred-to repeal the bankruptcy law; to repeal
the iron clad oath, and for tie removing of
disabilities under the Fourteenth amend
ment; recognizing Cuban belligerency;
to prohibit the payment of interest by the ma
tlonal banks; to restore the franking privilege;
anhoiizng m the Secretary ct the Treasury to put
lions reserve by purchasing Government bonds
therewita; to regulate commerce among the
several States by railroads; also tor canal
connecting the waters of Lake Michigan
with the Illinois, Mississippi and Rock rivers;
for the pablic buildings at St. Joseph; Tor i'm
mouths of The Ohio and Missouri; for a canal
around Niagara Falls, and in other directions; to
require uniform charges of railroads, and to pun
sh unjust discrimination in favor of or against
particular persons or places. ...Ad adjourned.
DEc. 5.--House.--Among the bills intro
duced and referred were-a bill to strengthen the
credit of the reconstructed States and to afford
them financial relief: to permit publishers of
newspapers anu pEfIOuICdIS 10 eAC1d0Ee. dlQ
publishers of weekly newspapers to send with
in the county of their publication one copy
thereof to actual subscribers free of
postage; to require the national bank
ing associations to retain part OF their reserve
the coin interest received on bonds deposited as
security for their circulation; to aid the estab-
lishment of free schools throughout the United
States: to abolish the tax on cigars, tobacco and
snuff; to complete the james River and Kanawha
Canal; to afford cheap transportation by water
from the interior to the Atlantic seaboard by way
of the great lakes. The Speaker announced the
Standing Committees. alter which the House adj
journed
Dec S-.Senate-Among the bills intro
duced and referred were the following: To in
corporate the Southern TraDscontinental Rail-
road Company, and to grant the right of way
through public lands to the same; to authorize
the organization OF national banks without Cir
culation; for the better protection of the public
works of the Mississippi; TO provide for cheap
and psrmanent inauguration Tor persons ana
to the Judiciary commit eel James Il. Young
was elected Executive Clerk, and Rev. Byron
Sunderland Chaplain OF the Senate. =. MIR. Wight
addressed the Senate in favor of the repeal OF the
Salary Bill, afler which the Senate went into ex-
ecGtiye session. Accommodation Several
bills were introduced under the Monday 5 Call of
States for bills for reference only Mr.. Negley
introduced and asked to put on its passage q bill
modifying the steamboat passenger act, by al.
lowing towboats on the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers to carry l50 pounds of steam pressure,
instead of ll0 pounds, on standard boilers of
forty-two inches diameter, with plates quar-
bill and stated that it did not change the
existing law, but only extended 1t, as the
law would expire by limitation very soon
ported bin removing all disabilities imposed or
remaining on any person by the third section of
the fourteenth article of the Amendments to the
Constitution, and substituting for the iron clad
oath, the modified oath now administered to per-
sons from whom disabilities had been removed.
Some little discussion ensued, when r solution
was passed to suspend the rules, and the bill WI
passed by vote OF 14l to 30. Mr. Cox asked
leave to report preanible and resolution
recognizing Cuban belligereney. OBJ
jeeted TO- He then asked leave TO in
troduce the resolution for reference TO the
Committee or Foreign Affairs, which was ike
Selee1 Committee on the salary question, report
ed bill repeating so much Of the Salary BIZ as
Speaker, Senators, Representatives and delegates
to Congress The second section revlves and
declares to be in full force all acts
relating to pay and allowance of Senators and
Members that were repealed or susperseded
by the act of Sd March, 1878, provided
III shall receive no mileage for coming to on
IRON the present session, except actual lndiv1d-
ual travelling expenses by the most direct route
OF usual travel. The third section requires the
Secretary of the Treasury to cover nte the treas
ury all sums that may remain undrAwn or that
have been received as Increased c0mpensa-
ton, and which shall have, or may come
into his possession by the return thert OF.
Messfs. Kasson end JeWett presented
minority report and recommended bill
pI ovidiag for the immediate reduction of all SAL
aries where no constitutional bar exists, ana re-
ducing the Presd nt's salary to The original sum
as Soon as the present rn expires Alter
lengthy discussion, it was finally arranged that
tn matter should up tomorrow after
the morning hour. to The exclusion of all
other orders, speeches TO be limited to
twenty minutes, and the motion 20 re-
commit being all the while pending. -.
The speaker laid before the House communities
lion from the Secretary of the Navy asking for
increased appropriations. Referred to the Com
mittee on Appropriations By resolution Of the
Committee on Elections Mr. Shanks of Indiana
was declared entitled to the seat from the Ninth
District of that State. The House went into
Committee of the Whole, and soon after ad-
iourned.