Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-05-28

solved itself into Committee of the Whole on
the post-office appropriation bill, and after
debate, the bill was read by paragraphs and
the committee rose. The pension bill was
reported from the committee on appropria-
tions and referred to the Committee Of the
Whole a number of executive documents
were laid before the House, and referred to
the committee on military affairs.
In the Senate, on the 21st, Mr.. Fenton in
troiuced bill to regulate the service in the
collection of customs at the various ports of
the United States, substituting stated salaries
in lieu of perquisites and moities to the Gus
toms officials. The civil rights bill was then
taken up and discussed until adjournment.
In the House, the post.office appropriation
bill and the pension appropriation bill were
passed. The committee on banking and cur
rency submitted report on the Senate amend
ments to the House bill in relation to the
currency. The bill for the admission Of New
Mexico as a State in the Union was passed
by vote of 160 to 81.
In the Senate, on the 22nd, the committee
on military affairs reported a bill extending
the time for the filing of bounty claims under
the act of 1866 Also, a bill to issue army
rations to destitute people on the Tombigbee
and other rivers The committee on appro-
priations reported the centennial bill with
amendments The civil rights bill was then
taken up and discussed until half past 7
o'clock Saturday morning, when it was passed
by strict party votc-torty-fvc Senators be-
ing present, of whom twenty-ninc voted in ia
vor of the bill. In the House, bill was passed
to authorize Thomas and W. l.. Winans to
apply for patent for improvement in the
construction of vessels known as cigar ships.
A number Of bills were passed for the relief
of the survivors of the Union soldiers who
were killed by guerrillas at Centralia, Mo-, in
1864.
On the 23rd, the Senate was not in session.
In the House, number of bills, of no special
interest, were reported and passed, and pend
ing consideration of bill in relation to courts
and judicial officers in Utah, the House ad-
journed.
In the Senate, on the 25th, Stewart, of Ne
vada, introduced joint resolution proposing
the following as an amendment to the consti-
tuition, which was referred to the judiciary
committee: "Artce XVI. Ifany State shall
fail to to maintain common school system,
under which all persons between the ages Of
five and eighteen years, not incapacitated for
the same, shall receive, free of charge, such
elementary education as Congress may pre-
scribe, then Congress shall have power to es-
tablish therein such system, and cause the
same to be maintained at the expense of such
State" In the House, Sheldon, of Louisiana,
introduced bill to refund the cotton tax !;
and Young, of Georgia, introduced a bill to
have Rome, Georgia, selected as a manufac-
turing arsenal, both of which bills were refer
red. The following bills were also introduced: :
By Grassland, of Kentucky, bill to revive the
act of 1864, providing for the payment of
loyal owners of negroes drafted or mustered
into the army of the United States 1t pro-
poses the appointment of a commission to in
vestigate all such claims, and to allow in each
case the sum of $500, as provided in said act,
which was suspended in 1867. BY Mr.. Har-
ris, of Virginia, bill to restore to the pension
rolls the names of pensioners Of the Mexican
war, stricken therefrom for disloyalty. Mo-
tions to suspend the rules and take up the
supplementary civil rights bill and the cur
rency bill we're defeated, two-thirds not voting
in the affirmative. The vote on civil rights
was 153 to S4-not two-thirds. The defeat,
in the House, of the supplementary civil rights
bill is not a fnality though the Senate bill
cannot be passed, except under suspension
of the rules by two-thirds vote, and that cam
not be secured in the House but the judicia.
ry committee under its leave to report at any
time, can report bill, which is a perfect copy
of the Senate bill, and this can be passed by
a simple majority, and sent over to the Sen
ate, and there acted on. In that way, the
supplementary civil rights bill may, within
very brief space find itself in the Presidents
hands. The amendatory tariff and internal
revenue bill, reported in the House contains
the following clause: "Any farmer Or planter
may sell, at the place of production, tobacco
of his growth, at retail, directly to the con-
sumer to an amount not exceeding 500 an
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