Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1874-12-11
Proceedings of Congress.

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called TO order by the Vice President and
opened with prayer by the Rev. DR.. Sunder-
land The usual committees 10 notify the
House Of Representatives and the President
were appointed Credentials of George r.
Edmunds, of Vermont, and W. w Eaton, of
Connecticut as Senators for the term com
mencing March 4, 1875, were read and placed
on file. A bill providing for the government
of the District of Columbia was reported from
the Joint Select Committee on that subject,
and ordered to be printed. Mr.. Sherman re-
ported bill for the revision of the laws for
collection ofcustons and other bills Of no spe-
ca interest were offered. Al l.35 p. M. the
Presidents Message was received and read
After the customary order for printing the
Message and documents the Senate adjourned
The House was called to order by Speaker
Blaine at I'm. After the roll-call, number
in. Mr.. Phelps made an effort 10 introduce
bill to repeal the District "gag law" but
was refused unanimous permission, and the
bill goes over until Monday next. AT l 35
P. M the Presidents Message was received,
read, and ordered to be printed. The Legis-
lative, Army, Navy, Indian, and Fertilization
Appropriation bills were reported from the
Committee on Appropriations, and referred to
the Committee Of the Whole. bill was
passed appropriating $50, 900 for the purchase
of scales for the use of the Postofice Depart
ment, to carry out the law requiring prepay
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offered bill allowing postage to be paid at
the place of destination OF the mails, which
was referred TO the Committee on Postoffices
The House then adjourned.
In the Senate on Tuesday, bill was intro
dueed 10 fix the salary ofthe President of the
United States at $25, 900 after the term of the
present incumbent; also directing the Post
master General to cause to be constructed a
inc of telegraph between Washington and
Boston, via Baltimore, Philadelphia, New
| York and Hartford TO be operated in the post
Offices of those cities by persons to be appoint
ed by the Postmaster General. resolution
was introduced asking the President TO COM
municate the names of all civil and military
! officers who are in arrears to the government
with the amount due by each also to state
the number of acres Of public lands and the
amount of bonds or money granted railroads
or other internal improvements. Notice was
given that the bill to amend the customs and
internal revenue laws will he called up next
Monday.
| In the House of Representatives large num-
Der of bills were introduced and referred
among them a bill to reduce the Presidents
salary to S25, 900; TO substitute United States
notes for issues of national banks to dis
qualify members of Congress from holding
office under the United States if they act as
counsel for defendants in suits by the govern
ment for revenue frauds (ths bill was passed j
making valid before the treasury all permits
10 purchase products OF the insurrectionary
States granted by the President during the
late war to authorize free banking to con-
tinue the improvement of the Great Kanawha
river in West Virginia aboishing the use OF
stamps on drafts &C.; to amend the enforcement
act. The bill for the improvement of the cur
rcncy and reduction of interest on the funded
debt Of the United States was considered in
| committee of the whole and discussed by
Messrs Kelly, Butler, Dawes, Garfield and
Cox. The bill was amended and ordered to
be printed.
In the Senate on Wednesday, memorial
was presented from business men in George
town, d. c., asking that the Baltimore and
Potomac Railroad Company be compelled to
remove an obstruction of their bridge over
the Potomac, and asking that the river chan
mel at that point be improved.
In the House the resignation of Hon. E.
McJunkin, of Pennsylvania, who was recently
elected Judge in that State, was received
The Committee on Public Lands was author
lied to frame general bill for the relief of all
the people who suffered from the grasshopper
plague. The bill to continue the board OF
audit of the District of Columbia was passed,
In the discussion of this bill, Mr. Randall, of
Pennsylvania, said that the Presidents mes
sage contained grossly erroneous statements
as to the debt of the District in claiming GER
tain credits which he should not have claimed,
and in not including the 8 per cent. certi6-
Gates rs part of the debt. He said that in
stead of about $l4, 900, 600, as stated in the
message, the debt is really $22, liz, S55.
CoUNrERFEIT NoTEs new counterfeit
fifty cent note is thus described: On the
counterfeit, the lock of hair in the corner Of
Dexter's forehead touches the other hair at
each end, while in the genuine it has a &c"
shaped lock, and touches only at the lower end.
On the upper right hand corner of the back,
The figure in 1868 is reversed, so that il faces
to the left instead of the right. The paper,
too, is thicker than the genuine. Lines are
printed on the back TO initiate the silk threads
but they are not found on the face ofthe piece.
JusT So.-The Philadelphia Inquirer, re-
publican journal, makes the point that the
Presidents language in regard to federal in
reference in State politics so well expressed
as to seem to need no comment. 1t covers the
whole ground, and makes altogether inexcusa-
BILE the federal outrage upon the Southern
States of maintaining in four of those States
over four thousand federal troops. If the
President believes his own proposition" says
the Inquirer, =" those troops should be with
drawn-and promptly
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The Commissioners who have been admins
tering the District of Columbia since the de-
cease of the Shepherd concern have done re-
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