Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-01-14
Congressional Summary.


THURSDAY, January 9.-Petitions
were presented relating to the gale and manufacture
of Intoxicating liquors; also against the repeal of
he bankrupt law.-Mr. Schurz introduced a bill
for the relief of the University of Missouri which
was referred.--The consideration of the bill to
repeal the act of March 3. increasing salaries was
then resumed, and the question recurring on the
amendment, which provides that the pay for the
balance of this Congress shall be such amount as to
make the total with that already received, 80 0OO
for each year. Tt rejected by the decisive
vote OF IA ayes against As noes follows. YEAS
Messrs. Bogy, Conkling Cragin, Fenton, Ferry of
Michigan, Hamlin, Morton, Oglesby, Pratt, Sar-
geant, Schurz, Thurman, Wadleish and Wilson-14
NAYs-Messrs. Allison, Bayard, Boreman, Boutwell,
Brownlow, Buckingham, Cameron, Carpenter, Clay
Dorsey, Ferry Of Conn, Flanagan, Frelinghuysen,
Gilbert, Goldthwait, Hamilton of Nd, Hamilton of
Texas, Hitchcock, Howe, ingalls,, Kelly, Lewis,
Logan, McCreery,. Merriam, Mitchell, Morrill, of
Maine, Morrill, of Vermont, Norwood, Ramsey,
salisbury, Ransom, Scott, Sherman, Spencer, Ste
phenson, Stewart, Sumner, Upton and Wright-45.
- Mr.. Pratt submitted another amendment pro-
viding that the amount of compensation of Sena-
tors, Members and Delegates for the year ending
March Sd, 1874, shall be $500, and for the year
ending March Sd, 1875, $25OO, exclusive of mileage
and allowance. This amendment was under dis
sussion when the report closed.
House. -...-.r.r /
The House resumed consideration of the bill to
establish educational fund.- to apply the proceed
OF sales of public lands to the education of the
people. Laid over until Tuesday The House
then went into Committee of the Whole on the ma
val appropriation bill. It approprates SIG, 5O5 1885,
Upon ri ing, the House adjourned
ga @ Esg q @f Senate.
TUESDAY, January 6.-Mr. Bucking-
hams free banking bill referred to the Finance
Committee. Morrill,, from the Finance Com
mittee, reported back the resolution introduced by
Mr. Sumner instructing that committee to report a
bill abolishing the Office of Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, and to provide for the collection Of
taxes by stamps, with the recommendation that it
be indefinitely postponed. Edward Young was
authorized by resolution to accept a present
from the Emperor of Russia. The Finance
Committee reported back. with amendments,
Mr.. Morton's bill authorizing national banks
that have decided to reduce their capital stock to
withdraw pro rata proportion of bonds upon re-
tiring their own circulating notes or depositing
lawful money of the United States in the proportion
provided by WA bill introduced and re-
ferred authorizing the President Of the United
States to request the republic of Hayti to indemn
fly Antonio Pelleter, for his imprisonment spolia-
ton and damages, amounting to 1913, 800.-At the
expiration of the morning hour, the bill to repeal
the act of March 3. 1873, increasing the
salaries, wa, was taken up and debated by
Senators Flanagan, Edmunds, Conkling and Car
penter. The latter stated that he could see no rea-
son why the bill should be repealed, except
one that is, the people demand it, The theory to-
Gay, ana very proper one, is, that the people gov
ern through their servants and, as the governing
power of this country, the people have right to do
what they please, wise or unwise. If this bill
should be submitted to the people of Wisconsin to-
day it would be repealed by vote of five to one
He regarded himse elf their agent on the floor Of
the Senate, and should vote which he believed
the people of Wisconsin would cast. And further,
he would vote to put the repeal back just as far as
the Constitution would allow him. ~
House.
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of a ship canal around Niagara and at the mouth
Of the Mississippi, which was referred.-Aso an
amendment TO the Constitution in relation to the
election and appointment of officers, which was
also referred MIR. Syphor offered resolution
directing the Secretary Of War to issue army ratons
poor people in certain portions of the South from
actual starva ion. Referred THE supplement
airy civil rights bill then came up and
speeches were made by Messrs. Durham, Blount
Bright, Herndon, Whitehead and Buckner against
and Messrs. Elliott, Monroe and Lawrence in favo
of it's passage. = The naval appropriation bill wa
then reported to the House, and made the special
order for next Tuesday. The bill appropriates
SIG, $50, 851.-Adjourned
Senate.
MONDAY, January 5.-The President Of the
Senate laid before that body statement of the
amount of compensation received by Senators since
the organization Of the government. Mr. Edmunds.
from the Judiciary Committee, reported back the
House bill to repeal the bankrupt law with sundry
amendments, and recommended that with such
amendments the bill be passed.--Seve resolu-
tions were offered and adopted. = Mr.. Allison in
PRODUCED bill to regulate and facilitate commerce
across navigable rivers forming the boundary of
states. 1t provides that all railway bridges across
such rivers shall be declared public highways and
shall be equally open to the use of every railway
having terminus at or near said bridge, upon
the payment to the owner of such bridge and
dDDrOdCQ6S thereto reasonable
pensation under limitations and conditions
which the bill in detail prescribes. The
House bill to establish the compensation of
Senators, Representatives and Delegates was taken
up and discussed until the expiration of the morn
ing hour, when the resolution reported from the
Committee on Finance, before the holidays, de-
clarlng it to be the duty of Congress at the present
ses> ION to adopt definite measures to redeem the
pledge made by the government for the earliest
practicable redemption of the United States notes in
coin, came up as the regular order, and Mr. BOgy
addressed the Senate.-Afterwards the considera-
ton OF the salary bill was resumed, and occupied
the remainder Of the session.
House.
The session of the House. after the vacation
was resumed at noon, with pretty full attendance
of members, and with densely crowded galleries.
Bills were introduced: For the appointment of
commission of three persons on the subject Of
wages, hours of labor. and division of profits be-
tween labor and capital: for a uniform system of
railroad transportation in the United States to
provide uniform currency, and for the retirement
of national bank notes, and the substitution OF
8 651O0 bonds to regulate services in the collection
of customs at various ports of entry and abolishng
notifies to public officers; to create a National
Board of Trade, and prescribe its duties; to pro-
hibit the creation of Deficiencies in the public SER
vice; to legaiize pontoon railroad bridge across
the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chen requir-
ing the Attorney General to prosecute suits
for payment to the Government of in
terest paid for the Pacific Railroad Company.
Of New York, from the Committee on
Appropriations, reported the Army Appropriation
Bill appropriating $2s449 GIG, which was made the
special order for Tuesday next The House then
resumed the consideration of the supplemental
Civil Rights Bill. Speeches were made by Messrs
Nye and Ranser in favor, and Messrs. Stephens, of
Georgia, and Mills in opposition. Spe ker
aid before the house message from the President
n reference to the steamer Virginius, after which
he House adjourned.