Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-04-02
CONGRESSIONAL.

OF the California Legislature presented, pro-
testing against any further subsidy to the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, and tnstructlng the
Senators and Representatives. from that State to
use their influence to have Articles and OF
the treaty with China modified so as to discourage
the further immigration Of the Chinese. The
Committee ON Pnblic Lands reported unfa.
vorably on the Senate bill granting aid
to the Atlantic & Great Western Canal
Company. -. The bill to equalize the Ma
tional Bank circulation was made the spe-
cial order for the 23d The Army Appropriation
bill and the Fertilization Appropriation bill were
passed, with amendments AT the request of the
House a Committee Of Conference on the bill in
regard to paying annuities to the Seminole In
dams was granted, and Messrs. Buckingham, In
gals and Stevenson were appointed on the com
mittee the part of the Senate Adjourned TO
the 23d
In the House, on the Goth, the Georgia
contested election case was considered, the major
ity report being that Rowles, the sitting member,
is not entitled TO his seat, and that Andrew Sloan,
the contestant, is The minority report takes the
opposite position. The Republican members of the
committee join in the majority report, and all the
Democrats in the minority report A bill giving
the approval of Congress to the route and ermini
OF the Anacostia Il Potomac Railway in the Dis
trict of Columbia was passed Adjourned
Senate not in session on the Dist In
the House the bill appropriating S!50O0O for
bridge over the eastern branch of the Potomac
River was rejected. A bill passed appropri-
atng $4,000 to pay the school-teachers Of the Dis
rict the amount to be collected by tax on per-
sonal estate and on banks and other corporations
The Georgia contested election case was taken
up and debated Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 23d, a resolution
was presented from the Legislature of Michigan,
and referred, praying Congress to amend the
Postal law TO permit the free exchange of
newspapers and their free circulation in counties
where published. "A petition signed by 700 bust.
ness men of New York, asking that the volume of
legal tenders be fixed at S4OO 100000, and favoring
free banking, was presented and referred -. A
resolution of the New York Cotton Exchange was
presented, signed by every member thereof, pro
testing against expansion of the currency, and
asking legislation for speedy return to specie
payment. Other petitions relating to me cur
reported from the Committee on Territories,
without amendment providing for the forma-
ton of Pembina Territory the new Territory
lies north of the forty.sxh parallel, embrac-
ing an area of about 400 square miles.
Mr.. sherman. from the Committee on Finance,
reported bill TO provide for the redemption and
reissue Of United States notes and for free bank
ing and gave notice that on the gath he would Of
fer 1t az substitute for the pending financial bill
to equazc the distribution of the Nationa- Bank
currency....A petition was presented and referred
of colored citizens residing in the Indian Terri
tory, setting forth that they are deprived of their
civil rights, The bill to equalize the distribution
of the currency taken up and further de-
bated Adjourned.
In the House, on the 23d, among the
bills introduced and referred were the following:
Respecting the law which forbids the payment
for army supplies, etc, to persons not known to
be opposed 10 the rcbeon for the relief of set
tiers on RAILWAY lands; granting lands to Minnesota
to endow an astronomical observatory Wand ana
natl 81 St. Louis Railway Company to
extend and construct Its lines into the
District of Columbia and through West Virginia,
Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois to St Louis, and
branch road from some point of 1t In Indiana TO
Chicago, and giving the guarantee of the United
States on its first mortgage bonds, as sections OF
the road are completed =. Bills were passed
appropriating $1,000 for the expenses OF the
District investigating Committee; making APP
preparations for the removal OF the kckapoo and
other Indians from the borders of Texas and New
Mexico to the Indian Territory. The Currency
bill was then taken up and amendments, one fix
ing the amount of circulating notes at $3.50 oOoooo
and another at S3S2 900 900, were rejected, after
which the bill fixing the amount at *iOO.OU0,ttO
was passed-yeas los, nays n. The text of the
bill is as follows: Whereas, the existing I'M
certainty to whether the amount OF legal
tender notes now authorized by law to be kept
in general circulation If 900 or QUO
| is calculated to derange the business OF
the country and unsetle values; therefore, be II
enacted, etc, that the provisions OF the law eX-
listing prior to the act approved April +, 1866, en-
titled An act to amend an act to provide ways and
means to support the Government approved
March 3, 1865, be and the same are hereby de-
cared To be in force so as TO authorize
the amount Of lcgA-tender notes of the United
general circulation, and the total amount OF
United States notes issued or to be issued shall
never exceed 500. 900, 600 ". An amendment was
ing that no cvi, oIticers of the Government shall
receive in addition 10 regular salary any COM
pensaticn perquisite froi ~" Treasury or prop
erty of the United States, or shall make any private
use of such property OF the labor of any person
in the employment of the United States....Ad-
joumed.
In the Senate, on the 24th among the
petitions presented and referred was one from
citizens of Indiana and Kentucky, asking that the
law OF Congress relative to bridges over the Ohio
River be so amended as to require that bridges over
that river shall have 400 feet spans and pivot draw
of 100 feet The bill to equallze the distribution
of the currency was laid aside informally, and the
new financial bill reported by Mr.. sherman from
the Committee on Finance was taken up and
Mr. Sherman explained the provisions OF the
new BILL saying it was not satisfactory one, a. it
was in the nature Of a compromise, and while II
had the strength of a compromise II also had the
weakness of such measure. The committee had
reported In favor OF fixing the amount Of United
States notes at $3.50 O000OO that being the amount
now outstanding but he hoped II would soon be
practicable to get back to 1856, 100000, and
recover the ground lost by the panic. The $3s2,
00O 600 had been fixed upon, not because II was
the best amolnt, but because ii was the amount
now in circulation. The time must come when
these notes must be redeemed in coin, and some
thing must be done looking to that end After
remarks by Messrs. Ferry and Thurman the Sen
ate went into executive session, ana soon after
adjourned
In the House, on the Gath, the minority
resolution in the Georgia contested election case
that Rawls the sitting member, was entitled to
the seat was rejected-ycas II, nays l33-and the
majority resolutions, declaring Sloan. the contest
amt entitled 10 the seat, were adOpted-yeas 1875,
NAYS "a The vote purely party one, except
that Messrs. Banning Fort and shoemaker, of
PENNSYLVANIA voted with the Democrats.
Mr. Sloan then took the modified oath A me
mortal was received and ordc-ed to be printed,
signed by 10000 persons, rel senting the Typo
graphical Union and various trades aud laboring
societies of New York city, in favor of the Eight