The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-12-17

| Dns wcie inIIouuceu-LO extlngulsh the In.
dian title to the Black Hills; to- substitute
United States notes for National Bank notes
for an additional Representative from Nebras.
ka; to regulate elections in certain States: ia
amend the act in relation to the elective
franchise; to reduce the Presidents salary
Adjourned. sg
In the Senate, on the 9th, asmemorfal was
presented, signed by settlers on the public
lands In Kansas, asking that the operation
Of the Presumption laws may be extended in
consequence Of the grasshopper invasion.
The standing committees OF last session were
reappointed, Messrs. Dennis and Davis chang.
ing places on the Committees on Claims and
Agriculture Bills were introduced to ascer-
tain the cost to Kansas in resisting the Indian
invasion OF 1874, and providing for the pay
menf OF arrears Of pensions. . In the House
the Omaha Railroad Bridge bill was postponed
until Feb. -. The Presidents Message was
appropriately referred. The bill to continue
the Board of Audit for the District Of Colum-
bia was amended and passed. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on 10th, the Hon. George Ban
croft was appointed one of the Regentas sok
the Smithsonian Institute. The House bfii'
appropriating $4,000 to purchase scales for
the Postofiice Department was amended and
passed. After executive session the
Senate adjourned to meet on. the 14th
....In the House, the Commissioners
Of the Freedmen's Bank were direct
ed to declare an Immediate dividend
and bring suit against all persons indebted to
the institution. The Diplomatic and Consul
lar Appropriation bill was made the special
order for the 23d The Senate amendment to
the bill providing for the purchase Uf Scales
for the Postoffice Department was concurred
in and the bill passed. The Speaker an
nounced sundry appointments to fill yacan-
cics on committees, after which the House
adjourned
The Senate was not in session on the 11th
....Bills were passed in the House-allow
ing homestead and pre-emption settlers
whose crops had Ebeen destroyed by grass
hoppers permission to leave their lands until
May, 1876; Senate bill appointsng Hon.
George Bancroft to be one of the Regents
of the Smithsonian institute. A resolution
was adopted directing the arrest of Richard
b. Irwin for contempt in disobeying the sum-
mons of the Committee on Ways and Means
to testify in relation to the Pacific Mail sub
sidy investigation. Adjourned
On the 14th a petition was presented to the
Senate from colored citizens of Indiana, ask
ing that the proper law officer be directed to
appeal to the Supreme Court for reversal of
the recent School law decision of the Indiana
Supreme Court. A bin was passed directing
the Land Commissioner to modify the Home
stead law in favor of the grasshopper suf.
were appointed as committee on
the part Of the Senate to receive King Kala-
kaua. :. In the House, bills were introduced:
For free banking and to retire legal tender
notes; reducing letter postage to one cent
for the relief of the Southern States BY com
promise and the settlement Of thelrdcbts; to 4
repeal the law requiring prepayment of
newspaper postage; to aid in the construc-
lion of a narrow-gauge railroad from tide
water to st. Louis and Chicago; making ap-
for lighthouses in Michigan;
for free banking and the resumption of
specie payments. A resolution for the |
Investigation OF the recent safe |
burglary" affair was defeated for want Of |
-wo-thrds vote in the affirmative. A CON- |
nittee of five was ordered to be appointed to |
report upon the recent Vicksburg troubles. |
nicoc.o. O. tl, ID usN- a.ao COX were ap- |
pointed committee on the part of the House |
TO receive King Kalakaua.