Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-01-16

up and further debated, several proposed amend
ments being rejected. Amendments were agreed
to-hxing the salaries OF Members and
Delegates Dc g ,s u at $SOoe per enngm; striking
expenses OF each Senator Representative and
Delegate" and inserting the words mileage and
other allowances allowed by law prior TO the pass.
age Of the act Of March 3, 1915" providing that no
mileage shall be allowed for the first session OF the
Forty-thrd Congress. Executive session and ad-
journment to the 18th.
House.-A bill was passed to credit As
sistant Treasurer Hillhouse OF New York, with
$1S5,000, the proceeds Of the sale of the internal
revenue stamps embezzled from his Office without
any neglect OF his own....A number of bills
were referred, including one to regulate
the drawing and summoning of iurics
in United States District and Circuit
Courts. TIE Fertilization bill appropriating
$g9i, 600, was reported from the Committee on APP
propriations and made the special order for the
14th. The deaths of James Brooks OF New York,
and w. d. Foster, Of Michigan, were formally an
nounced, and eulOgies delivered Adjourned,
the session on the 10th to be devoted exclusivel
to debate.
MONDAY, January 12.-Senate-Several
petitions were presented, including one from
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan b. Anthony and
Others, asking that women be allowed to vote, or
that the same right be extended TO them as to the
cOlored men,. Bills were Introduced oedtng to
several States within whose limit they respectively
lie, the beds Of unsurveyed lakes and other bodies
OF water providing that all freight and passenger
traffic between Kanras city and Leavenworth, or
any point on the line Of the Kan
sas Pacific and Denver Pacific Railway,
via Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, 10 Ogden, or
any point on the line Of the Union Pacific Rail
way or points beyond It's terminus, shall be car
red by said companies jointly at the same rates as
are charged on simil n traffic between Omaha anu
like points; but the Union Pacific Company shall
not be required TO receive upon said traffic less
sum than IL would be entitled to receive upon sim
liar traffic over it's own road when pro rated to and
p
and sustained in any United States
Court in which any portion OF either Of the said
roads is situated for triple the amount Of damages
and loss sustained by refusal TO comply wi h the
foregoing provisions. After considerable discus
sion on the Salary bill and the disposition OF sew
eral amendments, substitute for the House bill
was finally passed-46 10 toS-repealing the Increased
Salary Act except that portion relating to the
pensation of the President and Justices Of the Su-
preme Court and fixing the saaries-wth the ex-
ceptOns named-at the former rates; providing
that mileage shall be allowed for the first session
of the Forty-third Congress and that all moneys
appropriated as compensation to members OF the
Forty second Congress in excess of mileage and
allowances fixed by law at the commencement Of
said Congress, and which shall not have been
drawn by members Of said Congress, respectively
or which having been drawn, have been returned
in any form to the United States, are hereby
cred iuto the Treasury Of the United States, and
declared to be the moneys Of the United States,
absolutely the same as if they had never been APP
propriated rs aforesaid. Adjourned.
HOuSe-A large number of bills were
introduced and referred among them--to reorgan-
ize the Internal Revenue Department and reduce
its force to aid in establishing polytechnic schools
in every county ald state, aud in the erritores;
TO establish uniform and elastic currency,
and to reduce the National debt; making Treasury
notes legal tender for customs duties;
chartering a double-track railway from
tidewater on the Atlantic TO the Mis-
souri, River, and TO limit freights there
on. E. The rules were suspended and a resolu-
tion adopted-2H 10 3-declaring it to be the sense
of the House that the expenditures of the nation
can be and should be so reduced and regulated
that they can be met by existing taxes, and that in
event should there be an increase of either the
bearing non tere-t-bearing obligations
of the Government. The Naval Appropriation
bill was considered in Committee Of the Whole.
Adiniirrnd