Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-30

line Louisiana bill was further debated Ex-
ecutlYe session and adjournment.
In the House, on the Goth, bills were
introduced and referred-to fix the compensation
of the President Of the United States at SIS per
annum; levying q tax of one-twentieth OF per
cent. on sales of stocks, bonds, gold and silver
bullion, promissory notes and other securities;
providing for the collection of money and the re-
coTery of lands wrongfully held from the Gov
eminent by the Kansas Pacific Railway Company:
increasing the tax on the circulation of National
banks from one-twelfth TO One-quarter per cent.
per month. Bills were passed-for the bet
Ter pfoIecnon OF the frontier settlements OF
Iexas against Indian and Mexican depreda-
ions by the construction and maintenance
OF line of telegraph from Denison, Tex, to
or oll, Indian Territory and thence along
the northern frontier line of settlements and BY
the various military posts 10 Brownsville, and ap-
propraung 100000 for that purpose; allowing
certain fractional townships in Missouri to select
tLell school lands anywhere IN The state. ResO-
lutlons were offered and referred for the reCogni-
uoh OF Cuban independence. The bill apprO-
PHaung S3,OO0.0OO for the Centennial cele-
orauon was made the special order for May 81.
a resolution was adopted calling on the President
TOT copies Of the correspondence, kilograms, mill
lary orders, ETC., touching the troubles in Arkan-
sas.-. The Legislative Executive and Judicial AID
preparation bill was further considered in Commit
tee OF the Whole. =. Adjourned.
In the Senate. on the Dist, the House
bill for the relief of persons suffering by the over
'AAC mississippi IlINSL was ptioSCu. WIN al
amendment providing that the provisions of the
act snail expire on the LIST of next Sep
TEMPER. The bill providing for the pay
ment OF the bonds of the Louisville & Portland
Canal Company was taken up and an amendment
was agreed too TO Ito strike out the amend
ment IN the House bill that the canal should not
be taken ossession of nor any money paid till
the State of Kentucky should cede to the United
States the jurisdiction the same, together with
all right to tax the property Adjourned.
In the House, on the 21st, a bill was in
troduced and referred directing the temporary
suspension of the Legislature of the District of
Colum 0la "A lengthy report was submitted from
the committee on Railways and Canals ordered
printed and recommitted, on the bill TO charter a
double-track freight railway from ude-water
on the Atlantic to Council Bluffs, on the Mis-
souri, River, and to limit the rates of freight there
on: The report says the company proposing TO
build this great freight railway will accept the
scale of low rates of freight agreed upon by the
committee-ffteen cents bushel from Chicago,
eighteen cents from st. Louis. etc.-the company
saklng the Government to guarantee its p er
cent. bonds at the rate of $4,000 per mile. The
9lll Is reported without any recommendation by
the committee....A bill was passed extending
for one year from the passage of this act the time
for completing the entries Of the Usage Indian
lands in Kansas bill was reported to
provide for the appointment of COM
mission of engineers to report q permanent
plan for the reclamation of the auvial basin of the
Mississippi River subject to inundation. The
Senate amendment to the bill for the relief of the
sufferers by the overflow of the Mississippi River
was concnrred in The Legislative, Executive
and Judicial Appropriation bill was further con-
sidered in Committee OF the Whole. :. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 22d, the message
of the President, transmitting the report of the
Civil-Service Commission, was received, read and
ordered printed . The bill to enable the Men
nonites from Russia to effect permanent settle
ment on the public lands of the United States was
taken up, and amendments were adopted. A
message was received from the President vetoing
the Financial bill, which message was ordered
printed and, with the BILL to lie the table until
the ensuing week. "A bill was introduced and re
ferred to enable Indians to become citizens of the
United States. Bills were passed-Senate bill
Obviating the necessity of issuing patents
for certain private land claims in the
State of Missouri; Senate bill to author
ize the County Commissioners of Thurston
County, W. T., to issue bonds for the purpose of
constructing railway from Budds Inlet, Puget
Sound, to intersect the Northern Pacific Railway
at or near Tenfno; Senate bill for the benefit of
the Kentucky Agricultural and Mechanical Asso-
citation. House bill for the relief of settlers on
the Cherokee strip, in Kansas. Executive SEES
sion and adjournment.
In the House, on the 22d, a bill was re-
ported from the Committee on Foreign Affairs to
carry into execution the provisions of the -Four
teenth Amendment to the Constitution, concern
ing citizenship and to define certain rights of cii-
of the United States in foreign countries,
and diplomatic consular officers. j.. The Legisla-
tive, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill
was taken up in Committee of the Whole, and the
item of 100000 for the purchase of official post
age stamps for the Treasury Department re-
duced to $4,000, the idea being to let the small
sum 90 to pay the cost of furnishing stamps with
out regard to their face value and not to charge
the Treasury Department with the payment of
postage. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 23d, bills were in
troduced and referred-to reduce the tax on the
circulation of State banks to an amount equal to
that paid by the National banks with state
ment that the tax on the National bank
clrculauon was per cent. and that on
State bank circulation 10 per cent, which
practically prevented any circulation Of
the latter class, supplementary to the to incor-
porate the Texas Pacific Railway Company, and
to aid IN the construction of the road The bill
to enable the MennoHites of Russia to effect
permanent settlement on the public
lands of the United States was taken up,
and notice was given of an additional
amendment. "A resolution was agreed to, TO
print five hundred copies of the report of the Com
mittee on Postoffces and Post Roads upon the bill
to provide for transmission of correspondence by
telegraph. .. The Louisiana bill was further de-
bated. Adjourned.
In the House, on the 23d, resolutions
were offered and misunderstanding the Com
mittee on Banking and Currency to inquire and
report the reasons why the S25 600 600 of National
Bank currency authorized to be withdrawn
from the States having more than their pro-
portion has not been withdrawn and distributed
of May, 1870, and what further legis-
lation is necessary to that result; calling
for information Oh the same subject from the Sec
rotary of the Treasury. A bill was introduced
and referred providing that the tax on State banks
shall not be other nor greater than the tax Ma
tional banks. :. The bill reported from the Com
mitteee on Foreign Affairs concerning the citi-
zenship and rights of United States citi-
zens in foreign countries taken up
and debated. The POstotfice Appropriation bill
appropriatng 5553,3 91, of which $56348i2 is to
come out of the Treasury, the rest being derived
from the postal revenues, was reported and re-
ferred to Committee of the Whole. =. The Legis-
latiye, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill
was further debated in Committee of the Whole
..-.AdJ ourned.
In the Senate, on the oath, bills were
passed-amendatory of the act to provide internal
revenue to support the Government, to pay inter
est on the public debt and for other purposes ap-
proved June 80, 1864, the amendment providing
that no legal document or paper required by law
TO be stamped which was made, signed or issued
in the Northern States prior the 1st of july
shall be deemed held as invalid, of no effect BY
reason OF the failure to impose thereon the re-
CURED stamp; House bill to render available Ger
tain balances Of uDexpended appropriations for
the payment OF bounty and prize money to cOlored
soldiers and sailors bill was introduced and
referred to provide for a Commission upon the
subject of postal telegraph. The report of the
Committee on Transportation Routes was present.
ed, and motion was made and referred to print
LOCO extra copies. =. The Louisiana bill was
further debated Adjourned to the s7th
In the House, on the Oath, message
from the President was received and referred.
transmitting copies of all the orders and CORE
spondence IN relation to the troubles in Arkansas
in answer to a resolution Of the House hill
was introduced and referred to repeal the second
section of the acl of the 9TH Of July, 1872, which
reduces the duries on certain i'm Dor ed articles
1O per cent. The Consular and Diplomatic Ap-
preparation bill apprUpriating S3.347 304, was re-
ported, and referred. =. The Legislative, Execu-
tive and Judicial Appropriation bill was further
considered in Committee OF the Whole, and sew
rortiops IF the hill were diSDOSad ~ 4