Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-06-04
CONGRESS-.
HOUSE.
WAsuINGToN, June 1.

WASHINGTON, June 1.
Under cell of States, bills were in
trpduced and referred as follows:
BY Foster to admit duty free pho
tographic and photographic prints,
philosophical apparatus, etc, imported
for cducationaland scientific purposes.
By Parker for an amendment to the
constitution to provide for the election
of Senators by the people.
Trcmaine moved suspension of the
rules for concurrence in the Senate
amendments to the banking law -
Agreed to and conference committee
was ordered.
On motion of Kelly, the House con-
curred in the amendment to the Gen.
tennial bill providing that the United
States shall not be liable, directly or
indirectly, for any expenses attending
the exhibition.
Dawes, chairman of the Ways and
Means committee, made statement
concerning the bill to amend the Inter-
nal Revenue laws. He said it was i'm
possible TO carry the bill through in
the manner which ii had been consid-
cred ip the House. He therefore bro't
before the House to-day, the same bill
with amendments adopted in commit
tee of tho whole on Friday evening.
Starkweather asked whether Dawes
would admit an amendment taxing
the sales of stocks, bonds, colds, SC,
at one twentieth of one per cent, and
remarked that the tax would produce
ten or twelve million yearly.
DayUa in tim n fn6 tho et,rh q 40
not collectable and the committee
would not recommend It,
In answer to Smith, of Ohio, wheth-
err flax would be pat on the free list,
Dawes was understood as replying in
the negative. He moved 70 suspend
the rules and pass the bill, intimating
that If the motion were negatived he
would press the matter further this
session.
Hawley, of Conn wanted to know
whether Dawes could assure the House
TINT the surplus ofnext year would be
adequate to meet the sinking fund OF
SIS, 600 600 for next year, and $22, 000,-
600 for this year, which would be the
deficiency alter applying the surplus
of this years revenue.
Dawes was understood to express a
belief or hope that it would. He NOV.
ed to suspend the rules and pass the
bill.
Randall suggested that tho House
being called on to vote with its eyes
shut, the reading of the bill was UNI
necessary.
The bill was read, however, and was
on motion of Dawes passed by vote
of III to 40. 81
Mr.. Starkweather then moved to
suspend the rules to add an additional
section to the tariff bill just passed,
impoing tax of one-twentieth of one
per cent. on all sales of stocks, bonds,
| gold, bullion and other securities.
The motion was agreed to without
the yeas and nays, and the provision
incorporated in the bill.
Mr.. Kasson moved to suspend the
rules and adopt section incorpo-
rated in the tariff bill, to facilitate the
export of manufactured tobacco
Agreed to, 160 to SO.
The amendment gives a drawb back OH
exported tobacco equal to the amount
OF duties which had been paid upon
| the imported licoricc which had been
used in the manufacture of the tobac-
| CO.
| Mr.. Wells from committee on Pacific
railroads moved to suspend rules and
pass the bill requiring that the various
| branches of the Pacific railroad be ope-
rated as continuous line, and provid-
ing penalties for making discrimina.
tons against other companies, aud de-
| claring the Denver and Pacific rail-
! road part OF the extension of the
Kansas Pacific railroad. Agreed to
without division.
| Mr.. Huribut moved to suspend the
rules and adopt as an additional Sec
ton of the tariff and revenue bill q
provision for the restoration OF the
l income tax.
| The motion was not seconded, yeas
| On motion of Mr.. Hubbel the rules
We're suspended and the Senate bill to
amend the mining law OF May 1872,
extending to the first of January next,
the time for performing work on mi
ming locations so as to prevent forfeit
ure, was passed.
Mr. Williams, of Michigan, moved
to suspend the rules TO pass the bill
for the collection from the Pacific rail-
road companies of five per cent tax on
their net earnings, as provided by the
act Of July 1872. Agreed to without
a division.
The rules were also suspended and
the bill passed relieving savings banks
with capital stock from the payment
of tax on their deposits, as in the
| case of savings banks having no CAPT
tai stock.
Mr.. iioughton moved to suspend
the rules and pass the bill declaring
the Omaha bridge part of the continu-
Gus line of the Union Pa
cific railroad. The motion was not
seconded.
On motion of Durrell the rules
were suspended and the bill allowing
settlers in certain counties of Mime.
sofa md Iowa to be absent from their
lands for year on account of the
plague of the grasshoppers, without
FORGETTING their rights, was passed.
| Mr. Butler of Mass, moved to sus-
pend the rules 10 take from the speak
er's table the Senate Civil Rights bill
for the purpose Of referring it to The
Judiciary Committee, with leaye to
report at any time.
Mr.. Beck moved TO adjourn and
called for tie yeas and nays.
| Without action on Mr.. Buffers ma
ton, tho House took recess till z 80
the evening session to be for reports
from the Judiciary Committee. =
4 EVENING SESSION.
Mr.. Butler, of Mass, reported a bill
authorizing women, otherwise quail
fled, to practice as attorneys and copn'
sellers at law in certain United States
courts. After the third reading, amid
general hilarity, the bill passed--96 t.
65. B8 SIS
/ The House then adjourned.
a SENATE. -
The Senate met at noon.
Window presented resolutions from
the National "A Agricultural Convention
recently held In Atlanta, favoring in
creased water communication from tn,
interior to the seaboard Referred
He also reported back from the Com
mittee on Transportation, bill pro-
viding for bureau OF Internal Com
merce, with an amendment in the ma