The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-05-28
CONGRESSIONAL.
Photographed to the Bulletin. |
The Senate.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 27.-The Senate
has passed a bill to provide for the better
protection of the frontier settlements of
Texas against Indian and Mexican depreda-
lions, which appropriates one hundred thou
sand dollars to enable the Secretary of War
to construct and operate a line of telegraph
from the city of Denison, Texas, to Fort Sill,
Indian Territory, thence to Fort Richardson,
Texas.
Thence along the northern frontier line
OF settlements to Forts Griffin and Concha +;
thence to the PecOs river, near the mouth of
Tayah Creek thence to Fort Clarke; thence
to Fort Duncan, on the Rio Grande; thence
down the Rio Grannde, via Fort Mcintosh
and Ringgold Barracks to Brownsville, so
as to connect the various military posts.
The Senate is en- gagged on the bill to revise
and consolidate the Statutes OF the United
States.
WASHINGTON, May l7.-Mr. Sherman, from
! the Committee on Finance, reported tavOra-
bly, on the House Bill amendatOry of the
act to reduce internal taxation, approved
March 3, 1874. Laid over.
The contested election case of Sykes VS..
Spencer was taken up.
Mr.. Hamilton reviewed at some length
the argument before the Committee ON
Privileges and Elections, and the condition
OF affairs in Alabama, and argued that the
Legislature by which Spencer, the.present
occupant was elected, was not the legal
Legislature of the STATE.
In conclusion. he submitted a resolution
declaring Spencer not entitled to the seat
in the Senate, and that it be awarded to
Sykes.
Mr.. Morton said that he did not view this
case in partisan spirit.
Alabama had decided Republican major
Ity, Gen. Grant having carried the State in
1872, by 10000 majority.
The whole trouble in that State grew out
OF a conspiracy to secure a Democratic ma
jority in the Legislature to control the
patronage, and more particularly the cleo
ton of United States Senator.
Mr.. Salisbury denied that there was any
fraud on the part of the Democrats in Ala
bama, and said if there was any, it was on
the part of the Republicans.
He contended that the Legislature which
elected Sykes was the legal one of the State.
The discussion was interrupted by a mo-
ton for executive session.
The Senate then adjourned.
Mr.. Buckingham, Of Connecticut, called
up the Senate bill making an appropriation
OF 1872 for the payment of Jas. L. Day, of
Connecticut, for transporting mails on route
No. e151 in Louisiana. Passed.
The House.
The House passed the bill repeating the
law on which the Sanborn contracts were
based; also the bill removing the political
disabilities OF Raphael Semmes, of Ala
bama.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-The House passed
bills as follows: Providing that no person
shall serve as juror in the United States
courts who cannot read and write the En-
glish language; fixing the time for holding
circuit courts in the Fourth Judicial Dis
trict making colored persons in the ChOc-
taw and Chickasaw Nations members of
those nations and entitled to all the rights
and privileges as such.
The Hoase adopted the resolution for the
appointment of a select committee on the
disturbed condition of Arkansas, and to in
quire whether it has a government Republi-
can in form, and which ought to be recOg-
nized by the United States Government. The
House also passed bill removing the dis
abilities of George E. Picket and Chas. H.
Williamson, of Virginia, Thomas Hardeman,
Jr., and James Jackson, of Georgia, and John
A. Regain, of Texas.