Connecticut western news., 1874-02-27
XLIIId CONGRESS,
SENATE.

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 companies shall be subjected to State and county taxation. Committee on Public Lands. After one or two verbal amendments, the thirty ninth section of the original Bankrupt law, as amended and reported by the Judiciary the exception of filling the blank as to the time when the provisions of the section should apply to all cases of compulsory or involuntary bankruptcy. Other amendments were agreed to. The Committees amendments, passed by the Senate, fix the time at forty days within which any banker, broker, merchant, trader, manufacturer or miner who has stopped or suspended, and not resumed pay ment of his commercial paper, shall not be deemed bankrupt, and prescribe that the fees commissions, charges, and allowances, except ing actual and necessary disbursements of and to be made by the officers, agents, marshals, messengers, assignees, and registers in cases of bankruptcy, shall be reduced to one-half of the allowances heretofore provided for. The Justices of the Supreme Court, who are to make new rules and regulations in respect to the law, are empowered to consolidate the duties of register, assignee, marshal, and clerk, and to reduce the cost of charges to the end that prolixity, delay, and unnecessary expense may be avoided. ~&E
 MT. Boutwell,, of Mass. introduced bill amendatory of the National Currency act. h0IoTToQ 70 the tInAnC0 COIQmCCe0. The following is the full text of the bill:
 Be it enacted &c., That it shall not be lawful for any banking association, organized under the said act, or any act amendatory thereof. to pay interest on deposits to banks, banking companies or banking associations nor shall any such banking association receive interest upon money deposited with any bank, person, party or corporation and any banking associa- tion guilty of violation of the provisions of this act shall be liable to apenalty equal to four 10 1nfn If mt 1Orr uod to be recovered in any court of competent Jurisdiction, and it shall be the duty of the Comptroller of the Currency to cause proceed ings to be instituted for the recovery of the penalties aforesaid and for the benefit of the United States. Y
 SEC. 2. That not more than one-fourth part of the amount of lawful money of the United States that any such association may be re- quired to have on hand, as is provided in such acts, shall consist of balances due to such as- sociations, as is available for the redemption of it's circulating Dotes from banking associations approved by the Comptroller of the Currency.
 Mir. Gorden of Ga, introduced 8 bill to amend the internal revenue laws.
 E It provides that all provisions of law hereto fore existing in relation to the imposition of stamps upon written instruments and all pen alties imposed by lawfor the omission or failure to stamp such instruments as bear date prior to the establishment of reyenne districts in the States engaged in the rebellion, be repealed.
 MT. Cameron, of Penn., from the Committee on Foreign Relations, reported without amend ment the House bill requesting the President to extend, in the name of the United States, 8 cordial invitation to foreign governments to take part in the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia.
 MT. Sumner, of Mass, offered an amendment to the bankruptcy bill, which was agreed to, to the 21st section of the original act, follows |: But 8 creditor proving his debt or claim shall not be held to have waived his right of action or suit against the bankrupt when discharge has been refused or the proceedings have been determined without discharge. The bill hay ing been considered in the Senate as a Com mlttee of the Whole, was reported to the Senate and the amendments were concurred in. Mir. Johnson, of Va, modified his amendment, previously offered to read follows: All notices of sales under this act by any assignee or officer of the court shall be published in the newspaper or newspapers to be designated by the Judge, which, in his opinion, shall be best calculated to give general notice of the sale Agreed to. The question then recurred on the passage of the bill, and it was passed-Yeas
 The Senate discussed Mir. Bayard's resolution calling upon the President to inform the Senate whether any officer of the United States Army on duty in South Carolina had been instru- mental ID procuring compensation from the State for his services. The resolution went over.
 Mr. Boutwell,, of Mass, introduced bill to provide for the survey and disposal of timber lands. It requires such lands in the mining districts to be surveyed in tracts of 160 acres each and allows any person engaged in the business of mining to make entry of the stumpage upon any one such tract and remove all the timber except one tree to the acre within three years paying therefor at the rate of $2 50 per acre. The Secretary of the Interior is also required to make surveys of the timber lands suitable for agricultural purposes, and any homestead or preemption settler may enter not exceeding forty acres of said timber lands at the rate of $2. 50 per acre.
 The Chair laid before the Senate resolutions of the Wisconsin Legislature, instructing the delegation in Congress from that State to vote for the passage of the law reducing the pay of all civil and military employees of the Govern ment to scale commensurate with the duties performed by them. Referred to the Commit tee on Civil Service and Retrenchment.
 MT. Sargent presented memorial from Cali fornia for the prevention of the evils arising from Chinese emigration. - f-
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 Mir. Dawes, of Mass, introduced bill to re- duce the rate of letter postage to two cents.
 By Mir. Platt, of N. Y.-Fixing the salaries of the Postmasters of New York; Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago St. Louis, Cincinnatt Balti- more, and San Francisco. It fixes the com- pensation of the Postmasters named at the following. rates, viz: At New York, $1O,OOO j; at $8, 900 each r.; and Brooklyn, Baltimore, and Cincinnati, $6,OO0; provided that such salaries shall be paid from money received at the post offices from box rents, sales of postage stamps, and other sources in excess of the expenditures allowed and made thereat for rent, clerk hire, fuel, lights furniture, stationery printing, and the necessary incidentals. -t
 By MT. Woodford, of N. Y.-To regulate the hours of service in the departments at Washing ton, and to reduce the number of clerks.
 By MT, Smith, of N. C.--To repeal the in- terna1 revenue taxes on whisky and tobacco.
 By MT. Stone, of Mo.-For the construction of the Fort St. Philip canal. Also for the free circulation of weekly newspapers
 Mir. Cox, of N. Y, presented the memorial of Wm. Raddie and 1, 162 citizens of New York for beligerent rights to. Cuba a
 Mr. Butler, of Mass, made personal ex- plantation in the House in reply to attacks made upon him by the press.
 MT. Lowe, of Kan, from the Committee on Indian Affairs reported a bill extending to the 1st of January, 1875, the time within which settlers on the Cherokee strip in Kansas may make proof of settlement and payment, de- ferred payments to bear five per cent interest Passed. - .--...- - .~,.
 The committee reported the Army Appro- priation bill, and the House proceeded to vote on the amendments. The first vote was on the amendment offered by MT. Young, of Georgia, extending the time me, for the presentation of claims to Nov. 1, 1875. The amendment was agreed to-Yeas, 131; nays, 1O4. All the other attachments were agreed to in bulk, and the bill was passed.
 The House in committee of the whole on the Fertilization bill took the following action :: The items of s20060 each for Forts Foote and Washington on the Potomac was stricken out and. the items for Forts Moultrie, Sumter, and Pulaski were retained. The appropriations for Fort McHenry, Md, and Fort Jefferson, Fla, were refused. The committee then rose and reported the bill to the House, and it was passed.
 A bill for ascertaining the losses sustained by citizens of southern Oregon and northern N1lSf ~R cussion. Mir. Shanks (Rep. Ind defended the memory of Capt. Jack and his Modocs, and said it was a fact that when Gen. Canby was holding his conference with Capt. Jack the military lines were being closed around the ModooS Mr. Nooro;th /naro nraoo,>N ..,a HE