The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-06-05
CONGRESSIONAL.

CONGRESSIONAL.
WEDNESDAY, May 27.-Sendte. were
passed to prevent hazing at the naval acadt mics
to amend the act reducing internal taxation and
duties on imports and TO revise and consolidate
1878 Pending the discuf sion of the Alabama con-
tested election the Senate went into executive
session. and soon after adjourned.
H5use-The following bills were passed: Re
pealing the law which the Sanborn contracts
were based removing the political disabilities of
Raphael semmes providing that the days work of
| conductors and drivers on street-cars in the Dis
| trict of Columbia shall not exceed ten
| hours: investing general courts-martia with
Jurisdiction concurrent with that of State or Ter
ritorial courts, of the crimes of murder, man
slaughter mayh hem, rape arson, robbery, burglary,
and assault and battery; defining the civil rights
| OF colored people in the Choctaw Nation; re-
stricting the choice OF juries i'll the United
States courts to persons who read and write the
| English language. A number of petitions asking
for woman suffrage, aud the petition that the l2th
! of April abraham Lincolns birthday be declared
national holiday, were reported adversely
from the committees to which they were
referred. "A resolution was passed pro-
viding for the appointment Of COM
mittee Of five TO investigate the condition of
affairs in Arkansas. Tremaine, from the Judi
ciary Committee, reported back the Senate amend
ment TO the bill TO repeal the Bankrupt law, and
moved non-concurrence and the appointment of "A
conference committee. No action was taken on the
motion. An evening session was held TO consider
the Tariff bill
THURSDAY, May 2S.-Sendte.-Blls were
passed setting apart portion Of Mackinac Island
a national park, and donating the site of Fort
Houston near Nashville, Tenn, TO Fisk University
for educational purposes. The Alabama contested
election case of Sykes VIZ. Spencer was decided III
favor of the latter by strict perry vote. The bill
to establish the Territory of Pembua rejected
10 20 %. O.. Morton, from the Committee ON Privi-
leges and Elections reported back the resolution of
the Senate, March 10, 1873, instructng the commit
tee to examine and report the best mode OF electug
President and Nice-P President, with lengthy writ
ten report, which was ordered printed and placed
on the calendar
Ho,ise.-The Senate amendments to the bill to
egaze pontoon railway bridge across the Mis-
sissippi at Prairie du Chicn were coucurred in 600.
bill for the RELIEF OF the widow of Capt. Hal, Of
the Poars, was passed. .. A vote was taken on the
new Currency BILL az amended by the Banking and
Currency Committee. and il was rejected by l12 10
III. The senate substitute without amendment
was also defeated, and the whole matter was sent
To "a conference committee. The bill tor the re-
duction Of the army was discussed and laid over.
zee. The Speaker appointed as the Special Commit
tee on Arkansas Affairs, Poland, Ward (ll.), Wood
ford, Sayler (OD and Soss The House held an
evening session, which vas devoted solely 10 The
consideration, in Committee Of the Whole, Of the
Tarin bill.
FRIDAY, May Acknowledgements, from
the Committee on Public Lands reported adversely
on the bill to extend the time for proof and pay
meut ON presumption claims upon public lands.
The Election Committee reported a resou
ton to pay Sykes, contestant for the seat
from Alabama 1914. Laid over.
Ferry (Mich0, from the Committee on Finance,
reported adversely TO the resolution Of the Senate
directing the committee TO inquire into the expe
diency of allowing producers of tobacco to sell
to others than licensed dealers The Chair
laid before the Senate the House Cur
rcncy bill with resolution of the House
disagreeng TO the Senate amendments. and asking
for n committee of conference. Wright moved that
the Senate insist upon its amendments and grant
the conference asked by the House. Agreed to-
81 10 24-and the Char appointed Morton, Sherman
and Merrimon as the committee. e. Several bills
relating to Pensions were passed.
Hovse.-The bill for the gradual reduction of the
army taken up and passed. An amendment by
Butler that the army headquarters shall never be
removed from the capital rejected without a
division The House concluded the consideration
Of the Senate amendments TO the General Appro-
priation bill aud sent 1t back to conference COM
mittee.
MONDAY, June 1.-.Sendte. -Windom, from
the Committee on Transportation, reported back
the bill to provide for Bureau of Internal Com
merce, with an amendment in the nature of sub
were passed Granting pension of Go per month
stitute Placed on the calendar The following bills
TO the widow of the late Gen. Candy appropriate
ing Sl4G 600 for bridge across the eastern branch
OF the Potomac river TO amend the laws relating 10
patents, trademarks and copyrights; appropriatng
S25,0O0 for the completion of the naval
monument at Washington; making appro-
priations for the support Of the Military
Academy Consideration of the Indian Appro-
priatiOn bill was resumed, the bill read through,
and the amendments OF the committee agreed to.
HouSe.-Bills were introduced: BY Foster to adj
nit, free of duty, Photographic and photographic
prints, philosophical apparatus, etc, imported for
educational aud scientific purposes; 10y Parker for
the amendment of the Constitution so aG to pro-
vide for the election of Senators by the people.
$50. Tremaine moved to suspend the rules
and non-concur with the Senate in the amend
ment TO the Bankrupt law. Agreed TO, and con-
ference committee was ordered. The House con-
Cured in the Senate amendment 10 the Centennial
bill, providing that the United States shall not be
liable, directly or indirectly, for any expenses at
tending the exhibition. -. The Amendatory Tariff
bill was discussed, amended aud finally passed 49,.
The House, under suspension of the rules, passed
the following acts Requiring the various branches
Of the Pacific railroad TO be run and operated
continuous line Of railroad, and providing
penalties for making discrimination against other
companies providing for the collection from the
Pacific Railroad Companies of the per cent. tax
ON their net earnings relieving savings banks that
have capital stock from payment Of tax on deposits
in of savings banks having no capital
allowing settlers in certain counties i'll MINI
ncsota aud Iowa to be absent from their lands
on account of the plagne OF grasshoppers
for one year without forfeiting their rights. =.
An attempt made to take from the Speakers
table the Ciy Rights bill passed by the Senate. 1t
unsuccessful ON account of the hlibusteriug of
the opponents of the measure. Butler (Mass) re-
ported bill authorizing women otherwise quail
fed to practice attorneys and counselors-at-law
in the several courts of the United States. The bill
was ordered 10 third reading amid great harity,
by a vote OF SO to G5.
TUESDAY, Juno 2.-Sendte Favorable
committee reports were made on the bills to pro-
vide for the stamping of unstamped papers. docu-
ments and instruments of writing; for the better
organization of the Federal courts in Louisiana
and to further continue the act authorizing the set
Element OF accounts Of officers Of the army aud navy
. Adverse reports were made on the bills allowing
army officers TO wear embems indicative Of honors
conferred upon them, aud providing fer the plac-
ing of retired army officers on duty. Sherman,
from the Committee on Finance, reported back the
Hill 20 amend the Customs Revenue laws. and to |
repeal the moeties, with number Of additional |
amendments ... The Indian Appropriation bill was
passed Window, from the Committee ON Trans !
reported substitute for the bill to
late commerce by railroad among the several |
States.
House-The bill in relation to courts and judicial |
officers in Utah passed, after spirited debate,
by 159 TO So. A bill passed authorizing the |
Secretary of the Treasury TO suspend work on pub
lie buildings in certain cases.