Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-03
THE NEW WORLD.

THE bill for the distribution of the Geneva
award, which passed both houses of Congress
on the 22d, provides for five commissioners to
distribute the money, and limits the time OF
service to one year and half.
On the 22d notice was given that the Presi-
dent had signed the Currency bill.
NEW YORK dispatches of the 22d say that
the signing of the Currency bill had caused
great buoyancy in the railway share market.
Over 100000 shares changed hands at from Il
to per cent. advance.
AMONG the bills passed by the late Congress
was one providing that atprepayment of postage
on newspapers shall commence Jan. l, 1875,
and that the rate shall be two cents per pound
on weekly and daily papers, and three cents
per pound on all publications less frequent
than weekly. Postage on public documents
was fixed at ten cents per volume.
On the 23d the President nominated Alex
ander r. Shepherd, late Governor of the Dis
trict of Columbia; William A. Dennison, of
Ohio, Postmaster General, and Henry T.
Blow, of Missouri, formerly member of Con-
gress from THAI State, and afterward Minister
to Brazil, as Commission to govern the Dis
trct until the new form of government shall
have been prepared and adopted. The last
two named were promptly confirmed but the
nomination of Shepherd was defeated by a
vote of six to thirty-six. Subsequently ex-
Senator Cattell, of New Jersey, was nominated
| and confirmed.
| THE following are the more important bills
| which go over till the next session of Con-
gress:
| For the relief of owners and purchasers of land
| sold for direct taxes in insurrectionary States.
| Amending the section of the act approved July
! 13 concerning deposits in savings banks.
Granting to railways in the Territories the right
of way through public lands in the United states
To enable the Central Branch of the Union Pa
/ cltc Railway Company to submit its claim against
| the United States under the existing laws to de-
| cision of the Supreme Court.
| To establish and maintain national savings
/ depository as a branch of the Postofhce.
To incorporate the Southern Trans Continental
| Railway Company
To provide for the more efficient administration
| of laws relating to public land
Amendatory of the Civil Rights law.
/ TO authorize the organization of national banks
To establish the Territory of Pembina, and pro-
| vide government therefor
| Providing for postal telegraph.
! Providing for the resumption of specie payment
| and for free banking.
Amendatory of the Tariff and Internal Revenue
/ laws.
For admission of New Mexico and Colorado as
States.
Repeating the Presumption and amendatory OF
! the Homestead laws
/ To protect the navigable waters of the United
| States from injury and obstruction
House bill for the reorganization of the army
House bill to equalize bounties
The bill granting pensions to all soldiers of the
| war OF 1872 and their widows and children.
/ For the construction and repair of the Missis
i sippi River levees
The MeCrary bill regulating charges for railway
| transportation.
House bill amendatory of the Steamboat law.
! Senate bills for the abolition of compulsory
pilotage and to authorize the organization of ma
| tional banks without circulation.
/ All land-grant bills and many hundred bills fol-
! the relief Of individuals.
1st of June, 1892 subordinate Oranges OF the
Patrons of Husbandry.