Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-12-09
KNOXVILLE. TENN: WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1874

| health, police, excise, street cleaning,
public buildings aud fire department.
! And also three members of Board of
Education, which shall contain three
other members elected by the voters of
| the District of Columbia, and be pre-
sided over by the United STATES Com
missioner of Education, who shall he
ex~oflicio II member. The public
works of the District are To be in
| charge OF an army engineer detailed
! by the President for three years and
the Board of District Public Build
ings will be headed by the United
States Superintendent of Public
Buildings. The powers and duties oi
! all these subordinate officers and those
OF the Regents are minutely specified,
| defined and limited, and the same gen.
eral principles of rigid responsibility
runs throughout the bill, which Is
very vOluminous, consisting Of eighty
printed pages divided into fifteen
chapters.
The power to'mske, alter or abrogate
local ordinances is contided exclusive
ly to the Board of Regents, and nc
| officers are to be elected by the people
except those members of the Board oI
Education as above stated. The bill
| fixes two per cent. as the rate of taxa
| tion, which shall be levied on all the
real and personal property, owned 10y
individuals or corporations in the Dis
trict. The valuation for purposes o.
taxation, is to be made by three asses
sors, appointed by the Board OF Re
gents, and is to be, "That just valu
alton, which would be recognized OF
appraisement between the debtor anC
creditor; all taxes are to be payable tC
| the United States Collector of the In'
ternal Revenue and to be paid by hin
| into the United States Treasury nj
! other revenues or moneys Of the Dis
trict are to be collected and deposited
in the Federal Treasury, in the sam,
way all vouchers and bills of expense
of every description are to be audited
in the United States Treasury, aud al
warrants for the payment of money
on account of the District, shall b.
subject to the Second Comptroller O
the u. 3. Treasury" The bill pro
vides explicitly that no expenditure o
liability shall be incurred by or for tn
District of Columbia, that has not beel
appropriated for by Congress, and n
payments for the District shall
made out of the Treasury except i
conformity with the appropriations G
Congress. The bill finally provide
for revision and codification of al
laws of the United States, which re
late especially to this District. Vic
President Wilson was in the chair
HOUSE
In the House 23S of the 3Ol men
bers were present. Three new men
bers were seated-Mr. Chittenden an
Mr.. Schell of New York, and NJ
Carpenter from South Carolina.
Mr.. Phelps asked the unanimoI
consent to introduce Bill repealin
the newspaper gag law. Mr.. Hale
New York, objected.
The Presidents message was rea
and listened to with unusual attention
Mr. Garfield, from the Committee q
, Appropriations, reported the Legisl
/ tive, Executive and Judicial Appr
priation Bill, which was made spt
cial order for Tuesday of next weel
Mr.. Hale of Maine, from the san
Committee, reported the Naval Apprt
; priation Bill which was made speci
order for Wednesday of next week.
Mr.. Wheeler, from :he same Con
. mittee, reported the Army Appropri
e ton Bill which was made a special o
, der for Tuesday of next week.
. Mr.. Longbridge, from the san
= Committee, reported on the India
Q Appropriation Bill which was mao
special order for Friday of nel
! week.
Mr.. Starkweather, of Connection
q from the same Committee, reported G
q the Fertilization Bill, which was mac
0 a special order for Tuesday the 22d
r December.
0 The amounts appropriated by the
9 several bills is as follows:
The Legislative Bill Sl9,653, ,43-
Navy, SIG, ,976. .006; Army, S27, ,70l ,50I
Indians, $4,s6l, ,507; Fertilization
. $3.50, 900.
q Tyner, of Indiana, from the san
committee, reported bill appropria
n ing $50, 600 for the purchase Of seals f
c the use of the POstoffice Department
G executing the law requiring the pr
d payment of postage on newspapers.
% Cox, of New York, wanted to off
an amendment excepting from the o.
Grafton of the law cases where su
scriptions were taken prior to the fir
A of January, 1875, and allowing postal
v in these cases to be paid at the plat
q of destination.
X Tyner declined to allow the amen
n ment to be offered or spoken of by Co
i who intimated that in the next Hou!
y lie would have more privileges,
which Tyner replied that he, TYNE
would not be there 70 see. daughter
The bill was then passed. Cox ther
upon introduced bill to carry out Il
object indicated by him aud it was T
ferred to the Postofiice Committee
Phelps, of New Jersey, gave motto
that he would, on next Monday, If
got the floor move to suspend the rul
and pass the bill which he sought
Introduce and pass to-day, to repe
the press gag law.
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