Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-06-25

or business Of any or either of said companies
shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and |
upon conviction thereof be fined not exceeding
5000 and be imprisoned not less than six months
ure or refusal of the Union Pacific Rail
way, or either Of said branches to COM
ply with the requirements of the act,
The party injured or the company aggrieved may
bring action and be entitled TO Judgment for treble
the amount of all excess of freight and fares col
leCted by the defendant and for treble the amount
of damages sustained by the plaintiff by such fail
ure or refusal, and for every violation of the act
new cause for action shall arise; this bill
also further provides that the Denver Pa
cifc Railway Company shall be deemed
part and an extension of the Kansas Pacific Rail-
way to the point Of junction thereof with the
Union Pacific Railway at Cheyenne. Amend
ments were made TO the Postofice Appropriation
bill. A unanimous report made from the
Joint Select Committee TO investigate into the
| Columbia and bill was also reported for the
government of the District. Adjourned.
In the House, on the 10Th, Conference
Committees were ordered on Senate amendments
| to the Indian Appropriation bill and on the &C.
the 4th of July, 1873, the time within which pc
utions for allowances may be presented 10 the
Southern CLAIMS Commission, and providing for
the appointment of two additional commissioners:
relating to ocean telegraphs; TO indemnify the
holders of presumption and homestead certificates
and certificates of entry and patents to lands
within the Des Molnes River grant on account of
failure of title; for the relief of the owners and
purchasers Of land sold for direct taxes in the in
surrectionary States; several pension bills were
also passed The conference report on the Bank
ruptCy bill was agreed to-. The report of the
Joint Investigation Committee on the affairs of
| the District of Columbia was ordered printed
| Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the nth, bills were
passed-to amend the act in relation to the survey
of certain lands granted to the Northern Pacific
Railroad; House bill to provide for the appoint
| ment of a Commission of Engineers toinvestigate
| and report upon a permanent plan for the rec
lamatlon of the alluvial basin of the Mississippi
| ubject to inundation; House bill to create two
! additional land districts in Kansas House
| bill to provide for the apportionment of
tive p1sposes; House bill TO authorize
the construction of bridge across the Mississippi
River at or near the city of La Crosse, Wis; pro
| mbltlng the publication in newspapers of the Re
ylsed STATUTES at the expense of the United States
| House bill repeating all revenue tax on savings
banks having no capital and where in
| of depositOrs. The Postoffice Appropria-
| ton bill was further considered, and
| amendments were agreed to-providing that pub
! lie documents may be sent through the mails at
| rate of postage not to exceed twenty-five cents
for each volume, to be paid by the person receiv-
ing the same, and authorizing the Postmaster Gen
era TO sell, after thirty days, all public documents
| which have accumulated, and allowing the Con-
| greSSlonaI Record, or any part thereof, to go
1ree, upon being stamped with the words
| Congressional Record y upon the wrapper; pro-
ylding that so much of the act fixes the rate of
| postage on newspapers and periodicals shall not
/ take effect until the 1st of January next. An
amendment to restore the Thanking privilege as it
existed prior to the act repeating the same was Of
| fered and rejected-yeas H. nays "a. The bill was
| the Legislative, Executive and Judicial and the
! Pension Appropriation bills were made and agreed
to. :. AdJourned.
In the House, on the 18th, resolutions
were agreed to in favor of the establishment of
an international system of arbitration, whereby
|
| adjusted by arbitration and without recourse to
war and recommending to the treaty making
power of the Government to provide, if practical
ble that hereafter, in treaties made between the
United States and foreign powers war shall not be
| declared by either of the contracting parties
against the other until efforts shall have been made
| to adjust all alleged causes of difficulty
| by impartial arbitration =. Bills were
Passed-prohibiting the publication of the
| Revised Statutes in newspapers at
the expense of the United States; for the govern
| ment of the District of COlumbia-216 to %. "A
| majority report made from the Judiciary Com
| mittee in favor of the impeachment of Judge
| Durell of Louisiana, for high crimes and misde-
| meanOrs, and Il minority report from the same
| committee was also made recommending that all
| proceedings against DureQ be discontinued.
| Adjourned.
In the Senate on the 18th, a conference
report on the Moety bill was made and agreed to
bills We're passed-House bill to provide a
| government for the District of Columbia;
| for the payment Of awards made by the South
| eTn Claims Commission; the River and
| HarbOr Appropriation bill. The Conference
| Committee on the Currency bill made
a report A substitute for the House bill amend
| atory of the act to amend revise and consolidate
| the laws relating to pensions was reported from
| the Committee Pensions and placed on the
calendar. A bill was introduced and referred to
| charter a dOuble-track freight railway from tide
water of the Atlantic Ocean to the Missouri River,
and to limit the rate of freight thereon. .Ad-
| iourned.
In the House, on the 18th, bills were
passed-granting the right of way through the
public lands to he Arkansas Valley Railway, in
| Colorado; for the reappontment of the Leglsa-
| tive Assembly of Idaho Territory; to amend the
Mining law of May 10, 1872. The conference re-
port on the Moety bill was agreed to-. .Unani-
| nous consent was asked for and objected to, to
| have the Senate Civil-Rights bill taken from the
Speakers table and referred to the Judiciary Com
| mittee. Adjourned.