Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22
CONGRESSIONAL.

In the Senate, on the 18th, several peti-
tons were presented, including one from Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and others, ask
ing that women be allowed to VOTE or that the
same right be extended to them as to the coored
men, Bills were misunderstanding to several
States within whose limit they respectively lie
the beds of unsurveyed lakes and other bodies of
water; providing that all freight and passenger
worth, or any point of the line of
the Kansas Pacific and Denver Pacific Railway
via Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, to Ogden, or
any point the line of the Union Pacific Railway
or points beyond its terminus shall be carried by
said companies Jointly at the same rates as are
charged on similar traffic between Omaha and like
points; but the Union Pacific Company shall not
be required to receive upon said traffic less
sum than it would be entitled to receive upon
similar traffic over its own road when pro rated
to and from Chicago. SUITS may be brought
in which any portion of either of the said roads
is situated, for triple the amount of damages and
foregoing provisions After considerable discus
sion on the Salary BILL and the disposition of
several amendments, substitute for the House
bill was finally Dassed-46 to S-repealing the In
creased Salary Act except that portion relating to
the compensation of the President and Justices of
the Supreme Court, and fixing the saaries-wth the
exceptions named-at the former rates; providing
that mileage shall be allowed for the first session
of the Forty-third Congress, and that all moneys
appropriated as compensation to members of the
Forty-second Congress in excess of mileage and
said Congress, and which shall not have been
drawn by members of said Congress- respectively,
or which having been drawn, have been returned
in any form to the United States, are hereby COW
cred into the Treasury of the United States and
declared to be moneys of the United States, abso-
lutely the same as if they had never been appro-
priated as aforesaid. Adjourned
In the House, Oh the 18th, large num-
Der of bills were introduced and referred among
them, TO reorganize the Internal Revenue Depart
ment and reduce its force; to aid in establishing
poytechnic schools In every county and State, and
in the Territories to establish uniform and elias
tic currency. and to reduce the national debt;
making Treasury notes legal tender for customs
tide-water on the Atlantic to the Mis-
souri, River and to limit freights thereon. The
rules were suspended and resolution adopted
221 to -declaring it to be the sense of the House
that the expenditures of the nation can be and
should be so reduced and regulated that they can
be met by existing taxes, and tnat IN no event
should there be an increase of either the interest
hearing or non-interest bearing Obligations of the
Government =. The Naval Appropriation bill was
considered in Committee of the Whole. .Ad-
journed.
In the Senate, on the 18th, among the
bills introduced and referred were-to authori7
the Secretary of the Interior TO use for their orig
inal objects all unexpended balances of appropra
Hons for the Indian service standing the books
of the Department June 80, 1873; providing that
hust of the late ChiefJustice Chase be placed IN
the Supreme Court Room lug ~ ~
to i'll vacancies in the Board OF RegenIs OF lhe
Smithsonian Institute was passed, ana MI sargent
was appointed as q member of such Board on the
mart Of the Senate. The resolution reported by
the Finance Committee, declaring 1t to be the duty
of Congress to adopt definite measures 70 redeem
lis nIedes in the act of 1862 for the earliest prac-
cabie redemption of United e states e6a notes il gold
nTesentsd ord referred to the Committee on
Finance to secure the resumption of specie pay
ment without contracting the currency. "A mes
sage was received from the House announcing
the adoption of resolution of respect to the
memory of James Brooks and WILDER D. Foster,
and eulogies were pronounced and the GUS
tomary resolution of respect was adopted. -.Ad-
journed.
In the House, on the 18th, the bill to
promote education was debated and motion 10
lay on the table was rejected-1e4 to Island the