Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-04
CONGRESSIONAL.
THE SENATE ON THE CENTENNIAL.
House Pills Modify ing The Postal Laws.
First Session Forty.third Congress.
WASHINGTON, March ,.
SENATE.

MIR. West introduced a bill to provide for
the settlement of claims of low persons,
growing out of the late rebellion. Refer.
red to the Committee OH Claims.
Senator Alcorn presented petition for
the Mississippi cotton planters for refund
ing the cotton tax.
Mr.. West introduced bill regarding
the war claims. Referred to COMMITTEES
on Claims. Details elsewhere.
The question of the Centennial was re-
sumed. Several leading Senators favored
holding National exhibition but opposed
an international one.
Mr.. Ferry, of Connecticut, in n speech
in favor of national celebrations said that
he hoped the North and South would come
together and bury every bloody memory
of the past, and that the East and West
would forget that they had had conflicting
interests, and all thank God for the
goodly inheritage left US by our fathers
NO action was taken on the bill.
HOUSE.
The usual number of bills were intro
duced and referred.
Among the bills introduced were the
following: To fix an ad valorem tax of rs
per cent. ON maccaroni and vermacelli; to
prevent maladministra' non in the civil SER
vice by officers against whom articles of
impeachment are presented ; also to enable
members OF Congress to do the public bust
ness with their constituents and other de-
partments of the Government. and TO linn
1t the ranking privilege to certain news
papers. The bill provides that during any
session of Congress, and for thirty DAYS
prior and subsequent thereto, all written
and printed matter sent to members. and
all written and printed matter, and such
other things as have been ordered by either
House for distribution, shall go free Of pos
tage.
The second section provides that all
newspapers regularly printed, and not ad-
vertising, sheets simply shall go free of
postage through the mails in the county
where they are published, but shall not be
delivered under the free delivery system.
The third section requires all postal
matter to be prepaid.
BY Cason, of Ind, for the appointment
of Joint Commission To examine the ma
tional lines of water communication.
Mr.. Tyner, of Ind, moved to suspend
the rules and pass bill authorizing week.
ly newspapers to be sent by mail within
the county of their publication, and ex-
changes between publishers to be trans
mitted in the mails free of duty. The
House refused to second the motion to sus-
pend the rules. The vote stood 81 TO %.
The bill was not received.
Mr.. Fort, of ILL.,, made like motion in
regard to bill for circulation by the Cons
missioner of Agriculture, of books, seeds,
cuttings, &C., and the House also refused
to second it by still larger majority.
The bill compelling the District of Co
lumbla to pay its school teachers passed.
Adjourned. -
Mr.. Whitthorne introduced in the House
to-day bill, which provides that the act
of Congress entitled "An act to incorporate
the Freedmen's Savings and Trust Com
pany," be amended so that hereafter it
shall be the duty of the trustees and OFF,
GERS of said company to make loans from
the deposits by them received upon real
estate Situated in the vicinity of the agency
or branch of said company, from which
such deposits are received, and making it
the duty of the officers to collect as speedily
as it may be done, without prejudice to the
interests of the depositors, all sums of
money by them loaned upon real estate
from which received, and when collected
they shall loan said funds as hereinbefore
provided. Referred to the Committee on
Banking and Currency.
Debt statement: Decrease, $500, 900
coin in the treasury, S2,5OO,00o; currency,
So, 725,OO0.