Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-12-24
Congressional.

In the Senate, on the 10th, joint res
olution was agreed to appointing the Hon.
George Bancroft member of the Board of Re
gents of the Smithsonian Institute, In place OF
Gen. w. r. Sherman, resigned The House bill
appropriating $4,000 for the purchase OF scales
for the Postofces was amended and passed, -.
The House resolution 10 bind 100 copies of the
Revised Statutes, without index, was passed.
Executive session, and adjournment till the 18th.
In the House, on the 10th, bill was
introduced and referred, directing the Freed.
mems Bank Commissioners TO declare an mmcdi-
ate dividend and to institute suit against
the Trustees, officers and agents OF the
company, with view OF holding them
personally liable. The Diplomatic and Con.
sular Appropriation bill esi,34,7s5) was
Senate amendment to the bill appropriating
$4,000 for scales required In carrying out the law
for the prepayment Of newspapers, was con.
| cured In, and the bill passed, The Speaker
announced the following appointments to I'LL
vacancies on committees: On Arkansas Affairs,
scuddcr of New York; Judiciary, Finck. OF
| Ohio; Civil-Scryicc Reform, Chittenden, of New
| York; Centennial, schell, Of New York Invalid
| Pensions, Strawbridge, OF Pennsylvania; Educa.
| ton and Labor, also on Expenditures IN the Ma
| val Department, Carpenter, OF South Carolina
...Adjourned.
Senate not in session on the 18th. In
the House, bills were passed allowing the home.
| stead and presumption settlers In Iowa, Minneso.
ia, Ncbraska and Kansas, whose crops were de-
stroyed by grasshoppers In 1874, to leave and be
| absent from their lands till May, 1876, without
prejudice to their rights; senate bill for the APP
pointment Of George bancroft to I'LL the vacancy
In the Board OF Regents OF the Smithsonian In
stitute. A resolution was adopted directing
the arrest OF Richard Il. Irwin Nnow
In New York city,, agent OF the Pacific
Mail Company, for contempt In having failed 10
obey. the summons Of the COMMITTEES of Ways
and Means, who sought his testimony In the IN.
vestigation into the Pacific Mail subsidy begun
at the close of the last session of Congress. Mr.
Irwin had promised to be on hand by the 10Th.
Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 18th, petition
of the colored men of Indiana was presented pro
testing against the recent decision of the Su
preme Court OF the State ON the question OF edu
cational rights, and asking that the proper law
officer of the Government be directed to appeal
the case to the Supreme Court of the United
States ...A conference. committee was. or
dered on the bill, postponed from
last session. to amend the Customs and In
bin was reported and passed providing that set
tiers who left their lands on account Of the
ravages Of grasshoppers shall not be
deprived, Of their rights 70 such lands
General Land Once to modify the Homestead
law In their favor. The provisions Of the bill
are also made applicable TO settlers who may be
compelled to leave their land for the same cause
next year !. Messrs. Cameron and McCreery
were appointed as the Senate committee on the
reception Of King Kalakaua.. Adjourned.
In the House, on the 14th, several bills
were introduced. among them the following; For
free banking and to retire legaltender notes; re-
ducing letter postage to one cent; for the relief
Of the Southern States by compromise and the
settlement of their debts; TO repeal the law re-
curing prepayment Of newspaper postage; to
aid In the construction of narrow-gauge rail-