New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-10
BY TELE GR APH,
CONGRESS.
Senate.

Senate.
| WASHING TON. February 9.-Mr. Hagar
| the new Senator from California, was swor1
in.
The bill for the investigation OF the af
fairs of the District of Colum ba has passed
Mr.. Hagar, of California, is placed on the
Committee on Territories.
Mr.. Merrimen, of North Carolina, pre-
sented petition from the shipmasters and
others of Wilmington, North Carolina, ask
Ing appropriations for the improvement OF
the mouth OF Cape Fear river.
The bill for the compensation Of the
University of East Tennessee, appropri-
ating $4,000 for that institution for prop
erty used and destroyed by the federal
army during the war, was taken up.
Mr.. Wadleigh, of New Hampshire, said
that the property was taken possession of
By the federal troops. not as matter of
military necessity, but as matter of con-
venience, and thought the clam just one.
The bill was passed. Yeas 40, nays 20.
The bankrupt question was resumed.
The amendment abOlishing the office of
register in bankruptcy was rejected, and
that authorizing notaries public to take de-
positions was passed. The amendment au.
thoriziDg an assignee to bring suits for less
than $500, unless the court having charge
adopted
Mr.. Gordon, of Georgia, introduced a
bill to amend the internal revenue laws;
providing that ali previous provisions OF the
law, excepting those in relation to the i'm
position OF stamps upon written instru-
ments, and all penalties imposed by law for
the omission or failure to stamp such in
struments as bear date prior to the estab-
lishment of revenue districts in the States
enc ua1iip rahallinp ha T. c,,ct
provides that the time allowed for stamp
ing deeds OF mortgage and other papers
which bear date since the establishment of
said revenue duties be extended to a GER
tain date, and that any justice of the peace
in said States may be allowed to attach
stamps as heretofore required on said docu-
ment, and the commissioner of internal
revenue is authorized TO furnish stamps for
such purpose.
The bill is prefaced by preamble that
in the late insurrectiOnary States during
the war it was impossible to procure the
revenue stamps required by law to be at
tached to deeds, mortgages and other
papers intended to be recorded. Referred
to the Committee on Finance.
No Southern cOnfirmatiOns.
House.
Bills were introduced reducing the post
age to two cents; repeating the taxes on
whisky and tobacco. Two bills. by White
and Bell, OF Georgia. were presented grant
ing aid to the Atlantic and Great West
ern Canal Company. and another, by
Stone. OF Missouri, for the construction of
a ship canal. One by Vance, of North
Carolina. to incorporate branches of the
contemplated Southern Trans Continental
railroad. under the name and style
O' .hc North Carolina, South Carolina
and Georgia Extension railway. 1t pro-
vides ior the consolidation of the North Caro-
lima. Western Northern Carolina, Whining
ton. Charlotte and Rutherford and the
Spartauburs Union railroads; the bonds
OF the company. at six per cent, to be in
.lovsei by the State of North Carolina and
the Treasurer OF the United States
Mr.. Coburr. of New York, offered a resg.
luton declaring it to be the sense of the
House that Congress should not adjourn
until some measures are enacted providing
for a reform in the present system of the
currency. also on the subject of transporta-
ton and for a more economical administra-
ton OF the government. The rule were
suspended and the resolution adopted.
without the yeas and nays.
Mr.. Smith. of Ohio. moved to suspend
the rules and adopt :, resolution declaring
it to be within tho constitutional power of
Congress by law so to regulate commerce
among the States as to protect that portion
OF internal commerce which is among the
several States from all Unjust or oppressive
tolls, taxes, Instructions or other burdens,
whether imposed by railroad companies or
by combinations thereof, or by other com.
mon carriers. and that the present cOndi-
ton and magnitude of the commerce
among the States demand the prompt and
wise exercise of those powera and duties,
l70; nays "a.
The House then adjourned.
Mr.. Bell introduced bill granting aid ta
the Atlantic and Great Western Canal Com.
pany. The bill provides that upon the com.
pletion OF each section of ten miles of the
canal, certified to by an engineer under the
direction of the War Department. the cert
ficate shall be indorsed upon the bonds of
the company: upon which the Secretary of
the Treasury shall issue to the company
national currency not to exceed $50, 900 per ]
mile; to be redeemed annually, by the com
pany, from the completion of the work. at
the rate of six per cent on the whole amount;
lien upon the work and all the property of
The company. 1t appropriates 81 ,O00,0 900 to
improve the river portion of the line.
Mr.. White, of Alabama, introduced bill
or she construction of the Atlantic and
Western canal by Endorsement bonds, and an
ssue OF currency to the amount not exceed |
nS $7,O00,000, opening the navigation of |
he Tennessee and Coosa rivers in Ala |
,ama. and OF the Ocmulgee river, in GeOr-
,ia.
The bill embodies the idea OF combining |
yater improvements and the expansion of |
and is to be followed by IL general |
ill on the subject Of interna! improvements.