Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-01-28
CONGRESSIONAL.
ware.

Nothing was done in the Senate, on the
18th, beyond the continuance of the debate
on Mr.. Schurz' Louisiana resolution
Messrs. Logan, Frelinghuysen and others
participated. :. In the House. the report of
the subcommittee on Louisiana affairs was
presented, and notice given that the whole
committee would continue the investigation
at New Orleans. The report declares the
election of 1874 was determined by the Re
turning Board, whose "arbitrary, I'M
just and Illegal action alone prevented
the return of a majority Of Conserva-
tive members of the lower house, and thus
concludes: "Your committee have not been
able to agree upon any recommendation, but
upon the situation in Louisiana as it appeared
before US we are all agreed" Messrs Foster,
Phelps and Potter sign the report. In the
case of Irwin, the Sergeant-at-Arms was in
structed to produce the prisoner before Judge
Macarthur, in obedience TO the writ of babeas
corpus, and make the return indicated in the
resolution adopted on the preceding day
The House then adjourned to meet on the
18th.
In the Senate, the debate on Senator Schurz
resolution was continued during the day,
Senators Sherman, Cooper, Stevenson, Nor
wood, Clayton, Conkling and Salisbury par
ticipating. A memorial from 200 ex-Unon
soldiers in Arkansas was presented, indoors
ing Gen. Sheridan's course in New Orleans
and declaring that his statement of the condi-
ton of affairs in Louisiana and Arkansas was
true. =. The House was not in session.
Bills were introduced in the Senate on the
1Sth--to establish a mint at Indianapolis;
amending the act authorizing the st. Louis
bridge; authorizing bridge et Grand Chain,
III. The Louisiana resolutions were laid
aside and the Legislative Appropriation bill
taken up. A lengthy debate ensued on an
amendment to organize a Bureau of Com
merce and Statistics, to be attached to the
Treasury Department, pending which the Sen
ate adjourned. Bills were introduced in the
House-prohibiting the issue of bank-notes
of larger denomination than 500; limiting
the tax on bank deposits; authorizing the
use of information obtained through the
Dead-Letter Office TO prevent or punish crime;
TO amend the National Currency act; to es-
tablish mint at CINCINNATI; to distribute
seeds in the grasshopper region; authorizing
bridge at Memphis. The resolutions in re-
lation to Louisiana affairs adopted by the
Pennsylvania Legislature were presented and
referred. Adjournment
Petitions were presented in the Senate,
on the 10Th, asking the Senate not to ratify
the proposed Canadian reciprocity treaty.
The Legislative, Judicial and Executive
Appropriation bill was considered at length,
an amendment being adopted to continue the
present Bureau of Statistics with instructions
to report annually the statistics of foreign
| and interstate commerce; the domestic
and foreign systems of railroads, in
| Guiding the cost of such railroads.
and the actual cost of transportation of
| freight and passengers on the railroads, ca
| nails and rivers of the country In the
House, several members made indignant de-
NAL OF charges that they had been implicated