Connecticut western news., 1875-02-12
UNITED STATES CONGRESS-.
Senatee

the condition of the wages and industries of the ceuntryT and against therestoration of the duty on tea and coffee. t G Z. egg E%S
 Mir. Ingalls,, of Kansas from the committee on Indian affairs, reported with amendments the House bill to authorize the Seneca nation of New York Indians to lease lands within the Cattaraugus and Aleghany reservations and to confirm existing leases. Placed on the calen- dar. -~e# ess
 Mr. Dorsey of Arkansas, introduced bill to establish certain telegraph lines in the several States and Territories as post roads, and to regulate the transmission of commercial and other intelligence by telegraph. Referred.
 Mir. Butler moved a reconsideration of the vote whereby the Civil Rights bill, reported by the Judiciary committee, was recommhted. Fi1ibustering" was at once begun by the op- position to prevent getting the bill before the House, with such success that the roll was called sixteen times in the course of the morn ing, and nothing had been done up to the hour of adjournment The voting was of g. strictly party character, and the list showed an average of 225 members.
 MT. Dawes, of Massachusetts, presented the credentials of his colleague-elect, Mir. Stevens, who wa4 chosen to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of MT. Crocker. The credentials were read, and MT. Stevens was sworn in and took his seat.
 A number of petitions were presented against the restoration of the duty on tea and coffee, and for the repeal of the act of 1872, relieving certain foreign products of ten per cent. duty.
 MT. Morrill, of Me-; from the committee on appropriations reported favorably on the bill to pay the interest on the 3.65 bonds of the District of Columbia. and asked it's immediate consideration, as the interest falls due in a few days ; and the Federal government being re- sponsible for it, of course it must be paid. The bill was passed. .-- t-.r. .-
 The following bills were passed: The House bill granting the right of way and depot grounds to the Oregon Central Pacific Railroad Company, through the public lands of the United States from Winnemucca, Nevada, to the Columbia river, via Portland, Oregon the Senate bill providing for the appointment of 8 commissioner to ascertain the right of subjects of Great Britain to lands in the Territories which were the subject of the award of the Emperor of Germany under the treaties of 1846 and 1871 between the United States and Great Britain; the Senate bill amendatory of and supplementary to act of March 1, 1872 en- titled ssAn act to set apart a certain tract of land lying near the head waters of the Yellow Stone river public park ; the Senate bill granting $40 acres of land to the widow and heirs of James Sinclair, deceased the Senate bill for the relief of the Holy Cross Mission in the Territory of Dakota.
 | MT. Bogy, of Mo-, presented joint resolu- tions of the Missouri Legislature condemnipg g the military interference in Louisiana, and had them read at th9 clerk t. desk. Ordered to be printed and lie on the table. | The amendment of the House to the bill to | provide for the payment of interest on the | three-sixty-fve bonds of the District of Colum bia was agreed to and the bill passed.
 | At the erequest of MT. Sargent, of Cal, Mr. Logan, of H., presented resolutions of the Chicago Board of Trade in reference to the bill | recently introduced in the Senate and referred to the committee on finance, for an appropria- tion to establish 9 mint at Chicago. The reso | lutions ask that the bill be reported to the Senate aud acted upon favorably. Referred te | the committee on finance. ss
 MT. No1woods of Ga, presented the sresolu tions;oflths ion LsgiAataIe of that State endenh dered to be printed and lie on the table,
 MT. Sherman, of Ohio, called up the House bill to amend the National Banking act and tc fix the compensation of national bank exami ners, which was reported lately with amend ments by the finance committed The amend ments were agreed to and the bill passed. ss5 House. g. &
 MT. Garfield, of Ohio from the Committee or | Appropriations, reported 8 bill appropriatins $182, 800 for the payment of the February in | terest on the 3.65 bonds of the District so1 | Columbia, to be considered and adjusted as part of the proportional sum to be paid by the United States: for the expenses of the distris- | and toward the pa, ment of the interest on the | funded debt of the district Referred to the Committee of the Whole, where it can bt reached only In the regular order or by suspen sion of the rules.
 MT. Potter, of New York, from the Judiciar, | posing the following amendment to the Con stitltion:
 PARTICLE 16 From and after the next cleo tion for President of the United States the President shall hold his office during the tenn of six years and, together with the Vice-Presi dent chosen for the same term, be elected il the manner now provided or that may here after be provided :; but neither the Presiden nor the Vice-President (when the office O | President has devolved upon him) shall bs | eligible for reelection as President" . This eicited spirited debate, in the course | of which MT. Butler remarked that the reason why we had been so unsuccessful in Vice-Presi | dents when they had become Presidents ii that they have always looked to reelection and therefore we propose to take away tht | temptation. He further said: "The ti1nt which would call for the reelection. of President is when strong hand has hold O. | the government, and when in time of compo | tion, and the people feel doubt as to wha | will be the future of the country without 8 re l election. Then can conceive 8 possibility O I the people coming up as one man to the re election of strong hand, that will hold thu I government in the future it has held it il | the past. can conceive of that, and the onl, thing that will ever make a third term success | full" . ....
 The resolution was rejected by a vote of 124 to 104-not two-thirds in favor. All the Demo crats and forty-seven Republicans voted for it | MT. Butler reported resolution in referenc. to the McGarrahan and New Idria Mining Companys claims in California; directing tn
 commissioner of the government land office t, institute legal proceedings in the name of tn
 government against tho New Idria Mining
 Company in the Circuit Court of the Unitet States for California to restrain further vast
 of the property; for the appoint ment of rc
 ceiver; and for the recovery of possession l and also for.the recovery ofsseven million dol
 lars illegitimately and wrong fully taken there
 from by the New Idria. Mining Cempany ant
 su1c1 other action the commissioner ma,
 deem proper. Also directing the Secretary 0
 the Interior not to issue patents to the NeJ
 Idria Mining Company until the legal proceed
 ings are determined. After much 1iscission
 the resolution was adopted bya vote of 136 t
 il. s..
 MT. Hale, Of Me, introduced resolution tt
 change the rules of the House by the adoption
 of the following as new rule Whenever
 question is pending before the House tn
 Speaker shall not entertain any motions o
 a dilatory character except one motion to ad journ and one motion to fix the day to whic
 the House shall adjourn. Bnt the prevlou
 questions on the engrossment and third read
 ing of bill or jontsEesolution shall not b ordered during the first day of it's eonsideratio unless three-fo fourths of the members presen
 shall second the demand. ProUided, that thi rule shall not apply to House resolution offered in the morning hour of Monday, an r provided fur! her that it shall not apply to an
 proposition to appropriate the money, tn credit or other property of the United States except the regular appropriation bills. Mr. Randall, of Pa, made point of ordel
 but it was overruled, and the resolution wasrt
 ferr ed to the committee on rules.
 ); On motion of MT. Garfield, the Senate bi } appropriatng S182 800 to pay the interest o
 the 365 bonds of the District of Columbia, wa , taken up and amended. on motion of MT. Ra1 dall, by inserting the words "in currency, , and pasaed-yeas, 164 nays 62.
 3 MT. Platt, of New York. from Post-offie
 committee, offered a resolution authorizin , amendments to be offered to the Post-ofie l Appropriation bill, as follows Fixing the sals 5 ries of postmasters, and the mode of compu A ing the same authorizing the Postmaster . General to pay the expenses of taking weight of mails on railroads; and to pay experts an other employees in the preparation and publ 1 cation of .aost rnnta mans also to abolish tl