Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-10

claimed during the discussion that il takes
not less than thirty nor more than one
hundred millions from the Treasury.
HOUSE.
The bill reducing taxes in the District of
Columbia passed. The tax is one and
hslf per cent. Church property actually
used for church purposes is exempt.
Il. r. Hoar, Of Massachusetts,, from the
Select Committee to inquire whether the
privileges Of the House had been violated
by the arrest of Whitelaw Reid, witness
before committee of the House, at the
instance Of Alexander Il. Shepherd, sub
mitted II report and recommended the pas
sage Of a bill declaring that a witness be-
fore either branch Of Congress, or II com
mittee thereof, shall not be- subject to the
service Of any civil process, or any claim
or cause of action arising prior to such ap-
pcarance, while coming TO Washington, or
! while in such attendance, or until after
reasonable time to return. The rules were
suspended and the bill passed -l3l to %.
WASHINGTON, March 3.-The tariff and
tax bills passed the Senate, after midnight,
without amendments, by n vote of 80 to
30, and goes to-day to the President to be
| signed
The bounty bill goes to the House for
concurrence in the amendment that the
Government be allowed to borrow money to
meet the wants of the bill. There is an
other amendment, that soldiers shall not be
charged with bounties paid them by States,
which, it is claimed will swell the drain on
the Treasury fabulously.
A canvass was made in the Senate this
morning as to the feeling of that body with
reference 10 proceeding with what is known
as the Force Bill. The result was, that q
majority of the Senate were opposed to
taking it up until all the appropriation
bills are disposed of and, indeed, 50 solicit
Gus were Senators to go on with the latter
! bills that they requested MIR. Morrill, to re-
port the Sundry Civil bill, and waived the
usual reading of the Journal. 1t is very
doubtful now whether the Force Bill will
ever be called up.
A motion to suspend the rules and pass
the bills for the admission of Colorado and
New Mexico as States was defeated-yeas
ia, nays 81, not being two-thirds in the
affirmative. 1t was almost party vote.
The conference report on the postotice
appropriation bill has been presented
and argued. 1t contains partial restora-
ton of the franking privilege as to the
Congressional Record and other public
documents up to next December, and per-
manently as to seeds and agricultural re-
ports.
WASHINGTON, March 4.-Congress ad-
iourned ut noon. All the appropriation
bills were passed and signed.
The House receded from its disagreement
to the following Senate amendments:
Making the single rate postage on fourth
class mail matter one ounce instead of two
ounces striking out the items of $4,000
for II new light house vessel for the Fifth
District; 100000 for steam tender on
the Pacific coast; $50, 900 for payment for
property lost in the military service S34,-
600 for Montana war claims $l50,00O for
the purchase Of the Stevens battery, and
also the provision authorizing the Secretary
of the Treasury to call in, on three months
notice, such $40 bonds as he may need for
the sinking fund All of those Senate
amendments, therefore, have been enacted
The New Orleans custom house gets S75,-
600.
Among the bills which remained on the
Senate Calendar at the close of the session
to day. and which therefore failed, are the
following: The House general amnesty
bill, which reached the Senate in Decenl-
ber, 1873 the House bill for tile protection
of elections, etc, known as the "Caucus
Force Bill, which got not no farther in
the Senate than its second reading; all the
various postal telegraph bills introduced in
the Senate failed in the Senate-others of
similar character originating in the House,
failed in the House.
The following bills were also left on the
Senate Calendar, and failed at adjourn
ment: Senate bills for the payment of the
French spoliation claims to protect the
navigable waters of the U. S. from injury
and obstruction; declaring the true intent
and meaning of the Union Pacific Railroad
acts; to pay the two per cent. claim Of the
States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois; TO es-
tablish II Bureau of Internal Commerce
to make general provisions in regard to ca
ble telegraphic communication to grant
pensions for service in the war with MeXi-
co to amend the act granting pensions to
survivors of the war Of 1872; to regulate
the counting of the electoral votes for
President and Vice President: the bill OF
the Joint Committee appointed to frame a
better @ ernment for the District of Col
umbia, aut many other Senate bills Of
minor mpnrmnce; also the House bill
: known ms "McCrary BILL to regulate
commerce by railroads among the seversI
States the House bill to repeal the pre-
empuOn laws and secure homesteads tC
actual settlers on the public domain, and
I the House steamboat bill.
Among the other prominent failures o
the session are the bills for the equaliza.
tion of bountes for the admission of New
Mexico the Texas Pacific and the North,
ern Pacific RR. bills, and all other land
grant or subsidy bills, except a very few
which proposes grants merely Of rights o.
way.
Aside from the regular appropriation
bills, comparatively few bills of genera
interest have been enacted this session, but
they include the following measures of ma.
tional importance: The finance bill, tC
provide for the resumption Of specie pay
ments, &c. the little tariff bill the bill
supplemental TO the acts in relation TO i'm,
/. migration, and the bill granting rights Of
way through the public lands on certain
conditions for all railroads that may be in
corporated under the local laws Of the
States and Territories.
, Eads ietties for the mouths Of the Mis-,
sissippi is law.
Andrew johnson is here
Ex-senator Pease and the Postmaster al
, Vicksburg are in trouble for slander.