Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-03-12

TORS.
MORTON GETS THE FLOOR.
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE TO
BE SENT IN ON MONDAY.
THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA FOR
THE COUNTRY.
WASHINGTON, March 4-Noon-Con
grsss adjourned at noon. All the ap-
preparation bills were passed and
sipned, There are details which are
inaccessible until later in the evening. |
acknowledgements, who contt sted |
Sypher, and Sheridan, who contested |
Pinchback, as members OF Congress |
at large, were sworn In.
The bill regulating the oompensa- |
tion of agents and attorneys prosecut-
ing claims before Congress, passed.
The Senate amendments to the
bounty bill were ooncured in.
The Committee of Conference asked
that the Army Appropriation bill as
reported by the Conference Committee
be passed.
The House took a recess from eight
| to nine O'Clock.
: SENArR--The Conference Committees
| report on the Postoffice bill, with ali
| amendment requiring the telegraph
companies to take down the poles and
reach the capitol by underground
| cables, was PASSED.
The Judiciary Committee reported
favorably on removing the disabilities
! of Generals l.. Hawkins aud s D.
Lee, and adversely on Raphael
| Semmes. The Committee claimed
that Semmes has been cruel to Aneri
can seamen in the Indian ocean.
An amendment to the appropriation
bill giving three hundred thousand
dollars to the ante beltuDa mail cou-
tractors was ruled out of order.
An amendment increasing the APP
preparations for the Tennessee river
to five hundred and sixty thousand
dollars. was adopted.
The bill sppropriating money for
awards of the southern CLAIM jom-
mittee, after striking out nine case
involving tifty-seven thousand dollars.
was passed. This carries the bill back
to the House.
The bill to pay awards for Quarter
master and Commlssary stores taken
during the war, WAS tabled.
! L
Eads' bill for the improvement of
the Mississippi river has been accept
cd by the Committee of Conference.
a. an amendment to the river and har
, Dor bill.
The report of the Committee of Con
ference on bounty, wa laid on the ia
:, BILE in the Senate, and the bill is lost.
WASHINGTON, March 4-Night.-The
House recsded from its disagreement
, | to the following Senate amendments:
Making the single rate of postage
on fourth clas3 mail matter one ounce
| instead of two ounces; striking on,
the items of $50, 900 for a new light
house vessel for the 5th District; $i03,
| 600 for q steam tender ON the Pacific
, coast; $50, 900 for payment for proper
: ty lost in the military service; 1884, ON
, for Montana war claims; $50. 600 for
, the purchase of the Stevens battery
and also the provision authorizing the
| Secretary of the Treasury to call III on
three months notice snch five-twentS
. bonds as he may need for the sinking
: fund. All of these Senate amend
ments, therefore. have been enacted
The New Orleans Custom House
I, gets S75, 900. Among the bills which
! remained on the Senate calendar at
= the close of the session to-day, and
Q which therefore failed, are the fol.
lowing: The House General Amnesty
bill, which reached the Senate in De,
oember 1872; the House bill for the
protection of elections, etc known as
the Caucus Force bill, which got nc
further in the Senate than its second
| reading; all the various post | tele-
: | graph 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 the
adjournment:
Senate bill for the payment OF
the French spoliation claims; to pro,
tect the navigable waters of the U.
ted States from injury and obstruc-
ton; declaring the true intent and
q meaning of the Union Pacific
railroad; to grant pensions for service
in the war with Mexico; to amend the
: act granting pensions TO the survivors
y of the war Of 1872; to regulate the
counting of the electoral vote for
= President and Vice President Among
9 the other prominent failures of the
session are the bills for the equaliza
. ton of bounties; for the admission OF
New Mexico, and the Texas & Pacific
and Northern Pacific Railroad bills
and all other land grant or subsidy
e bills except a very few which propos
d cd grants merely of rights of way
n Aside from the regu &c appropriation
r bills, comparatively few bills of gen
eral interest have been enacted this
session. but they include the following
measures ST national Importance: The
:, Finance bill to provide for the re
- sumption of speoie payments, &c the
Little Tariff bill, the Tax and Tariff
bill, the Civil Rights bill, the bill sup
g Elemental to the acts in relation tc
q investigation, and the bill granting
L rights of way through the public
= lands, on certain conditions, for al
= railroads that may be incorporated
s under the local laws of States or Ter
ritories; Ead's jettes for the mouth Of
the Mississippi is law.
: SENATE+Gordon called up the bill
=. to amend the act for the erection of a
= public building for the use of the U.
= s: Court, at Atlanta, which passed.
. The Secretary of the Treasury has dis.
erection regarding the material
Colorado is State, but New Mexico
Q remains Te rritory.
3 Judge of Louisiana, and Evans, Mar
: shall of Texas. have been returned to
: the President.
> The Senate amendments, to pay the
. awards of the Southern Claims Com
t mission, have been adopted.
d Note-There are various rumore
4 about the Bounty bill. It may posi-
lively be stated that it is not law
WASHINGTON, March -Noon-SEN-
, ATE-As soon as the new Senators were
= sworn liz Morton offered resolutions
. acknowledging the Kellogg govern
ment in louisiana and for the admis.
sion of Pinchback as Senator from
that State; they were laid over. He
,. gave notice that he would call up the
i latter perhaps on Monday.
WASHINGTON, March 5-Night-
SENATK-As no time since Inaugural
ton day has there been such crowd