The tribune. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-03-17
UNITED STATES CONGRESS.
Senate.

The Senate considered the Indian Appropria-
ton bill. The amendment of the Senate com
nttee on appropriations, increasing the
amount to subsfst and care for the Apache
Indians in Arizona from $780, 900 to S375 600.
and for those in New Mexico from 800. 600 to
S125, 900, was agreed in.
During the discussion Mr.. Sherman, Of Ohio,
said these Indians should be made to work and
earn their living like other people. The policy
OF giving them food and clothing would not re-
suit in good.
Mr.. Wicdom, Of Minnesota, said the EXPENSE
OF feeding the Indians might be great, but the
expense of fighting them was greater.
The following bills were then read the third
time and passed The Indian Approximation
the Military Academy, and the Pension Appro-
priation.
While the Post-office Approximation hill was
under discussion, Mr.. Thurman offered an
amendment which was agreed to- providing
that the Congressional Record shall be carried
In tho mails free of postage, which was still
further amended by providing that all public
documents already printed by either House Of
Congress- may pass though the mails free, upon
December 1, 1875
An amendment reinstating the franking priv
nege as 1t formerly existed, was voted down by
81 yeas to % nays.
The following bills were passed: For the re-
publication Of the Patent Office Gazette. to
print the report of Major Howell and to print
S,5oo more copies of the memorial services OIL
d. t.. ID.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the
Post-ofice Appropriation bill, the question be-
ing to strike out the clause in the House bill
repeating the act which authorized the contract
with the Pacific Mail COMPANY
The Senate refused to strike out the clause
by vote of % to IL.
The bill was then passed
The House bill regulating the Quartermas-
ter's department was passed.
The following amendments to the Army
war tal h,-k
mittee ON appropriations, and were adopted ::
Increasing the amount for hire for quarters for
officers and soldiers safe keeping of stores.
etc, from 400, 600 to 81 800 900 increasing
from S75,0Oo to 100000; apprupriating 500
600 for repairing ordnance, protecting sea
coast defenses, etc.
MIR. Sherman submitted section which pro-
vides that where States were charged for issues
OF arms and ordnance to preserve the Union
during the war, the Secretary of War NAV
credit the States with such amounts. Agreed
to.
Au amendment WAS agreed to authorizing
the expenditure Of $50, 600 before the end of
the present fiscal year for supplies, when it
may be found of advantage to the government.
The bill was then reported from the commit
tee of the whole to the Senate, and the bill
passed.
petition signed by 1888 farmers OF the North
west, asking for the Improvement of the Fox
and Wisconsin rivers.
The House bill admitting Colorado as a
State in the Union was discussed at length,
and eventually adopted by vote of 43 to I3
after the following amendments had been
added: One paying to the State FIVE per cent.
OF the amount received from agricultural pub
lie lands sold by the United States government
subsequent to its admission as o State, instead
OF PRIOR and subsequent, as the section origi-
nally stood that the section should not apply
to any lands disposed Of under the homestead
act, or to any lands set apart for public uses !:
that 1t shall not affect mining lands that the
htty sections OF land to be reserved for public
buildings should be selected with the Presi-
dents approval
The bill to admit New Mexico as a State was
taken up, and after adding the same amend
ments as the Colorado bill received, was passed
by vote Of 81 to IL.
passed bill which provides that eyerv person
who in the line of duty in military or naval SER
vice Of the United States shall have lost n limb
or sustained bodily injuries deprivIng him of
the use OF any OF his limbs shall receive once
every five years an artificial limb or an appli-
ance to support and strengthen his disabled
limb, under such regulations as the surgeon
general OF the army may prescribe; that such
artificial limb or appliance shall be furnished
through the medical department Of the army !;
to commence with the fling Of the first ap,lca-
tion after the 7th day of June in tho year 1870,
and that every person entitled under the laws
or the United States to pension OH account of
leg or arm which is wholly disabled and can
not be rendered serviceable by any mechanical
appliance shall be entitled to receive the same
pension ss If said leg arm had been ampu-
tated at or above the knee or elbow 1t also
provides that all laws prohibiting the payment
OF pensions to the soldiers of the revolutionary
war and the war Of 1912, and to their widows,
on account OF their disloyalty, be and the same
are hereby repealed.
The House went into Committee of the
Whole ON the Army Appropriation bill, which
calls for $27, 701 500.
On motion of Mr. Randall, of PENNSYLVANIA.
an amendment was inserted forbidding pay
inent Tor any patent for the preservation Of
cloth from moths or mildew.
The bill was then passed.
On motion of Mr.. Myers of Pennsylyan;s n
bull was passed which makes it tho duty OF
United States Consuls at Chinese and Japanese
ports to ascertain whether immigrants have
entered into agreements for service in this
country Tor lewd or improper purposes and in
certificate.
The River and Harbor Appropriation bill
was passed. 1t calls for $6 600, 600.
The Senate, after some debate on the bill in
regard to counting the votes for President and
wee President, adopted amendments appoint
ing two tellers instead Of one: providing that
the certificates Of the electoral voters shall be
opened and acted upon in the alphabetical
order OF the States that only such returns
shall be counted as the two Houses, acting
separately, shall decide to be true and valid !;
also striking out the clauses providing that
any other questions pertinent to the object for
which the Houses are assembled may be sub
mitted and determined in like manner as ques-
tons may arise concerning the electoral votes.
The bill was then passed by q vote OF % to 20
notwithstanding seven Republicans voted
with the Democrats against it.
On motion of Mr. Albright, OF Pennsylvania.
Dill was passed reorganizing the Quarter
masters department..
The department. is to consist Of one Quarter
master-General, with the rank, pay and emolu-
ments OF brigsdier-general four assistant