New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-05
BY TELEGR PHI
CONGRESS-.


Senate.
WAsHINGTON, March 4-Mr Gordon
called up the bin to amend the act for the
erection of a public building for the use of
the United States court at Atlanta. Passed
The Secretary of the Treasury has the dis
cretiOn regarding the material to be used.
There are various rumOrs about the bounty
bill. 1t may be positively stated it is not
COnfirn.a ti0ns.
Hine, tor marshal. southern district of
Alabama; Pease, as postmaster at Vicks-
burg; Miller, as postmaster at Winchester,
Virginia.
The nominations of Pardee, rs district
Judge of Louisiana, and Evans. as marshal
of Texas, were returned to the President.
The Senate amendments to pay awards of
Southern claims commission were adopted.
House.
The House receded from its disagreement
to the following Senate amendments:
Making the single rate OF postage on the
fourth class of mail matter ono ounce in
stead of two ounces; striking out the items
of S3o, 900 for new lighthouse for the fifth
district; SlO0, 900 tor a steam tender on the
erty lost in the military service: $3l 900 for
Montana war claims; $50, 900 for the pur-
chase Of the Stevens battery, and also the
provision authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury to call in on three months notice
such tive-twenty bonds as he may need for
the sinking fund. All of these Senate
amendments, therefore, have been enacted.
The New Orleans cllstomhOuse gets
$4,000. Among the bills which remained
on the Senate calendar at the close Of the
session day, and which therefore failed,
are the following: The House general am
nesty bill, which reached the Senate in
December, 1873; the House bill for the pro-
lection of elections, ETC.. known as the
caucus force bill, which got no further in
the Senate than its second reading; ali 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 the djOurn-
ment: Senate bills for the payment of the
French spoilatiOn claims: to protect the
navigable waters of the United States from
injury and distinctions; declaring the true
intent and meanings Of the Union Pacific
railroad acts; to pay the two per cent claim
of the States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois;
to establish bureau OF internal commerce
to make general provisions in regard to
cable telegrephic communication; to grant
pensions for service in the war with Mexico;
10 amend the act granting pensions to the
survivors of the war of 1912; to regulate the
counting of electoral votes for President
and Vice President; the bill of the Joint
cOmmitte appointed to frame a better gov
ernment for the District of Columbia, and
many other Senate bills of minor import
ance.
Also the House bill known as the Nc
Crary bill, to regulate commerce by rail-
road among the several States; the House
bill to repeal the preemption laws and
secure homesteads to actual settlers on the
public domain, and the House steamboat
bill.
Among the other prominent failures of
the session are the bills for the equalization
of bounties. for the admission of New
Mexico, and the Texas and Pacific and
Northern Pacific bills and all other land
grants or subsidy bills, except very few
which proposed grants merely of rights of
way.
Aside from the regular appropriation
bills comparatively few bills of general
interest have been enacted this session,
but they include the following measures of
national Importance: The finarce bill, to
provide for the resumption of specie pay
ment etc; the little tariff bill, the tax and
tariff bill, the civil rights bill, the bill sup
Elemental to the acts in relation to immi-
grafton and the bill granting rights of way
through the public lands on certain condi-
tions for all railroads that may incorporate
under the local laws of States or Territories.
The bill for Eads' jetties for the mouth of
the Mississippi river is law.