The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1875-03-13
Washington.

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following Senate amendments: Max
ing single rate postage Oh fourth ella S
mail matter one ounce instead of two
ounces; striking out items of $50
600 for q new light house for Fifth
district 100000 for a steam tender
on the Pacific coast; $5O,ooO for pay
ment for property lost in the militia
ry service S34 900 for Montana war
claims; Sl@,000 for the purchase of
Stevens battery, and also a provis-
ion authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury to call in on three months
notice such of the $50 bonds as he
may need for the sinking fund. All
Of the Senate amendments have been
enacted. New Orleans customholse
gets $4,000. Among tie bill which
remained on Senate calender at the
close Of the session to-day and which,
therefore, failed are the following:
House general amnesty bill which
reached the Senate in December 1873;
House bill for protection of elections
ETC., known as the caucus force bill,
which got no further in the Senate
than its second reading. All varions
postal telegraph bills introduced III
the Senate failed in the Senate, and
Others of Il similar character origina-
ting in the House failed in the House.
The following bills were also left
on the Senate calender and tailed at
adj ournMent: Senate bills for pay
ment of French spoilation claims to
protect navigable waters OF the Unit
ed States from injuries and Obstruc-
ton; declaring the true intent and
meaning Of tho Union and Pacific
railroad acts to pay the two per cent
claim Of the States Of Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois; to establish IL bureau Of
internal commerce; to- make general
provisions in regard to cable tele-
graphic communication; to grant
pensions for service in the war with
Mexico; to amend an act granting
pensions to the survivors Of the war
Of 1912 to regulate the counting Of
electoral votes for President and Vice
President; bill of joint committee
appointed to frame a better govern
ment for the District Of Columbia
and many ether Senate bills Of minor
importance. Also the House bill
known as she McCrary bill, to regu-
late commerce by railroad among the
several States; the Honss bill to re-
peal presumption laws aud secure
homesteads to actual settlers on pub
lie domain and steamboat BILL
Among other present failures of the
session are bills for equalization Of
bounties; for admission Of N 9 "
Mexico and the Texas and Pacific and
Northern Pacific bills and all Other
land grants or subsidy bills, except a
very few which proposed grants mere
ly of rights of way aside from the
regular appropriation bills. Com
paratively few bills of general inter
est have been enacted this session
but they include the following meas
ures of national Importance: Tho
finance bill to provide for the resump
ton of specie payments, &C.; TIT
little tariff bill the tax and tariff bill
the civil rights bill the bill supple
mental to tho acts in relation to i'm
migration and bill granting rights o
way through public lands on certai,
conditions for all railroads that may
} incorporate under tho local laws o
States or Territories. Ead's jettie
} for the mouth Of the Mississippi is
law.