Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-06-15
CONGRESSIONAL.

lZeO the fentlnS OF a nre.prOOt building tor
the pension Office and bureau of education !;
priation bill was read, the question was ask
ed why no provision for commission of In
dian affairs was made and Mr.. Morrill, replied
that it was the eintention to abolish that Of
fee. The committee on appropriations hav-
ing reported in favor of striking out the
second section Of the bill providing for re-
ducing clerks salaries and forbidding con-
was adopted without debate.
Mr.. Howe i'll the House offered a
resolution unseating the delegate from Idaho.
Mr.. White offered a resolution establishing
4 money order Office at every county seat,
also reducing the membership of the House
to two hundred. Mr.. Neal offered bill to
repeal the resumption act of Jan. u, 1876 and
was declared out OF order, no notice of the
bill having been given.
The Senate, on the 9th, received i.
petition from Gen. G. T. Bcauregard for the
removal of his political disabilities. A reso-
luton was adopted requesting the President,
if he does not regard It as incompatible with
public interests, to furnish the Senate fac
simile copy of the original draft OF
the letter of the secretary of State
to the minister to England i'll relation
the befigerent rights Of the Confederate States.
The Senate took up the impeachment case,
and after much discussion fixed upon the 9Th
day of July to commence the trial. The Sen
ate then adjourned.
The House, by vote of lis to 81
granted permission TO the committee on
hnking and currency to report at pleasure
This is for the purpose Of permitting a bill
for the repeal Of the resumption act to be in
troduced: The Indian appropriation bill, in
Guiding the section transferring the bureau ia
the war department., was passed.
The Senate on the 7th passed the
resolution proposing acommon unint OF money
and accounts for the United States and Great
Britain. The House bill extending for one
year the provision of the act OF Dec 1874, 50
as not to deprive homestead settlers driven
from their homes by the locust plague, o.
their rights, was passed. The bill to prohibi,
the manufacture, Importation and sale of in.
postponed. On the question OF distributing
departments equally between the
different districts, the vote was yeas 81, nays
o. =
Mr.. Crounse introduced bill i'll the
House authorizing the building OF a pontoo,
bridge across the Missouri at Nebraska City
The speaker obtained leave Of absence for ter
days. a bill was passed providing 2 penalty
for mailing obscene books and prohibiting
'o'c' ~ az, nt;o,, ,',os ,,."Jn saJ % -, H.
vi Ino 0Cn q inoIloH W;ts nlaue LII I!t
senate 10 take up tne resonlonto pay finch'
6ack the compensatory Pm ana miiase as senator
oc ,soa, re;ected % Sv vote ot - to 70 " ieneth7t ~
debate was had on the new silver lii hn,
action was nosnoned until the 0lth and til.
Senate adinmrned ' ~ ~
The House 11assed tho nost route hi,
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ana Oh. 20 pe't%e en- ;S% o1s Gctor LIZ AnGt
the oath to he taken nv 'arand r nd and ' neti
a. . oath m "cx oota
for debate on The Geneva aIord iii "n Int o~I,
two M members We're nrese~t ' "A' o'''.
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