The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-04-19
f0RTY-F0URTH CONGRESS-.
wAsH1Heron. April Is.
SENATE.

tee on Judiciary to inquire into the ex
pediency Of providing REASONABLE,
statute Of the limitations bearing all th,
right on the part of the United States Il
sue upon the official bonds with leave t.
report by bill or otherwise, was agreed to
Mr.. Sherman, from the Committee or
Cure reported fayorably on the
Senate bill to amend the laws relating Il
the legal tender Of silver. He gave notice
that he would call it up Thursday. The
| bill embodies the man features of the
two sections proposed by the committee
as amendments to the House silver cur.
rency bill, but subsequently withdrawn
1t provides for the coinage of silver
dollar Of four and half and eight grains
of standard silver to be legal tender
for any amount not exceeding $40 in one
payment, except Tor customs duties
and interest on the pubic debt.
The legal tender power Of the trade dol
lar is totally abolished. Other existing
coins remain legal tender for the amounts
now fixed by law. The bill limits the
issue of the silver dollar at S500O0000.
Mr. Anthony introduced bill relat-
ing to the sale of the Congressional Re-
cord, and other public documents. The
bill authorizes the Congressional printer
to furnish copies Of the Record and ex-
tracts therefrom, t. members of Congress
at cost, and other public documents with
10 per cent additional thereon,
and collect the money after delivery.
Passed.
Mr.. Logan, from the Committee on
Finance, reported favorably on House
bill to define the tax on fermented and
malt liquors. The bill will be reported
tomorrow or next day.
Mr.. Ogleshy from the Committee on
Public Lands, formerly covered by the
waters of Piscarter Lake, Illinois, pass
ed with amendment, providing that
nothing in the act shall be construed 70
convey any other title than release Of
that now existing in the United States
in and to said lake.
The unfished business was then taken
up, it being bill authorizing the repave-
ment OF Pennsylvania Avenue.
Mr.. Bayard moved an amendment so
as to limit the maximum cost of the
pavement to $4 per square yard, instead
of 81 20 per square yard. Rejected;
yeas 10; nays %.
Mr.. Logan submitted an amendment
providing that the act shall not be so con-
strued as to require the United States
government to pay more than one-third
of the whole cost of said pavement. Re-
jected; yeas l6; nays &c.
The bill WIS then read third time
and passed; yeas 81, nays II.
Mr.. Morrill,, of Maine, called up a
House bill making appropriations to sup.
ply deficiency in the appropriations for
the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1876,
and tor prior years.
Various amendments proposed by the
Committee on Appropriations were
agreed to. Among them was the follow
ing: For the payment OF mileage to Sem
which convened on the 5tb of March,
1876, by proclamation of the President,
who were not members OF the previous
Congress, $6,336; for labor in the Senate,
$4,000; for folding documents, 81 400;
for horses and wagons tor Senate $565.
Mr.. Edmunds moved an amer dment
providing that the payment Tor mileage
to senators should be for actual travel
only. Agreed TO-
An amendment OF the committee ap-
propriating $4,000 to pay the compen-
satlun and expenses OF the Black Hill
Commission, was agreed to.
Also an amendment appropriating
So 800 to deiray the expenses OF ex.
h.biting articles belonging to the United
States at the Centennial.
The bill reported and recommended
for passage by the Finance Committee
is IN its full text as follows:
A bill to amend the laws relating to sill
yer coin.
Be it enacted, Jc.:-That there shall be
coined at the mints of the United States
A silver dollar of the weight of 4l2 $40
grains, troy, of standard SILVER, the en-
blems. devices and inscriptions of which
shall conform to those prescribed by
law for the gold and silver coins of the
limited States, with such notifications
thereof as may be necessary to render
said dollar readily dlstinguishabls from
the trade dollar and in the coinage and
delivery thereof, save deviations from
the standard weight and fneness shall be
allowed, rs prescribed by law for the trade
dollar, and said dollar herein authorized
shall be legal tender at its nominal value
tor any amount not exceeding $50 in
any one payment except for custom du-
ties and in interest on public debt and
trade dollar shall not hereafter be legal
tender.
SEC, 9 That the Secretary oethe Treas
urv ,s hereby authorized to exchange sill
var dollars herein authorized for an equal
amount of u. 5. notes which shall be
retired and cance.le and are not to be
sqain replaced by other notes, and all
Un;ted States notes receemed under this
ac. shall be held to be a part of the sink
ing fund provided for by an existing law
The interest to be computed thereon as in
the case of bonds redeemed under the
acts relating to the sinking fund.
Src 2. Any owner OF silver bullion
nav denosit the same at the mints, to be
toten NJ its market value as sscertained
"a pub,icly anrou1ced from time to
time by the Director of the Mint, with
the approval Of the Secretary OF the
Tressary, and to be paid for either in sill
YER dollars or with gold coin, or with
United States notes. The bullion ior the
coinage of said silver dollars may be pro-
.u,ed in the mode provided for as to
e,her silver coin by section 1926 OF the
o'" sts,ptes of the United States, the
cs;n and wsstage to be accounted for as
provided IN said section.
Mr.. Sherman submitted an amend
ment appropris,ing $4,000 to enable the
Secretary Of the Treasury , to pay tOr tOr
the stone delivered under pn.s,nn contract ior
the the postoftics building at PaFkefsours'
w. Va Agreed TO-
Mr.. Morril, of Vermont, moved to z,
strike out the proviso in the oil ,;a.l. as u
.ams from the House, That all ofhcers
snnoiu,ed by the President for terrific
aPP,,;,,a,v for which they shall be