The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-03-17
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

SENATE.
In the Senate, on the 28th, Mr.. Jones
| presented the credentials of his colleague
| Mr.. Sharon, to be United States senator from
| Nevada for six years, from March 4. 1875
! Bills were introduced and referred as fol
| lows: To authorize the third auditor of the
| treasury TO examine the evidence of the pay.
ment made by the state of Missouri to state
| troops serving in the Union army, and also
| the evidence as to supplies furnished the
| troops, which are yet unpaid. To compen-
| safe Clark Mills for plaster model of Gen
| eral Rawiins. Mr. Sargent presented pc.
| titiOn from the national women's suffrage as
| soclatIon, asking that the women Of Utah be
| protected in exercising the right of the eec-
| tive franchise. Referred. The senate took
| up the house bill to amend act of March l,
| 1870, 20 enable the people of Colorado TO form
/ constitution and state government, and for
! the admission of sad state into the Union on
! equal footing with original states. The bill
| was read a third time and passed. The SEN
| ate then resumed the consideration of un-
| finished business, being a bill making appro-
| priatonS for the support of the military
academy Tor the fiscal year ending June 80,
| 1877. The following amendments were agreed
! TO: For additional pay of professors for
| length OF service of $6SO0; for the pay of one
| instructor of practical military engineering,
IN addition to pay as first lieutenant, of 5000;
structor of ordnance; $4,000 for pay of eight
assistant professors in addition to their pay
as first Heutenants; $500 for extra paw of
three instructors of cavalry, artillery and in
tantry; 5000 for extra pay of four assistant
instructors of tactics, and $500 for extra pay
OF adlutant. long and somewhat amusing
debate cnsUed in reference to West Point
and marine bands, pending which discussion
the senate went into executive session and
soon after adjourned.
In the senate, on the Goth, Mr.. Bayard,
from the committee on finance, reported
favorably on senate bill extending the time
for the redemption of lands held by the
United States under the several acts levving
direct taxes. Passed. The bill extends the
time for redemption of such property until
the 1st of February, 1877. The senate re-
sumed consideration of the bill making ap-
preparations for support of the military
academy for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1877, and the following amendments were
agreed to: For pay of military academy
band, Sl4,SSO; to increase the appropriations
for repairs, improvements, etc, from S12, 900
to S14,500; appropriating 81, 800 for clerk to
adjutant and the same sum to clerk to treas
urer; increasing appropriation for the de-
partment of natural and experimental phi
lOsOphy from 5000 to 81 900 providing that
the professor of law may be commissioned in
the same manner as other professors, and
increasing the pay of librarians assistant
from 81 POO TO 81 800; to increase the apprO-
prlat!On for contingencies for superintendent
of the academy from 3, 600 to $500. Amend
ments made in the committee of the whele
were concurred in, and the bill was read the
third time and passed. Adjourned.
In the senate, March 1st, Senator Ere
linghUysen, from the committee on agricul-
lure, reported adversely to the senate bill to
Drn,-iJa for n =, ;r,-os+;,,o+;o,, os 20 ~ lob;..
of the Rocky mountain locust or so-called
grasshopper. He also reported, from the
same committee, favOrably on the senate bill
for the protection of agriculture against in
furious insects, with amendments, which was
ordered to be printed and placed on the cab
endar. \ bill was introduced and referred
apprOpriating three million two hundred
thousand dollars for the purpose of repair
ing and in part rebuilding the leyees of the
Mississippi river, providing for the expendi-
ture and for other purposes Referred. Sem
ator Cooper, from the committee on public
buildings and grounds, reported favOrably
upon the house bill authorizing the purchase
of additional ground for the custOm-hOuse at
/ Nashville. Passed. The senate then pro-
ceedcd to consider the resolution for the
admission of Pinchback as senator from
Louisiana. Senator AlcOrn urged that the
credentials of Pinehback were in due form
OF law, and upon them he should be seated.
He spoke at length in favor of Mr.. Pinch
back. Senator Norwood said that the sena-
tor from Mississippi had, as a member of the
committee on privileges and elections, re-
ported that the election in Louisiana was an
organized fraud, and he Norwood did not
see how an organized fraud could elect
United States senator. Other remarks were
made, but action taken. Senator Bout
well entered a motion to reconsider the vote
by which the bill appropriattng seventy-five
thousand dollars for the st. Louis custom
house and postoffice was passed. The senate
then went into executive session, and soon
adjourned.
In the senate, en- the Cd, Mr.. Davis
presented the petition of citizens Of West
Virginia, in favor of aid to the Texas Pacific
railroad, providing that the iron used in the
construction of such road be of American
manufacture. At the expiration of the morn
ing hour, the consideration of the resolution
for the admission of Pinchback was resumed.
By request of Mr. Edmunds, who was en-
titled to the floor, the matter was laid over.
Mr.. COnkling, from the committee on COM
merce, reported adversely on the senate bill
to make Chattanooga, Tenn, a port of de-
livery. Indefinitely postponed. The joint
resolution in regard to the centennial Cele-
bration was agreed to. The following bills
were passed: To reduce the number and in
crease the efficiency of the medical corps of
the army; to extend the time for filing claims
for additional bounty under the act of May
IS, 1866. Adjourned.
In the senate, on the Sd, the chair
presented the credentials of James b. Beck,
United States senator from Kentucky, for
period of six years from March 4, 1877. Read
and laid on the table. Bills were introduced
and referred as follows: Fixing the rate of
postage on third-class mail matter and for
other purposes; to restore the frankng priv
ilege. The latter bill provides simply for the
repeal of the act of January, 81, 1873 which
abolished it, and for its immediate renewal
in the form in which il existed at the time of
the passage of said act. MIR. Morton pre-
sentcd petition from the colored men of
Texas, representing that the present state
government of Texas denied them ample
school facilities, and asking for such legisIa-
ton rs will compel the state to maintain
system of free schools. Referred. Mr.. Nor
ton submitted a resolution appropriating
$4,000 out of the contingent fund of the
senate to defray the expenses of inyestiga-
ton into the facts attending the election of
Hon. q. L. Spencer as L. 5. senator from
Alabama, now being made by the committee
on privileges and elections. Agreed to. At
one o'clock q committee of the house of rep
rcsentatives appeared at the bar of the SEN
ate and announced the action of the house in
regard to the impeachment of Senator Bel
knap. Mr.. Edmunds called up the resolu-
tiOns from the house in regard to the i'm
parchment OF the late secretary OF war, which
were read, with a statement of the committee
above mentioned, and referred to a select
committee of hve, consisting of MesSrS. Ed
munGs, Conkling, Frelinghuysen, Thurman
and Stevenson. After executive session the
senate adjourned till Monday.
In the senate, on the 9th, Mr.. Edmunds.
from the select committee 10 which was re-
ferred the resolution and message from the
house of representatives in regard to the i'm
peachment of w. w. Belknap, late secretary
of war, reported a preamble and resolution
declaring that the senate viii take order in
the premises according TO its standing rule,
and directing the secretary to notify the
house of representatives. Agreed TO. Mr.
Jones submitted resolution instructing the
commissioner of agriculture to furnish the
senate, from such data as is now in possession
Of his department. the following information
What are the geographical limits and area
within the United States, the soil and climate