Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-04-13

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cross the Rio Grande and use such means as
may be found necessary to recover the stolen
property and to check the raids guarding,
however, against unnecessary injury to the
peaceable inhabitants of Mexico. The bill was
made the special order for the 2oth of April
and from day to day until disposed Of: The
House considered the Legislative Appropria-
ton bill. The appropriation for the govern
ment printing was stricken out, as that insti-
tuition is under investigation. The item re-
ducing the Presidents salary to s25,OOO, after
the 4th of March, was reached after long de-
bate and the clause adopted.
In the Senate on the 9Th, after the members
had all been sworn and organized for the
trial of the impeachment of w. w. Belknap,
late Secretary of War, it was ordered that a
summons be issued, as required by the rules
of procedure and practice in the Senate when
sitting in the trial of impeachment, to W. w.
Belknap, returnable on Monday, the 18th
day of the present month, at l o'clock, after
noon. The Senate then adjourned as a Court
of Impeachment until the above date, and
resumed consideration of legislative business.
Mr. Hamlin, of Maine, offered a bill fixing
the rate of postage on third class mail matter,
and for other purposes submitting an amend
ment to the bill 80 it would read-"If, howev-
er, the postage on third class matter mailed
at the office shall be less than the full amount
above prescribed, in cases where the sender is
known, such sender shall be notified Of the
fact, and the amount of postage due shall be
collected from such sender before the same
shall be transmitted by mail" etc. Agreed
to. After long debate and speech by Mr..
Hamlin, he then explained the provisions Of
the bill, and said that he favored fourth
class Of mail matter, in which anything might
be transmitted at half a cent an ounce any
distance not exceeding 300 miles, but the
committee had thought otherwise. He was
willing to allow merchandise in the mail if it
paid the cost of transportation. The Gov
ernment received $1.46 for every pound of
letter mail transmitted. The mails were
transported about 10000 miles by railroad
and about 175, 900 miles by coach. If the
whole postal service could be by railroad, it
could be performed cheaper. He referred to
cases where harness had been carried from
Massachusetts, to Arizona through the mail,
at eight cents pound, which would have cost
sixty cents pound if sent by express. He
believed in cheap postage, but did not want
the social correspondence crowded out by
merchandise. The committee proposed to
follow this bill with other remedial measures,
to make the department selfsustaining. In
the House, the impeachment managers pre-
sented themselves at the bar and stated
through Mr.. Lord, their chairman, that they
had proceeded to the bar of the Senate, and
that the Senate had fixed Monday the 18th,
as the day on which they would make the
process returnable against w. w. Belknap,
late Secretary of War. The House then went
into committee of the whole on the bill to
transfer the Indian bureau from the Depart
ment of the Interior to the War Department.
Mr.. Cox, of New York, spoke in opposition
to the bill, and at 4.30 P, NJ, the House took
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there were discussions over the restoration Of
the franking privilege-which was advocated
by Mr.. Cannon, of Illinois, but was not en-.
grated on the bill; over the reduction of the
clerical force in the State Department, which
was earnestly but unavailingly opposed by
Mr.. Kasson, of Iowa, and on various items
of no public moment
In the Senate on the 9Th, the judiciary com.
mittee reported, with amendments, to the
House bill making the time three years from
the time of committing the offence for finding
indictments in certain cases. The same CON-
mittee reported adversely on the bill abolish
ing capital punishment. They also reported
tavorably on the bill providing against the
deficiency in the printing and engraving bu-.
reau. A number of private bills passed.
The bill repeating the law regarding third
class mail matter was resumed and discussed
without action. The judiciary committee re-
ported adversely on the bill making persons
charged with crimes competent witnesses in
Federal courts, After executive session, the
Senate adjourned until Monday. In the
House. the Senate bill fixing the Presidents
salary at $4,000 passed without discussion.
The House, on the 9TH, was devoted exclu-
sively to the consideration Of private bills,
forty of which were passed.
In the Senate on the 10th, the following
bill for specie resumption passed:
SECTION l. That there be, and hereby is, ap-
propriated out Of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated, the sum of $l63,000, to
provide for engraving, printing and other expen-
ses of making and issuing United States notes,
and the further sum of $48 900 to provide for en-
craving and printing national bank notes, to be
disbursed under the Secretary of the Treasury.
SEQ 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury is
hereby directed to issue silver coins of the United
States, ofthe denomination Of 10, 20, 25 and so
cents, of standard value, in redemption of an
equal amount of fractional currency, whether the
same be now in the treasury awaiting redemption
or whenever it may be presented for redemption
and the Secretary of the Treasury may, under the
regulations Of the Treasury Department. provide
for such redemption and issue by substitution at
the regular sub-Treasurers and public deposito-
ries of the United States, until the whole amount
of fractional currency outstanding shall be re-
deemed; and the fractional currency redeemed
under this act shall be held to be part Of the
sinking fund provided for by existing law; the
interest to be computed thereon as in the case of
bonds redeemed under the acts relating to the
sinking fund.
Various petitions were presented against
the pending bill regarding third-class mail
matter. Mr.. Wallace introduced bill for
the coinage of "goloide" silver coin. The
river and harbor bill passed, appropriating