Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-04-13

Ing commerce and navigation and the regulation
OF steam vessels was debated at considerable
length. A resolution was adopted directing the
Committee on Military Affairs to invest rate
charges of corrupt and base practices alleged TO
have been committed by Horace Boyntun. clerk
of such committee while an officer of the Inter
nal Revenue Bureau in Texas.
On the Sd, Mr. Morton introduced bill in the
Senate, to amend the act to enforce the ripbt of
citizens to vote in the several States the object
of the amendment being to bring the Enforce
ment act within the late decision of the Supreme
Court. A bill was passed amendatory of the
Bankrupt law. by providing that no voluntary
assignment by debtor of al his property. made
in good faith, for the benefit of creditors and
valued according to the law of the State where
made, shall of itself, in the event of his being
subsequently adjudicated bankrupt, be bar
to the discharge OF such debtor. The motion to
reconsider the vote by which the bill reducing
the Presidents salary was passed was lost-yeas
"a, nays, 81. Announcement was made that the
House had adopted the Beknap impeachment
articles >. Several bills were introduced and re-
ferred in the House The articles of Impeach-
ment against ex-Secretary Belknap were adopted,
and Messrs. Lord, Knott, Lynde, McMahon
jerks, Lapham and Hoar were appointed as
managers of the prosecution the part of the
House, Mr.. Lord standing as Chairman of the
Board of Managers. Bills were passed-author-
izing the sale of the Pdwnee reservation in Ne
braska; amending the Pension law for the war of
1912.
On the 4th, in the Senate, Messrs Boutwell,
Cameron, Wise, Oglesby, Bayard and Mcdonald
were appointed by the Chair as the special COM
mittee to inquire into the recent election in
Mississippi. The impeachment managers on the
part of the House appeared and presented the
orrio1 IF DoJ1-x
late Secretary of War. A message was received
from the President yetoing bill for the relief of
G. B. Tyler and E. Fl. Luckett, assignees of W. t.
Cheatham; the bill provides for the refunding to
such assignees of money paid for two months
salary of storekeeper in a distilery in Ken
lucky in 1S69-70. "A bill passed in the
House. providing that no person shall be prose-
cuted, tried or punished for any offense. except
against the internal revenue, unless indicted
within three years after such Otfense has been or
may be committed. report was made that the
impeachment articles had been read in the
Senate, and that that body would take action in
the matter. When considering the Legislative
Appropriation bill an amendment was offered
and finally rejected to omit the item for the Presi
dents salary fixing it at $25 900 year after the
4th of March, 1877, until action should be had on
the special bill fixing the Presidential salary.
On the 18th, bills were passed in the Senate
authorizing the sale of the Menomonee reserva-
ton in Wisconsin, under the direction of the
Interior Department.; House bill to enable the
Secretary of the Treasury to pay judgments rem
dered by the Court of Alabama Claims; House
bill authorizing the sale OF the Pawnee reserva-
ton. The Senate organized as Court of I'm
parchment, and order agreed to that
summons be issued to ex-Secretary Belknap.
turnable on the nth Of April, to which
obi twin
the rate of postage on third-class mail
matter, and for other purposes, was
taken up and debated. In the House, resolu-
ton was adopted, directing the Secretary of the
Treasury to furnish the House with an itemized
account of the amount expended under the item
of $500 900 appropriated for light and fuel for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1875. A bill was
passed regulating the winding up of National
Banks. Announcement was made Of the action
of the Senate on the Impeachment question. The
bill to transfer the Indian Bureau from the In
terror TO the War Department debated in
Committee of the Whole, as was also, at the even
ing session, the Legislative Appropriation bill.
On the 9th, in the Senate, a favorable report
was made from the Committee on Finance on
the House bill TO provide for the deficiency in
the Engraving and Printing Bureau of the Treas
ury Department. The House bill to amend the
Revised Statutes in regard 10 limitations in pros
ecution for crime was amended and passed. The
bill fixing the rate of postage on tMrd-cass mat
ter was taken up, and amendments were submitted
and ordered printed. Adjourned to the 10TH.
In the House, the Senate bill fixing the Presiden
tial salary, after the 4th of March, 1877 at S25,
600 year, was passed without discussion. The
bill to carry into operation the Hawaiian treaty
was discussed, and the Legislative Appropriation
bill was further debated in Committee of the
Whole.