Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-10

whether the Central Pacific, Kansas Pacific,
Union Pacific and other roads to which bonds
and subsidies have been granted by the Govern
ment, have fully complied with the re-
Quirements of law, etc.; instructing the
same committee TO inquire whether or not
the Union Pacific Company has for
feited its charter; instrucung the Com
mittee on Banking and Currency TO inquire
whether the commercial and industrial interests
of the country do not require that the retirement
and cancellation of Iegal-tender notes shall cease
and whether common and equal Justice to the
whole people do not require that United States
notes shall be substituted for National Bank pa
per instead of National Bank paper being substi-
tuted for United States notes The Military
Academy Appropriation bill was reported from
Committee of the Whole, with amendm. uts, and
passed: by its provisions the pay of cadets is
| fixed at $40 without rations.
On the list, in the Senate, an adverse report
was made from the Finance Committee on MIR.
Bogy's bill authorizing the payment of duties
on imports in legal-tender aid National Bank
notes. A petition was presented from citizens of
Illinois asking for the repeal of the Specie Re
sumption act and substitute legal-tender for Ma
tonal Bank circulation etc. Bills were passed
to establish certain post routes in Texas to estab
lish land office in the southern part of Utah
| Territory to be known as the Beaver District.
In the House, the Senate billremoving the politi-
| cal disabilities of Geo. S. Hawkins, of Florida,
was passed. The proposed amendment to the
| Constitution reported from the Judiciary Com
mittee, providing that no person who has held,
or may hereafter hold, the Office of President,
shall ever again be eligible to such office, was
taken up and discussed, and a substitute was Of
fered by Mr.. Frye, fixing the term of office of
| President at six years, and providing that any
/ -
| the office OF President, or who has for two
years Leld such uice, shall be igible to re-
| election.
On the I'd. the House joint resolution
| directing the Commissioners of the District of
Columbia to pay interest on bonds issued in
pursuance of the act of Congress approved June
90, 1874, out of any funds in the United States
Treasury subject to the requisition of said Com
missioners, was further considered in the Senate,
the pending question being on an amend
ment prohibiting any further issue of 3.65
bonds under said act....A bill was passed
IN the House providing for the sale of Indian
lands in Kansas to actual settlers; IL authorizes
the payment by settlers and purchasers under ap
praisement already made of the appraised value
of their farms in six equal annual installments.
and also provides for a new apprasement. The
proposed Constitutional amendment limiting the
sion and the rejection of proposed amendments,
was finally defeated-Yeas ia, nays LOG, less than
two-thirds in the affirmative.
On the Sd, in the Senate the bill to pay interest
on the 365 District of Columbia bonds was
amended to prohibit any further issue of
such bonds under the act of Congress of June 20,
1874, and providing that there shall be no increase
in the total indebtedness of the District, and the
bill, as amended passed. Resolutions of
workingmen of Detroit in favor of the repeal
of the Resumption act were presented and re-
ferred "A resolution adopted in the
House directing the Secretary of War to
report to the House the entire cost of the last
fiscal year of the Signal Service a bill was
passed for the payment of disabled soldiers
on the rolls of the House. A bill was introduced
and referred for the encouragement of the con-
duct of commerce in vessels, four-ffths of which
at least are owned by citizens of the United
States. The Consular and Diplomatic ApprOpria-
ton bill 1922 $40 taken up in Committee
of the Whole and debated. message was re-
ceived from the President and referred return
ing, without his approval, the act transferring
the custody of certain Indian trust funds from
the Secretary of the Interior to the Treasurer of
the United States, with a communication from
the Secretary of the Interior setting out that the
act was not sufficiently definite to accomplish the
end desired.