The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-08-17
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VII lIle ON, d Dlll WAS passed. Ill Ine
Senate to establish the Territory of Penn
bina, to be formed of the northern portion of
the Territory of Dakota, and a motion was
subsequently made to reconsider the vote on
the passage of the bill with Il view to chang
| ing the name to Algonquin. The resolution
TO print 10000 copies of the Presidents s
message relative 10 the Hamburg troubles
was further considered, and remarks rela-
tive to the affairs at the South were made by
Messrs. Eaton, Spencer and Patterson. : In
the House, bill was introduced and referred
to secure the prompt resumption of specie
payments. A bill was passed to print
100000 copies Of the report of the
Commissioner of Agriculture for 1874,
and 100000 copies of the report for 1875, and
appropriating Sl30,000 therefor. Mr.. Hale
mad speech on general politics, mai"ly
devoted to affairs at the South, and he was
replied to by Mr.. Cox. A proposed amend. .
ment to the Constitution was introduced by
Mr.. Lawrence, for that known as the Blaine
School amendment, and provides that no
State shall make any law respecting an es-
tablishment of re igion or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof, and that no public
property or money raised by taxation, or
from any public fund or property subject to
the legislative power Of Congress, shall ever
be given to or be under the control of any
religious sect or denomination.
On the 9th, among the bills passed
in the Senate, was the House bill to allow
homestead settlers to make proof of settle
ment before the courts, as well as before the
Receiver. The House amendments to the
bill to provide for the sale of the reserva-
ton of the confederated Otoe and Missouri
Indians in Kansas and Nebraska were agreed
to. The Hamburg affair was further dis
cussed by Messrs. Patterson, Wallace and
Sherman. In the House, majority and
minority reports were made from the Post
office Committee on investigation into
straw bids, etc, as were also like reports
from the Judiciary Committee in the
case of Messrs. Schumacher and King as con-
nected with the Pacific Mail subsidy. A re-
port was made from the Conference Com
mi tee on the Executive, Legislative and Ju-
dical Appropriation bill that the committee
had come to no conclusion, and that the
Senate was unyielding in its determination
to adhere to its position on the bill; reso
luton was agreed to that the House reccde
from its position regarding the salaries of
the President and Congressman, and the
same Conference Committee was reappoint-
ed Political subjects were discussed, Mr..
Hoar commenting on Mr.. Lamar's recent
speech, and he was replied to by Mr.. Hooker.
Counsel WAS authorized to defend the
Speaker and officers of the House in the
hallelt-h1l5OuTne bult
On the 10th, in the Senate, the Con-
ference report on the River and Harbor Ap-
preparation Bill was agreed to, the bill as
agreed upon appropriating s5,000,oO. The
House bill to provide temporarily for the
expenditures of the Government was passed.
The resolution to print 10000 copies of the
Presidents Hamburg message was taken
up, and a political debate ensued, partici-
rated in BY Messrs. Sherman, Mcdonald,
Bogy and Stevenson. In the House, a pre-
amble and resolution were offered by Mr..
Lord. rec ting that the right of suffrage IN
the several states is subject to the Fifteenth
Amendment of the Constitution, and that
The exercise of such right should be faith
fully mainta ned and observed by the United
States; that it is asse ted that the exercise
of said r ght is, in some States, notwiih-
standing the efforts of good citizens, resist
ed and controlled By fraud, intimi
dation and violence; that all citizens, with
out distinction of race or color, are entitled
to the rights conferred by said amendment;
declaring that all tempts by force, fraud,
terror, intimidation or Otherwise, to prevent
free exercise of the right Of suffrage
should meet with certain punishment, and
that in any case in which violence or murder
has been or may be committed by one class
or race on another the punishment OF the
manded The resolution was adopted--,@
to 9and the preamble was then agreed to
14 to "a. Majority and minority reports we're
made from the Committee on Expenditures
in the Navy Department, and resolutions
offered by the majority, declaring that
by reason of the negligence of Sec
retary Robeson, and his orders 10
pay the finn of Tilton, Wheelwright q GO.
the sum of $32, ,O19, the Government was de-
frauded of that amount, and declaring that
Isaiah Harcom, Chief of the Bureau OF Con-
struction and Re pairs in the Navy Depart
ment is unworthy and incompetent and
should be reno we'd, were adopted. The MI
nority report was to the effect that there was
no evidence of collusion between officers OF
the Government and the firm OF Iilton,
WheeIwright Il Co. to defraud the Govern
ment in the final adjustment OF their
claim. The Conference report on the River
and Harbor Appropriation bill was agreed
to. A bill was passed to continue the tenn
porary arrangement for the expenditures OF
the Government till the l4th.
On the 18th, in the Senate, the pro-
posed Constitutional amendment forbid
ding the appropriation of any school funds
to schools Of any religious sects, etc., was
amended and ordered to third
reading. The Postoflice bill was amend
ed and passed--27 to 1S-among the
amendments agreed to being one appro..
priating $225, 900 for the restoration OF
the fast mail train, and one to restore tne
franking privilege to a limited extent; tne
vote for the latter amendment was, yeas ~,
nays Is. A message was received from the
President inclosing telegram from zen.
Sheridan and letter from Gen. sherman, IN
regard to the Indian troubles ana the P1oo'