The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-24
CONGRESSIONAL.

CONGRESSIONAL. .-
Before the secret session the Senate
passed the bill appropriating $4,000 for pay
ment Of the expenses of the select committee
for the investigation Of the federal officers in
Louisiana. The House bill to extend the
time for filing cotton claims was indefinitely
postponed Mr. Window called up the House
bill to extend the time to pre-emptors of pub
lie lands, and it was passed. The doors were
then closed and soon after the Senate ad-
journed.
! The House adopted several resola-
tions calling for correspondence as to the
whisky ring prosecutions, and dismissal of
special counsel Henderson; also inquiring
into the prosperity Of turning over the rev.
enue bureau to the commissioners of customs
Bills were introduced to establish new
boundary line between Kansas and Missouri;
chartering railroal from the southeast
Atlantic seaboard to Lake Michigan; to ap-
portion federal appointments among con-
gressional districts; to repeal all taxes on
banks.capital. The bill for issuing ten mil
lionsSof silver in exchange for legal ten
dersWa defeated-139 yeas and 70 nays
not sstwo thirds in the affirmative. The
bill to admit Mrs. Fitch's diamond pres
ent Tree of duty was passed without oppo-
sition. Mr.. Hoar introduced resolution de-
claring confidence in the wisdom, integrity
and efficiency of Secretary Bristow's conduct
in the whisky war, and that the House does
not desire him to make public any informa-
ton calculated to impair the efficiency of the
prosecutions. Mr.. Randall objected, and
moved to table the resolution. Pending dis
cussion the House adjourned.
The Senate on the 10th failed to
reach decision on the question OF jurisdic-
ton in the Belknap Impeachment case. The
committee on finance reported adversely to
the bill providing for an elastic currency, and
were discharged from further consideration,
and the Senate adjourned.
The House committee on printing re.
ported that the cost of government printing
amounted to $11 ,90l $50 in the last seven
years, or 81 zoo, 900 a year, and that it could
have been done for $500, 900 less. A minority
report by Mr.. Ballou exonerated printer
Clapp from all blame. The evidence was GER
tilted to the district authorities for action.
Mr.. Lawrence stated that if he had been pres
ent the previous day he would have voted for
the silver bill, as he thought the country
would learn by the measure that gold re-
sumption in 1879 is impossible
The only business before the Senate,
on the 18th, was the Memphis custom house,
for the building of which provision was made.
The House passed bill repeating
the tax on savings banks receipts, and con-
CURED in Senate amendments to the bill ex-
tending time to pre-emptors on public lands
The postal appropriation bill was amended
SO as to make the rates similar to those in
force previous to the last session, and passed,
and the House adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 18th, Mr.. Nor
ton read dispatch from public officer at
New Orleans stating that fugitives from the
scene of the late disturbances had arrived
there, reporting six whites and sixty blacks
killed, and he moved that the committee on
Mississippi elections be instructed to investi-
gate the affair. Agreed to. The doors were
then closed for the consideration of the Bel
KNAPP impeachment, but no decision was
reached
In the House, special committee
was appointed to investigate charges against
clerk Adams, whom the Inter-Ocean says
sells appointments. The Indian appropri-
alton bill was reported, fixing the amount at
$3,905, I'll, and providing for the transfer of
the bureau to the war department.
No business of Importance was
transacted by the Senate on the 10Th.
The House committee of ways and
means presented resolution for the final ad-
journment of the session of congress June
18TH The bill confirming to Missouri all the
lands therein selected as swamp and over
flown lands was passed. An effort was made
to have inserted in the Record the personal
allusion to Gen. Garfield made by Mr. Single.
ton in the debate of Wednesday, but on mo-
ton of Mr.. Randall the matter was tabled.