The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-04
Forty-Fourth Congress.
SENATE.

w ASiilNtlON, rcD. %.
The senate resumed the consideration of
the bill to pay the interest on the 1865 Dis
trict of Columbia bonds, the pending ques
ton being on the amendment of Mr.. Ker-
nan, that any further issue of 800 bonds
under or by virtue of the said act of con-
gress, approved June 90, 1874, is hereby
prohibited. Agreed to.
Mr.. Edmunds of Vermont submitted an
amendment, as follows And there shall
be no increase in the present amount of
total Indebtedness of the District of Column
bia. Agreed to.
Mr. Edmund of Vermont submitted an
amendment that any officer or person who
shall knowingly increase, or aid or abet IN
increasing such total Indebtedness, shall be
deemed guilty of high misdemeanor, and
on conviction thereof shall be punished by
imprisonment not exceeding 10 years, and
by fine not exceeding $4,000. Agreed to-
Mr.. Stevenson, of Kentucky, submitted
an amendment providing that the board of
audit created by the act for the govern
ment of the district Of Columbia, approved
June 90, 1874, as hereby abolished, and
shall Immediately upon the approval of this
resolution TRANSMIT, all the books and prop
erty in their possession belonging to the
district to the commissioners of the district
of Columbia, and make a report of their
proceedings not hitherto made. Agreed to.
Mr.. Eaton of Connecticut, submitted an
amendment and provided further that this
resolution shall not in any way or manner
recognize the liability of the United States
to pay either the principal or interest Of
any such bonds as may have been issued
since the 9th day jan, 1876 After de-
bate Eaton's amendment was agreed
to. The joint resolution was then
reported to the senate and the ques-
ton being first on the amendment
porposed by committee on appropriations
to strike out of the resolution, as it came
from the house, the proviso that any fur
Their issue of 3 65 bonds is hereby prohibit
ted, and, provided further, that nothing in
this resolution contained shall involve the
government Of the United States in any
obligation to pay the principal or interest
of any such bonds which have been issued
| contrary to or not in pursuance of law.
1t was concurrcd in. The question then
being on concurring in the amendments
made in the committee of the whole, they
were concurred in. The joint resolution
as amended was then passed.
She senate at $50 adjourned.
HOUSE.
A bill was reported by Mr.. Williams OF
Indiana, chairman of the committee on ac-
counts, for the payment of fourteen
disabled soldiers on the rolls of the
house. The bill led to considerable die
cussion as to whether there we're SO many
Union soldiers now on the rolls-Mr. Fort
of Illinois undertaking to deny that there
were, and Messls. Holman and Williams
of Indiana maintaining the contrary. Fin
ally the bill was passed.
Mr.. Aikens of Tennessee, from the com
m,ttee on appropriations, reported resolu
ton requesting the president to appoint
competent, experienced military officer t.
execute the duties of an Indian agent 81
far as to repair the Red Cloud agency, ant
to the other Sioux agencies, to inquire into
the causes of deficiency in the appropria
tons for the Sioux Indians. Adopted.
The bill regulating the practice in til
United States circuit and district courts
which was before the house in the mornln
hour yesterday, was taken up and passed
Mr.. Lord of New York, from the CON
mittee on Judiciary, reported bill author
izing the United States circuit courts to al
point commissioners, to be called 'aifidavi
commissioners, to take aflldavits, depos
tions and verifcations of pleadings to b
read in the United States courts, but VIII
are not to possess other powers conferre
by the statute on the circuit court comml
sioners. After discussion, the bill VIZ
passed.
The house, at o'clock, went into con
mittee of the whole, Mr.. 1Hoskns of Ne
Jersey in the chair. on consular and dipl'
matte appropriation bill, which appropr
d ates S022, SAT.
d Mr.. Singleton of Mississippi, who hs
s. charge of the bill, as member OF the cor
!. mttec on appropriation, advocated Il
: principles of economy on which the D.
a was got up and argued that the gener
9 depression of business throughout u
. country renders this economy an imper