The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-06-29

Mimi, was passed. A bill providing that
whenever a party is lawfully entitled to a
land patent, If he delay to take out the
patent, it shall, when taken out, have the
same power as though issued at the time
the party was first entitled to 1t, was
passed. The Committee on the Freedmen's
Bank made a long report, in which it was
proposed to pay to the colored soldiers,
sailors, and marines of the late war the
bounties and pay due them for their sery-
ices, which they had lost by the failure OF
the bank and the fraud of its officers. The
bill was ordered printed. The Sundry Civil
Appropriation Bill was reported. 1t is the
last Of the appropriation bills. 1t ap-
propriates $14,5S7, $40, against S26,644,S50
in the corresponding bill last year. The
House then proceeded.to the consideration
Of the bill equalizing the bounties of sol
diars. Itallows to all enlisted men, soldiers,
sailors, and marines, Including slaves and
Indians, eight and one-third dollars for
their services per month, for service
between the 18th day of April, 1851, and
bounties already paid under the United
States or State laws. This does not apply
to substitute men, who were prisoners of war
at the time of enlistment or men who were
discharged upon their own application, or
| other causes than disability incurred IN ser
vice prior to the 10th of April, 1865, unless
such discharge was obtained with q view to
re-enlistment, or to accept promotion, or to
persons discharged or the ground of mi
nority. ALI applications for bounties under
this bill are to be filed within five years. 1t
was estimated that the amount required to
pay these bounties would be between nine
and ten million dollars. The bill was passed.
Adjourned.
In the Senate, June 81, Mr.. Merton
submitted q resolution i~nstructiDg the
Committee on Privileges and Elections to
inquire what laws, If any, protect the in
volatility Of private dispatches sent by
magnetic telegraph, and what legislation
is necessary to prevent the seizure of
such dispatches by unauthorized or IRE
sponsible persons, and to report by bill or
otherwise, which was agreed to. The bill
authorizing the Secretary Of the
Treasury to issue 100000 0 in coin, in ex-
/ change for legal tender notes, was amended
by providing that hereafter trade dollars
should not be legal tenders, and limiting the
future coinage of the sam to the export de-
mand, and then passed. The nomination Of
Mr.. Morrill, as Secretary of the Treasury was
confirmed. The President was authorized to
appoint Commissioners to the international
Conference on the subject of the
relative value of gold and silver
coin. The Indian Appropriation Bill
was then taken up, discussed, read a
contains nothing concerning the transfer of
the Indian Bureau to the War Department.
......In the House, Mr.. Cooke, of Georgia,
made an address on the subject of grievances
in the Southern States, and in advocacy Of
the ~refunding of the cotton tax. The Sum-
dry Civil Appropriation bill was taken up,
and an amendment to pay the executor
of the estate of the late Henry Wilson ten
thousand two hundred and twenty-five dol
lars, being the salary for the ~unexpired term
of his Office as Vice President, was adopted.
Different sections of the bill were discussed,
n the House took q recess until eight p.
m. In the evening session the debate was
continued.
In the Senate, June %, the entire day was
spent in discussing the Naval Appropriation
tBil. The Senate Committee amended the
House bill by increasing the total amount
appropriated 3,65S, 900. Most of the amend
ments made by the Senate Committee were
agreed to. The bill was then read
a third time and passed, and
the Senate adjourned.....1ns the House
the entire day and evening sessions
were spentin passing the various items in
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debate was shut of, and as soon as one item
passed the Committee of the Whole, the com-
mittee rose, reported the item to the House,
and then went back into the committee.
The items were passed just as they were re.
ported from the House Committee on Appro-
priations.
The Senate, on june %, spent most of the
day upon ihe bill to amend the Enforce.
ment Act The aim of the, Judiciary Com
mittee il framing the amendments was to SC
word them as to supply the deficiency
existed in the bill. The changes
were mostly verbal, but were bitterly re
sisted by the Democrats, under the leader
ship of Messrs. Thurman, Of Ohio, and
Whyte, of North Carolina. The committed
amendments were all agreed to, however
and the bill was reported, read a third time
and passed.......The House, with the
exception of the time spent in ousting Mr.
Bennett from his seat, devoted the entire
day and evening to the Sundry Civil Appro
priation bill. A few minor amendment,
were adopted, but, as a general thing, thu
items were passed as they came from tn,
committee. This was especially the case
with the appropriation for public buildings
In the Senate, June "a, a number of notices
to call up bills were given, and several bill
were placed on the calendar. No business
of any importance was executed, the da,
being devoted simply to arranging business
for Mondsy.-....In the House, only a shor
session was held, and the amendment Ii
the item in the sundry Civil Appropriation
Bill for lights on the Ohio, Mississippi, ant
Missouri Rivers, increasing the appropri
alton from 100000 to $500 0 was passed
Mr.. Sayler, of Ohio, was chosen Speake
pro tenn. during the absence of Mr.. Cox a
81. Louis.