Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-02-09
SENATE.
WAsHINaroN, Feb. |

The Chair laid before the Senate q
bill making an appropriation to pay
IA crippled and disabled Union sol
diers from the, 9Th Of Dec. 1872, to
the thirteenth Of Jan, 1876.
\ Edmunds inquired what these SOL
idiers had done. aEa7Al
/. Sargent said the bill should be re-
ferred to the Committee on Appro-
priations, as there were some cir
crmstances in regard to the bill that
he wished to examine. 4 ~
+ Edmunds said he did not know hut
these soldiers were those whose SER
vices had been dispensed with.
The bill was referred to the Com
mittee on Appropriations.
L Ferry, President protempore, said
while he WAS ever ready, to do his
part of the Official labor, he found
his services on three committees con-
flicted with the requirements of a
presiding officer, and he was not able
to meet the requirements Of the SER
vice on the Committee on Finance.
He, therefore, asked to be relieved
from service after the expiration of
the morning hour.
Wright moved that the Senate
proceed to the consideration of exec
utive business.
Morrill, said that yesterday .hc gave
notice that he would call up the Gem
tennial bill at o'clock to-day. He
urged that the present condition of
tho company demanded that the SEN
ate take action immediately.
Edmunds did not think the bill
ought to be considered till the infor-
nation called for from the Secretary
OF State was received, but he would
not oppose its present consideration,
The Senate by vote of 30 to Is re-
quested to go into executive session
and took up the Centennial bill.
Eaton then offered a resolution in
respect to the memory Of his late col
league o. S. Ferry, the understand
ing being that the Centennial hill
should come up as unfinished business
tomorrow. @a
Cooper was appointed a member of
the Senate Committee OH Finance, i'm
place Of Ferry, excused from further
service.
Morton submitted resolution that
the committee on District Of Colum-
bia be instructed to consider the pro-
priety Of preparing and reporting q
bill to provide for a Government for
the District Of Columbia under which
the people through the elective fran
chize may elect and control their do
mestic affairs, not inconsistent with
the protection, regulation, and con-
troll by the u. S., of the public prop
erty and the exercise Of such iurisdic-
ton as may be necessary in the nafin-
nal capitol Agreed to.
~ HOUSE.
The Speaker called on Committees
for reports on bills Of public charac-
Ter, and several were presented.
Lynde, from the Judiciary Com
mittce, presented q bill to repeal the
first section of the Bankrupt act OF
March 2lst, 1867, and all laws and
parts of laws amcndatory thereto, and
supplemental thereto. The second
section provides that all snits and
proceedings now pending in the u. 8.
Courts, wherein an adjudication in
bankruptcy has hceil made, shall be
proceeded with and be governed BY
the. provisions of existing laws, which
arc continued in force only for the
purpose Of closing up the snits and
proceedings now pending. The act IL
to take effect from and after the lat OF
January, 1877. The bill passed ITO
TO 50. Subsequently an error was
found In the bill tho date Of the orig
81 law being given as the ID, jnsteati
of the 2lst Of March. 81
90 Lynde asked unanimous consent to
correct it but Kasson Objected, re-
marking that the bill placed the whole
creditor class Of the country in the
power Of the debtor class. The bill,
therefore, goes to the Senate with
that imperfection.