Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-17

0o' hc"hdt severely on eX-Sec y Be4kaap, but
recommends no action. A new Conference
Committee was appointed on the River and
Harbor Appropriation bin. IN Committee
of the Whole, Mr.. Garfield spoke on political
subjects, IN reply to the recent speech of
Mr.. LaGQar.
Oh the 9Th, in the Senate, the bill
passed last March, but the vote on which
was subsequently reconsidered, providing
for 'Rud regulating the counting OF votes for
| President and Fice-Presdent and the de-
cision Of questions arising thereon, was
! called up, and q mot4on was agreed to that
j the bill be further amended before being sent
| 10 the House The report of the Conference
1,Committee on the bill to provide for the sale
! of the Usage coded lands in Kansas, was
agreed to. The resolution to print 10000
| extra copies of the Presidents message and
| accompanying documents in reference to the
Hamburg Ir0ubleS was taken up, and a
| spirited debate ensued on the subject of dis
| turbances at the South, the discussion be-
| ING participated in by Messrs Morton, Thur
| man, Patterson, Cameron. Gordon ana others
| -. In the House, majority and minority re-
| ports were made from the Committee on FIX
| penditBres IN the WarI apartment. \ bill was
| reported from the Committee on Banking
| and Currency to repeal the sections of the
| Resumption act of July Is, $50, which di-
| rect the Secretary of the treasury 10 re-
| deem the legal tender notes in coin, and,
! after considerable debate, the bill was
| paSsed-106 to So. A bill was then reported,
| debated and passed providing for Com
| mission of three Senators, three Representa-
| tiyes and three experts, to Inquire, first, into
| the cause and effect Of the change IN the
relative value Of gold and silver; second,
! into the policy of the restoration of the
! double standard in the country; third, into
| the policy Of continuing legal-tender notes
| concuwently with metallic standard; and,
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| for the resumption of specie payments-the
! Commission to report on or before Jan. 10,
1877 The Conference report on the bill to
| provide for the sale to actual settlers of the
| Usage coded lands in Kansas was agreed to.
On the 18th, in the Senate the House
amendments to the bill extending the time
for the redemption of lands sold by the
| United States for direct taxes were agreed
to, and the bill was passed The House bin
making an appropriation for the payment
Of claims reported as allowed by the South
| ern Claims Commission was passed, with
amendments. The House joint resolution
proposing an amendment to the COnstItu-
| ton, prohibiting the appropriation of any
school fund for the support of scctarian
schools, etc, and several substitutes offered
| therefor, were referred to the judiciary Com
mittee. Majority and minority reports
of the special committee to inquire
into the late election in Mississippi
were submitted. A report was made
| that the Conference Committee on the
River and HarbOr Appropriation bill had
agreed upon the bill. A Conference Com
mittee was appointed on the bill to author
ize the Secretary of the Interior to deposit
certain funds in the Treasury, in lieu of in
veSting them. The debate on the Presidents
message relative to the Hamburg affair was
continued by Messrs. Edmunds, Logan and
Eafn In A11IfiR
adopted that the investigating committees
have leave to report during the remainder of
the session at any time after two days from
the time that a committee has agreed to its
report and submitted the same to a rainori-
ty, who shall have leave at the same time to
submit their views to the House. Leave Of
absence was refused to about seventy mem
bers who had applied for it.
On the Sth, bill was passed in the
Senate to establish the Territory Of Penn
bina, to be formed of the northern portion of
the Territory of Dakota. and motion was
subsequently made to reconsider the vote on
the passage of the bill with view to chang
ing the name to Algonquin. The res oIution
to print 10000 copies Of the Presidents
message relative 10 the Hamburg troubles
was further considered, and remarks rela-
tive to the affairs at the South were made nv
Messrs. Eaton, Spencer and Patterson -, In
to secure the prompt resumption of specie
payments. A bill was passed to print
900 copies OF the report of the
Commissioned of Agriculture Tor 1874,
and 100000 copies of the report for 1875, and
appropriating $4,000 therefor. Ms Hale
made speech on general politics, mainly
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-
Enlistment of religion 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 reserya-
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, were also like reports |
from the Judiciary Committee in the |
case of Messrs. Schumacher and King as con- |
nected with the Pacific Mail subsidy. re- |
port was made from the Conference Gem |
mittee on the Executive, Legislative and Ju- |
dicial 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 recede |
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.. Lamars recent |
speech, and he was replied to by Mr.. Hooker. |
Counsel was authorized to defend the |
Speaker and officers of the House in the |
Hallett- Knbourne suit.
On the 10th, in the Senate. the Cen |
ference report on the River and Harbor Ap
Bill was agreed to, the bill as
agreed upon appropriating S5,O00,000 The
House bill to provide temporarily for the |
expenditures of the Government was passed. /
The resolution to print 10000 copies of the
residents Hamburg message was taken
up, and political debate ensued, partici-
pated IN by MesSrs. Sherman, Mcdonald
bogy ana Stevenson. In the House, q pre-
am ole and resolution were offered by Mr.