The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1876-04-13
SENATE.

The substitute for the House bill to pro-
tect witnesses, offered by Thurman and Ste
venson, a minority of the Judiciary Com
mittet, provides that any witness before
either House of Congress, or before the
Senate sitting as a Court of I'm peachment
who shall decline to answer questions on
the ground that his answer might criminate
himself and subject himself to any penalty
or forfeiture im posed by a court, in cOnse-
quence of his disclosures, shall, in answer
ing, be exempt from prosecution by any
court, except for the crime of perjury.
Mr.. Spencer introduced bill to prevent
panics and give elasticity to legal tender
currency, without impairing its value, by
limiting its amount, together with nation
al bank notes, and gold and silver coin in
circulation, according to the population.
and to make legal tender notes equal in
value to United States Government bonds,
with the consent and by the action of their
owners, and to authorize the issue of legal
tender notes, and the retirement of the
same under certain circumstances. and on
certain conditions referred to the Com
tee on Finance,
Mr. Whyte also presented the memorial
of merchants of the Mutual Insurance Co.,
the Maryland Insurance and Security Co.
and other Marine Underwriters, of Balti-
more, demonstrating against the passage OF
the House bill in regard to the distribution
of the Geneva award by Congress.
The bill to authorize the sale of extra
copies public documents passed.
Mr.. Jones of Florida introduced a bill
donating powder house lot to the corpora
tion of st. Augustine, Florida, for corpora
tion uses; referred
The Postage bill was resumed, and the
substitute of Harvey to restore the old rate
of postage on third class matter falled-2o
to 25. The bill then passed as follows:
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the third class shall embrace all pam phlets,
occasional publications. regular publica-
tioBs, devoted princi pally to advertising
purposes, or for free circulation, or for cir
culstion at nominal subscription rates,
prices current, catalogues, ANIMALS, hand
bills, posters, unsealed circulars, prospect
uses, books, bound or unbound, book
manuscripts, proof sheets, prints, engrav-
ings, blanks, flexible patterns, samples of
merchandise, sample cards, Photographic
paper, letter envelopes, postal envelopes
and wrappers, cards, plain and ornam entail,
paper Photographic representations, seeds.
cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions, and all other
matter which may be declared mallable by
law as third class matter, and all other arti-
cles not above the weight prescribed by
| law which are not from their form or ma
| ture liable to destroy. deface or otherwise
| injure the C .ntents of the mail bags, or the
person of any one engaged in the postal SER
| vice-all liquid poisons, glass, explosive
materials, and obscene books or papers,
shall be excluded from the mails.
SEC. 2. That packages of matter of the
| third class shall not exceed four pounds III
weight and shall be subject TO examination
and rates of postage as hereinafter provided.
The postage on mail matter of the third class
shall be at the following rates for all dis
| tances One cent for each ounce or frae-
tional part thereof. Every package of the
third class mail matter shall bear the post
mark of the Office at which the same shall
be mailed for transportation.