Connecticut western news., 1876-08-25
FORTY.FOURTH CONGRESS-.
The BusinesS of Gseneral interesr rranss acted.
 SENATE

SENATE.
 The Senate took up the bill establishing post routes throughout the country. Mr. l Iamln offered amendment appropriatipg $150,O out of any money in the Ire asu,y arising from the revenues of the Post office | department for the fiscal ye6r ending June 30 1S77 in addition to the sum appropriated for inland service by railroad, provided that the post fnsster gehefal shall only apply this sum, as far as 1t Is possible to do Bo to the fast mail trains on the New York Central and Hudson River railroad, and Lake Shore and Michigan Southern rairoadB between New York and Chicago, and over the Pennsylvania railroad and it's connections between New York and St. Louis, New York and Chicago, and New York ard Cincinnati Mir. Paddock (Rep.), of Nebraska, submitted an amendment additional section to the bill, to restore the franking privilege, reported by him from the committee on post-ofices and post roads on the twenty-ffth of May last. Tt provides that it shall be lawful to transmit | through the mail free of postage, letters, packages, or other matter relating exclusively | to the business of tho government of the | United States and also that senators, repre- sentatives and delegates in Congress, the sec l retary of the Sena;e, and clerk of the House of Representative may send and receive through the mail, free of postage, letters and docu- | nents.
 | The amendment of MT. Paddock restoring | the privilege was agreed to-yeas, 30 {; nays,
 15-ss follows Republicans in roman, Demo- | crats in italics, and Independents in SMALL
 cAPs1:
 YEAs-Allison, Burnside, Christianoy, Cooper
 Cragin, DdOis, Dawes, Dennis, Edmunds Ere 1 linghuysen, Gordon, Harvey, Howe, Ingalls,
 Kelly, Key, Mdrey. Merrineon, Mitchell, Nor
 1Dood. Paddock, Patterson. Randolph, Rarasone, ! Samlsbury, Spencer, Stevenson, Wallace, West, | Withers-30.
 NAYs-Anthony, Bogy, BOOTH, Cameron CWis.) Clayton. CockreU Ferry, Ham in. Ker-
 man, Logan. Mc Creery, Mcdonald, McMillan, i Morrill,, Oglesby-15.
 The bill was reported to the Senate, and the
 amendments made in committee of the whole 1 were agreed to, after which it was read tbird
 time and passed-yeas, 25 ; nays IS.
 Mir. Windom (Rep ), of Minnesota, from the
 committee of conference on the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill, sub
 mjtted 8 report that the committee had agreed
 upon the bill, and it was read and agreed to.
 MT. Sargent (Rep.), of California, called up
 the conference report on the Consular ahd discussion the report of the committee was agreed to without division.
 Mr. Windom (Rep ), of Minnesota, from the committee on appropriations, reported the
 Senate bill appropriating $500, ,000 to pay judg- ments of the court of claims. Passed.
 Mir. Edmunds (Rep), of Vermont, moved to
 take up the proposed constitutional amend
 ments prohibiting the appropriation of money
 for the support of sectarian schools. Agreed
 to-yeas, 23 nays, IS.
 The bill to carry into effect the Hawaiian treaty was, after considerable d.scussiop read third time and passed-yeas, 29; nays, 12 |. Mir. L~gan (Rep.), of Illinois, called up the
 report of the conference committee on the bill to regulate the distr. button of artificial limbs l to soldiers and sailors who were disabled in the late war for the Union. The report was , agreed to.
 Mr. Landers (Dem.), of Indiana introduced
 bill to secure the prompt resumption of | ,,nS, 4t,aL 3 referred to the committee on coinage, weights and measures.
 MT. Lawrence introduced an amendment tc r the Constitution for that known as the Blaine B School amendment as follows:
 ARTICLE XVI. Sec. l. No State shall make
 any law respecting the establishment of relig ion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. f 2. No pubic property or money raised by taxation, or from any public fund or property in any State or place subject to the Legislative Il power of Congress, shall ever be given to or bt !, under control of any religious sect or denomi | nation.
 3. Congress shall have power to enforce thi article by appropriate legislation. v Referred to the judiciary committee. .- MT. WaddeIl (Dem), of North Carolina d called mp the Senate bill allowing the Pacif
 Mail Steamship Go. to carry the mails on it / new iron steamships. After some discussion ;, as to whether the bill was sufficiently guarded ), to exclude the idea of recognizing the clain
 for extra subsidy, the bill was passed with al .' amendment striking out the words "excep 1. such may lawfully exist under the law o B. the seventeenth of February, 1865." T. Mir. BAgby (Ind. j. of Illinois, from the com
 mittee on invalid pensions, reported & bill giv > ing per sion of $50 month to the widow o 1T Capt. Yates, of the Seventh cavalry, kille with Custer. Passed.
 :, MT. Randall (Dem ), of Pennsylvania, fror u the committee of conference on the Executive g. Legislative and Judicial Appropriation bill, re 3 ported that the committee had come to n
 conclusion thereon. He explained that afte y contesting and examining paragraph afte D. paragraph, the committee had come to a to agreement on all matters except the salary ( V: the President and the salaries of the member -e of Congress. The House conferees were LII li willing to yield to either, and the Senate mar l.. agers had declared th cir fixed intention not :, yield. It had been therefore agreed that thes D questions of salaries should De submitted 1 IT. the two Houses.
 C. Mr. Lord (Dem ), of New York, offered tt h following preamble and resolution
 - Whereas, The Senate has refused to yie h, to the existing conferences between the tv nt Houses on the Legislative, Executive and J ar dicial Appropriation bill, which difficulties r - late to salaries of members of Congress and oA the President and
 ut Whereas, We are apprised that any furth of conference of the subject will be useless, ST Ia can make no change in the determlnation (
 the part of the Senate: therefore or ResolUed, That the conferees on the part DY the dOuS0 D0 dQO they are I0T6DV iu5LruCGt he to recede from such points of disagreement
 The resolution was agreed to- and the san M us conference committee was reappointed. i'll, Mir. Lord (Dem ), of New York, offered an resolution reciting that the right Of suffrai - prescribed by the constitutions of the sever Al States IS subject to the Fifteenth amendmer he and that the exercise of said right should a faithfully maintained and observed by u bo United States, and that it is asserted that t no exercise Of said right is in some Sta es, nc l xuif fhsfa Odi00 tha efforts of good citiHAnH r ng sistad and controlled by fraud. intimidation al ex- violence, so that the object of the Fifteen
 amendment is defeated, and that all citiZeI 9p- without distinction of or color, are en es; tied to the rights conferred by said amen ,rn ment, and declaring that all attempts by fore - fraud terror. intimidation or otherwise to pr 'p vent free exercise of the rights of suffra 70 should meet with certain condign and effectr per punishment, and that if any clee which b +o heretofore occurred or may hereafter occur
 which violence or murder has b. en or shall to- committed by one class or race on anoth' Der prompt punishment of the criminal or erin
 nals is imperatively demanded, whether
 crime be one punishable by & fine and impr the onment or one demanding the punishment son death. The resolution was adopted by 8 ve Rr of 174 yeas to two nays.
 nS On motion of MT. Banning (Ind.) of Oh the the Senate bill repeating so much of the Ar ear Appropriation bill as limits the number of in dian scou to 300, and continuing in force t ooo statute which authorizes the employment ooo GOO scouts, was taken from the table, a ch- after exp, ,anation by him, passed. the Mr. Springer (Dem. ), Of Illinois, submitt ,. the report of the committee on foreign affa Hy in regard to the Venezuelan claims, togetl 're- with the folio wing res solution aan Resolved That the President of the Uni , States is hereby requested to withhold furtl demands upon the government of Venezu pc, on account of the wards of the mixed comm ms. sion under the conven loa Of April 25, Is fve until the fourth of Msrsh, 1877, and the sec . tary of State is authorized and directed to B Ing pend all further payments 10 holders of cert inc cates awarded by said mixed commission Ill the said time, unless Congress khal other"