The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-01-20
REPORTED sxrKEssIr ron raE MORNING. LEADER.
MIG HT REP O Te IT.
Our National Legislature.
Miscellaneous Business in
the Senate.
The House Considering a
Centennial Appropriation.
Foreign and Domestic Intel
ligence.
Latest News From Every
where.


presented twenty-one petitions from
citizens of Ohio asking congressional
aid for the construction of the South
ern Pacific railroad. Referred. Sher-
man called up the Senate bill to
amend an act of June Goth. IA, amend
ing the charter of the Freedman's
Savings and Trust Co., and for other
purposes. Several amendments pro-
posed by the committee on finance
were agreed to and the bill passed.
Sherman said the committee on finance
bad considered the expediency of the
government purchasing the Freed
mans bank building, but thought it
best not to put an amendment for that
purpose on this bill. That question
could be considered by the Senate
hereafter In his Judgment the gov
ernment should purchase the building.
Wallace presented petition of citi-
zens of Allegheny county, Pa, for
merly soldiers in the union army,
asking the passage Of law giving
additional bounty to soldiers. Re-
ferrcd.
After the expiration OF the morning
hour. Morton moved to lay aside un-
finished business regarding the resolu-
ton of Davis to appoint a special
committee to investigate the books
and accounts of the Treasury depart
ment, and take up the resolution,
submitted by him before the holiday
recess, to inquire into the circum-
stances attending the recent election
in Mississippi. Rejected, yeas, % I;
nays, 80. The Senate then resumed
the consideration of the resolution
submitted by Davis, and Sherman
spoke in favor OF appointing the com
mittee asked for. On motion of Sher-
man the resolution of Davis was laid
aside informally, and the Senate took
up the resolution of Morton in regard
to the Mississippi election. Morton
then spoke at length.
Before concluding, Morton yielded
the floor, and the Senate proceeded to
the consideration of executive bust
ness. After short time the doors
were re-opened and the Senate ad-
journed.
House-Bland offered resolution
calling for Information on the subject
of the tran . er of lands within railroad
limits, allowed to union soldiers.
Adopted. The speaker then called
the committees for reports. Springer
introduced constitutional amend
ment providing that Congress shall
not pass any special or local laws in
regard to the granting of pensions,
bounties, lands or prize money. or for
correcting the records Of any depart
ment in relation thereto, or granting
| any relief to any person or authorizing
the payment of any claim, or giving
to any corporation, association or indi-
viduals the right to lay railroad tracks,
or comforting any special and exclu-
sive privilege OH such corporation,
regulating the practice of courts or
comforting special Jurisdiction in a
special case, and that in all cases
where general law can be made appIi-
cable no special law will be made, and
that the courts may determine whether
any special law could be embraced in
general enactment. Referred. The
House then went into committee of
'he whole on the state of the union,
Wood in the chair, on the Centennial
appropriation bill, and was addressed
by Phillips, of Kansas, in advocacy of
the bill. Harrison suggested that the
House, by its vote on Holman,s 'reso-
luton, Dec. 18th. had committed itself
against all subsidies. He recalled the
fact that when that resolution was
offered, Hoar asked whether it would
not cut off the Centennial appropria-
tion, and that Holman distinctly stated
he did not consider the word subsidy
IN that resolution as covering the Cen
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