The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-12-28
FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.

In the Senate, December Is, a resolution
was passed authorizing the Chair to appoint
a select committee of seven to act with q
similar committee appointed by the Speaker
of the House, to devise means to count
and declare the electoral vote. The
message of the President, sent to the Senate
last session, vetoing the bill reducing the
Presidents salary from $4,000 to 5000
per annum, was called up, and the question
being, shall the bill pass notwithstanding
the objection of the President thereto, q
discussion followed, and the Senate re-
fused to pass the bill over the veto-yeas,
25; nays, 19-not two thirds voting
in the af6rmative....... In the House
large number of bills were intro
duced and referred, the most important of
which were as follows: To promote the
education of the blind, to facilitate the
negotiation of bills of lading, etc., con-
cerning expiration and change of allegiance,
to establish the franking privilege, to re-
duce and reorganize the navy, to promote
the efficiency of the Marine Hospital
Service, and for a commission on
the locust plague. A resolution for the ap-
pointment of a committee of six to inquire
into the manner in which the election was
conducted for members OF Congress, last
November, in the Sixth District of Missis-
sippi, and the Fourth District of Alabama,
and whether, in such Districts, there was
any intimidation of candidates or voters,
was voted down. A resolution instructing
the Judiciary Committee to report an
amendment to the Constitution forbidding
the payment of war claims TO disloyal per.
sons, was adopted, 150 to 63.
In the Senate, December 10, a number oE
bills of private character, not objected to,
were passed. At the expiration of the
r1aarnfuc h0nr Mr Pa,1@,ron
formally presented to the United States. on
behalf of the State of Massachusetts,. the
statues of Samuel Adams and John Win.
throp......In the House, it was resolved to
adjourn from the 24th to the 9th inst, and
from the 30th inst. to the Sd prox. The For
tihcation Appropriation Bill was then
passed, and the House adjourned.
In the Senate, December 81, bill was in.
troduced providing for an additional Repre
sentative for the State Of Nebraska. The
name OF the proposed new territory was
changed from Pembina to Huron. The Pen
sion Appropriation bill was passed with
an amendment requiring the Commissioner
of Pensions to hereafter ipcorporate in
his annual report statement showing the
amount paid for additional pensions. an6
alsG the annual reduction in pensions. The
discussion upon the resolution authorizins
an Investigation as to the appointment O
Cronln, Presidential Elector in Ore
eon, was zen resumed, at the clos,
OF which the Senate adjourned.
In the House the report of the Judiciar,
Committee on the qIastion of the power O
Committees of the HOUSE to compel the pro
ossrts ouc.lon tS o. telegrams was made The repor
asseIss enaL ngnt, and after loud discussion
the House sustained it. Adjourned
In tne Senate, December Fl, Mr.. freIiny
huysen presented the petition of a Iars iarg,
numner thn OF soldiers of the late war, asEin,
i.ation of bounties. Referred II 4. !.
clded to adjourn from the 22d 10 tbe o.. a.,
INST 1t is understood, however, that wbe, he
the Senate assemblies, it will transact n
business, but will adjourn until tba 90 sacs cI a
The Chair appointed as the especial con
mlttee authorized by the recent re.oInt;o
OF Mr.. Edmunds, to devise means for III
Vice-President, in connection with a sra a.
committee of the House, Messrs. Edmund
Morton, Frelinghuysen, Logan, Thurmsr