The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-08-04

| President for his signature. The bill
for the sale of Indian reservations in
Kansas and Nebraska was rejected.
Two thousand dollars was appropria-
ted TO defray the expenses of the Joint
Select Committee on Immigration. A
bill extending to the 3lst of July the bill
making temporary provision for the
expenses of the government was pass
ed, as was also bill to prevent count
| erflting of trade maaks.
| JULY 21.-In the Senate, the politi-
cal disabilities OF Geo. w Jackson, of
West Virginia, were removed. The
impeachment trial was postponed until
Monday, and the discussion of the Riv-
er and Harbor Appropriation bill was
| resumed, but no action was taken
upon it.
JULY 22-In the Senate, the bill ap-
propriating 800, 600 for the compile
ton of the Washington Monument was
called up, amended and passed. 1t
appropriates 100000 to continue the
work after the Washington Monument
Society shall transfer to the United
States all its rights and privileges, and
provides that the work shall be done
under the direction of the President of
the United States, the Supervising
Architect of the Treasury, and the
Architect of the Capitol The House
bill to regulate the issue of artificial
limbs to disabled soldiers, seamen, and
Others, was amended and passed. The
Senate then resumed the considerG-
ton of the River and Harbor bill.
After long discussion, the motion to
recommit the bill to the Committee on
Appropriations was rejected. After
considering several items of the bill,
for want of quorum, the Senate ad-
journed.
The House held no session, having
on fridays session adjourned over
until Monday.
JULY 24.-In the Senate. the bill to
equalize the bounties of the soldiers
in the late war was taken up, and be-
fore it could be considered the morning
hour expired, and the impeachment
trial was resumed. Mr.. Black, of the
counsel for the defense, made an argu-
ment in reply to one for the prosecu-
ton, made by Mr.. Jencks. The Sen
ate then adjourned.
In the House, Mr.. Kelly (Rep.), of
Pa, moved to suspend the rules and
pass the bill for the coinage oil the
standard silver dollar, and make it a
legal tender for all debts. Rejected
116 to GS-not two thirds in the affirm
ative. A resolution directing the At
torney- General, and Secretary of the
Interior, and Commissioner of the In
ternal Revenue, to suspend until the
1st of February next all further action
i'm reference to lands sold for direct tax
es, under the act of August ), 1861,
was adopted. \ resolution authoriz-
ing the investigating committees, to
report the result of their investigation
at any time, was rejected, as was also
q resolution to send n sub committee
of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
to New York to continue the investiga-
ton into the question of the Venezue
lian Mixed Claims Commission. The
bill to allow the grant to the Northern
Pacific Railroad to run for ten years
longer was rejected, only forty-eight
members voting in the affirmative. So
also, was the bill to buy the land of
soldiers, granted to them Mt the close of
the war, at the rate of one dollar per
acre-onIy seven votes being in the
affirmative, adjourned.
JULY 25.-In the Senate, the House
bill amending the Post Office Appropri-
alton bill of June, %, 1874, and Sec
ton 3, S54 of the Revised Statutes, in
regard to straw bids, was passed. The
Impeachment triaI was then resumed,
and Mr.. Carpenter began his argument
for the defense. Before he concluded,
the Senate sitting rs Court, adjourn
ed and resumed the consideration OF
legislative business Nothing, however
was accomplished when the Senate ad-
journed.
In the House, the morning hour was
spent il. tillibustering to prevent the
introduction of the bill reported last
Thursday by Mr.. Bland Dem.), OF
Mo-, from the Committee on Mines and
Mining, to Utilize the product of gold
and silver mines \ resolution, in
structing the Comni!t'.. on Public
Lands to ascertain ana report what
legislation, if any, is necessary, to Sc
cure to actual settlers the right to pur-
chase, as under the pre- emption laws,
at the price OF 81 2j an acre, the lands
granted to the Pacific Railroad Com
pany, was adopted. Mr.. Lamar, OF
Mississippi, then made personal ex-
PLANTATION, and quoted from a commu-
nication in the Washington Republican
charging him with having made speeches
at Aberdeen and Scooba, Miss, totally
at variance with the speeches he had
made at Jackson. The communica-
ton stated that he had i'll these speech
es spoken in laudatory mannero OF the
"White Line Policy" He denied that
he had done so.
JULY 26.-In the Senate, the i'm
peachment trial was resumed, and Mr.
Carpenter finished his argument for
the defense, and Mr.. Lord replied on
behalf of the managers. At the con-
clusion of Mr.. Lords argument, legis-
lative business was resumed, but 10th
ingof Importance WAS transacted when
the Senate adjourned.
In the House, the Senate bill au-
thorizing the Secretary of the Interior
to deposit certain Indian trust funds
in the United States Treasury, in lieu