The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-01-11
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REPORTED EXPRESSLY ron THE MORNING LEADER.
M @ H II RE II Or II.
Yesterdays Congressional
Proceedings.
A Lively Tilt Between 0ppo-
sition Leaders in the House.
Latest News at Home and
Abroad.

COi II OCCuDlCh Ills Stdt lO-udN luI lnt
first time this session. Sargent pre-
sented the petition of 1900 women of
Utah asking repeal of the anti-po-
lygamy law of 1862, and the Poland
bill, and that Utah be admitted as a
State in the Union. In presenting the
petition Sargent said he did not concur
in the objects of the petitioners, but he
believed in the right of petitioners and
therefore laid the matter before the
Senate as they requested him to do.
Referred.
Thurman presented petition from
citizens of Ohio asking repeal of the
resumption act passed at the last ses-
sion, and also an enactment of law to
provide for the retirement of National
Bank notes and substitute therefor le-
gal tender u. s. notes and the issue of
1866 convertible bonds.
Morton said it had been suggested to
him by several Senators that the re-
port of the committee on privileges
and elections in regard to the President
pro tempore of the Senate should have
been accompanied by resolution en-
bracing the conclusions of the commit
tee. He therefore submitted the fol-
lowing: Resolved, That the tenure of
President pro tempore of the Senate
elected at one session does not expire
at the meeting of Congress after the
first recess, the Vice President not
having appeared to take the chair
Resolved, That the death of the Vice
President does not have the effect to
vacate the office OF President pro tenn
pore of the Senate. Resolved, That
the Office of President pro tcmpore of
the Senate is held at the pleasure of
the Senate. Resolved, That Hon.
Thomas w. Ferry, senator from Mich
igan, who was elected President pro
tempore OF the Senate at last session,
is now President pro tempore by virtue
of said election. Ordered printed and
laid on the table.
Morton's resolutions were discussed
in the afternoon and the first and
second unanimously adopted. the
third being laid over for considera-
alton.
ingalls, offered resolution that the
Secretary of the Interior be requested
TO report as to the expenditure of the
100000 appropriated for the support
of the 5000 captive Comanches, Chey-
ennes, Arapahoes and Kiowas, which
was agreed to.
The chair laid before the Senate
various petitions from citizens of
Michigan, asking Congress to give a
bounty of $500 in money to each
Union soldier and sailor in lieu of a
homestead donation, without actual
settlement. Referred.
The following bills were int rodu-
ced and referred: By Dorsey, to or :
ganize the territory of Oklohama and
to provide for the better protection
of the Indians therein; by Hamilton,
to secure the speedy completion of
the Texas Pacific. R r., from Mar
shall, Texas, to California, and to au-
thorize the Southern Pacific road to
aid in the building of the same
and to build a branch of its road
to San Diego, California.
House-The reading of the journal
Of last Thursday occupied three-quar-
ters of an hour.
Under the call of the States bills
were introduced and referred as fol-
lows: By Wood, of New York. to re-
peal, in part, the act of January 18th,
1875, providing for the resumption of
specie payment, and to facilitate the
resumption of specie payment without
the contraction of currency. By Cox
For the payment of same bounty to
drafted men as to volunteers. BY Gut
ter-Declaring the Department of Ag-
ricu lture one of the Executive Depart
ments.
Randall moved to suspend the rules
in order to proceed to the considera-~
ton of the amnesty bill.
Blaine suggested that the Centen
NAL appropriation bill would be first
considered, but Randall insisted on
his motion and the rules were sus-
pended by the requisite two-thirds