Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-18
GRAND RAPIDS, WIS. THURSDAY, JANUARY 49, 1877

ing amicable settlementof the Presidential con-
test. Mr. Morton offered resolution directing the
President of the Senate 10 issue warrant for the
arrest of Enos Runyon, OF ew York Tor his refusal
TO answer questions propounded before the Com
mittee Privileges and Elections relative to the
check for 5000 drawn by his house in favor Of
ton requiring VIM NJ Turner Manager
of the Western Union Telegraph Office
at Jacksonville. Oregon. to answer the
questions prOpounded before the same committee
as to the messages passing through his Office rel
ative to the $500 check and Cronin's appoint
ment, was passed-35 to 3. A concurrent reso-
luton was submitted prescribing rules for the
counting of the Electoral votes. and series of
| resolutions were also offered instructing the Spe
claI Committee on the Presldentlal question to
report as to 1he powes OF the Electoral
College, etc. A bill intpduced, and referred,
to secure the rights of set srs upon certain rail-
road lands Bills were introduced in the House
-for paying the legal-tendeI in harmony with
justice and the pledged faithbf the Government to
extend for ten years the Southern Claims Com
mission; for the free coiIhge of silver dollars,
ano making them legal 5eider; to authorize and
equip an expedition to tbs arctic Seas; to utilize
the product OF gold and aAer mines, and to au,
thorlZe paper circulation convertible into gold
and silver; to provide for the counting of the
Presidential Electoral vetaf Resolutions were
calling Tor information as to the purposes for
which troops have recently been stationed at
Washington; requiring the Judiciary Committee
to report Constitutional Amendment prohibit
ing the payment of War claims except to loyal per-
sons; declaring in favor of the rights of States to
regulate their own affairs, and denouncing the
lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any
State or Territory, matter under what pretext
as The gravest of crimes.
TUESDAY, Jan. 9.-In the Senate, the
House bill to abolish the Board of Commissioners
of the Metropolitan Police of the District of Co
umbia. and to transfer its duties to the Commits
sloners of the District, was passed by unani-
nous vote. A resolution ordering the arrest of
Enos Runyon, the recusant witness in the Oregon
Electoral investigation, was passed, without div1s
ion. In the House, resolution was passed re-
quirlng the arrest OF Mr.. OrtOn, President
of the Western Union Telegraph Company, for
his refusal to appear before the Committee on
Louisiana Affairs at New Orleans. A bill was in
troduced to regulate com nlerce among the States
A resolution was adOpted calling on he President
for papers in the State and War Departments
relative to the imprsonme ent by MeXicans of John
j. Smith. an American, and also to the wouuding
and robbing by Mexican soldiers, of Samuel Hig-
gins. The Senate bin to correct the statute to
punish counterfeiting, so as to eouire the intent
TO De shown, was passed.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 10.-A bill was intro
duced in the Senate extending fo. two years the
act establishing Board of Southern Claims Com
missioners. A resolution was adooted requesting
the Secretary of Stale to transmit to the Senate
the report OF the Mexican Claims Commissioners
with an amendment calling upon the President
also for req if not, in his opinion incompati-
bic with the public interest. resolution was
submitted and referred to print 500 additional
copies OF the testimony taken before the Commit
tee on Privileges and Elections regarding the cleo
tiohs in Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina
and the Electoral vote in Oregon. IN the House.
a bill authorizing bridge across the Ohio River
between Cincinnati and Covington, without pivot
draw, was rejected-yeas, u; nays, 1873. The Di-
plomatic Appropriation bill was considered in
Committee of the Whole.
THURSDAY, Jan. lin the Senate, a
resolution was adopted dischaTging Enos Run
yon from custody, he having testified before the
committee. A Conference Committee was ap-
+nI +I,a
bill to establish certain post routes The creden-
tials of E. I'll. Rollins as Senator from New Hamp-
shire pr sented, and the statement was
made that the certificate did not set forth when
the legislature met nor the time of his election.
diploma ic approsriation bill: to provide reme nmu
dies for the overcharge of duties on tonnage and
Imports; Military Academy Appropriation bill
($2b5, ,161 S129.919 less than the estimates, and
reduction OF $24,9 below the bill of last SESSION.
Consent was given for the printing of the testi-
monv taken by The Committee on Election in