The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-03-08

State of Missouri all the lands therein selected as
swamp and overfowed lands was passed . The
concurrent resolution of the House to print 100000
copies of the Agricultural Report for 1876 was
agreed to-. The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill
was passed. ffIEtSE 9G38 TiI5r%I 8ts# 1
HoUsE-Mr Hurd offered preamble and resolu-
ton, recitng that it has been decided that Presi-
dent Of the United States may be inaugurated on the
fraudulent action of the Louisiana Returning Board
and that the men who have SO contributed to the
election of the Chief Magistrate of the Union ought
no longer to be in confinement, and directing that
4 the members of the Louisiana Returning Board be
| discharged from custody. The resolution was re-
jected-yeas, g.; nays, 97.... Mr.. Field, from the
select committee on privileges, reported bill to
provide efectual remedy for wrongful intru-
sion into the Offices of President and Vice Presi-
| trudes into, or without due election holds or
exercises the Office of President and Vice President
OF the United States, his title to the Office and the
title of any claimant thereto, may be tried by an
action in the nature OF quo warranto. The court
sha inquire whether the electoral votes cast
| by 1.-The persons duly appointed in the manner
/ directed by the State Legislatures, and shall re-
ceive evidence tending to show forgery, fasehood
or the lnvadity of any certificates of any Governor
| canvasser, or other officer. The court is to
reject the votes of all persons ineligible at the time
time of casting their votes, and the court must in
vestigate any other fact necessary to judgment of
the rights Of the parties, the Judgment to be rem
dered within ten days after the verdict of the jury
| If the defendant be adjudged not entitled to the
Office, he shall be excluded from it, and if the
claimant be adjudged entitled to it he shall i'm
fee. Appeal may be taken. to the Supreme
Court OF the United States After debate
Mr. Field called for the previous question on the
passage of the bill. and it defeated-yeas Sc !;
| NnSyTo Ia 1A111f rII1aC 4
pass the bill removing all political disabilities i'm
posed and remaining on any person under the Four
tenth amendment to the constitution. Agreed to
118 to 81. The Army Appropriation bill was
passed s5Jts zG&T@L .I< #r Cs1
SATURDAY, March 3.-Work on the appro-
priation bills was pushed along with great
rapidty in both houses, and all the bills were COM
pleted and passed before midnight The Senate
refused to concur in the House amendment to the
Legislative Appropriation bill cutting down the
Presidents salary to $4,000 year. and the bill
passed fixes the salary at $4,000. There was such
serious hitch on the Army and River and Harbor
bills that neither of them got through.
Five conferences We're had on the
Army bill during the days session. The House
insisted that the army should be reduced to 10000,
and that the section of the bill prohibiting the
OF troops in sustaining State Governments should
remain. The Senate as strenuously opposed the
two ITEMS Both were unyielding, and thus the
measure failed The appropriation of last year
leaves sufficient to support the army until the end
of the present fiscal year. SO that no extra ses-
sion is likely to be Immediately called. The
River and Harbor bill was reported from the
Committee of Commerce, but not considered.
There is, however, a large surplus Of money from
last years appropriation, and therefore no improve
ment actually needed will suffer by the non-passage
of the BILL The customary resolutions of thanks to
the presiding officers passed in the Senate and
House, the customary responses made, and at II
O'Clock M OF Sunday, March 4, both houses of the
Forty-fourth Congress adjourned sine die. The
proceedings in the two houses exclusive of the
work ON the Appropriation bills, is summarized
below: +E 81 #..
SENATE.-The notable feature of the Senate pro-
ceedings was the defeat of the Equalization Bounty
BILL Mr.. Logan earnestly advocated it, calling upon
the Senate to be just to the soldiers and said the
cost of the bill would not exceed $4,000, 000 Mr..
Sargent in opposition, claimed that itwould require
500, 100000 The bill indefinitely postponed
by vote of 81 to 25. The bin recently reported
by the Finance Committee, in accordance with
the recommendations of President Grant, to aid in
the resumption of specie payments was postponed
until the first Wednesday in December next by
vote of 27 to % The bill making appropriations
for the payment of claims allowed by the Southern
Claims Commission was passed. ----. p
HoUsE.-In the House the famous Choctaw
scheme failed, the bill authorizing the nation to
bring suit in the Court of Claims fail
ing to get the necessary two-thirds VOTE
THE bill to extend the Southern
Claims Commission for two years passed the House,
and thus became law. A resolution was adopted
ordering the discharge from custody of the members
of the Louisiana Returning Board. "A resolution
was reported from the select committee on privi-
leges, declaring that Samuel J. Tilden and
Thomas A! Hendricks received 1876 votes of
the electors legally and constitutonally ap-
pointed, and We're thereby duly elected
President and Vice President of the United
States. Mr.. White, of Kentucky, denounced
the resolution as Revolutionary, REASONABLE and
damnable." 1t was passed by strict party vote
1877 to 49,. Mr.. Field, from the select committee
long preanbe) that in counting the electoral vote
of any State it is the right and duty of Congress
| and of this House to inquire whether any votes
purporting to come from State have been cast by
persons duly appointed by that State and for that
purpose to. receive evidence of forgery, falsehood
or invalidity of any certificate of any Governor
canvasser. Adopted without the yeas and nays.
Mr.. sayler's amendment to the rules giving the
Clerk Of the House (pending the election of Speaker)
authority to require the SergeantatArms to aid in
enforcing order, discussed and passed. The
measure was resisted by the Republicans.