Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1877-03-01
AND WILL PROBABLY END TODAY.
Minority Report OF the Chinese
Investigation Committee.
PROCEEDINGS OF fHE rive HOUSES
OF CONGRESS- YESTERDAY.
lsrsoiAL DurArcHss TO n Coin HILL
DAILY HKws.i d.
rhe senate Yesterday.


. Conference Committee On the Post
Office Appropriation bill.
According to yesterdays notice Nc
Donald called up the House resolutions
regarding Speaker Kerr, aud Mcdonald,
Wallace. Wright, Bayard. Booth and
Morton delivered ~eulogies and the reso-
buttons we're unanimously adopted.
Window from tho Public Lands Com.
miitee reported favorably the Senate
bill for the relief Of settlers on public
lands. Passed. II allows homestead
and presumption settlers who suffered
from the grasshoppsrs to leave their
places until 1873.
After the morning hour the Chair pre-
scented unfinished business. the Pacific
Railroad bill.
Morrill, moved to table the bill. but
ut the request Of Sherman modified his
motion SO a. to postpone further consid-
Grafton till the first Monday in Decsm.
Der next.
After debate the motion was agreed
to-ysas 30. nays 2S.
Following is the vote in detail. Yeas
Alcorn. Anthony. Baily. Bogy. Booth,
Burnside. Cameron Of Wisconsin, Chris
iisncy. Cockrill. Cooper. Davis. Howe.
Hereford. johnson. McCrssry. MaIsy.
Mcdonald, Mcmillan. Msrriman. Nor
riil. Randolph. Robertson. Salisbury,
Sargent. Sherman. wadlsich. withers.
whyte and wright-29. Noss-Allison.
Barnum. Blaine. Boutwell,. Bruce. Cam.
sron Of Pennsylvania, Chaffes, Clayton.
Conkling. Conover. Cragin. Dawes,
Dorsey. Eaton. Ferry. Gordon. Hamlin.
Harvey. Hitchcock. ingalls,. Kelly.
Mitchell. Norwood. Paddock, Patterson,
Teller. West, windom--2s.
Cameron Of Pennsylvania submitted
q resolution directing tho Secretary Of
STATE 70 transmit to the Senate any com.
muuication received by him demanding
the payment Of moneys claimed to be
now due the Dominican Government
from tho United States. Agreed to.
Sargent called up the House Bill to
provide for the sale Of desert lands In
California. Oregon. Nevada. aud the
Territories Of Washington. Idaho, Mon
tana. Utah. Wyoming, Arizona. New
Mexico, and Dakota. Sargent submit
ted an amendment that no person shall
10 permitted either to reserve or acquire
| title to more than ons section Ct land
under the oct. Agreed to.
Osiesby submitted m amendment
providing that any person conducting
water on or to any desert land for irri-
CATION shall not acquire any exclusive
| right 10 the uss Of tho water beyond
what shall be actually necessary for
redssming and ~irrieating the samo. Bat
tho water in all lakes, rivers and other
sources Of water supply shall be hold for
the use Of tho public for irrigating and
mining purposes. Agreed TO.
Boutwell, submitted an amendment
providing that such desert lands shall
BE- surveyed before reclamation.
Chaffse moved TO postpone further
consideration until the first Monday in
December next. Rsjocted-ysas ~.
nays -.
The amendment Of Boutwell, was then
adopted. also ons requiring n person en-.
tering upon land to pay twenty-five
cents per acre at the time Of filing
with the Re, ser his declaration that
hs Intends 10 reclaim the land, and
one dollar per acre upon receiving q
patent therefor.
Several unimportsnt amendments
were agreed to and the bill passed.
Oslesby presented tho credentials Of
David Davis. elected United States SEN
ator from Illinois.
Zelda House bill 10 amend the rsvis-
cd statutes in respect to vacancies in
the Office Of President and Vice Presi-
dent was read by title and referred TO
the Committee ON Elections.
Gordon presented tho credentials Of
j. @. Morgan. elected United States
Senator from Alabama. Filed.
The Senate then went into Executive
session and when the doors were opened
took . recess until tomorrow.
The Hsuse Yesterday.
WASHINGTON, Feb. T.-Ths House
went into Committee OF the Whole ON
the sundry Civil bill. The paragraph
relating to the payment Of dues to GER
tain Southern mail contractors was
omitted temporarily. and Holman's mo-
ton to increase the appropriation for
the survey Of public lands from fifty to
q hundred and atty thousand. was agreed
70.
wiesinton offered an amendment, pro-
viding that after June 30. 1878. the Office
Of Surveyor General Of the several
States and Territories be abolished. and
the records Of such Offices be transferred
TO the General Land Office.
Page made q point that the amend
ment wss new legislation. The Chair
sustained the point.
Townsend moved to increase the APP
preparation for the Hayden Surveying
Expedition from $4,000 to $4,000.
Agreed TO.
The Southern mail contractors was
then considered. Conssr Withdrew his
.l. ~ crIar that II WINS nav l0gisla-