The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-01-26
XLIVTH CONGRESS.
SECOND SESSION.

SECOND SESSION.
WASHINGTON, January 9.-House-
The speaker laid before the house a com
munication from VIM. r. Morrison
chairman of the committee on Louisian,
affairs, relative to the refusal of William
Orton, president of the Western Unior
telegraph company, to appear before
said committee. Bills were introduced
by Mr.. Watterson to regulate commerce
among states. Mr.. White, (Kv.) asked
leave to offer resolution reciting that
fears were entertained lest there shall
not be a peaceful settlement of the pres
idential question, and declaring that any
atte mpt to prejudice and excite the pub
lie mind in advance of the decision by
the authority provided by the constitu-
tiOn, is unwise. unpatriotic, and full OF
danger, and that it Is the duty of all
good citizens to peacefully and faithfully
| abide by the results reached in accord
! auce with the constitution. Mr.. O Brien
/ (Md.) objected. Mr.. Schliecher offered
4 resolution calling on the president for
copies of papers in possession of the state
and war departments relative to the i'm
| prisOnment of John J. Smith, an Ameri-
| can citizen, by the Mexicans, and also in
reference TO the numbering and robbing
| by Mexican soldiers of Samuel Higgins.
| Adopted. Mr.. Durham from the COM
| mlttee on revision OF laws, reported back
| the senate bill to correct the statue to
| punish cOunterfeiting so as to require in
! tent to beshOwn. Passed. Mr.. 0Brien,
| (Md.), from the committee on mines and
mining, reported back the senate Joint
resolution to authorize the president to
appoint three commissioners to attend an
international conference on the subject of
the relative values of gold and silver,
with an amendment authorizing the
president to propose such a conference to
foreign governments The morning
hour having expired and the joint re O.
luton laid over, Mr.. Reagan, from COM
mlttee on commerce, reported back the
bill repeating so much of the act of De
cember II, 1872, as provides for a pivot
draw in any bridge to be erected over
the Ohio liver between Coyington and
Cincinnati. After discussion the mat
ter went over and the house adjourned.
WAsHINGToN, January l1th.-Seaafe
The chair laid before the senate the Gre
dentials of T. II. Rollins, elected senator.
from New Hampshire Laid on the ta--
bic. Senator Edmunds Vt. said no
one would question the election of Mr.
Rollins, but the certificate did not set
forth when the legislature met and the
time of his election. a question might
be passed about the credentials not set
ting forah all the facts. Senator Spencer
preseSN a petition from the citizens Of
Alabama in favor of the government
assuming control of the telegraph and
for cheaper telegraphic facilities. Re
ferred. Senator Hamlin reported back
h.a ~ 70 y,
routes, and said the committee had con-
sidered the disagreement OF the houses
in regard to the fast mail service. and
that the committee had instructed him
to report in favor of the senate insisting
upon its amendments and move that a
committee OF conference be appointed
Agreed to, and the chair was authorized
to appoint the committee Senator
Mitchell gave notice that at an early dav
he would ask the senate to consider the
bill for the relief of DR.. j. Ailtan Best,
of Kentucky, which had already passed
congress and been vetoed. Senator With
ers gave notice that if he could get the
floor on Tuesday next, he should call up
the motion of senator Preston in regard
to the military occupation of Petersburg
on the day of the last general election.
and would submit some remarks. The
chair announced senator Hamlin, Pad
dock and Maxey as the conference coDl-
mittee on the bill to establish certain
pOst-routes Consideration was resumed
of unfinished business-house bill to
perfect a revision of the statutes of the
United States, and an amendment was
adopted requiring ordnance officers to
make quarterly returns. The bill was then
laid aSA informally, as senator Hamlin
desired TO submit certain amendments in
regard to post-routes. The senate then
went into executive session, and when
the doors reopened adjourned. House.
Mr.. holman's 5 amendment to the con
sular and diplomatic appropriation bill,
decreasing the salaries of ministers and
consuls, was defeated by a vote of 30 to
100. Mr. Morton, from the committee
on privileges and elections, submitted a
resolution discharging Enos Runyon, of
the firm of Marion IL Runyon, bankers
and brokers, New York, from the custody
OF the sergeant-at-arms, he having testi
fed before the committee. Agreed to.
All amendments to the consular and
diplomatic appropriation bill were voted
down and the bill passed. The military
academy appropriation bill was taken up
and passed without amendment 1t APP
prOpriates S265, l6l, reduction Of $129,-
9l9 from the estimates, and a reduction
of $24, ,944 below the bill of last session
a reduction in the West Point academy
in the pay department where S23, $50
had heen saved by striking out the
longevity pay and by not paying the
assistant professors and teachers any
more than their regular army pay; $S,-
544 was saved in the reduction of the
band at West Point. and 81 ,050 on the
: r.. e, r
printing of the testimony taken by the
committee on the election in Florida A
Joint resolution for the appointment of
an international silver commission was
considered. Mr.. Willard offered as
substitute an amendment authorizing
the president, in the event of full
reconciliation of silver, should one or
more countries unite upon the conven-
tiOn with view to agree upon a uniform
relation of silver with gold, to appoint |
three persons to attend said convention,
and also authorizing him to propose to |
such countries as Use both gold and silver |
as legal standard of value of such con-
vention. The consideration of the bill |
then went over till Thursday. Mr.. |
Wood, from the committee on ways and
means, reported a bill to provide RENE |
dies for overcharge of duties on the ton
mage and imports. The bill passed, and
then the house adjourned.
WASHINGTON, January 12-,Senate
Senator Frelinghuysen presented a petit
tion of persons representing the financial, |
commercial, manufacturing and business
interests of Newark, New Jersey, asking |
that in counting the electoral vote all F!
party consideration be laid aside, and |
that pure, unselfish patriotism guide the |
action of congress. The petition was |
received, and, after a brief speech by |
senator Frelinghuysen, referred to a |
special committee of seven senators, ap- |
pointed to consider the presidential diff |
ficulties. Senator Thurman submitted |
a resolution instructive The committee |
on revision of laws to aquire into the
propriety of providing or the publica-
ton of new edition of the revised |
statutes, as corrected and 20 include the |
laws passed fc 1873, and also the arti- |
cles of conf del ion and constitution of |
the United states. Agreed to. Sena- |
tor Paddock introduced a bill to author |
ize the removal OF the Instructions in the |
channel of the Missouri river, and to re-
pair and protect the levees at Omaha,
Plattsmouth and Brownsville, Nebraska,
and Sioux City and Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Refes,Tasd It authorizes the secretary of