The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-12-12
WASHINGTON.
Wreaths of Smoke From the Ma
tion's Council Fires.
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

whole Of the morning hour was occu-
pied in the presentation of petitions
from all parts of the country in favor
of an amendment to the Constitution
so as to prohibit states from disfran-
chising citizens on account of sex;
asking the appointment of a commits
sion to inquire into the alcoholic liquor
traffic; and urging Congress not to take
any action concerning revision of
the tariff until it shall have ascer-
tained by inquiry the condition of the
business of the country, and the legis-
lation be such as in the opinion of prac-
tical business men will promote the
business prosperity of the country. All
were referred.
A large number of bills were intro
duced and referred.
Conkling submitted a resolution pro-
viding for the appointment of COM
mittee of seven Senators to inquire and
report whether any and what measures
car. be devised to promote commercial
intercourse with Mexico, and to estab-
lish just and peaceful condition of
affairs on the border. Agreed to.
Maxey reported bill making an ap-
preparation for the erection of suitable
posts for the protection of the Rio
Grande frontier. Placed ON the calen-
dar.
Conover reported favorably on the
Senate bill to provide for the survey of
an inland water route and canal from
the Mississippi river to the Atlantic
ocean. Placed on the calendar.
Paddock reported with amendments
the Senate bill to amend the act to pro-
vide for the sale of portion of the
reservation of the confederated Otoe
and Missouri and Sac and Fox tribes of
Indians, in the states Of Kansas and
Nebraska. Placed on the calendar.
Bills were introduced and referred as
follows:
By Paddock-To provide for ascer-
tanning the losses sustained by citizens
of the United States by reason of In
dian depredations, and providing for
payment thereof.
By Dorsey-Amendator of and sup
to the act to incorporate
the Texas Pacific r. r. Co., and to aid
in its construction.
Dorsey submitted resolution direct
ing the Secretary of the Interior to re-
port to the Senate by what authority
the bands of Ute and Apache Indians
are located and an agency established
at Cimarron, n. NJ, calling attention
to depredations of these Indians, and
asking for their removal to their re-
spective reservations. Agreed to.
Anthony submitted resolution in
structing the committee on library to
consider the expediency of purchasing
the papers of Count De Rochambeau,
of the allied forces of
France in the war of the Revolution,
and now in possession of his grandson,
Marquis De Rochambeau. Agreed to.
Consideration was then resumed of
the resolution of Matthews declaring
the right of the Government to pay
bonds in silver, and Herman spoke in
thereto. A lengthy debate
followed. !
Washington, Dec. 11.-Whitthorne
introduced bill providing that the
naval authorities shall remove the
bodies Of officers and men lost in the
wreck of the Huron for burial in the
naval cemetery at Annapolis, and re-
imbursing the relatives for expenses
already incurred. After the bill was
so amended as to include the relatives
Of those men lost from the wrecking
boat B. & j. Baker, the bill passed.
Durham reported back the deficiency
bill, with the recommen-
dation that the House concur in cer-
tain of the Senate amendments, and
in others.
The House then concurred in the
following amendments: Items of the
U. S. mint at Denver, and for an
assay office at Helena; provision for
sending public documents free through
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