The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-11-02

the port Of New York John ID. Defrees 10 he
Public Printer william Henry Smith, Collector at
enue In the Fifteenth Ohio District John Baxter
Of Tennessee United States Circuit Judge for the
sixth Circuit; Romano Bum, District Judge for
the Western District OF Wisconsin. :. The Senate
In executive session, confirmed a number Of nomi-
nations for small Offices, but took no action on
those for important places.
HoUm.-The House flooded by a perfect
avalanche of bills. There were introduced, placed
upon the records, and ordered 10 be printed the
enormous number Of sl5 bills an average Of almost
three to each member. The following are the titles
Of a few Of them: Providing for uniform certif-
Gates of the election of members Of Congress re-
ducng the postage letters TO repeal the law tax
ing deposits In savings institutions; for the re-
moval Of all political disabilities; declaring the De-
partment Of Agriculture one Of the Executive De-
partments; for the establishment OF Department
Of Commerce; to repeal the act for resumption of
specie payments for the restoration of wages In
the Government Printing ONCE to make United
States notes receivable for import duties Also to
consolidate the bonded debt and to reduce interest ;
TO abolish the tax liquors distilled from
fruits; to abolish the iron-clad oath for
mail steamship service to Brazil; repeating
the law forbiddinG the appointment in the
army navy Of persons whe have served in the
army navy Of the Confederate States also, to
transfer the conduct Of Indian affairs TO the War
Department; to reform the civil service, also, TO
provide for counting the Presidential vote in rela
ton TO votes for President and Members of Congress-
for the issue of national savings bonds for a ma
tional savings depository a branch Of the Post
Office Department; for the admission of Utah as a
State for the admission of Dakota as a State; es-
tablishng land district In the Black Hills: TO or
ganize the Territory of Pembina Speaker Randall
announced the House committees. The Chairman
ships are assigned follows Elections, Harris, of
Virginia Ways and Means, Wood, of New York |;
Appropriations, Atkins, of Tennessee; Banking and
Currency, Buckner, of Missouri Pacific Railroads,
Potter, Of New York; Claims, Bright, Of Tonnes
see Commerce. Reagan of Texas; Public Lands,
Morrison, of Illinois; Postoffices and Post Roads,
UaAA all an Of nAls.
Williams, of Michigan Judiciary, Knott, Of Ken
lucky; War Claims, Eden of Illinois Public Ex-
penditnres, Hatcher. OF Missouri; Private Land
Claims, Gunter, of Arkansas Manufactures,
Wright, of Pennsylvania; Agriculture. Cutler, of
New Jersey; Indian Affairs, Scales, of North Caro-
lima Military Affairs, Banning, of Ohio; Militia,
thorne, of Tennessee; Foreign Affairs Swami, Of
Maryland; Territories, Franklin, of Missouri !;
Revolutionary Pensions and War Of 1912, Mackey,
OF Pennsylvania; Invalid Pensions, Rice Of
Ohio; Railways and Canals. Schleicher, of Texas I;
Mines and Mining, Beebe, of New York !;
Education and Labor, Goode, of Virginia !;
Weights and Measures, stephens, Of Georgia !;
Patents, Vance, of North Carolina; Public Build
ings and Grounds kCook, Of Georgia. Accounts,
Roberts, of Maryland; Mileage, Cobb, of Indiana !;
Expenditures Of the State Department, Springer,
of Illinois Expenditures of the Treasury Depart
ment, Glover, Of Missouri: Expenditures Of the
War Department, Blackburn, of Kentucky; Ex-
penditures in the Navy Department, Willis, of New
York Expenditures in the Postoffce Department,
Williams, Of Alabama Expenditures in the Interior
Department. Sparks, Of Illinois; Expenditures on
Public Buildings, Lynde, of Wisconsin; Expendi-
lures in the Department of Justice, Bragg, of Wis
consin Reforms in the Civil Service, Harrison, of
Illinois Mississippi Levees Robertson, Of Louis-
ana Rules, Stephens, of Georgia Revision of the
Law Regulating the Counting of the Electoral Votes
etc., Southland, of Ohio; Printing, Singleton, Of
Mississippi; Enrolled Bills, Hamilton, OF Indiana !;
Library, Cox of New York.
TUESDAY, Oct. 80. -SESATE.-The Senate was
in session but fifteen minutes. A number of bills
were introduced and referred to appropriate COM
mittees. Nearly all were of private nature "A
resolution authorizing the presiding officer to ap-
point q select committee on the subject of ascer-
tanning and declaring the result Of the cleo
ton for President and Vice President of
the United States agreed to-. Mr.. Coke
introduced bill making appropriation
TO pay TO Texas the residue OF the Zoo, 900
reserved for the satisfaction of that portion of the
public debt Of the late republic of Texas for which
the duties ON imports Of said republic were espe-
cially pledged, being the balance remaining after
troduced a bill 10 reimburse Texas for expenses
incurred by repeling invasions Of Indians and
Mexicans. Referred. The Senate then went into
executive session and confirmed the following
nominations L. f. Noyes to be Minister to France ;
4. w. Stoughton, Minister 10 Russia; Thomas Os-
borne, Minister 20 the Argentine Republic; James
NJ. Comley, Minister to the Sandwich Islands
James Russell Lowell, Minister to Spain John A.
Kasson, Minister to AUSTRIA Romano Bum, United
States Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin
number Of other nominations Of minor Importance
were confirmed.
HoUsE.-Not in session.