The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-02-22
FoRTy.F0URTH CONGRESS.

WEDNESDAY, Feb. Tin the Senate, a
| Conference Committee was appointed on the Mil
itary Academy Appropriation bill, and new
Conference Committee was also appointed
the bill the Of the fast
was passed to authorize and empower the Secre.
ary of the Interior to and settle the account
hs % iss n naa M n
dciency bill. providing that the Public Prfnter
shall not hereafter pay more for similar work than
Baltimore, was non concurred in. A report was
made in regard to the eligibility OF Mr.. Hum
phrsys. = Republican Fl Residential ElectOr Of
alton b:ll was further considered ane amended in
Committee Of the Whole, reported to the House
and passed. The Naval Appropriation bill ($ia.-
tM,s . was reported from the Committee ON Ap.
Preparations.
THURSDAY, Feb. SIN the Senate, the
Indian Appropriation bill was taken up and sey-
eral amendments were agreed to, and the bill, as
amended. was passed In the House, Mr.. Hale
read letter from j. Madison Wells and Thomas
o
a, that, on account Of bad air in the cell Gov.
Wells was i'll in bed. Mr.. Hale corroborated
s ns ctss pssonou in as s sns
Sergeant at Arms to- remove the prisoners to
well.lighted and wcll-vcntilated room,
where their health would not be endangered
Messrs. Cox. Clymer and Others on the Demo
cratic side Of The House. claimed that the room
in which the prisoners were confined was the one
Congress. and was we'll heated, Lighted and ven.
tilated. The resolution was finally referred to
he Special Committee on the Election in LOuisi-
to the truth of the statements contained in the
Wells communication. The Deficiency Appro-
priation bill was further amended in Committee
of the Whole.
FRIDAY, Feb. GA bill was intro
duced in the Senate, to authorize and equip an
ION tot ,o rio ,,lun
suggested by Capt. Howgate. A bill was passed
to encourage and promote telsSraphic communi.
cation between America and Europe, a line to be
constructed with the American end at Baltimore.
The amendments to the For;ifcation Appropria-
ton bill were insisted upon, and . COnfere &c
Committee was ordered. Bills were passed in
made in convention between the United States
and Mexico; the Deficiency Appropriation bill.
Majority and minority reports were made, ordered
mttee on Louisiana Affairs, the former concud-
ing with . resolution declaring that the DcmO-
cratic Electors received majority Of the votes in
compilation Of the vote for Electors by the
Board Of Returning Officers was with nut authori-
ty OF law. fraudulent and void, and that the vote
Of that State cannot be counted for Hayes and
Wheeler without the confirmation and approval
Of the illegal and fraudulent action Of said Re-
turning Board. The minority report recommends
the adoption OF resolution declaring that the
Republican Electors have been elected in Louisi-
ana, and that the election examined into. de-
termined, declared and prOmulgate by the proper
authorities Of said State under all forms Of law
and in compliance with the Constitution Of the
United States.
SATURDAY, Feb. 10. in the Senate, the
objections submitted by Mr.. Field to the decision
of the Electoral Commission in tine Florida case
were read. and, after debate, an order that the
Senate do not concur in such decision was de-
feated-yeas, %; NAYS, 44-and a resolut on was
then adOpted "A to %. strict party vote-indors
ing the COmmission's decision notwithstanding
the objections made thereto. In the House: the
Senate amendments to the Indian and the Military
Academy Appropriation bills were non-cOncurred
in. A lengthy discussion occurred a lotion
ton Of the pending The the essan Of
the Electoral Commission in the Florida
case, and such recess was finally decided
npon,,iSs to- , iosVnntil len o'clock on the morn.
interpOsed in the House to the effect that the
Commission refused to receive competent and
material evidence tending to pr we that the action
fraudulent, and in disregard Of law. and with in
teut to defeat the will of the people; that the
Commission refused to recognize the right Of the
and that the decision excluded all evidence tend
ing to prove that all the departments of the State
Of Gov. stearns and the State CanSassers by Which
the Electors recognized by the Commission had
been certified to, etc.
MONDAY, Feb. IA resolution was
submitted in the Senate, providing for the arrest
Of Conrad c. Jourdan, Cashier of the Third Ma
tional Bank Of New York, he having failed to ap-
pear before the Committee on Privilege. and
Of Samuel j. Tilden, WIN. T. P.lton and A. s.
Hewitt. In the House. resolution was adopted
SO amending the rules that, pending the count Of
the Electoral vote. and hen the House is not en-
gagged therein, it shall, on assembling every cal
cndar day after recess from the day preceding,
proceed at twelve O'Clock with its business as
though the legislative day had expired by adj
iOurnWent-prOyided that the counting Of the
Electoral votes sba not be interior, with under
the resolution.