The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-02-09
FORTYFOURTH CONGRESS.

In the Senate, January 80, q joint resolu-
ton of the Minnesota Legislature regarding
the monetization of silver was presented.
A majority report from the Senate Commit
and ordered printed. The Presidents Mes
sage on the Electoral Bill was pre-
sented and ordered printed......In the
House, bills were introduced fixing March
4th as the date of the first session of every
Congress, declaring forfeited certain
Michigan Railroad lands, chartering
freight railway from the Atlantic to the
providing for the payment of Mr.. Eads in
United States bonds, was rejected.
In the Senate, January 30 Mr.. Wright
submitted resolution that the Senate ap-
point by vivd voce vote five Senators to be
members of the Commission on the Elec-
toral count, and gave notice he would call
the resolution up at $3.50 today. Mr..
ing and directing the President of the Sem
ate to appoint two tellers on the part of the
Senate to perform the duties re.
quired by the Electoral Count
bill, which recently passed. Agreed to.
A bill was reported for the punishment of
persons making or holding dies, molds, ETC.,
for the manufacture of counterfeit coin.
Petitions were presented asking a constitu-
tional amendment granting female suffrage.
The five members of the Commission for
counting the Electoral vote were elected,
viz, Messrs. Edmunds, Morton,
Frelinghuysen, Thurman and Bayard......
In the House bill appropriating $500,0O0,
to be paid Jas. B. Eads for the construction
of the Mississippi River jetties, passed. The
Speaker laid before the House the bill abol:
ishing the Board of Commissioners of
Metropolitan Police, of the District of
| Columbia. The question was put: Shall
the bill pass notwithstanding the Presidents
veto, and it was decided in the Affirmative
yeas, 1853; nays, rs. The five House men,
bers of the Electoral Commission were
elected as follows: Messrs. Payne, Hunton,
declaring that Colorado is State of the
Union and that J. B. Belford is a legally
elected member of the House, was taken up,
but was postponed till Wednesday.
In the Senate, January 81, a communica-
| ton was received from the four Judges of
the Electoral Tribunal, nominating Justice
| Bradley as their associate. A resolution was
adopted to the effect that during the electoral
count tickets shall be issued to Senators,
Representatives, and others, and distributed
| by the Sergeants-at- Arms of the Senate and
House of Representatives. Mr.. Merrimon
| said the object was to issue tickets to
families of the Supreme Court Judge, mem.
bers of the Cabinet, and other officials.
Twenty-Five hundred copies of the Presi.
dents message on the Electoral Count bill
were ordered printed for distribution. Sen.
ator Frank Hereford (Dem.) of West Vir.
ginia took his seat and the oath of office.
In the House, resolution was adopted that
no spectators be admitted during the count,
except those obtaining tickets, of
which each member of the House is
to be allowed three on each day. A
bill was introduced for a more thorough in.
vestigation of railroad accidents. James B.
Buford, representative from Colorado, was
admitted and sworn into Office, thus settling
the Colorado controversy. The majority
report of the House Committee on the Flor.
ida Election was partially read, and ordered
printed, but no action thereon taken.
In the Senate, February 1, resolutions of
a meeting held at Barnwell, South Carolina,
stating that the colored people voted for
Hampton, were offered and referred. A
petition of residents of New Orleans, charg-
ing the Kellogg Government with iDcom-
potency, was read and referred to the
Committee on Privileges and Eelections,
authorizing them to summons any of the
signers and call for proof of the state
ments A resolution providing that the
proceedings of the Electoral Commission
be printed in the Congressional Record, was