The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-02-23
CONGRESS-.

I CONGRESS.
| FEB 55In the Senate, bill appropri
ating $50 coo for deficiency in the funds
for public printing was passed. MrHowe
announced that Clark Littlefield, of the
! Louisiana Returning Board, had refused
the summons of the Senate Sergeant-at-
Arms to oappear before the Committee on
Privileges and Elections, and he was
ordered brought before the bar of the
Senate to show cause why he should not
be punishe for contempt. In the House
petition was presented from twenty
eight banking institutions of Cincinnati
for n repeal of the law taxing banks. \
resolution was offered making the busi-
ness. the same each day. as though an
adjournment had been had on the pre-
vious day.
FEB. 6.-In the House, an amend
ment to the Appropriation Bill was
adopted topay W. H. Bliss $500. for
assistance of prosecution CT the whisky
cases in St Louis. The accounting Off
GERS of the Treasury were authorized to
settle certain accounts of navy officers.
whose pay had been affected by the gen.
eral order of the Secretary of the Navy.
A resolution was adopted calling for an
explanation regarding the printing OF
certain portions of testimony before the
Committee on Privileges and Elections.
In the Senate, the motion 10 pass the
Metropolitan Police bill over the veto
was lost-S3 to %. A memorial was
presented asking for s25OOOO to build
an addition to Smithsonian Institute to
receive the Centennial Exhibition dona
tions from foreign countries to the
United States. Referred.
FEB7-In the House the Senate bill ap-
propriating s35O,OOO for DEFICIENCIES in
the appropriations of the present fiscal
year. was reported back, and sfler being
amended so that no greater price be
paid for printing than in Baltimore,
New York, and Philadelphia, was passed.
The General Deficiency Appropriation
bill was considered in committee of the
whole, but no action of importance
taken.
In the Senate, the House bill author
izing the Trustees of the Freedman's
Bank to buy in certain property and
sell it at private sale was amended so
that said action should be approved by
one of the Justices of the Supreme
Court, and then passed. The bill for the
payment of Mr. B Eads for his work on
the Mississippi jetties was again laid
over. A new committee on the frank
ing and fast mail bill was announced.
FEB SIN the Senate the bill for the
payment of James B Eads was indeffn-
itely postponed. The Indian appropri-
alton bill was considered in Committee
of the Whole and a number of amend
ments made Increasing the appropria-
tions to a considerable amount. An ap-
preparation was made for the removal of
the Yankton and Ponce Sioux to the
Missouri River, and for erection of
buildings, etc, for those wishing to be-
come citizens of the United States.
Afier the bill had been considered in
Committee of the Whole, it was report
ed to the Senate and passed. In the
House the General Appropriation bill
WAS under consideration, and elected
considerable discussion from members,
out of which general debate ON the ex
penditures and pretended savings of the
present Congress grew. After q con-
siderable debate, the bill was reported
to the House from the Committee Of
the Whole. but no action was taken
thereon.
FEB. 9-In the Senate, 4 bill intro
duced to authorize and equip an expe-
dition to the Artic seas, was referred to
committee. A bill to encourage tele-
graphic communication between the
United States and Europe, was passed
1t contemplates line, with the Ameri
can end at Baltimore. A bill to amend
the Pacific Railroad acts Sc as to createa
sinking fund for the liquidation Of in
debtedness due the Government, was
considered. but no action taken In the
House, the Deficiency Appropriation
bill was passed, the amendment appro-
priating $4,000 for claims against the
Interior Department being stricken out |
An attempt was made by the Democrats
to have that report Of the Louisiana
Committee printed by private printers,
in the lack Of an appropriation for the
public printer, but was defeated The
report was presented, the majority claim
ing that the vote was not correctly
counted and compiled by the Returning
Board, and that the State should have
been given for Tilden. A minority re-
port states that the Returning Board was
a legal body, and that It's decision was
both fair and just, and in its direct line
of duty. No action was taken on the
reports.