Vicksburg weekly herald., 1877-11-02
CONGRESSIONAL.
senate.

SeB1Aes
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2o-Ingalls, Of Kan.
shs, introduced a bill to hX the date Of
meeting OF the drst regular session Of the
45th Congress up0n the hrst Monday Of
November. Referred to the committee on
Privileges and Elections.
NOMINATIONS.
Smith, Collector OF Customs at Mobile;
Oglesby, Lewis and Mcmillan, for their re-
spectiye offices In New Orleans; ". James
and Forbes, for VIRGINIA, Postmasters; A.
W. Stoughton, Minister to Russia; BaN-
ter, OF Tennessee, Circuit Judge OF the
Sixth District; Pars0n, District Attorney
OF Alabama; William Henry Smith, Col
lectOr Of Customs at Chicago; J. d. Brady,
Collector Of the Second Virginia District;
Fitzsimm1ns, Marshal Of Georgia. Wells,
Consul-General TO China; Walden, Mar
shal OF West Tennessee; Parsons, Marshal
Of Alabama.
Deirees, Public Printer; + Platt STRAIT
ton, Inspector Of Steamboats,, Secoud Dis.
trict; Hugh J Campbell, Of Louisiana, At
tOrneY OF DakOta; Wicker
sham, Mobile; Thompson, Memphis; Jones,
Nashville; Thompson, Louisville.
CONTRIBUTIONS.
Upton, second Comptroller Gllllleu,
L, ). Treasurer; Bates, OF New York, EX.
amincr.in.Chief OF the Patent Gilicc. Post.
masters-Wonord. Corlnth, Miss; Green,
Jackson, Miss; Waddell, Okoloua, Miss.
The Committee on Privileges and Elcc.
tiOns, Of the Senate, met but adjourned,
matter not having been printed.
The senate, after n short executive scs.
sion, adjourned.
House.
The call Of states for bills f0r reference
occupied the House for live h0urs. The
! ft,Nr,.IrnfI,n Cf tn
largest number Of bills that were ever pre-
sented in one day In the history Of Con.
gress-there were SIS, They might be
elias sihed into some halt dozen subjects -
! the repeal OF the Resumption Act, remon.
etiZation Of silver, repeal Of the Bank
ruptcy law, abolition Of taxes on sale OF
| tobacco By the producers, the extension OF
pension laws to this South, the repeal Of
I the test.oath, and appropriations for the
work Of internal improvement. Among the
latter were bills appropriatlng S3,oOO,OOO
( for the Mississippi leyees, and Sl,OOO,OCO for
| the Missouri river.
The Committees were then announced,
Wood, OF New York, 10 Chairman Of the
Ways and Means, and Atkins OF Tcnnes'
see, Chairman Of Appropriations.
4 The following are the more important
Committees In full, with the Chairmen
and Southern members on the others:
Elections Harris, Chandler, Williams,
Ellis, ThNrnburg.
Ways ard Means--Wood, Tucker. Say
lor, Robbins, Harris OF Ca, Gibson, Kelly,
Phelps, Garfield, Buchard, Banks.
Appropriations D!ount, Sin.
gleton, ClYmer, Hewitt, Sparks, Durham,
Hale, Foster, Smith, Baker.
Banking and Cuuency--Buckner sue.
ceeds Cox }, Neates, Bell.
Pacific RailrOad--POtter, Throckmorton,
Morrison, House, Luttrell, Landers, Chal'
mers, ElOm, O'Neill Blair, Coswell, Cole,
Rice
Claims-Bright. Davis, Henry; Gall the
rest are from tue North, exciting some sur
prlse,)
Public Lands--Morrison formerly " ays
and Means GauZc, CLARK, Hewitt cf AL
ALBANIA, Smith OF Georgia.
Post.otices and Post Roads, Waddel! o
North Carolina, Slemons, Caldwell, Gartl
Of District OF Columbia, Williams Of Mich
lgan, Hunton, Blackburn, Iinckle.
Judiciary y--Knolt, Harris Of Virginia
HartIidge, Cuthbert)n.
War Claims--Eden OF Illinois, Ca5ell
, Schelley, Caldwell.
Public Expenditures Hatcher Cf Mis-
souri,, PridemOre, DaY dsOn, Manning.
I Private Land Claims-Gunter, Of Ark
. Caldwell, Giddings, Turner, Cain.
Mauuiacturers-W Wight, DIbrell, wilson
LigOn, Davidson.
Apricultu:e--Cutter, Ol North Carolina
e Pridcmore, Aiken, steele.
9 Indian AifaiEs-Scales Ui NOrth Caro-
lima, Hooker, ThrOckm)rtOn, Gunter.
Military Affairs Banning, Dlhrell
Evans
) Militia Miles, Ross
I Naval Affairs Whitteh0rn, Mills
. GOOde.
n Foreign Ailairs-Swann, FOrney, vii
son, Sc6lecker. Territure, Rankin.
Revolutionary Pensions-Mackay.
Q Invalid PensiOns-R. n. Rice.
4 Railways and Canals >chleCker, Ga
bell, CritteudOn, schelley, Mckenzie.
Mines and Miniug--Beehe.
Education aud LabOr-GoOde.
4 Coinage, Weights and Measures-- ste
!. hens.
n Patents Vance.
, Public Buildings and GroundG Cook, 0
: Georgia.
: Ace unis--ROberts, Chalmers.
S Expenditures Ct War Department
4 Blackburn.
!, Postotlice Department; - Williams, o
Alabama.
Mississippi Levees Robertson, Of Louis
c iaua, Hatcher, Honey, Knapp, Landcrs
c Martin, Everett, Pond, Robertson, BisbeC
/ Rules - speaker, Stephens, SaylOl
: Banks, Garfield.
! Priu ing-Singletcn.
p GARRISoN'S GROWL.