The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-02-28
ESSIONAL.
SENATE.

Washington, Feb. 27.-West, Ham
lin and Bogy were made the conference
committee on the p~ostofiice appropria-
ton bill. According to yesterdays no.
tice, Mcdonald called up the House
resolutions regarding Speaker Kerr, and
Mcdonald, Wallace, Wright, Bayard,
Booth and Morton delivered eulOgies,
and the resolutions were unanimously
agreed to.
The House joint resolution authoriz-
ing the president to designate a site for
the statute of Liberty enlightening the
world" was taken up.
Window reported favorably the Sen
ate bill for the relief of S, ttlerS on pub
lie lands. Passed. 1t allows home
stead and presumption settlers who suf-
fered from grasshoppers to leave their
places until 1873.
Morrill, reported favorably the Senate
bill authorizing the purchase of n site
for public buildings at Denver, Col.
Sargent submitted the report on
Chinese immigration.
Sargent called up the House bill to
provide for the sale of desert lands in
California, Oregon and Nevada and the
Territories of Washington, Idaho, Mon
tana, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, New
Mexico and Dakota.
Sargent submitted an amendment
that no person shall be permitted either
to reserve or acquire title to more than
one section of land under the act.
Agreed to.
Oglesby submitted an amendment
providing that any person conducting
water on or to any desert land for irri-
CATION, shall BOT acquire any exclusive
right to the water beyond what shall be
actually necessary for redeeming and il
rigating tn same, but water in all lakes,
rivers and other sources of water sup
ply shall be held for the use of the pub
lie for irrigating and mining purposes.
Agreed to.
Boutwell, submitted an amendment
providing that such desert lands shall
be surveyed before reclamation.
Chatfee moved to postpone further
consideration until the first Monday in
December next. Rejected.
The amendment of Boutwell, was
then adopted; also one requiring the
person entering upon land to pay TWEEN
ty-five cents per acre ut the time of
filing with the receiver his declaration
that he intends to reclaim the land.
and n dollar per acre upon receiving
II patent therefor. Several other I'M
important amendments were agreed
to and the bill passed.
Oglesby presented the credentials of
David Davis, elected Senator from Hi
noiS.
The House bill to amend the revised
statutes in respect to vacancies in the
office Cf President and Vice-President
was read by title and referred.
Gordon presented the credentials of
J. T. Morgan, elected U. S. Senator
from Alabama. Filed.
The Senate then went into executive
session and when the doors were opened
took a recess until tomorrow.
HOUSE.
Washington, Feb. 27.-The House
went into committee of the whole on
the sundry civil bill. The paragraph on
the payment of dues to certain south
ern mail contractors was omitted tenn
porarily and Holman's motion to in
crease the appropriation for the survey
of public lands from $4,000 to $780,
600 was agreed to.
Virgins offered an amendment pro-
viding that after June Both 1o7S the Of
flee of surveyor general of the several
states and territories he abolished and
the records of such office be transferred
to the general land office. Page made
the point that the amendment was new
legislation and the chair sustained the
point. Townsend moved to increase
the appropriation for the Hayden sur
veying expedition from $780, 600 to 49,
600. Agreed to, as also was a motion
increasing the appropriation for the
Powell expedition from 5000 0 to S50,-
600. The southern mail contractors
! claims were then considered. Conger
withdrew his point of order that it was
new legislation, but Piper renewed the
point.
Field, from the committee on privi-
leges, reported a bill providing that in
case of failure to elect Il president that
the president of the Senate, or in case
of a vacancy in that office, the Speaker
of the House, or, failing that, the Sec
rotary of State shall assume the office
until a president has been elected.
Burchard raised the point of order
that the committee had no authority to
report by bill.
The point was overruled. The bill
was then read a third time and passed
by 13S to 100, a party vote except Pur-
man. who voted with the Democrats,
and Buckner, Goodin, Hancock, Knott,
Neal, Potter, Whitehouse and Will
liarns, who opposed it. The text has al
ready been published.
Schleicher moved to suspend the
rules and adopt Il preamble and lesolu-
ton recognizing the Hampton and
Nichols governments. Rejected by 156
yeas to 80 nays, not two-thirds in the
affirmative.
Watterson moved to suspend the
rules and adopted n resolution reciting