The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-03-09

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office, he shall be excluded from II, and IL tn
claimant be adjudged entitled 10 il he shall nm
mediately enter ON the duties of the 81
| foe. Appeal may be taken TO the Suprem
Court OF the United States. After debate
Mr. Field called for the previous question on tn
passage OF the hill. and Il was defeated-yeas GO
nays, 30. Mr.. Cox moved TO suspend the rules an,
pass the bin removing all political disabilities i'm
teenth amendment TO the constitution. Agreed to
lib to T....The Army Appropriation bill wa
passed.
SATURDAY, March 3.-Work on the appro
priation bills was pushed along with grea
rapdity in both houses, and all the bills com
pleted and passed before midnight. The Senat,
| refused TO concur in the House amendment 10 the
| Legislative Appropriation bill cutting down tho
Presidents salary 10 $4,000 year, and the bill a.
passed fixes the salary at $4,000. There was such
serious hitch ON the Army and River and Harbor
bills that neither Of them got through
Five conferences were had on the
Army bill during the days session. The House
insisted that the army should he reduced to 20 00O
and that the section of the bill prohibiting the
of troops In sustaining State Governments should
remain. The Senate as strenuously opposed the
measure failed. The appropriation of last year
leaves sufficient 10 support the army until the end
of the present fiscal year, so that no extra SEES
sion IL likely to be Immediately called. The
River and Harbor bill was reported from the
Committee of Commerce, but was not considered.
There il, however, large surplus of money from
ment actually needed will suffer 10y the non-passage
of the BILL The customary resolutions Of thanks to
the presiding officers were passed in the Senate and
House, the customary responses made and at IL
O'Clock M of Sunday, March 4, both houses of the
Forty-fourth Congress adjourned sine die. The
proceedings in the two houses, exclusive of the
work on the Appropriation bills, is summarized
below:
SENATE.-The notable feature of the Senate pro-
ceedings the defeat of the Equalization Bounty
bill. Mr.. Logan earnestly advocated il, calling upon
the Senate TO be just to the soldiers, and said the
cost of the bin would not exceed S3,OOOOo0. Mr.
Sargent in opposition, claimed that II would require
SlOO,O00,OO0. The bill was indefinitely postponed
by vote of 81 to %. The bill recently reported
by the Finance Committee, in accordance with
the recommendations of President Grant, to mid in
until the first Wednesday in December next, by
vote of ~ to %. The bill making appropriations
tor the payment OF claims allgSed by the Southern
Claims Commission was passed.
HOUsE.-In the House the famous Choctaw
scheme failed, the bill authorizing the nation to
bring suit in the Court of Claims fail
ing to get the necessary two-thirds vote.
The bill to extend the Southern
Claims Commission for two years passed the House,
and thus became a law. "A resolution adopted
ordering the discharge from custody of the members
of the Louisiana Returning Board. A resolution
was reported from the select committee on privi-
eges, declaring that Samuel ]. Tilden and
Thomas A. Hendricks received log votes of
the electors legally and consttutionally APP
pointed, and were thereby duly elected
President and Vice President of the United
States. Mr.. White, of Kentucky, denounced
the resolution revolutionary, reasonable and
damnable." 1t was passed 10y strict party vote
1877 to SO. Mr. Field, from the select committee
privileges, reported resolution declaring (after "a
long preamblc) that in counting the electoral vote
of any State it il the right and duty of Congress
and of this House to inquire whether any votes
purporting to come from State have been cast by
persons duly appointed by that State and for that
purpose TO receive evidence of forgery, falsehood
or nyalidity of any certificate of any Governor or
canvasscr. Adopted without the yeas and nays.
Mr.. Sayer's amendment to the rules giving the
Clerk of the House (pending the election of Speaker)
authority to require the Sergeant-at-Arms to ala in
enforcing order, discussed and passed The
measure was resisted by the Republicans.