The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-01

the port of New York; John D. Defrees, to be |
Public Printer; William Henry Smith, Collector at
Chicago Jewett Palmer, Collector of Internal Rev.
enue in the Fifteenth Ohio District John Baxter,
of Tennessee, United States Circuit Judge for the
Sixth Circuit: Romance Bum, District Judge for
the Western District of Wisconsin. The Senate,
in executive session, confirmed a number of ncmi-
nations for small Offices, but took no action on
those for important places.
HousE.-The House was flooded by a perfect
avalanche of bills. There were introduced, placed
upon the records and ordered to be printed, the
enormous number of S45 bills, an average of almost
three to each member The following are the titles
of q few of them: Providing for uniform certif-
Gates of the election of members of Congress; re-
ducing the postage letters to repeal the law tax
ing deposits in savings institutions for the re-
moval of all political disabilities declaring the De-
partment of Agriculture one of the Executive De-
partments; for the establishmentof Department
of Commerce; to repeal the act for resumption of
specie payments; for the restoration of wages in
the Government Printing Office to make United
States notes receivable for import duties aIso to
consolidate the bonded debt and to reduce interest
to abolish the tax on liquors distilled from
fruits; to abolish the iron-clad oath for
mail steamship service to Brazil; repeating
the law forbidding the appointment in the
army or navy of persons who have served in the
army navy of the Confederate States; Also to
transfer the conduct Of Indian affairs to the War
Department; to reform the civil service, also, to
provide for counting the Presidential vote in rela-
ton to votes for President and Members of Congress-
| for the issue of national savings bonds for ma
| tonal savings depository branch of the Post
| Office Department; for the admission of Utah a
| State for the admission Of Dakota State; es-
ablishng land district in the Black Hills: to or
ganize the Territory of Pembna. Speaker Randall
announced the House committees. The Chairman
ships are assigned as follows: Elections, Harris OF
Virginia Ways and Means, Wood, of New York
Appropriations, Atkins, of Tennessee; Banking and
Currency. Buckner, of Missouri; Pacific Railroads,
Potter, of New York Claims, Bright, of Tennes-
see; Commerce. Reagan, of Texas; Public Lands,
| Morrison of Illinois; Postoffices and Post Roads
Waddell, of North Carolina; District of Columbia
| Williams, of Michigan Judiciary, Knott, of Ken
lucky; War Claims, Eden, of Illinois, Public Ex-
penditnres, Hatcher, OF Missouri; Private Land
Claims, Gunter, of Arkansas Manufactures
Wright of Pennsylvania; Agriculture Cutler, OF
New Jersey; Indian Affairs, Scales, of North Caro-.
lima; Military Affairs, Banning, of Ohio; Militia,
Miles Ross. of New York; Naval Affairs, Whit
thorne, of Tennessee Foreign Affairs Swami, OF
Maryland; Territories, Franklin, of Missouri
Revolutionary Pensions and War of 1912, Mackey
of Pennsylvania; Invalid Pensions, Rice, OF
Ohio; Railways and Canals. Schleicher, of Texas
Mines and Mining Beebe, of New York
Education and Labor, Goode of Virginia
Revision of Laws, Walsh, of Maryland; Co mage
Weights and Measures, Stephens, of Georgia
Patents, Vance, of North Carolina; Public Build
ings and Grounds sCook, of Georgia; Accounts
Roberts, of Maryland; Mileage, Cobb, of Indiana
Expenditures of the State Department, Springer
of Illinois; Expenditures of the Treasury Depart
ment, Glover, of Missouri: Expenditures of the
War Department Blackburn, of Kentucky; Elk
penditures in the Navy Department, Willis, of New
York; Expenditures in the Postofhce Department.
Williams, Of Alabama; Expenditures in the interior
Department, Sparks, of Illinois; Expenditures or
Public Buildings, Lynde, of Wisconsin; Expendi
lures in the Department of Justice, Bragg, of Wis
consin Reforms in the Civil Service, Harrison, o.
Illinois Mississippi Levees, Robertson, of Louisi
ana; Rules, Stephens, of Georgia; Revision of the
Law Regulating the Counting Of the Electoral Votes
etc., Southard of Ohio; Printing, Singleton, O.
Mississippi; Enrolled Bills, Hamilton, OF Indiana
Library, Cox, of New York.