The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-02-01

Hamilton, Hamlin, ingalls,, Mitchell, Morton,
Patterson, Sargent, Sherman and West-l7.
:, The House Immediately took in hand
the electoral bill after it passed the Senate. on
the 26th, and it was decided that the previous
question should be called on the following
day. 1t was also agreed that the last four
ir nours OF debate speeches should be limited to
Mr. McCrary in favor Of it's passage MI.
hunton also advocates the measure, a. did
Messrs. Hoar and Hewitt and others. It was
opposed by Messrs. Hale, Monroe Smith of
Penn, and others. The session adjourned
at II o'clock until 10 a. m. next day,
A bill was introduced in the Senate,
on the Goth, to attach to the territory of
Wyoming q portion of the Black Hills c0un-
try tor judicial purposes. MIR. Allison intro
duced q bill to extend the jurisdiction of the
Y. 5. district and circuit courts over the In
dian reservations. Mr.. Window presented
the memorial Of the Minnesota legislature Tor
sales as bounty for the destruction of grass
hoppers.
In the House on the 26th, inst. the electoral
compromise bill was debated from l0a m. to
6p. m. the most intense interest and excite
ment prevailing throughout the entire session.
Messrs Lamar, Ben Hill, Watterson. PAYNE.
Field OF N. 7. and others spoke in favor OF the
measure and Messrs. Hurlbut, Townsend,
Knott, Vance, Dunnell, Baker OF Ind, Jones Of
~, and others opposed it. Upon the vote
to e6 nays. Thirty-tour Republicans voted
tor the bill and titty-seven Democrats voted
for the bill and nineteen against it. The fol-
lowing is the vote in detail:
Yeas-The Speaker, Abbott, Adams, Aims
worth, Anderson, Ashe, Atkins, Bagby, Bag
ley, e. A., Bagley, J. H., BANNING. Beebe.
Bell, Bland, Bliss, Blount, Boone, Bradley,
Bright, Brown, tky:), Buckner, Burchard,
(Wls. Burleigh, Cabell, Caldwell, (Tenn.)
Caldwell, lAla.), Campbell, Gambler, Caulfeld,
Clymer, Cochrane, Cook, Cowan, Cox, Crapo,
Culberson, Cutler, Darrell, Davis, Davy, De.
Bolt, Dibrell, Douglas, Durand, Eden, Ellis,
Faulkner. Felton,, Field, Finley, Foster, Frank.
lin, Fuller, Cause Gibson, Glover, ,Goode, Good
IN, Gunter, Hamilton, (1nd. Hamilton, IN. J.),
Hancock, Hardenburg gh, Harris, Mass. Harris,
va.) Harris, (Ga;) Harrison, Hartridge, Hart
Hereford, ec Hewitt, IN; Y, Hewitt, NAla J, Hill,
House, Humphreys, Hunter, Hunton, jerks,
Jones, IN. H.. Kekr, Kelley, Lamar, Land
ers, !Conn:), Landers, (lnd::), Lane, Leaven-
worth, LeM0yne, Levy, Lewis. Lutterell,
Lynde, Mackey, Maish, MacDougall, McCrary,
McDill, Mcfarland, Mcmahon, Meade, Metca1f,
Neal, New, Norton, OBrien, Oliver, Payne,
Phelps, Phillips, NO. J, Pierce, Piper, Platt,
Potter, Powell, Rea, Reagan, Reilly John, Reilly
J: B., Rice, Riddle, Robbins, Pa, Robbins,
IN. &. Roberts, Ross, IN. J. Sampson, Saw
age, Ssyler, Scales, Schleicher, Seelye, Sneak
Ley, Southland, Sparks, Springer, Stanton, Stem
ger, Stevenson, Stone, Strait, Swami, Tarbox,
Teese, Terry, Thomas, Thompson, Throckmor-
tSp' to T0wa5ead Wsa%s( Pa % Tucker TaSney Xspce,
IVA Walsh, Ward, Walling, Warren. Conn. J,
Warren, lMass.), Watterson, Wells, mo !,
Wells, Miss, Whitehouse, Whitthorne,
Wlke, Willard, Williams, (Mich ], Williams,
(Del.), Williams, W. B. (Mich.), Willis, Will
shire, Wilson, (Va.), Wilson, (la.), Wood, ,(N.-
~, Yeates, Young.
D. Nays7Baker, IN ", Baker, lind J, Ballou,
7xa Banks, a Blackburn, Blair, Bradtord, Brown,
Cahcon, Carr, Casswe{i, Cate. Coneer Croanse @ =
Dantord, Denison, Dobbins, Dunnell, Durham,
Evans, Eames, Flye, Forney Fort, Freeman,
Frye, Garfield, Hale, HARRISON, Hendee Hem
derson, Hoge, Hurd, Hubbell, Burlbut,
Lyman, Jones, Ky Kasson, Kimbal, Knott,
LaRham, Lawrence, Lynch, Magoon, Milliken,
Mills, Monroe, Nash, O'Neill Packer, Page,
Robinson, Rusk, Singleton, Simickson, sle,'
mons, Smalls, Smith, (Pa.) Smith, lGa.l J.
Vance, (0;), Van Vorhes, Wait, Waldron,
Wallace, Is. CO., Wallace, (Pa.l J, White, Whit
ing, Williams, (Ala.), Wood, (Pa.), Wood
burn, Woodworth.
Absent-W. S. King. Collins, Egbert, Wig
ginton, Lord. Hayes, Bass, Stephens, Cation,
Phiiilps, OF Kansas, Schumacher, O'Dell, Ross
and Wheeler.
In the Senate, on the 9th, the mill
tary academy and Notifications bill passed
without discussion after being amended. The
bill to ratity the agreement with certain bands
of Sioux Indians was passed, also the bill ex-
tending for two years the act establishing the
board of commissioners for Southern claims,
A short executive session was then held and
the Senate adjourned.
Mr.. Knott, in the House on the 9th,
made a report from the judiciary committee
favoring the admission of Beltord, the Colora-
do representative. The Indian appropriation
bill was passed. The four members OF the
Louisiana returning board were again pre-
sented at the bar OF the House, and after be-
ing allowed half an hour for conference to-
gether, their answer was presented to the
House and read. The answer disavows any
disrespect or intent to evade the law and
that the papers called for by the House were
required by them continually until the count
was completed, when they were, as provided
by law, deposited with the Secretary of State
OF Louisiana, where they now are. The reso-
luton was then adopted adjudging the pris-
oners guilty OF contempt, by party vote ;
they were then ordered into the custody Of
the sergeant-at-arms until they should pro-
duce the required papers.