Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-26

CONGRESSIONAL.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, June 20.


The House reassembled at 6 80 q
m, with very few members present.
Clymer offered the customary reso.
luton for the appointment Of . com.
mittee of three to wait ON the Presi.
dent and inform him that the two
houses were ready to adjourn unless
he had further communication tO
make to them. Agreed to.
Franklin offered q resolution de.
claring that in the investigation OF
the charges preferred against the late
doorkeeper of the House, j. w. Polk,
nothing had been shown affecting his
personal integrity or rejecting on
him as an honorable man and allow.
ing him two months extra pay
Agreed to.
At 6 :45 Rainey, of committee on
enrolled bills, appeared in the house
with the enrolled sundry civil bill
which the speaker laid before the
House and signed, amid applause.
Townsend, of Ohio, introduced q
bill to authorize the Secretary of
War to repair public building at
Cleveland, Ohio. Referred.
At 6 :52 message from the Presi-
dent announced his approval of the
sundry civil bill.
Clymer announced that in compa-
ny with Willis, Of KY, and Conger,
he had waited on the President and
that the President had stated that he
had no further communication to
make to Congress.
The hour Of Z o'clock having ar
rived, the Speaker said:
Gentlemen Of the House Of Repre-
sentatiUes: The arduous labors of
the session are closed. Let us hope
undor the providence of God, that
they will inure to the solid welfare
and happiness Of the people. Ex-
pressing the fervent hope that each
and every one of you may have safe
journey to your respective homes, it
only remains for the Speaker, in
pursuance of resolution of the two
houses for adjournment of the 45th
Congress, to declare that this House
stands adjourned without day.
(Applause.)
Owing to the early hour, adjourn
ment took place very quietly, not .
dozen persons being in the galleries
and not more than fifty members
present.
SENATE.
At4 :55, q. m. the Senate went into
executive session.
At 6 80 the doors were re-opened
and Bruce, by request, introduced q
bill to establish National Academy
of Education. giving preference to
the genius aud talent of our land and
to orphans Of the Republic. Refer
red.
1t provides that the President and
Vice-President Of the United States,
Chief Justice, Speaker and Chaplain
of the House of Representatives, Sec-
retary Of the Smithsonian Institute
and the Commissioner of education,
shall be a body corporate to be known
as the National Academy of Educa-
tion." They are to establish acade-
mics in the several states and Con-
gress is to appropriate annually one
third of the amount necessary for
their support; providing the state
contributes the other two-thirds. 1t
further provides that there shall be
esta blished IN the District of .Colum-
bia, an academy upon the basis of
equality with any university in the
world, which shall be the model for
the state academies.
At 6 :53 the Clerk of the House of
Representatives appeared with the
sundry civil bill, which was immedi-
ately signed by the President pro tenn
and then sent to tho President of the
United States for his signature, the
President being in his room at the
capital, having remained there du-
ring the night.
Anthony submitted . resolution
providing for the appointment of q
committee of two Senators to Join q
committee Of the House Of Repre-
sentatives, to wait upon the President
and inform him that Congress, hav-
ing finished its business, is now ready
to close its session by adjournment.
Agreed to, and Anthony and Thur
man were appointed committee on
the part of the Senate.
The senate then held brief exec
utive session and when the doors
we're reopened Anthony, from the
committee appointed to wait on the
President of the United States, re-
ported that they had performed that
duty and the president replied that
he had no further communication to
make.
ATT o'clock, Ferry, President, pro
temp0re said the hour of seven o'clock
having arrived, it gives me pleasure
to congratulate the senate on the ter
|Amination of session Of nearly seven
months duration, and to comply with
the joint resolution of the two houses
fixing the hour of final adjournment.
Permit me, senator's, to cordially
thank you for your favor, your conf
dence, and your courtesy, without
which l should have failed to meet
the delicate and responsible duties of
the chair. Commenting you all in
parting to the care of the same bene-
ficent ruler who has preserved un-
broken our number throughout our
prolonged labors, now ended, / do
declare the second session of the
Forty-Fifth congress adjourned sine
die. Applause on the floor.