The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-12-26
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

In the Senate, on the 18th, after the pas
sage of the Consular and Diplomatic Appro
priation BILL and the House bill changing
the time for holding terms of the United
States Circuit Court for the District of West
Virginia, consideration was resumed of Mr..
Blaine's resolution regarding the const1-
tutiOnal rights of citizens Mr.. Blaine'5
amendment authorizing the committee to
take testimony and to administer oaths and
visit any portion of the country when such
visit may in their Judgment facilitate the OBJ
lect OF the inquiry, was agreed to without
division, and the resolution as amended was
also agreed to, So to 6....... In the House,
the majority and minority reports on the
Geneva Award bill were taken up and dis
cussed, after which the House went into
Committee of the Whole on the bill appro
priating $3.50 900 to meet the deficiency in the
appropriation for the Postal Mail Service,
and prohibiting any increase in the postal
car service during the present year. Several
amendments were rejected, the Committee
rose, and the House passed the bill.
In the Senate, on the 18th, the House bill
giving twenty condemned cannon to the Gus
ter Monument at West Poirt, passed; also,
House joint resolution appropriating $4,000
for the purpose of paying necessary ex-
penses incurred by the committee of the
Senate and House in Investigating the
cause and prevention of epidemic diseases
Without material amendment the Pension
Appropriation bill passed, and the Senate
amendment to the adjournment resolution,
extending the recess from December 20 to
January 7, was concurred in, and the bill
appropriating $4,000 for the expenses
of the Committee on Yellow Fever
Epidemic, passed. The Indian Appropria-
tion bill was discussed in Committee of the
Whole, but without action the Committee
rose, and the joint resolution extending un-
til February l the time within which the
Joint committee on the transfer of the In
dian Bureau may. report was passed
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jurisdiction to the District and Circuit Courts
of Kansas over the Indian Territory; by Mr..
Corbett: For the Improvement OF the Vel
lowstone National Park. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 18th, the House bill
appropriating $4,000 for the transportation
of mails by railroads passed; also the House
bill to amend the act of June 90, 1873, and to
fix the rate of interest on bonds authorized
by said act to be issued by Commissioners
of the District of Columbia and for
other purposes. .....In the House, Mr.. j. G.
Young took the seat made vacant by the
death of j. L. Leonard, of the Fifth Louisiana
District. The Indian Appropriation bill
passed after an amendment prohibiting the
removal of Indians of Arizona and New Mex
leo to the Indian Territory.
In the Senate, on the Goth, 40 business of
importance was transacted. An executive
session was held and the Senate adjourned
to January Z, 1879. In the House, bills au-
thorizing payment to the State of Tennessee
for keeping United States military prisoners;
constituting Portsmouth, o., port of deltv
cry, and removing the political disabilities
of j. NJ. Bell, of Georgia, William Ward, of
Virginia, and NJ. kimball, OF Missouri, passed.
The morning hour having expired the Speak
er laid before the House several communi
cations, among them one from Secretary
sherman in answer TO a resolution calling for
as to what balance on loan ac-
counts was standing to the credit of the
United States in any National bank from
March, 1876, to the present tine. The letter
states that there we're no balances on loan
accounts standing to the credit of the
United States Treasurer in any Nation
al bank from March, 1876, to January, 1878,
aud fncloses list of National Bank depos-
tories with the balance and loan account held
from February, 1873, to December, 1873 The
banks which held such balances had been
made repositories under the law. The large
balance held by the First National Bank,
New York, was caused bv the temporary de-
posits of the proceeds of AZ per cent. bonds
and large subscriptions of that bank to the A.
per cent. loan. After some little discussion,
the House adjourned to january.