The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-06-27
FoRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.

TUESDAY, June 18.-SENATE.- Senate
was engaged nearly all day on the Sundry Civil APP
preparation bill. The amendments appropriating
$5 900 to pay the award of the Halifax Commits
| sion, and modifying the contract with James B..
Eads for the improvement Of the South pass of the
| Mississippi river, were adopted. Mr.. Pad
dock called up the House bill for the re-
lief of settlers public lands Passed In expsna-
| ton of the bill Mr.. Paddock said it merely
| extended the provisions of the act of March
8, 1877 to allow settlers who had their crops
injured by grasshoppers to leave their homesteads
! temporarily for the purpose of obtaining sus
! tenance.
HoUsE.-The House concurred in the Senate con-
current resolution declaring that the treaty with
China, allowing unrestricted immigration to this
country, should be modified and calling the atten-
ton OF the President to the subject The Sen
ate substitute for the House bill repeal
| ing the Resumption law was non-concurred
in for want of the necessary two-thirds majority
lao to 1850 that the bill fails The bill directing
the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Southern mail
contractors for services rendered prior to the war
was finally agreed to, with amendments providing
that the claimants shall give bond for the return
of the money to the United States in it shall be
discovered that the claims were paid by the Confed
| crate States. The Senate bill to modify
the Eads jetty contract was passed Mr.. Towns
bend, of Illinois, moved to suspend the rules and
pass the bill to repeal that section of the Resump-
ton act which authorizes the sale of United States
bonds for purposes of resumption. and 10 provide
that United States notes shall be receivable for
duties on imports. Rejected-yeas, ia nays. 113-
not the necessary two-thirds in the affirmative.
Mr.. Pound moved to suspend the rules and pass the
Senate bill extending for ten years the time to COM
plete the Northern Pacific railroad. Defeated
yeas, % nays, 127....It was found necessary to
prolong the session another day, aud both houses
agreed to a resolution extending the time for adj
journment to Wednesday, 10Th, at p. m. H,G
WEDNESDAY, June 19.-SENATE.-T Presi
How
the part of the Senate to consider the subject of
reorganizing the army, Messrs. Burnside Plumb
and Butler. The President pro tenn. also appointed
Messrs. Oglesby, Saunders, and McCreery the COM
mittee on the part of the Senate to consider the
| subject of transferring the Indian Bureau
from the Interior to the War Department -
There considerable debate in executive session
| concerning the nominations of Reuben E. Fenton,
William s. Groesbeck, and Francis A. Walker as
Commissioners to represent the United States in the
coming international conference on the silver ques-
| ton. Finally the nomination of Groesbeck and
| Walker was confirmed and Fenton rejected. The
President then sent in the name of Judge Charles
B. Lawrence, of Illinois, the third Commissioner
but before action upon it could be taken Mr. Conk-
ling, who had been absent during these
| proceedings, came in, and, making earnest ap-
| alton of the vote by which he was rejected. He
was then confirmed by two majority.
HoUsE.-Mr. Ewing moved to suspend the rules
and pass the bill to retire national-bank notes and
substitute treasury notes for them. Rejected
yeas, 1909; nays, Ia The result was greet
ed with applause on the Republican side.
....A bill was passed under a suspension of
the rules, providing that and after the LIST of
October, 1878, legal-tender notes of the United
States shall be receivable at par in payment of Gus
toms du les. Mr.. Conger moved to suspend the
rules and pass the joint resolution proposing con-
stitutiona amendment forever prohibiting the pay
ment of any claim for property TAKEN used injured
or destroyed by United States troops during the
war of the Rebellion unless the owner was loyal to the
Government, and gave neither aid nor encourage
ment to the enemy. Agreed to--yeas IA: nays 61..
number of other bills and resolutions were passed
| under suspension of the rules. . The Speaker an
nounced the appointment of the following commits
sions: On the reorganization of the army Ban
ming, Dibrel, Bragg, Strait, and White of Pennsyl-
vana on the transfer of the Indian Bureau to the
War Department, Scales, Boone, Hooker, Van
Worries and Stewart; on the labor ques-
ton, Hewitt of New York, Riddle, Dickey,
Tucker, Thompson, Rice and Boyd. The
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill occupied the
attention of the House, and necessit ated post
ponement of the session to Thursday morning at
O'Clock, at which hour both houses adjourned till
the regular date of assembling in December. The
Post-Route bill, containing the Brazilian steamship
subsidy, the restoration Of the franklng privilege
reg ulation of postage on mail matter, and regula-
ton of railway SERVICE failed between the two
houses. We at#t3 I'LL ltf ta fEE adj ~