The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-03-29

WEDNESDAY. MARcH 20.

AhC OOnoeS poSScQ lis DILL " aAAAOA4
section 2,465 of revised statutes rela-
tive to cultivation of timber, and pass
ed resolution asking for information
as to terms upon which the Cuban in
surgsnts had yielded.
The House passed bill to regulate
the letting Of mail routes, and provid- |
ing that notices shall be Published in
one or more papers in each State In
terested that proposals for the mail
lettings will be received at certain
dates, and all information pertaining
thereto can be obtained Oh application
to the Second Assistant Postmaster
General, also providing Tint no sub
letting of contracts should ee permit
ted, and whenever such sub-letting did
occur the contract should be consider
ed as ter minated.
THURSDAY, MARCH 81.
In the Senate Mr. Hereford offered
q resolution to require the finance
committee to report in one week on
the House bill TO repeal the resump-
ton law, said bill having been refer
red to it Nov. 26. Objected to and laid
over. The timber land bill was de-
bated.
The House after discussion, passed
the naval appropriation bill, of $14,-
O4s,6s4.
FRIDAY, MARCH %.
The Senate discussed the Pacific rail-
road sinking fund bill, and then took
up the timber land bill and bill to en-
ploy additional mail service, etc. Mr..
Plumb submitted an amendment APP
propriating S2o, O0O for railway mail
agents and postal clerks, and in expla-
nation thereof, said the appropriation
was necessary for the mail service on
a number of new Western and South
ern routes. He read letter from the
Postmaster General favoring the ap-
preparation. Mr.. Whyte raised the
point of order that the amendment
not having been considered by COM
mittee, could not be submitted to the
general appropriation. The point OF
order was overruled. After the debate
the amendment was adopted-yeasi
"a; nays, 10. Various other amend
ments were made and the bill passed
In the House Mr.. Ward, of Pa, In
troduced bill supplementary to the
homestead law of the United States
providing that persons, bonaflde, in
tending to make actual entry and set
Element under the homestead acts
shall receive, through the Secretary Of
the Interior, free trsnsportion fol
themselves, families, farming utensils
and personal effect to their new home
and also seeds for two years. cultiVa-
ton. Referred. "A number of private
bills were passed, among them were &c
repay Mrs. Gen. Custer pa, 900 paid
by his fathers estate to the govern
ment as a forfeited bond.
No business transacted Saturday.
MONDAY, MARCH %.
| The Senate committee on public
bui ldings and grounds reported favor
ably a bill to provide q building fol
the posteffice, United States courts
etc., at Topeka, Kansas, and, with ar
amendment, the Senate bill to provide
for public buildings at Kansas City
were both placed on the calendar
Mr.. Wallace submitted an amendmen,
to the House bill to repeal the resump
ton law. Mr.. Howe called up his res
olution for the President to whom thu
Senate in regard to the record of JudgJ
Whitaker, of New Orleans, and mad
bitter. speech against the President
southern policy, saying among othe
things:
Given in these times OF unbridlet
mendacity would like to see the maj
bold enough to assert that any Senate
or combination of Senators ever die
tated the course of President Grant
Should a man ever be called to tn
Presidency so pusiianimous that b
cannot discriminate between advis
and dictation, the sooner he quits tn
White House and lets himself for
coachman the sooner lie will let him
} self for that calling for which his tenn
per best fits him."
In the House Mr.. Springer's motio
of Monday last, to suspend the rule
and pass the bill to authorize the coin
age of gold and silver on the sam
terms, and to permit the deposit there
of tor the same purposes, was rejects
yeas, 140; nays, 102; not two-third
in the affirmative. Mr.. Goode move
to suspend the rule and pass the bill {
| cnonapd tho OrarakE0a ~ fna oin7rf,,
fund act for five years. Rejected
yeas, 1872; nays, 112; not two-thirds i
: the affirmative. Mr.. Durham move
to consider Mr.. Stephens bill to issu
certificates for silver bullion. Los
142 to 93-not two-thirds. Then th
silver House adjourned.
, TUESDAY, March 20.
The Senate judiciary committee re
ported back the bill to repeal th
bankrupt law, without recommends
ton, passed the House bill to extern
the time for payment of tax on distill
ed spirits, and debated the Pacifi
railroad bill.
: The House, by vote or 137 to IL
ordered that the tariff bill be taken u
: April4th, land discussed from day to da
!; until disposed of. The republicans an
: members from Pennsylvania voted i
the negative. A concurrent rssolH
ton to print SOC. 900 copies of the agri
cultural report and 100000 copies G
the forestry commission, was adopted
Adjourned.
BosroN, March 51.--A bill grantin
female suffrage at municipal election
has been defeated In the House by IL
to 90.