Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-28
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..
Blaines resolution regarding the consti-
tutional rights of citizens. Mr.. Blaine's
amendment authorizing the committee 20
take testimony and to administer oaths and
visit any portion of the country when such
visit may in their Judgment facilitate the OBJ
iect of the inquiry, was agreed to without
division, and the resolution amended was
also agreed to, sc to 6........In the House,
Geneva Award bill were taken up and dis
cussed, after which the House went into
Committee of the Whole on the bill appro-
priating si5o 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
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 Point, passed; also.
House Joint resolution appropriating S5O.Ooo
for the purpose of paying necessary ex.
Senate and House in Investigating the
cause and prevention of epidemic diseases
Without material amendment the Pension
Appropriation bill passed, and the Senate
adjourned. ......In the House, the Senate
amendment to the adjournment resolution,
extending the recess from December 90 70
appropriating 10000 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 i the time within which the
joint committee on the transfer OF the In
dian Bureau may report was passed.
Bills were introduced-by Mr.: Ryan: Giving
Jurisdiction to the District and Circuit Courts
of Kansas over the Indian Territory; by Mr..
Corbett: For the Improvement of the Yel'
lowstone National Park. Adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 10Th, the House bill
appropriating 200 for the transportation
of mails by railroads passed; also the House
bill to amend the act of June 90, 1878, 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. LIN the House, MIR. j. G.
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, no 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 delly-
| of j. NJ. Bell, of Georgia, William Ward, OF
| Virginia, ana NJ. kimball, OF Missouri passed
The morning hour haYing expired the Speak
| er laid before the House several communi
| cations, among them one from secretary
| Sherman in answer to resolution calling fol
Information as to what balance on loan ac
counts was standing to the credit of the
United states in any National bank from