Connecticut western news., 1878-02-07
Our Weekly News Summary.
UNITED STATES CONGRESS.
 SENATE.

9a+5S Nx bENATEs
 MT. Howe Rep. ,. Wis. reported favor ably on the House joint resolution ac- cepting Carpenters painting of " Presi- dent Lincoln and 'h1s Cabinet" given by Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson of New York. Agreed to, yeas 43 nays '.
 MT. Cameron (Rep., Wis submitted an amendment to the silver bill that the dollar shall consist of 42o grains of stand ard silver, instead of 4123 grains. Or dered to be printed. MT. Burnside (Rep., R. I. submitted an amendment providing that the silver dollar shall be legal tender for all debts, public and private, amounting to sums over $500. Ordered printed.
 MT. Christiancy (Rep. Mich. submit ted substitute to the silver bill, that there shall be coined in the hints of the United States silver dollars of the weight of 434 grains troy, of the fneness of thine tenths pure silvor to one-tenth of alloy, and made speech in it's favor. .Iii.
 MT. Hamlin, of Maine, sent to the Clerk desk and had read the resolutions of the Maine Legislature in regard to the silver question. The resolutions favor the single gold standard, and de- clare that the Senators and Representa- tivas in Congress from the State truly represent the people of the State in op- posing the silver bill. 4gev--
 The House Joint Resolution extending the thanks of Congress to MT. Henry M. Stanley, the explorer of Central Africa, was unanimo mously agreed to.
 The Senate bill making an appropria- tion of $200, ,OO0 for the erection of suit able forts for the protection of the Rio Grande frontier was passed. r4
 HOUSE. ..
 The House passed the Matthews silver resolution, which had passed the Senate, by 189 yeas to 79 nays. This is Il votes more than two-thirds.
 Resolutions were introduced amending the act authorizing the refunding of the national debt and providing for the issu- ing of per cent. bonds to punish the forcible obstruction of interstate conn meree; to retire the circulation of the national banks, to substitute therefor Treasury notes receivable for all dues to the, Government, including Customs du- ties, and to abolish the tax on banking institutions to improve and reform the civil service in the executive depart ments. .t.s7
 By vote of 174 yeas to 85 nays the House passed the resolution declaring that no subsidies in money, bonds, 'pub- lie land, inducements, or by pledge of public credit should be granted or re- newed by Congress to associations or corporations engaged m, or proposing to engage in, public or private enterprises, but that all appropriations ought to be limited to such amount and purposes only as shall be imperatively demanded by the public service.
 MT. Butler fRep., Mass.) presented the petition of 534 citizens of Lowell against the. passage of the Silver Bill. He also presented the memorial of the Norfolk Conference of Unitarian and other Christian churches at Walpole, Mass. declaring that honesty was the vital part of religion. and protesting against the passage of the Bland Silver bill. Referred. At the same time he sent to the Clerk to be read portion of the second chapter of John, telling how Jesus drove the money changers out of the temple of Jerusalem.
 MT. Kenna Oem., W. Val reported the bill giving the foreign-built vessel of the Woodruff scientific expedition around the world an American register. Passed yeas 167, nays 100.
 MT. Hayes (kep., Hl.) introduced g --&>in Ao rx0frfktt -u1z5F F=fuEther-dAstrnatinIi of the legal tender notes, and make them legal tender for customs duties. Re
 The House went into Committee of the Whole, MT. Carlisle (Den., Ky. Tn the Char, on the bill extending until July 1, 1878, the time for the withdrawal ot distilled whisky from bond. MT. But ler's amendment, providing that the ta1 on spirits withdrawn from bond shall bt collected at the rate required by law a the tune of its entry into bond was agreed to, 108 to 21. MT. Fosters substitute for the original proposition, declaring il inexpedient to reduce the taxation or whisky, was agreed to, 134 to 95. The committee rose and reported the substi tute to the House, which adopted it yeas S146 nays, 112- ss .. - ssl.1.. resolution for an increase of the elerica force of the Pension Office, and stated that applications for pensions were pend ing for over year without decision o1 force.a MT. Butler, of Massachusetts stated that the trouble was not Tn tn, Pension Office, but m the Surgeon Gen owe 70,0O0 applications pending, which ha, been referred there for report as to th medical record of soldiers, and which re port could not be furnished for want o sufficient clerical force. The resolution was referred.
 The. rear end of freight train bound east on the Lake Shore an Michigan. Southern railroad, was rul into by snew-plow propelled by tw engines near Ashtabula. Both engine and four cars were wrecked. Josepl Brant and George Clemens, of Erie Penn, were killed, and John Sutte1 Thomas Sullivan and fireman name Jones were badly injured. All wer railroad employees. .4.... ..~
 During the past two years ther have been over. A, GOO emigrants fro1 Canada to the United States. This in cludes all classes of laboring men an their families. Of these, in one year there were over 5000 skilled mechanic -or about1 900 in the two years.
 There were forty-two failures i Chicago during the month of February
 During the late gale on the Altar tic coast two houses on Manhattan beach near Brooklyn, were swept into the SC and threo women and four childre drowned. Much damage was done t summer hotel property on the beach.
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