The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1878-03-21
General News Summary. .


In the Senate, on the 18th, the bill in
aid of the James G. Bennett Polar Expedition
was passed unanimously. A petition was pre-
sented, signed by r. g. Ingenoll of Illinois, and
Others declaring that the statutes passed ostensi-
bly, for the suppression of obscene literature are
plain violations of the letter and spirit of the
fundamental principles of our Government, and
that they are capable of, and are in fact, being
used for the purposes of moral and religious per-
secution and the petitioners pray that such stat
utes may be repealed or materially modified, 90
that they cannot be used, as alleged, to abridge
bili for the relief Of William 4. Hammond, late
House, the Consular and Diplomatic Appropria-
tion bill was debated at considerable length in
Committee OF the Whole.
BILLS were introduced and referred,
in the Senate, on the 1Sth-to provide for and
regulate the counting of votes for President and
vice-President, and the decision of questions
arising thereon. to promote the deposits of saw
ingA and the refunding of the National debt.
bill, with amendments; House bill to make per
sons charged with crimes and offenses competent
witnesses in United States and Territorial Courts
bill was further considered in Committee Of the
Whole, in the House; several amendments were
agreed to, and the bill and amendments were re-
ported to the House and passed. The Senate bill
to aid the Bennett Polar Expedition was also
passed.
A NUMBER of Pension bills were
passed in the Senate, on the 18th. Bills were in
troduced-providing for the payment of all Gus
toms dues. and all other debts due to the United
States, in legal-tender notes at par except where
it is otherwise expressly stipulated the face of
fares and freight traffic on the Denver Pacific
and Kansas Pacific Railways; to authorize the
Gf RIns M railroad from
18th. IA bill was introduced in the House, reg
ulating the reserve fund of National Banks. The
bill extending to three years the time for the
debated and amended in COMMITTEES Of the
Whole. reported to the House and passed-ll8
to 1l6.
The Senate was not in session on the
18TH. In the House, substitute was reported
and referred to the Committee of the Whole tor
the bill to promote the deposit of savings in the
Treasury and the refunding of the National debt.
ne s6o hEd case ct Dean U.s. Field
sdered, the majority report favcring the claims
of the former, and the minority report those of
the latter the sitting, member. After some dis
nouncing the death, in Havana, of yellow fever.
Of the Hon. John +. Leonard, Congressman
from the Fifth Louisiana District, and on mo-
ton, out of respect to the memory of the de-
ceased, the House adjourned.
THE Senate was not in session on the
10th. bill was introduced and referred in the
House for the establishment of mint at Indian
apolis. The bill making avsilabe for the pay
ment of certain Southern anse-6eiium mail con-
tractors the sum of $S75,OOO already appropriat-
ed, was further considered IN Committee of the
Whole, and it having been demonstrated that
such mail contractors had been paid, or payment
had been provided for by the Confederate Con-
agreed t. to strike cut the enacting clause of te
bill and this action of the committee was con-
CURED in by the House without division.
BILLS were passed in the Senate, on
the lsth-House bill appropriating &275,C00 fol-
Notifications and other works of defense. and fol-
the armament thereof. for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1879; Senate bill to prohibit Members Of
Congress from becoming suretes on certain
bonds. Among the bills introduced was one
making approp iations for detecting trespassing
on public hnds for bringing into market public
lands in certain States. and for other purposes
An adverse report was made from the Judiciary
Committee on the b Ii providing that any woman
who shall have been member Of the bar
OF the highest court of any State or
Territory or Of the District of Columbia for
period of three years, may BE admitte d TO prac-
tce in the Supreme Court of the United States
the ground of the adverse report heing that there
was no obstacle in the present law to the admis-
sion of women to practice in the United States
COults the courts making their own rules touch
ing the admission of ATTORNEYS. and the proposed
act would discriminate in fivpr of women, by
the court to admit them when it was
not bound to admit men. :. Bills were introduced
in the House granting pensions to soldiers who
enlisted out of prisons; for the payment of GER
tain Southern mail ontraetors. providing that no
claims shall be paid which have previously been
paid by the Confederate Governments; cstab-
lishing a mint at Louisville, Ky; repeating the
law appropriating GS75 900 for the payment of
certain Solthern m contractors; to grant to the
State of Ohio unsoId public lands remaining in
the State; granting alternate sections of land to
the Stat of Mississippi to aid in the construction
of the Ship Island. Ripley q Kentucky Railroad;
for the appointment of a Commits ion to ascertain
on what terms trtaty of commerce with Mexico
can be arranged; for the erection of a monu-
ment over the grave of Thomas Jefferson