The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-04
and, after being considered in Committee Of
the Whole, was passed without amendment

and, after being considered in Committee Of
the Whole, was passed without amendment.
FRIDAY, March 22.-After the trans
action of some other business in the Senate,
the House bill authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury to employ temporary clerks, and
making appropriations for the same and for
detecting trespasscs on the public lands, and
for bringing into market the public lands in
certain States, and for other purposes, was
taken up, amended and passed, one of the
amendments fOrbidding any charge for wood
or timber cut on unsurvcyed public lands in the
Territories for the use of actual settlers, and
not for export, and providing that in the
event of timber being exported from the Ter
ritory where it grew, it should be
liable to seizure by the United States
authorities wherever found. Adjourned
from the Committee on Coinage, in the House,
to amend the laws on the subject of coinage,
to perfect double metallic standard, to pro-
vide for issuing gold and silver bullion ccrtti-
Gates, and to retire certain silver coins now in
use. Bills were introduced and referred
providing that persons intending, in good
faith, to make actual entry and settlement
under Homestead acts should receive, through
the Secretary of the Interior, free transporta-
ton for themselves, families, farming utensils
and personal effects to their new homes, and
also seeds for two years cultivation: to pro-
vide for more economical survey of public
lands; to rcorganizc system of superintend-
ence of railways. A large number of private
bills principally pension) were passed. Ad
iourncd to the 18th.
MONDAY, March 25.--An amendment
was submitted in the Senate to the House
bill to repeal the Specie Resumption act. pro-
viding that on and after July /, 1878, United
States lcgel-tender notes shall be receivable
for all debts and dues both public and 1r-
vate, etc. \ bill was introduced and referred
to protect the waters of all lakes, rivers and
streams upon public lands from sale, ard to
dedicate the same to the common use of the
inhabitants. MIR. Howe called up his rcso-
luton, asking the President for information
in regard to the alleged defalcation of Judge
Whitaker, of Lou siana, and made a lengthy
speech, in which he denounced the
course of the Administration in its
dealings with the South, and also
the Civil-Scrvice policy us carried
out under Sec'y SchurZ. A number OF bills
were introduced and referred in the House,
among them-tO rcOr"aniZe the arlny; to
aid the education and advancement of the col
Ored people; to regulate the value of subsidi-
airy silver coin; for Il branch mint at Council
Bluffs: joint resolution declaring it ineXpedi-
ent at this time to change or modify the tariff.
A motion to suspend the rules and pass the
yer on the same terms and to permit the de-
post thereof for the same purposes was re-
iected-140to l02-not two-thrds in the affirm
alive. A resolution to suspend the rules and
pass the bill to suspend the operation of the
Sinking-Fund act for five years was also re-
jected-122 to 112-nOt two-thirds in the at
firmatiyc,