Connecticut western news., 1878-05-02
OuP Weekly News Summary.
UNITED STATES CONGRESS-.
SENATE,

ton act was offered It strikes out the date October l, 1873 of resumption. To the House bill to relieve the legal disabilities of women Mir. Sargent CRep., Cal.) submitted the following amendment No person shall be ex- oluded from practising as an attorney or counsellor at law from any court of the United States on account of sex.
 MT. Merrill, (Rep., Vt. reported with out amendment the House bill to pro- hibit the coinage of the twenty cent piece of silver and it passed.
 The bill to extend the time for the con- stfuction and completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad was amended and passed. D.. -.....- .-....-
 The Senate passed the bill to disap- prove and annul an act of the Legisla- tive Assembly of New Mexico, incorpo- rating the Society of the Jesuit Fathers, passed 1anNIS, 7S75, by two-thirds vote of Bosh Houses, over the veto of the Governor A
 The Public Printing Deficiency bill was passed, after explanations by MT. Windom, and the Senate went into execu- tive session. ..H - On motion of MT. Sargent (Rep., Cal.) the Senate insisted upon its amendment to the Naval Appropriation bill, and asked for conference.
 The Senate passed number of bills on thecalendare rs-4.--
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 The resolutions of the Maryland Leg islatlre, reopening the Presidential question were referred without division to the Judiciary Committee
 ME Springer G(Dem., Ill. introduced 8 joint resolution proposing an amend ment, to the Constitution prohibiting special legislation.
 Mr. Butler (Rep., Mass. called up the motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill providing for the issue of frac- tional currency and Treasury notes of the denomination of 1, 2, 3, and 5 dol lars, and it was defeated-yeas, f20 !; nays, 124. --z-7T4
 The River end Harbor Appropriation bill passed by 166 yeas to 66 nays. It appropriates $7, 500, ,OOO for the improve ment of rivers and harbors in the country. A protest against the passage of the bill signed by 29 members of the House was offered but not allowed to be read.
 The House refused to allow the pro- test against the River and Harbor bill to be placed on the journal.
 MT. Knott Oem., Ky.) reported 8 bill 1OI blO U1Sb11OuO1OA LII uACAPCASAOA balance of the Geneva award. Printed and recommitted The bill authorizes claimants against the fund to enter suit in the Court of Claims, and provides that any balance remaining of the fund, after such claims shall be allowed, shall re main as a special fund to await the fur ther action of Congress. .- . -...,.-.-- The Thurman Pacific Railroad Fund ing bill which had passed the Senate, passed the House by 243 yeas to 2 nays. The nays were Butler (Rep., Mass. and Lynde Oem., Wis., The two nays de- sired that the bill be referred to the Ju- dietary Committee, instead of being put on its passage.
 The Senate bill for the repeal of the Bankrupt Act was amended and passed by vote of 206 yeas to 37 nays. Al amended the bill repeals the Bankrupt Act in all cases where proceedings may not have commenced or been in progress on the day when the act shall take effect MT. Cox (Dem., N. Y.) introduced { joint resolution for joint committee tc take into consideration the proper mea' sures to be employed for the taking o1 the next census. Adopted.
 The, business portion of Black River Falls, Wis, was destroyed by fire.
 John Bunk was hanged at San Fran cisco, for the murder of Policeman J. O. Coots, one year ago.
 In the Supreme Court of Rhode Is, land, Patrick Gormley received a verdict of $3, 900 trom the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad company for in juries received by falling through { bridge undergoing repairs.
 The National Grenback party O Maine. will hold it's State convention al Lewiston, June 5.
 The Ohio House passed the Senate'l bill to make it a misdemeanor for any person or corporation to pay the wages of labor in goods or in supplies through the. intervention of scrip o1 other evidence of indebtedness at higher prices than charged at the nearest retai market.
 J. B. Weeks, who kept drinking saloon, in Norfolk, Va, confessed on hi, dying bed that he had assisted in tht murder and robbery of no less than fivt -The Sandwich Islands have jus had rain, the first for eighteen months The English are shipping larg numbers of native troops from India t, Malta. The natives appear very anxious to take part n,the coming war.
 The Windsor Hotel in Coburg Canada, was burned to the ground The front wall of the building fell out ward, burying Q number of fremen il the ruins, three of whom were instantl, killed and one fatally injured.
 Serious loss of life and property il reported at & Swedish settlement il Crawford county by the fatal tornad, which passed over Iowa.
 An affray occurred in Griffintown, suburb of Montreal, between Orang Young Britons and Catholic Unionists in which James Hartney, Catholic, wa fatally shot.
 The U. s. House has passed the bil repeating the Bankruptact. The Senat had previously passed it. This will pre- vent any new, cases in bankruptcy, bu will not interfere with those under wa, when the bill goes into force.
 A most terrible thunder storm visited Wheeling, W. Va Considerable damag was done. In Bellaire, Ohio, the damag was very great. In the Bella1re Goble Works thirty-fve men were at work whensthe squall struck one of the heav, stone walls of the building and utterl,