Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-04-24
Congressional Summary.

Senate Sargent SuDmltteO an amend
ment to the house billto place the name
of Jas. Shields on the retired list Of the
army with the rank of brigadier gen
eral, so as to strike out all after the
enacting clause and insert in lieu there
of provision authorizing the president
to place on the retired list of the army
large number of officers named with
full rank held by them when mustered
out of service Among those named
are the following: Generals U. s Grant,
James A. Dix, Geo. B. Mcclellan, n. P.
Banks, B. F. Butler, A. E, Burnside,
John A. Logan, Carl Schurz, A. Pleason-
ton, James Shields, ]. A. Garfield,
Charles Devins, J. d. Cox, and some Is
or Is other well known army officers in
the late war. Referred to the commit
tee on military affairs. At the expira-
ton of the morning hour consideration
was resumed of the bill to repeal the
bankrupt law, and McCreery spoke in
favor Of the repeal. After further de-
bate the bill was passed by the following
vote:
Armstrong, Beck, Blaine,
Booth, Butler, Cameron, PA, Cameron,
(Wis.), Coke, Conkling, Davis, wv. Va.).
Eaten, Eustis, Ferry, Garland, Gordon,
Grover, Harris, Hereford, Ingalls,,
Johnston, Jones, Fla. Herman, Lamar,
McCreery. Mcdonald, Mcpherson,
Maxey, Mitchell, Morgan, Morrell
Oglesby, Plumb, Rollins. Teller, Wad-
leigh, Wallace and Whyte- 37.
Allison, Anthony, Burnside,
Conover, Mcmillan and Saunders-6.
Messrs. Christiancy, Thurman and
Oockrell, who would have voted in the
affirmative, were paired with Davis, of
Illinois, Matthews and Window, who
would have voted in the negative. Mr..
Whyte said his colleague, Dennis, was
absent on account of sickness. If he
was present he would vote in the AFR
native. Mr. Johnston said that his
colleague, Withers, was sick, but did
not say how he would vote The follow
ing is the text of the bill as it passed:
Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House of
representatives of the United States Of Amer
iod IN Congress Assembled, That the bank
rupt law approved March Sd, 1867, and
Ill acts in amendment or supplementary
thereto, or in explanation thereof be
and the same are hereby repealed, pro-
vided, however: that such repeal shall
in no manner invalidate Or affect any
case in bankruptcy instituted and pend
ing in any court prior to the day when
the act shall take effect, but as to all
such pending cases and all future pro-
ceedings thereon. the acts hereby re-
pealed shall hereby continue in full
force and effect until the same shall be
fully disposed of in the same manner
as if said acts had not been Repealed
MONDAY, April 15.-House-I the
house the following bills were intro
duced: a bill reciting the hear ap-
proach of specie payment, directing
the president to make public and
solemn proclamation that it is the firm
determination Of congress to enact no
further laws affecting currency Or f.
nance until specie payment shall have
boen resumed; and authorizing the sec
rotary of the treasury to prepare per
cent. bonds, of denominations of $40,
$50, and 500. payable in standard coin
at the expiration of 40 years to be ex
chaegable at its face value into United
States legal tender notes; to provide
for a mode Of trying and determining
by the supreme court OF the United
States the title of president and vice
president of the United States to their
respective offices when their election
to such is denied by one or more states
of the union. The rest of the session
was devoted to District of Columbia
affairs
TUESDAY, April 16-Senate.-I the
senate Senator Howe made another
lengthy speech in favor of his resolu-
ton for an investigation into the moral
character Of Judge Whitaker of New
Orleans. AT the conclusion of his re-
marks the resolution WAS adopted. A
petition was presented for branch
mint in Chicago. The public lands
committee, reporteda substitute for the
bill, supplementary act in relation to
the Hot Springs reservation, Arkansas.
Placed on calendar. The vice
president appointed Messrs. Nor
rill, Sargent, Cameron, (of Wiscon-
SIM, Matthews, Davis, (of Illinois), Ker-
nan, and Morgan as special commit
tee tc consider and report a plan for
taking the next census under the reso-
luton recently submitted by Morrill,
The pablo lands committee also
reported back the bill to extend
the time for the completion of
the Northern Pacific Railroad, and
moved that it be referred to the COM
mittee on railroads. He said the COM
mittee on public lands had decided to
entertain this bill, and had fixed the
time for having a discussion on it, but
on intimation from the present attor-
ney of the Northern Pacific Rail
road Company that an understand
ing had been arrived at between
parties chiefly interested in the two
bills now before the senate, that they
should both 60 to the committee on
railroads for the purpose of consollda-
ton into a single bill satisfactorily to
both, it was agreed to report the bill
back to the senate: that it should be so
referred. 1t was then referred to the
committee on railroads. The
bill for the relief of certain set
tiers on public lands passed.