The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-06-14
xLVIth CONGRESS.
Senate

rauus In the late election, and take up the |
Dill to extend the time for payment by pre- |
emptors on certain public lands in Mime |
sofa and Dakota. Blaine provoked a hot |
debate that consumed the morning hour by |
introducing an amendment to McDonald's |
motlon 1nstructlng the committee to prose- |
cute inquiries regarding alleged election
frauds in the state of Georgia, North Caro-.
llnaa nd Mississippi.... The senate than took
up the house bill to establish postroads and
without acting thereon adjourned.
TUESDAY, June Reconsideration
was resumed of the bill amending the stat.
utes relative to the removal of causes from
state to federal courts, the discussion con.
tinuing until adjournment.
WEDNESDAY, June 4.-Bayard, from
the Judiciary committee, reported with
amendment the senate bill repeating sec.
tons $40 and 821, revised statutes. which
prescribe the jurors test oath, etc. Ordered
printed and placed on the calendar w
Voorhees, offered a resolution directing the
| secretary of war to inform the senate of the
circumstances leading to the arrest and re-
moval of j. M. Bell and other Cherokee In
dams from the Cherokee nation. Adopted
| THE bill to amend the act in relation to
Judicial districts in Texas was taken up and
passed. .Adi ourned.
THURSDAY, June 5.-The senate, by
vote of % to IS, took up the bill reported
yesterday by Bayard relative to iuries and
| to repeal sections sol, $40 and 821 revised
statutes. Hampton and Bayard addressed
the senate thereon. Edmunds moved to
strike out the clause of the pending bill
that repeals section S21 revised statutes, SO
that only sections 801 and 800 should be re-
pealed. Rejected-yeas 10, nays 26. Ed
mands then moved to amend by adding the
following: "That no citizen possessing all
| other qualifications which are or may be
prescribed by law shall be disqualified for
service as grand or petit juror in any court
of the United States, or any state, on &C.
count of race, color or previous condition
of servitude. Amy officer or other person
charged with any duty in the selection or
examination of jurors who shall exclude or
fail to examine any citizen for the cause
aforesaid, shall, on conviction thereof, be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor and fined
| not less than $4,000" Rejected-yeas Is,
nays %. Edmunds moved to strike out the
words requiring the commissioners ap-
| pointed by the judge to put names in the
box to be well known members of the prin-
cipal party opposing that to which the
clerk may belong. Rejected-yeas Is, nays
| 80. Edmunds moved to strike out the words
| But nothing therein contained shall be
| construed to prevent any judge in any dis
| trict in which such is now the practice from
|
| from the boxes used by the state authorities
| in selecting juries in highest courts of the
state" Reiected-yeas Is, nays 80. Ed
munds moved to strike out the clause by
| which "no person shall be compelled to
serve more than two weeks at any term I'M
| less it be necessary in order to complete the
| trial cause in which he is impanelled. Re-
jected. The committee amendment (being
| the substitute for the original bill) was then
agreed to-yeas 80, nays Is. A motion to re-
commit the bill was lost......The president
| pro tenn. laid before the senate a message
| from the president of the United States,
enclosing the report of the board of inqui-
| ny in the Fitz John Porter case. Referred
| to the committee on military affairs ..Ad-
journed.
FRIDAY, June 6.-After a wordy de-
bate on the bill to repeal sections 801, 800
and S2l, revised statutes, motion by Bay.
| ard to recommit the bill was lost. The bill
| was then passed by a vote of % to 16......
Adjourned till Monday.
House.
| MONDAY, June 2.-Under the call of
| states very many bills were introduced and
| referred, among them the following: For
| the taxation of promissory notes, bonds and
mortgages, and making it unlawful to exact
more than five per cent. interest fer loans of
| money; prohibiting the funding of United
States notes payahle in currency into the
coin bonds; TO substitute legal tender cur
| rency for national bank currency; prohib-
| ltlng any soldier stationed within two miles
| of any place where a special or general
election of representatives in congress is
being held from leaving his barracks for
any purpose except that of relieving a
| guard or casting his vote on the day of
election. The bill for the appointment of
MISSISSIPPI river commission and appro.
prlating $4,000 to meet its expenses, was
passed 49,. Columbus Epson, successor of
the late Gustav Schleicher, was sworn in as
representative from the state of Texas,
taking the modified OATH. Kenna moved
to suspend the rules and pass a bill author
izing producers to sell 800 worth of tobac-
co On the farm where produced, free of tax,
and without requiring a license therefor
Defeated-yeas liz, nays 50; not the neces-
sary two-thirds in the affirmativeC Cox
chairman of the committee on foreign af.
fairs, moved to suspend the rules and adopt
JOINT resolution, in relation to the inter
national exhibition to be held at Sidney and
Melbourne, Australia, in 1879 and $780,
Passed-yeas, 1873, nays, 81. Itappropriates
$4,000 to provide for the representation of
the United States at those exhibitions
Adjourned.
TUESDAY, June g. The house bill ex-
tending the time for the payment of pre-
emptors on public lands in Minnesota and
Dakota, passed.. The house bill establish
ing post routes then came up and was pass
ed......After an executive session the senate
adjourned till tomorrow.
WEDNESDAY, June 4.-The senate
amendments to the house grasshopper bill
extending The time of payment of pre-.
emptors," were agreed to.....Atkins, chair.
man of the committee on anDronr;o+;o,s
reported back a joint resolution repeating
certain clauses of the sundry civil bill, ap.
proved March 8, 1879, with the senate
amendments thereto, with the recommends.
ton that they be concurred in, with the
following among other amendments: An
proprlatlng 1925 to the widow of Rush
Clark, Of Iowa, and one years salary to the
widow of Gustave Schleicher. Hunton snh.
mitted an amendment increasing the appro.
pr1atlon to the family of the late Gustave
Schleicher to $4,000. Agreed to. The sen.
ate amendments as amended were concur.
red in, and the bill returned to the senate
for Ito action. Ewing, from the committee
OF post offices and post roads, reported back
the senate bill to extend the time for which
special post service can be obtained by adj
vertisement with an amendment limiting
such extension to one year. The amend.
ment was agreed to and the bill passed. The
senate amendments to the postroute bill
were concurred in......Adjourned
THURSDAY, June 5.-The speaker laid |
before the house the message of the presi |
dent, transmitting the proceedings and re. |
port of the board of officers in the case of |
Gen. Fitz John Porter. Referred to the |
committee on military affairs and ordered |
printed, with all documents Atkins re-
ported the legislative, executive and Judi
cial appropriation bill, and moved that it