Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-12-11
PROCEEDING OF CONGRESS.

The Forty.sixth Congress assembled on the
1st instant. The Senate was called to order
by Vice-President Wheeler. The Presidents
Message was read. The President also sent
to the Senate the nomination of George w.
McCrary, of Iowa, to be judge of the eighth
circuit Mr. Ferry announced the death of
his colleague, Hon. Zachariah Chandler, and
moved that the Senate, as mark of respect
to his memory, adjourn. Agreed to, and the
Senate adjourned.
The House adjourned Immediately after
the message was read before that body.
- IN the Senate on the End, Mr.. Gordon in
- Ia apssolution favoring the proposed
Nm qua Canal. Referred. Mr. Burnside
then called up his <esolution of last session,
reafirming the Monros>1octrine in connection
with the proposed Darien ~6anal, and pro-
ceeded to speak, thereon. At the conclusion
of his remarks, the Senate went into ex-
ecutive session, and when the doors were re-
opened, adjourned.
In the House, resolution, offered by Price,
of Iowa, declaring it to be the opinion of the
House that no change should be made in the
currency laws at the present session of Con;
gress, was referred, as was also joint resolu-
ton introduced by Ellis, of Louisiana, pledg-
ing the protection of the government to the
t~Nicaraguan Inter. Ocean Canal Company,
when it shall have obtained a grant from the
Nicaraguan government. White, of Pennsyl-
vania, introduced joint resolution proposing
constitutional amendments providing that the
general appropriation bills shall contain
nothing but appropriations, and granting pow
er to the President to disapprove any sep
arate item without defeating the entire bill.
Mr.. Fort offered resolution opposing at
tempts to withdraw or change the status of
any of the paper money issued by the United
States, or to reopen, by legislation, the curren.
cy questions settled by the Supreme Court
Nc Cord, of Iowa, offered resolution pro-
posing a constitutional amendment to give
Congress power to regulate and protect trade
marks. Adjourned.
In the Senate on the 3rd, Hon. Henry ?.
Baldwin, of Michigan, appointed Senator vice
Hon. Zachariah Chandler, deceased, presen.
ted his credentials and was sworn in. Mr..
Beck introduced bill to authorize the pay
ment of customs duties in legal tender notes
also bill to amend title 4S, Revised Statutes,
so as to authorize the purchase of foreign built
ships by citizens of the United States for use
in the foreign carrying trade, both of which
were referred to the finance committee. Mr.
Bayard introduced joint resolution that
from and after the passage of this resolution,
the treasury notes of the United States can
be receivable for all dues to the United States
excepting duties on imports, and shall not be
otherwise legal tender, and any of said notes
hereafter re.issued shall bear this super.scrip-
ton. Referred to the finance committee.
Mr.. Ingalls, offered resolution that in the
opinion of the Senate, the present volume Of
United States notes should not be reduced,
and that said notes ought to continue to be
legal tender in payment of drafts.
In the House, Mr.. Wood, of New York,
introduced the following respecting the re-
funding of the National debt: "Be it enact
ed, That so much of the authority conferred
on the secretary of the treasury by the acts
Of July IA, 1870, and January 20, 1871, to