Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-01-23
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS-.

| In the Senate on the l4th, Mr. Butler, OF
South Carolina, submitted resolution di.
recting the Secretary of the Interior to en-,
quire and report to the Senate what railroad
company, individual or individuals, are con
structing or building railroad across the
public domain in the Territory of Arizona,
and by what authority such railroad is being
constructed. Agreed to. At the conclusion
of the morning business, Mr.. Davis, of West
Virginia, called up resolution submitted by
him early in the session, to promote the agri-
cultural interests of the country, and spoke
at length upon that subject
The House, in committee of the whole,
considered the Mexican pension bill. The
appropriation committee was instructed to
appropriate to the widow of the late repre-
sentative Hartridge, an amount equal to the
remainder of his salary as a member of the
Forty6 fifth Congress.
In the Senate on the 18th, Mr.. voorhees,,
of Indiana, submitted a resolution instruct.
ing the committee on Indian affairs to en-
quire into the circumstances which led to the
recent escape of Cheyenne Indians from Fort
Sill, Texas, and their subsequent slaughter
by United States forces.
The House, after lengthy debate con-
suming the entire day, passed bill providing
that after the passage of this act, United
States notes shall be received in payment Of
duties on imports.
In the Senate on the 18th, Mr.. Window, of
Minnesota, submitted the following:
"Resolred, That, with view to peaceful ad-
justment of all questions relating to suffrage,
to the effectual enforcement of constitutional
and natural rights, and promotion of the best
interests Of the whole country, by elimination
of sectionalism from politics, a committee of
seven Senators be appointed by the Chair and
charged with the duty of inquiring as to the
expediency and practicability of encouraging
and promoting, by all just and proper method,
the partial migration of cOlored persons from
those States and Congressional Districts where
they are not allowed to freely and peacefully
exercise and enjoy their constitutional rights
as American citizens, into such State as may
desire to receive them and will protect them
in said rights, or into such territory or terrific
ries of the United States as may he provided
for their use any occupation, and if said com
mittee shall deem such migration eXpedient
and practicable, that they report by bill or
otherwise what, in their judgment, is the most
effective method of accomplishing that object,
and that said committee have leave to sit du-
ring recess"
The resolution was laid on the table for the
present, at the request of Mr.. Window, and
he gave notice that he would call it up soon
for the purpose of submitting some remarks
in regard thereto. The Senate had under
discussion the House bill providing for the
payment of arrears of pensions.
In the House, Mr.. Gibson gave notice that
he would offer an amendment to the Missis-
sippi river appropriation bill, said amend
ment to provide for appropriating two and a
half million dollars for the improvement Of
the Mississippi from the head Of the passes
of that river to the mouth Of Illinois river
Reagan gave notice Of an amendment direct
ing the commission to consider the practica'
bility of improving the Mississippi by open
ing additional outlets into the Gulf of Mexi
co. Ellis offered an amendment as substi
tute, appropriating fourmillion eight hundred
thousand dollars to repair levees and improve
the navigation of the Mississippi, under the
direction of the Chief Engineer Of the army
Robertson, of Louisiana Chalmers, Of Mis-
sissippi, and Robinson, of Massachusetts,
spoke in favor of the bill. Further debate
was postponed.
The Senate, on the 18th, several times
found itself without quorum, and finally
adjourned until Monday,
The House was engaged considerable
portion of the da- on a DILL for the payment o.
| twenty thousand dollars to the trustees of the