Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-12-18
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.


Senate bill for the interchange of subsidiary
silver coins, and asked for its indefinite post
ponement. So ordered. The same gentle
man, from the same committee, also reported
back Senate bill authorizing the Secretary of
the Treasury to issue ten million dollars OF
four per cent. bonds for the payment of ar
rears on pensions, and asked its indefinite
postponement. So ordered. The Vice-Pres-
ident laid before the Senate communication
from the Postmaster General, transmitting a
letter from the Assistant Postmaster General,
calling attention to the insuficiency of the
appropriation for the present fiscal year, and
recommending that two million dollars be re-
appropriated out Of the former appropriation
for that purpose during the past four years,
which have been covered into the treasury,
and that the said two million be made avail
able to meet the necessities of the service
Referred to the committee on appropriations
The Senate then went into executive session,
and when the doors were re opened, at 1.3O
P. NJ, adjourned.
In the House, under the call of States,
about 300 bills were introduced, most of them
of private character. Among those of gen.
eral public interest were the following: By
Mr.. Mooney, of Louisiana,,a bill declaring
certain kinds of matter unavailable and de-
fning the duties of the Postmaster General in
connection Herewith. This bill was prepared
by the law officers of the Postofice Depart.
ment, and embodies the views of that depart.
ment with regard to the lottery question. By
Mr.. Goode, of Virginia, a bill to aid the
reducation of the colored race by appropria-
tion for that purpose of the unpaid bounties
and pay of colored soldiers By Mr.. FELTON,,
of Georgia, bill for the admission of Peru
Wan bark and all preparations thereof free
of duty. By Mr.. Wood, of New York, a bill
to amend the laws relating to internal reve-
nue.. 1t provides for the allowance Of a
drawback on all manufactured tobacco in.
cluded in the provisions of the act of March
/, 1879, which drawback shall equal in value
the amount by which the tax paid on such
tobacco exceeded the tax of Is cents per
pound now imposed. By Mr.. FELTON,, of
Georgia, bill to protect innocent persons
from criminal prosecutions. 1t provides for
the repeal of section 1922 of the Revised
Statues in order to prohibit the use Of crimi-
nal information in criminal prosecutions, and
gives every criminal the right of trial under
regular indictment by a duly empaneled jury.
By Myers, of Indiana, bill to retire Ma
tionai Bank notes and substitute United
States Treasury notes therefor. Wood, Of
New York, offered concurrent resolution
providing for the adjournment of Congress
from December 23rd to January 9Th. After
an amendment making the date of adjourn
ment the 18th instant, instead of the 23rd, it
was agreed to. At ESQ the House went into
committee of the whole on the bill defining
the duties of the reporter of the United States
Supreme Court, and without any final action
thereon the committee rose and the House
adjourned.
In the Senate on the 10th, the resolution
was adopted, offered by Mr.. Morrill,, calling
qp~the sssseA@tsSsssss We the Treasury for informa-
ton as to SaeiSa2 upon the revenue, and
upon the consumers, frca- The repeal Of the
duty on tea and coffee, in 1872. A resolution
was adopted, calling on the Secretary of the
Treasury for statement of the private claims
growing out of the late war, paid since March
4, 1861. The House concurrent resolution to
adjourn from December 10Th to January 9Th,
was taken up and adopted by vote of 36 to
81. Among the nominations sent by the Pres
ident to the Senate, was that of Alexander
Ramsay, of Minnesota, to be Secretary Of
War.
In the House, pending bill prohibiting
political contributions by Federal officers and
Government contractors, was made the special
order for January 7th. Mr.. Burrows, Of
Michigan, introduced joint resolution, which
was referred, proposing an amendment to the
constitution to the effect that polygamy shall
not exist within the limits ofthe United States,
or any place subject to their Jurisdiction !;
and that Congress shall have power to en-
force the article by appropriate legislation.
In the Senate on the 18th, Mr.. Cockrell
offered resolution providing for the appoint
ment of a commission of FIVE persons to be ap-
pointed by the President, to confer with the Ute
Indians for their removal from Colorado to
some suitable place not in the Indian Territory.
The resolution was adopted. Mr.: Plumb in
troduced resolution to amend the revised
statutes relating to taxes upon banks and
bankers. Itprovides that no association shall
be liable to the tax imposed by section 5,254 Of
the revised statutes upon any sum under the
name of deposits which may be deposited
with any other association, bank or banker,
and which is subject to taxation in such an
association The bill also proposes to ex-
empt from taxation deposits in provident as
sociations, savings banks and savings fund
institutions, except in cases where the deposits
to the credit of one person, firm or corpo-
ration exceed $4,000; in such cases the ex-
cess above that amount is to be liable to tax.
On motion of Mr.. Maxey, the Senate then
took up and passed the bill appropriating
100000 for the erection of such posts on or
near the Rio Grande frontier as the Secretary
of War may deem necessary for the adequate
protection thereof On motion of Mr.. Butler,
the Senate took up and passed joint resolu-
ton authorizing the Secretary Of War to lease
the arsenal property in Charleston, S. c., to
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