The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-19

pas age upon the ground that an import mt
Appropriation bill should not pass under q
| suspension of the rules.
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.-House bills were passed,
| on the Sd, extending the time for tho payment
of pre-emptors ON public lands in Minnesota and
Dakota, and establishing post-routes.
HOUsE.-The bill amending the stat
utes relative to the removal of causes from State
| to Federal Court. was further debated. Mr.. Cox
making lengthy argument in favor of the To
peal of the jurors' test oath.
SENATE.-Cn the 4th, Mr.. Bayard.
from the judiciary Committee, reported, with
an amendment, the Senate bill repeating Sec
tions $40 and 81 of the Revised Statutes (which
prescribe the Jurors Testoath, etc.,. "A resr'u-
rectipg the Secretary Of War to inform the Sem
and REMOVAL Of J. n. Bell and other Cherokee
Indiana from the Cherokee Nation. "A bill was
passed to amend the act in relation to Judicial
Districts in Texas.
HOUsE.-The Senate amendments to
the GrasshOpper bill Extending the time of pay
meut by pre-emptors) were agreed to-. e. A reso-
luton was adOpted-128 to Ga directing an in
xestieation into the affairs of the Ocean National
Bank OF New York and the German National
9d " and INTO the
oeivers. preamble and resolution were
agreed to relative to the report Of the Committee
s.t = in the s:e the
against George +. Seward. Minister to China. Re.
ferring such report, the ARTICLES of Impeachment.
TONS to consider the same, take other testimony
II necessary. and report to the House at the next
session. =. The Senate amendments to tie Post
Route bill were concurre1 in.
SENATE.-The House Joint resolution
appropriating money to enable the United States
Government to participate in the International
Exhibitions to be held at Sydney and Melbourne.
Australia. in 1880 was adopted ON the 6th .
and 81 Of the Revised Statutes (prescribino the
Jurore Test-0ath) waa taken up and debated,
several amendments being offered and rel. cted.
for the o1ieins! biiD was then ,ersed to. and
HoUsE.-The Legislative bill az agreed
upon by the Democratic Caucus Committee was
reported, ordered printed and recommitted. "A
message was received from the President and
ordered printed, with accompanying documents,
transmitting the proceedings and report of the
ter. The President states in his message that be
had given to the report such an examination "a
eAtisfed him that he ought q lay the proceed
gress. a. he was without power. in the absence Of
legislation. to act upon the recommendation of
the report further than by submitting the same
to Congress.
SENATE.-On the 9Th, Mr.. Coke asked
Mr.. Bayard. Chairman of the Finance Commit
tee. what action had been taken on the Warner
Silver bill: he (Coke) had understood that the
consideration until Decv mber. MT. Bayard did
not feel authorized to say what bad taken place
in the committee; he would only say that no
Mr.. Coke then offered q resolution. which was
mittes from the further consideration of the bill
for action. The bill to repeal the Jurors Jurors
Cest-oath statutes came up and was debated
a cons,cerabis length by, Messrs. .Edm unds,
Bayard 70 recommit the bill was lust..l5 to n
and the bill was then passed-28 to 10 . strict
party vote. Adjourned to the 9Th.
AousE.-The Army Appropriation
bill was reported, ordered printed and recon-.
limited. 1t provides that no monty appropri-
ated shall be paid for the subsistence. equip
az to be Of
within .ny STATE: fSs S!ii nsEins ssdisi o
was debated in COMMITTEES Of the Whole. ''''''''
SENATE.-Not in session on the 9TH.
HOUsE.--A joint resolution was
passed leealizine the action of the President and
Secretary of War in sending rations and tents
to the yeliow-fever sufferers. The bill making
additional appropriations for the Postoffice De-
pertment was amended in Committee of the
Whole, reported to the House, and passed as
amended in committee.
SENATE.-A bill was introduced on
the 9th and placed on the calendar to confines
the special pension of one hundred dollars PEI
month to the late General Shields to his widow
until her death. Mr.. Coke's resolution to dis
charge the Finance Committee from the further
consideration Of the Warner Silver bill, and to
declare the bill before the Senate, was brought
mp and postponed until the lOth -. The Melon
militia and land and naval forces of the United
States In certain casee was tax. n up. and Mr..
Harris made q speech in support of the measure.
HoUsE.-The Legislative Appropria-
ton bill reported and recommitted on the 5th wa
reported back from the Committee ON Appropria-
tions, Mr.. Atkins. Chairman of the committee
stating that the report was q unanimous one and
that the bill differed in very few respects from
the one reported and recommended few days be.
fore. A motion to suspend the rules and pass the
bill prevailed-yeas. lSS; nays, q. The negative
yoees were: Cahill, CAld well, Clark MOI Coz,
Hurd. Knott, Manning, Mcmillan, Nichols, Rob.
eroson ua.). HlemOns, smith IN. il Turn
OK (O.), Whitth0rne and Wilson Tho bill
%atins eppropriations for the Judicial expenses
June ~, 1851, was reported, ordered printed and
Eecommitted: Messrs. New, House, Ryan. Nc
Kinley and Williams (Wis.l were appointed q
Sub COMMITTEE to examine into the articles Of
States Minister to China.