The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-02-12

eracy," ywhile tAe Fourteenth Amendment
mentioned the "Anr of instruction" He
was replied to By Mr. Goode, when Mr..
Wood objected to further debate, and the bill
was then passed-166 to As. After going
into Committee of the Whole on the private
calendar an adjournment was had to the 9th.
The Board of Indian Commissioners
held their concluding session for the investf-
CATION of ex-Indian Commissioner Hsyt in
New York on the 5th. After accepting the
report of the Special Committee appointed to
investigate the charges against the ex-Com-
missioner the Board adopted a resolution
approving the action 6f the Secretary of the
Interior in removing Mr.. Hayt from the Office
of Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
TnE Tennessee Republican State Con-
vention to nominate candidates for State Off
GERS and appoint delegates to the National
Convention has been called to meet at Nash
vile on the 5th of May. =
FrFrY-FoURc olored emigrants arrived
at Indianapolis on the 9th.
A Los PINos dispatch, received on the
9th, says General Adams and party arrived
there on the 9Th, and that Captain Jack and
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Grand River, at which point the White River
Indians were said to be encamped, for the pur-
pose of making another attempt to secure the
surrender of the twelve guilty Utes Jack
made no promises and would set no time for
his return, but said he would do his best to
bring about the surrender of those wanted.
Congress.
MONDAY, February I'm the Senate
the bill was passed providing that a writ of
error to the Supreme Court of the United
States from the Supreme Court of any Terri
tory shall lie in criminal cases where the ac-
cused shall have been sentenced to capital
punishment, and in such case an allowance Of
such writ shall operate as q supersedeas, and
ali cases removed from the Supreme Court Of
any Territory to the Supreme Court of the
United States as provided by the act shall have
precedence OF hearing in said court; the act
determined in which judgment has not
been executed; in such cases defendant shall
have six months from the passage of this act
q sqea
Senator from Louisiana for six years from
March l. 1888, were read. Several bills were
introduced in the House: among them being
relief of the sufferers In Ireland; providing
for the registry or enrolment of any vessel
built in foreign countries; increasing the
benefit of citizens of States which did not go
into the Rebellion, and which have claims
against the Government; for the free coinage
Of the standard silver dollar; amending the
Pension laws. The Speaker announced the
appointment of Messrs. FELTON,, Phillips and
Mckinley as visitors to West Point; also, the
appointment of Mr.: Phillips as a member of
the Committees on Education and Labor, and
of Expenditures in the Department of
Justice The Indian Appropriation bill was
reported from the Committee on Appropria-
tiOns.
TUESDAY, February Sin the Sem
ate Mr.. Bayard, from the Finance Committee,
reported the Warner Silver bill adversely, and
Mr.. Beck stated that the report was not
unanimous, and the minority hoped to be
time; the bill was placed on the calendar.
resolution was submitted to the effect that the
Senate has heard with profound sorrow of
Iowa, and, after eulogies by Messrs. Al
lison and Hereford, the resolution was
adopted. In the House the privileges of the
lon, the Irish agitators. 4 bill reported from
the Judiciary Committee, providing that no
person shall serve as a petit juror in any
United States Court more than three weeks
during any one year, was passed. Mr.. Cox in
troduced bill declaring forfeited certain
lands granted cOnditionally to aid in the con-
struction of railroad and telegraph lines. In
Committee on Rules was further considered.
WEDNESDAY, February A resolu-
ton was adopted in the Senate directing the
Secretary of the Treasury to communicate to
the Senate the reasons for the order issued by
the Department to Collectors of Customs,
dated December Is 1879, directing them. when
eyer written requests to that effect shall be
be withheld from publication for not ex-
ceeding ninety days statistics relating to
the importation or shipment of any par
tlcuar merchandise imported or shipped
provide for the payment of additional bounty
to the soldiers of the army of the United
States during the war of the rebellion. The
Gold Banks into National Banks was S passed.
IA joint resolution was adopted in the
House-l65 to 6s-appropriating $4,000 to en-
to represent the United States at the Inter
national Fishery Exhibition in Berlin in April
next.
THURSDAY, February 5.-The bill to
amend the act to provide for taking the tenth
and subsequent censuses, approved March 3,
1879, was taken up in the Senate, and, on mo-
ton of Mr.. Pendleton, substitute, reported
by the Census COMMITTEE, was considered in
stead and passed: the bill, as passed, provides,
among other things, for the free transporta-
ton OF mail matter relating to the census, re-
Quires the enumeration to begin June l, 1880,
and that the enumeration in cities having over
10000 inhabitants shall be taken within two
weeks from that date, and appropriates $780,
600, or so much thereof as may be necessary,
to pay enumerators for additional services
required by this act. Adjourned to the 9th -.
The Senate bill for the conversion of National
Gold Banks was passed in the House, and bills
were introduced and referred-making silver
certificates receivable at the United States
notes of the issue of the National Banks: re-
curing the Secretary of the Treasury to pay
current interest on all registered United Suites
bonds without respect to date of assignment
or transfer.