Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-05-06
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.

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PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
In the Senate on the 9th, number of re-
ports we're made by committees, among them
one by Mr.. Burnside from the committee on
naval affairs, adversely on the joint House
resolution to furnish bronze monument OF
Gen. Daniel Morgan to the Cowpens Associa'
ton of Spartauburg, S. c., and it was indefi-
nitely postponed. Mr.. Hampton, from the
same committee, reported favorably the bill
turning over to the government of South
Carolina four pieces of condemned cannon
for the use of the Marion Artillery. After
the reports of committees were received, the
Kellogg spoford resolutions were called, but
temporarily laid aside and the Indian appro'
priation bill was taken up. After some dis
cussion it went over without action and the
Senate adjourned.
In the House number of bills of no gen.
eral Importance were introduced. The bill
to authorize the registration Of trade marks
was passed.
In the Senate on the 28th, Mr.. Morgan
of Alabama, introduced bill to enforce the
observance of the Constitution of the United
States in regard to elections of President
The committee appointed to investigate the
accounts of the treasury department presented
two reports-one by the majority, and mi
nority report According to the majority
report discrepancies to the amount of near
one hundred million dollars appear on the
books of the treasury department. The In
dian appropriation bill was resumed, but
without final action the Senate adjourned.
In the House, bills were reported from the
committee on public buildings and referred to
the committee of the whole, among them one
for the erection of public building at Green
Vile, S. c. The bill amending the internal
revenue laws was then considered, and after
disposing of ten of the eighteen sections of the
bill, the House adjourned.
In the Senate on the 29th, the Indian ap'
preparation bill was passed.
The session of the House was mainly de-
voted to considering the bill amending the
revenue laws.
In the Senate on the 30th, the bill to estab'
lish a retired list for non. commissioned off
GERS of the U. S. Army was taken up. The
pending question was on the amendment to
direct the President to appoint annually two
colored cadets at large to West Point. This
elected considerable discussion, and at the
expiration of the morning hour the bill went
over, and the Senate proceeded to consider
the naval appropriation bill, which. without
debate, was read the third time and passed
The Kellogg-SpoHord resolutions were then
taken up, pending the consideration of which
the Senate adjourned until Monday.
In the House, the consular and diplomatic
appropriation bill was considered, and some
amendments agreed to, after which number
of pension bills we're passed.
In the House on the 1st instant, the COM
mittee on Indian affairs reported bill to
accept and ratify the agreement submitted by
the Confederated Ute Indians for the sale
of their reservation in Colorado. A resolu'
ton was adopted authorizing the Secretary
of War to send four thousand rations to
Macon, Miss, for the use of sufferers made
destitute by the cyclone of April 25th. The
committee on appropriations reported the
post Office appropriation bill recommending
the appropriation of s30,6O0,OOO. The bill
was ordered printed and recommitted, when
the House went into committee of the whole
on the bill amending the internal revenue
law. The bill went over without final action
and at 445 the House adjourned.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- The Savannah and Charleston. Railroad
will be sold on the FIRST Monday in June.
George w. Younger was recently com.
mitted to the Jail of Lexington county for
twenty days, for non payment of poll tax.
- The colored Lodge of Good Templars, of
the town of Anderson, numbers two hundred
members.
-Absalom Blythe, ESQ.,, has been recon-.
mended by the Greenvile bar for appoint,
ment as United States Marshal for South
Carolina.
DR.. j. I. Bonner, of Due West, who has
been quite i'll for some time, is not improving.
At the latest accounts his case had so far baf-
fled the skill of the physicians.
- AT the recent term of the court in Green
vile, Judge Thomson sentenced ten negroes,
who had been convicted of vagrancy, to four
months Imprisonment in the penitentiary.
- Three Lancaster county bonds, issued in
aid of the Cheraw and Chester Railroad, were
sold recently at Lancaster, c. H., at public
outcry, for s77.O0 each.
u Mr.. Clisby, who was wounded in the
Edge6eld affair, has so far recovered as to be
able to ride out. Mr.. Glover's wounds are
reported as not doing so we'll, though no ap-
prehensions are felt of any serious turn.
- The Newberry News says that Rev. W.
S. Martin, young Methodist minister who
lives at Maybinton, in that county, has invent
ed a contrivance for detaching a horse in
stantly from buggy. He has applied for a
patent.
- The Columbia Mercury says that the Re-
publican delegation to the Chicago Conven'
ton, to be held in June, will all probably
vote for Grant on the first ballot After that
they will stand about as follows: Mackey,
Mccall and Taft, for Blaine Brayton, Ell.
liott, Myers, Lee, Whipper and Wilder, for
Sherman; Fine, Pointer, Cook and Hayne,