The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-03
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MIR. Carlisle, from the Ways and Means Com
mittee, reported bill repeating all the laws
imposing taxes on bank checks, drafts and Or
ders, bank deposits, friction matches, medical
preparations, perfumery, cosmetics, cologne,
and other articles. Referred to the Committee
of the Whole.
Mr.. Whitthorne reported back the bill for the
registration and enrolment of any vessel built
In foreign country. Referred to the Commit
tee on Ways and Means.
The Agricultural Appropriation Bill was con-
sidered in Committee of the Whole, and an
amendment was adopted appropriating $780, 900
ton of seeds, and providing an equal propor-
ton of three-fourths of all seeds SHALL at their
request, be supplied to Senators and Represen-
tatives, f2r distribution among agricultural
constituents. The Committee then rose with
out concluding the bill, and the conference re-
port on the Army Appropriation Bill was agreef
A bill was introduced to create a Board of
Fiscal inspectors to watch over the collections
and expenditures of the public Treasury.
The Senate amendments to the Indian Ap-
preparation Bill, continuing the Indian Com
mission, were disagreed to, and a new con-
ference committee, consisting of Messrs. Wells,
Hubbell, and Singleton, of Mississippi, was ap-
pointed.
bill incorporating the Cherokee and
Arkansas River Railroad Company, for the
purpose OF constructing a railroad from
Arkansas City, Kansas, through Indian Terri
IOpOIL ofIlltu, hrkaDSaS, was passed.
A motion to adjourn over Washineton's
birthday was defeated.
The conference report on the pending Ap-
preparation Bill was agreed to.
The Agricultural Appropriation Bill was dis
cussed in Committee Of the Whole. An amend
ment appropriating $4,000 for the continue
ton of experiments in beet sugar manufacture
was adopted. The committee then rose, and
the bill, as amended, passed.
The Sundry Civil Bill was in its turn taken
up in Committee Of the Whole, and seventeen
Of the ifty-three pages were disposed of.
A substitute for the Apportionment Bill fix
ing the number Of Representatives at 315 was
Inc SdiI1ry Civil Appropriation Bill was con-
sidered in the Committee of the Whole.
Amendments providing that of the $25, 900 ap-
propriated for the purpose of carrying on
ethological researches among the North Ameri-
can Indians, 5000 be expended in continuing
the archaeological researches relating to the
Mound Builders and prehistoric mounds; ap-
propriating $1,000 to continue the improve
ment of the National Cemetery at Chattanooga,
Tenn, and providing for the purchase of the
private papers of Generals Thomas, Meade,
Halleck, Reynolds, Hooker, Mcpherson, Lyons,
Kearney, Mansfield,' Nelson, and Sedgwick, re-
lating to the war of the rebellion, were adopted
The last, however, was subsequently stricken
out. The clause appropriating $40, 600 for the
purchase OF the papers of the Confederate Cen
erals Bragg and Polk aroused some discussion,
and was finally amended 30 as to require proof
that the papers should be the original and en-
tire papers first offered to the government.
day was spent i'll parliamentary tactics, the
matter in issue being MIR. Cox's Apportionment
Bill t-H f