Year: 1872

hours of tho session were spent in
getting through several miscellaneous
matters, principally for the benefit of
clerks and employees.


The session to-day was prolonged
from hour to hour. Finally, the
force bill to amend the act approved
February 20, 1871, passed, as follows :
That whenever, in any county or
parish in any Congressional district,
there shall be ten citizens thereof of
good standing who, prior to any reg
istration Of voters for an election for
representation in Congress. or prior
to any election at which representa-
tive in Congress is to be voted for,
shall make known in writing to the
Judge of the Circuit Court of the
United States for the district whorein
such county or parish is situate, their
desire to have said registration or
election both guarded and sorutin.
lied, it shall be the duty of the said
Judge of, the Circuit Court, within
not less than ten days prior to said
registration or election as the case
may be, to open the said court at the
most convenient point in said district,
and court when SO opened by said
Judge shall proceed to appoint and
commission from day to day and
from tiro to time, under the hand
of the said Judge and under the seal
of said court for such election, district
or voting precinct, in said eongres,
sional district as shall IN the manner
herein prescribed have been applied
for, and to revoke, change or renew
said appointment from time to time,
two citizens, residents of said election
district or voting precinct in said
county or parish, who shall be Of diff.
ferent political parties, and able to
read and write the English Language,
and who shall be known and designa.
ted as supervisors of election, and
the said court when opened by the
said Judge as required herein shall
thorefrom and thereafter, and up to
and including the day following the
day of election, are always open for
the transaction of business under this
act, and the powers and jurisdiction
horeby granted and confirmed shall
be exercised as we'll in vacation as in
torn time, and Judge sitting at
Chambers shall have the same powers
and jurisdiction, including the power
of keeping order and Furnishing any
contempt of his authority, as when
sitting in the court. Aud no person
shall be appointed under this act as
Supervisor of Elections who is not, at
the time of his appointment, a quail
fed voter of the county, parish, cleo.
tion district, or voting precinct for
which he is appointed. And no per-
son shall be appointed Deputy Mar.
shall under this act, or the aot Of which
this is amendatory, who is not
qualified voter at the time of bis ap-
pointmenty in the county, parish,
district or precinct in which his duties
are to be performed and section l3
of the act Of which this is an amend
,nent, shall be construed to authorize
and require the Circuit Courts of the
United States, in said section men.
toned, to name and appoint, as soon as
may be after the passage of this act,
the Commissioners provided for in said
section, in oil cases in which such ap-
pointments have not already been
made in conformity Herewith and
the third section of the act to which
this Is an amendment shall be taken
and construed to'authorize each of the
Judges of the Circuit Courts of the
United States to designate Que or
more Of the Judges of tho District
Courts within his circuit to discharge
the dutNs arising under this act, or
the act to which Uhis is an amendment.
And the words, "any person." in Sec
tion q of tho act of May 81, 1870,
shall be held to include any officer,
or other person having powers or
duties Of an official character under
this acty or the act to which this is an


am mendment provided further, that
tho Supervisors herein provided for
shall have no. power to make arrests,


but are authorized to bo in the i'm
mediate presence of the officers hold


ing the election /; and they are hereby


authorized to witness all the proceed.


ings, including the counting Of the


votes and the making of all the re-.


turns thereof, as provided in the aot


to which this is an amendment, and SO


much Of the said sum, herein appro.


priate1, as may be necessary for said


supplemental and amendatory pro.


visions, is hereby appropriated from


and after the passage of this act.
WAsHMGTon, june ll.--Fn the


Senate yesterday on Steamboat bill,


Conkling gavo notice that if tho bill


should be taken up no would speal


at least 2 hours against it. Blail


and Morton urges the Importance O


passing tho bill at this session, m otior


to take it up was lost. Yeas %


nays rs, and so the steamboat bill


failed in the Senate. Failure in tbe


Hou& Of the bill allowing tug ant
r. 81 l.