| Show vo the deseret evading ia s 01 a 1 i SENATE was giltig itou 19 the tho Sena tein executive today to day confirmed the in nomination om kofl ai eId eld postmaster for port Fort portland land laud and considered fora fod short time three treaties with great britain the treaties tre atles atlea were referred to the committee mi atee on foreign rb lAtions relations and ordered P printed hinted chandler introduced a bill to regulate the exaction oftie tonnage tax on spanish vess vessels els eis referred pomeroy offered a resolution requesting information from froth general harney concerning the character and conduct of the sioux and other Indian indiana indiana 4 adopted the Senate took up the bill introduced by morton morion to punish the coll collection edtion by the states of the capitation tax on railway W ay passengers morton 31 orton moved to refer the bill to the judiciary committee Freling huysen wished to be heard before the reference of the bill in defense of the interests ohis obis of his hig state the morn morning ing hour having expired the senate resumed the consideration athe bill to promote con commerce commeree Amerce among the states being shermans Sher mans railroad bill williams gave notice that he would offer a substitute for the constitutional amendment in regard to the suffrage reported by the judiciary committee giving congress power to abrogate an any restrictions upon tile the right or hold hoid hold office presented by the constitution or laws of any state sherman from the finance committee reported a bill to amend the national currency act which makes several chau changes es and provides the manner in which the bank shall go into liquidation and for the payment of monies the bill requires that all banks selected as depositaries deposit aries arles shall deposit bonds ag asi a security for huch such deposits aud and that whenever the money BO 0 shall exceed ninety per cent the treasurer is required to reduce the tho the amount to ninety per cent and to impose a ft severe penalty on uny officer ar obtaining deposits no bahk bauk shrill make knake any loan on united states nobes notes or op on the circulation of ay nay bank eol poi pol collateral lateral to the loans stad aid tuat that mads made oad nad apo pon inch shall ird void A amendments e n report reported pd by the corm corn cittee to Sher shermana manta manla railroad beitl iyer iver were rhad read i ui made a lengthy speech ecle ecie against again t the tha bill an amend amendment ment mOnt wasl was offered and adopted providing g tha t ther tiie 11 hait Halt altimore imore and road radd may be adopted as a a portion thel line bet between detwei wei wet vas washington Vaa hIngton and baltimore upon satia hatla 0 factory terms T sherman moved to strike out the sections relating to the cleveland and cincinnati cinc c roads so as to make the bill provide for a road rond between nev ne york and washington agreed to will willey ey move moved tol toi miend by providing rd fon for r a road from washington to t thir this ah chesapeake cheape ak 0 and ind 1 ohio railroad nean near staunton Sf aunton toba tobo va H he 0 said thief thiro road adas adaa as only a hundred miles milea long iong and wali walf would open direct railway viett miss sherman preferred thattie bill should amply simply for a road to 6 now new york pomeroy said they already had a h good road ta new york i b but ut there was a very great need for tor a new railroad between washington ton and the th west he regard ed willeys Wil leys amendment as more lma important tan thau than tho the bill itself willey anally withdrew his arnen M anent en t an and di the senate adjourned i hdward howard introduced a supplemental doward pill granting lands to aid inthe in the construction st of the north northern ora era railroad it provides provide sr for a guarantee by tae ta government odthe of the payment of the Id interest terest on tho the companas comp anys fifty year six per cent bonds to the extent of forty thousand per mile in bonds of th the united states to by be secured by oy the retention of thi thu slim sum due duo for government and the recel receipts pia pta ortho of two P per er cen cent 0 of th the e road on ds gros gross earnings s A j was passed garg old nannon cannon on f dr for a monument to president resident lincoln lincolnia Lincol ni stewart moved take tako up his joint roeolf tion for the tho amendment to tho the constitution relative to the suffrage and moved to mak make it a special order for thursday next which after inner somo some discussion was agreed to cameron moved for an executive session which cwm Jr rejected ejected 1 26 16 to 0 27 7 this was supposed to bo be a test teat of the sense of the tho senata sonata relative to confirming no more appoint ni ments nta by johnson the tho senate agreed agree to tho the house amendment botho to the resolution respecting the pro prot 1 visional gover gove rumont mont of virginia virglnia and texas tho the resolution directs the removal from office of all ali persons who cannot tako take the tho ie required oath the air line lino ral rai railroad load bill came camo up as u unfinished il finished business pomeroy moved to postpone it f forthe or the tho purpose Y of taking tak ingup up the bill relating to the control of the branch U P r iu E K R ilch lich which was agreed to 33 to 15 16 this bill was debated till tinn half past i tareco when tho the death deat lipf af pf representative hands hancks was wag announced after some eulo eulogies tha i senate adjourned j HOUSE A bil bli bill I 1 was passed after soma some debate directing the secretary of the navy to appoint midshipmen to tho naval academy by the fourth of march next from any state in which the election for congressmen does not occur before the fourth of july on the nomination of a member of the house of the states represented in congress and providing that no appointment be made from states which are not entitled to representation sen tation after the introduction of several bills of no general importance boutwell called u up the tho constitutional amendment and bill bin WIT with regard to the tho suffrage and aud made an elaborate speech ho he said this was the last odthe great measures of reconstruction when whon the right of suffrage was secured to all citizens zens of the tho republic it would bo be established on a ja firm basis and it was impossible dorthis for this congress or tho republican party to ugapo that issue he explained tho the provisions of tho the amendment which havo have already boen been telegraphed claiming the right bf congress rong Jong rpsa to 0 legislate on the tho question of the tho suffrage independently nde of any ary action on i tha part bart artho of the tho states he quoted patrick patricia henry and madison to sustan hl his views tho lasted two fiva hours being ocasio occasionally sio nally by b questions from Denlo denio democratic cratic members he concluded by saying tho republican party must not stand stana w chero it is but must m u s t move for gor forward W ard to 00 corn m pleto pieto tho the great work it has undertaken brooks said that in order tocarra to carry carny out the princ prino ipps advocated by would offer an amendment substituting tho wor won person dor for citi elti enin in tha bill thus giving fo finales tho the right to vote tho the amendment wa was s ordered printed actor furth further or debato th H i i |
