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5
Month
March
Year
1875
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Tuerday. Feb. 23. - Senatt - Conaideration of the Approprlation !ilt was rcisimnHl, ;uul the c1auh6 rdpetlfrg the itfít authorizing tUe paLic Mail siilíBÍilj ;ib sirickfii ent. ïhc bilí v,as thcn pnaaed Thr Aruiy ApjirOprtatlou bilí was ahio aineniled md pwssocf. . . .Th'1 Sommlttee ou Finante reported a reeoltition that a branchmint iu the Wi.-t was nBCCBBKpyv aní lf-ving the focaticu of snnie to the Pi-esideut. lm'; '■ -The Tarlfl bilí ts ]in;ii pu.-ii i ; L33 to 113. No Ll-ix lmsiiu"s8 mM tmnacted, Wedneöday, Peb. 24. - Senate - Wiiulom presentoil petitioitfl signed by 48,883 farmers oí1 the Northwest, isking f or an appropriation for the iiníniprovt-iiient of tlie Fox and WiflCOnsin rivtrK. Koferred Bills f or Üiu s.dmission of Colorado aud New Mexico werá iissed Ad.imirned. Bouse - Th Civil 8t-rvic Aiipropriation bilí was dlsciissed iu committoe of tho whole. It appropríatcs $35,386,978, agaixut eatimatcs of $38,875,2flb. ... .A niotion to talíc up tho caucus bilí for the control of tho Southern States developed some lüibustering, whioh la forbidden by the ukw rules adopted, motions being made to adjourii, tn cali the ayes and noes, to reconsider, etc., which would oeeupy considerable time iu each case. On the last vote by the yeas and naya the Dcmocrats re f raines! írom voting, and tlie result was that no quorum appeared to be pnwKQtj btit a cali of the roll showed the presenee of Largety inore than a quorum. Motions were then made to excuse individual members, the yeas; and naya being taken in each cas?, the Speaker ruling that auch motions were in order. Thuhsday. Feb. 25. - Señale - The creclentialn of S. J. R. McMillan, new Senator froiu Miimepotu, we-re filed The bilí to regúlate the counting of votes for President and Vico President f Ihe United Staces was read a third time andpassed. ílottse- After au all-night session the " forcé " bilí was reached, but all partios were worn out ;md fatigued, and an adjournm.nt was agreed tu. Friday, Feb. 2G. - St'iate - The Committee on Finance reporte! adversely on the bilí to secure depoBitoi'H iu th.fi l'ivodmaii',s Bank f rom lo.-s The gakne committee, reported favbrably on th$ bilí to aim-nd sectisn :i.:(i2 of t Io Revised Stfttatee, introito ed on i Ue 8d la., and it was pausad, Toe blU requirea brevejra lo :iiiix apon fche spigot liolv, vn cvtry barrel oontainlng fermented liquora, the proper stamp, whon wiuh barrel is Hold or femoved f rom too brewery er warehouae, and also requires stamp to be eanceled at the time of oö'ering the same, by writing or impriAtIng theivon the name of the manufacturera of the iii[iKir . . . . The F6znaixider ü' the seeslos wim oocupid in oonsideration of the Civil Kightfi bill. TtouM - Afttjr diKpoaing of some miimportiiut routine business, tho House procoeded to the disousBioa of the bill "to provide against musionof States and to n'evint the Biibversion of their aulhority, and to KKtinUiiii the security of elections." Satuuday, Feb. 27.- Senate- The Vice-President appointed as the committee under the r;-.-olution to examine the eral branches of the civil servieo dui'ing the recept; Messrs. Allinon, lioutwell, Oonkllng, Mt-rrimoii, and Eaton ïhe Civil Kights bill wan taken up, and, after a long debate finally passed, oxactly as it cume Irum the Iíourg. The debate was oponed by Oarpenter, vho ' mently opposed tho measure on j tioual groimds, expressing the firm conviction that it was uucoutitutional, and would be so deelared whos il eunie beíoru that tribunal. íic wih followed in au enrnest speech by Morton in an earnest ipwtch in its favor. After the rejection Of ii;i iinicndmi-nt by Thnnnan to Uie section in rvgiiivl to jurors, su that it nhould not apply to StstQ oourts, the bill was put upon ita passage audadopted by the following vote : YEAS. Alcorn, Flanagun, Pratt, Allleon, Frelinghuysen, Bamsey, Anthony, Ihirvey, n, Boremaa, Howe, Sargent, Boutwell, ï-npOte, BooU, Cameron, r7onea, Sherman, ! 'lüiri-U. r, Iogan, Sp QCe, Clayton, Witohell, Btewart, Oonkling, Slorrill, Vt.t Washburn, Ckmoverj Morlón, Weet, Cragin, Oglesby, ■Viniom, Kilmuntls, Pattertjon, Wright - 38. Ferry, Mioh., Peaee, YANS. Bay f) rd, Gordon, Rantiom, BogVj llagar, BaulBbufy, Carpcnter, Lton, Tex.} Sctíuxz, Cooper, Hamüton, Md., Sprague, Idivi-. Ui tiy. BtaveoBon, Dennw, Stöoktii, E-it(, McCrêery, Thurman, Ferry, 'nnn., Merrimon, Tipton- 26. (loldthwaite, Norwood, H&tt6ê - The Wayo and Mcans Commitlee sub mil ted tlicir report in regard to the Pacific Mail in vcBügation, whieh wak ordered printad The feature of the Houuo prooeedinga waa the dlscui bjou of the Force bi'l, which lasted from 11 o'clock i.ll midnlght, and ouliblnaied in one of tho bil parliamentary tlffhtfl of tb i ■ tíon. The Deijio, i ,,i opposed the bill in all iis Btagce, and delaj ■ d actton for sevi ral houri aöcr Öm sub pextslon' of the rules, whlch ocenrred at .! o'olock. An Dxottlng personal colloqnj be: Ben Butler and Speaker Blalnc place Sukiag the ca&iiig oí Qae roll ori the Anal vyte, Blalne took hla stand ueur the Clerk'a deek, Mr. Oeesna boing in the, ehtr, to watcli the result, üutl'T and others crowded v.p to the eani soiue one made polnt'ol otacr thai m ■ should not be aUowed around the Clvi ■.'.-■ dgk dtiring the piöèTOBB of i i'dtö; All fche njcnjbér.s tooit ttiu hint bnt Butler, who strutted up to whi re tiic Speaker Btood, and dédared that he had aa uipoh right there au Mr. Blalne. The latter i ■ furioua, and angry worda paised b iw-.v t u ihtm, ■.vïiii-h was near oulxniuating in a knock-down, buí tha Speaker pvo texu. decdared Butler out oí brder, wbeu he pubaided The blU was amendad, ■ Wön of Gcorgo F. Hoar, ho ae to restrict thfi territory ] witliin whicli the habeaa corpus may be suspended to the Statee of Arkansas, Louieiana, Alabama and j M-iBsisflippi, af tor which it was put to a vote and paoved- yeae, 135; nays, 11. Monday. March 1. - Senate - The crodentials té l. P. ('hrinüanpy, tn OüioJ Chandh-r, frore Michigan, wrro pi e eert on file . . . . BÍ1I passed: To anihoriw the eonstrnction of u pontoou wa#on-bridge aiTDSH the Mibsiaaippiüt ar m-ar the city of DubUQUl, lowa; to authorie the conetruction oí a brfdge üi'vums the MisaiflppiT W or naar Glrand Ohaln j 'J'he ' lort't! bill, ' t pro i'.i; againsl tli iuva.-iüii of ■ u-., wjik anqomiced ag paesed bv the I ■ and read a firet time The T;.r;lïlill Waa conftiderodt and til.1 ameadxaeal uf Jdnurtoa, providint', that the increaed toijjn.'ro tax ehonld ouiy apply to tul )■,'■ o niiiuiii'iit l urvd ;iltiT lh" pfWPQge of tlie piU, waa agreed to. m'-TIk1 Houso adopted resolutïona of the Lotiirian select t-onniiittef Btiitaüiiüg the Kellogg govonmiüut au d resoating tho Conafeívtltívé ítunnbrrs of the Legislatura rejeoted by the lïeturning Board, thuK giving tlicm a ina.joríty la Eïoua....Xhe acy bill, approprlAthig $l,800,0(M), w&a . df'ivfl prmted Gonfíienoe eartointíteea were appoiuted ou the Houate auirnduifuts to the ludían and Arniy Ap}.rnpriati(n bilN. ... ACtcr Uie dfhvrry oí ■■■ on the latí.' Sunator Bnokingham, the House lonk ;i noen ïhq tvexaag aetston wan dfvated to iIim u 'iou of tile Bnndry Civil Appropriatiuu bill in conimittoe of the whole.

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