Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1875 — CONGRESSIONAL. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESSIONAL.

In the Senate, on the 6th, after the presentation of memorials asking for the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, the resolution in relation to Louisiana affairs offered by Mr. Thurman on the preceding day was taken up and vigorously discussed until adjournment, the pending question being Mr. Conkling’s amendment....ln the House, a bill was passed giving ten heavy guns and equipments to the Illinois Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home. The Fortification bill was passed. Notice was glven of a motion on the-" 11th to suspead the rules and adopt a resolution instructing the Judiciary Committee to report a bill providing for a new election in Louisiana, under such rules and guarantees as will assure a full and fair vote. A bill was introduced providing for the temporary govern-, ment of Oklahama. Irwin, the contumacious Pacific Mail subsidy witness, was brought before the bar of the House, where he again refused to answer certain questions which had been asked him by the Investigating Committee, and was remanded to the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms to abide the future orders of the House. The House then adjourned. In the Senate, on the 7th, a bill was passed doing away with all restriction as tothe circulation of banke issuing notes payable in gold. The Thurman resolution was discussed at length, and without reaching a vote the Senate went into executive session and soon after adjourned.... In the House a resolution was offered thanking the President for his efforts “for the maintenance of law andorder in Louisiana,” which was objected to and laid over under the rule. The Senate bill to provide for the resumptjQp of specie payments was passed—yeas 186, nays 99. The resolutions impeaching Judge Durell, of Louisiana, and Judge Busteed, of Alabama, were laid on the table, both Judges

having resigned. The House then adjourned. In the Senate, on the Bth, the Thurman resolution in relation to the Louisiana affairs, as amended by Mr. Conkling, was adopted after a lengthy debate- A bill was introduced to a iff tbe Washington A Ohio Railroad Company. The bill repealing the law allowing Pension Agents thirty cents for each voucher prepared and paid by them was reported upon adversely. The Senate adjourned to the 11th.... In the House a bill was introduced to provide fbr a new election in Louisiana. A bill was passed modifying and limiting the law repealing moieties. After the consideration of private bUls the House adjourned. A resolution was adopted in the Senate on the 11th requesting the Secretary of War to transmit the official reports of Gen. Emory and Maj. - Merrill ip relation to Louisiana affairs. A bBl was introduced to charter the Forty-first Parallel Railroad of the United States, to run from Lake Erie to the Misaoqrj River. Mr. Schurz spoke at length upon the resolution instructing the Committee on Judiciary to report a bill for the settled ment of the troubles in Louisiana, holding that tbe recent acts of the Government were without legal or constitutional warrant. Mr. Morton replied, taking an opposite view....ln the House, Charles Albert, being brought before the bar for contempt in refusing to answer certain questions put to him by the Pacific Mail Investigating Committee, purged hhnseHor-ttis contempt by agreettfg to answer such' questions as might be asked him. A resolution was offered denouncing Federal interference in Louisiana affairs, and demanding the immediate withdrawal of. United States troops from the State and the condign punishment of those engaged in the usurpation. A bill supplementary to the bill $o rds'ore specie payments wae introduced. The Consular

and Dfplomsdh Appropriation Bill ($1,344,7855 was passed. Adjourned. On tbe iatb, 4n the Senate, the bill deelar. aterjs of the act of 1874, repealing moieties, 'fefklwssed. Mr. Howe replied to the speech of MrT Schurz on Louisiana affairs. The report of the United States District Attorney In to the late troubles in Tennesaee was received and ordered printed.... In the House; bills were passed—to remove the limitation in regard to the circulation of gold banks; giving to railroads the right of way %ough public lands ahd providing tlial aUStates hrough which they indy pass shall have at all times the tight to regulate and limit the charges for transportation.