Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1875 — CONGRESSIONAL. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESSIONAL.

In the Senate on the 27th the Postal Telegraph bill was introduced and referred. A resolution to repeal the twenty-second joint rule relating to counting the electoral vote was ordered printed. Messrs. Thurman and West spoke to the -Louisiana resolution after which the Senate adjourned....ln the House, after routine business, on a motion to reconsider the action of last session recommitting the Civil-Rights bill to the Judiciary Committee, filibustering began and was continued until the close of the Press dispatches, at 1:35 a. m. on the 28th, with small prospect then of speedy adjournment. In the Senate, on the 28th, a bill was passed to appoint a commission to ascertain the rights of British subjects in the lands adiudicated upon by the Emperor William under the treaty of 1871. Mr. Conkling spoke to the Louisiana resolutions until adjournment....ln the House, the dead-lock continued during the entire day and night, with a prospect that it would not be removed before Monday, when the Civil-Rights bill, the hope of contention, could be reached and disposed of by a majority vote. The Missouri Louisiana resolutions were presented on the 29th. ‘ An adverse report was made on the bill for the relief of settlers on the public lands in certain sections of lowa, Minnesota, Kansas and Nebraska. The debate on the Louisiana resolutions was continued by Messrs. Conkling and Gordon. Mr. Bchurz moved to amend the preamble of his resolutions by incorporating words to the effect that military interference with the organization of a Legislature is repugnant to the principles of constitutional government, and that such interference in Louisiana was without warrant of law. Adjourned to the Ist... .The dead-lock in the House was broken at 10:25 a. m. by a vote to adjourn, after a continuous session of fortysix hours and twenty-five minutes. The adjournment was carried by ayes 75, noes 60. The Senate was not in session on the 30th.... In the House, no business was done, the minority insisting that the journal of the preceding session should jae read in order to consume the time and prevent notice of a resolution to change the rules. Up to the hour of adjournment eighteen of the seventyseven roll-calls had been read.

The joint resolution of the Indiana Legislature favoring the payment of pensions to survivors of the Mexican war was presented and referred, together with a communication from the Commissioner of Pensions stating that the number of such survivors is 85,604; number of widows about 12,000. The House bill to amend the National Bank act was amended and passed. The Louisiana resolutions were further debated by Messrs. West and Merrill. Adjourned....ln the House, resolutions to change the rules so that the Speaker need not entertain dilatory motions during the pendency of a question were referred to the Committee »n Rules. A motion was twice made and defeated to suspend the rules and allow the committee to report. A motion prevailed—l7o to 49—to suspend the rules and pass the Grasshopper Relief bill. A recess was taken until Tuesday, the 2d, at ten a. m., thus continuing Monday’s session. James Brooks, of Arkansas, presented a memorial in the Senate on the 2d, claiming to be the lawful Governor of that State, and insisting that the present Government was an usurpation. A bill was introduced for a pontoon bridge across the Mississippi River at Dubuque. Executive session and adjournment.,.. In the House, a motion prevailed to suspend the rules and allow the committee to report a new rule forbidding dilatory motions in certain cases. Such rule was reported and agreed to—l7l to 87. Messrs. Randall and Cox resigned their membership on the committee, which resignations were accepted. A bill was passed appropriating $9,000 to pay tbe expenses of the Louisiana Committee. A mo tian was made to take up tbe Senate Civil-

Rights bill, pending which the House adjourned.