Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1877 — FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.

Friday, March 2.-—The credentials of r. F. Grover, as Senator from Oregon, and of M. C. Butler (signed by Wade Hampton as Governor), from South Carolina, were presented and placed on file in the Senate. The Conference report on the Deficiency Appropriation bill was agreed to. New Conference Committees were ordered and appointed on the Postoltice and Naval Appropriation bills. Majority and minority reports were made from the Committee investigating the late election in Louisiana. Bills were parsed—House bill granting to the State of Missouri all lands therein selected as swamp and overflowed land*; House bill respecting the limit s of the reservations ior town sites upon public domain; the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, with several amendments. .. In the House, the Conference reports on the Deficiency and <wi the Military Academy Ap propriation bills were agreed to. Among the bills passed were—the Army Appropriation bill; for the payment of claims passed upon by the Southern Claims Commissioners; removing all political disabilities imposed and remaining on any person under the Fourteenth Constitutional Amendment. Saturday and Sunday, March 3 and 4. —All the Appropriation bills,except the Army and the River and Harbor, were passed before the close, by limitation, of the Forty-fonrth Congress on the 4th. By provisions of the Postofllce bill, public documents are to pass through the mails tree. The President's salary remains at *S-J.OO<>. In the Senate, on the fid, the House amendments to the bill extending for two years the Southern Claims Commission were agreed to, and the bill was passed The bill to aid in the resumption ot specie payments was called up, and it was finallv agreed—27 to 22—that further consideration of the subject should be postponed until the first Wednesday in December next. The House bill to equalize the bounties of soldiers who served in the late war for the Union was considered, and finally indefinitely postponed—3l to 25. Several private bills were passed. At twelve o'clock noon on the 4th, Vice-President Ferry declared, after a few remarks, that the last session of the Forty-fonrth Congress was at an end... .In the House, resolutions were adopted-directing the Sergeant-at-Arms to discharge all persons in his custody, as all investigations had ceased; declaring—lß7 to 88—that Samuel J. Tilden and Thoma* A. Hendricks received 196 Electoral votes of the Electors legally and Constitutionally appointed, and were therebv’duly elected President and Vice-President of the United States; declaring that it is the right and duty as Congress and of the House to inquire into the election of State Presidential Electors, and receive evidence of forgery, falsehood or invalidity of any certificate of any Governor or Canvasser. Several Pension bills were passed. At twelve o'clock noon, on the 4th, the Speaker de livered a short valedictory, and declared that the House stand adjourned without day.