08 Feb 1867
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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1867
Page
1
Senate reports and House debates unfold on Stevens reconstruction bill, civil rights, and governance of insurrectionary states. Bills on taxation, importation, and crime prevention pass through committees as speeches from Stevens, Brandagee, Ingersoll, and others frame reconstruction amid partisan tension.
The Workingmen's Convention adopted unanimously a report favoring the Baltimore Labor Convention platform. It also passed a resolution decrying child labor in Cohoes factories and opposing a law to abolish porties, seeking 10 hours for factory workers and drivers. The annual meeting date was moved to the fourth Tuesday in January.
Nashville dispatch reports the House concurred with the Senate resolution requesting Senator Paterson to resign and adopted a measure setting the resignation deadline of March 4. Other items include passage of a Colored Suffrage bill on first reading and state legislative activity across Kentucky Delaware Louisiana South Carolina Texas and Missouri with varied legislative actions and local incidents.
Political notes from multiple states report Pennsylvania adjournment delaying ratification of a constitutional amendment until next week. Nevada moves a joint memorial seeking Congress jurisdiction over Utah Territory. Utah names William McGrorty as congress nominee. Massachusetts work on constitutional amendment stalls amid committee opposition. House midweek action on bribery charges in a senatorial election and military affairs panel deems a state arsenal unfit for arms storage.
Feb seventh weather reports note rivers rising two feet with ice along some banks, then later accounts state rivers such as the Western Rivers and nearby tributaries running full and falling, with clear skies and warm temperatures as melting progresses. Several locations report river levels around fourteen feet six inches and changes across multiple rivers.
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