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The Wheeling Daily Register
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
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The U.S. Senate in Washington adjourned sine die on April 20, ending the first session of the Forty-second Congress. Senators Conkling and Davis informed the President of readiness to adjourn; bills and petitions were returned to committees.
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WASHINGTON, April 20.
Adjournment.
Messrs. Conkling and Davis were named to wait on the President this afternoon and inform him that unless he had further communications to make Congress was now ready to adjourn. On motion of Mr. Scott, all bills on the table, petitions, &c., were ordered to be returned to their appropriate committees. At two o'clock the doors were re-opened when the committee to wait on the President reported that he had no further communications to make. The President pro tem. announced that the first session of the Forty-second Congress had adjourned sine die.
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Washington
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April 20
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the first session of the forty-second congress adjourned sine die.
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Messrs. Conkling and Davis were appointed to inform the President of Congress's readiness to adjourn unless further communications were needed. On Mr. Scott's motion, bills, petitions, and other items were returned to committees. At two o'clock, the committee reported no further communications from the President, and the President pro tem. announced the adjournment sine die.