The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-12-26
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
senate.

The Senate met yice-president Wilson in the
chair-An order was agreed to for sessions to be-
gin at - GA committee was appointed on the
part of the inform the President that that
body was III session and ready TO receive any com
rnunication- Bills were introduced: For a com
mission to revise custom laws; for the relei OF
grasshopper sufferers 10 protect persons OF foreign
birth against forcible restraint. The Senate tieh
took a recess, and upon reassembling resolution
relating disturbances in the Indian Territory was
laid on the table, when the message OF the PRESIDENT
was received and ordered prlnted.---AdJourhed.
House.
The House met at /! M--After the re-
aeption and reading of the message, the Commit
tee on Appropriations reported the general appro-
priation bills. The amounts appropriated by the
several bills are as follows: Legislative bills So,
G53 434: navy, S16976 COG; army. S2I,7Ul 500; In
dams 81 SG .5G7: forttcatlons, SS50,uOO.--A bill
was passed appropriatiug $4,000 for the purchase
of scales for the post office department.--Mr.
Phelps gave notice Of the introduction OF bill TO
repeal the press gag iaw.--Adjourned
senate.
TUESDAY, December S.-Bills were
introduced: Fixing the salary of the President at
S25,000; for the construction OF United States tele
graph lines between Washington and Boston, APP
propriatng 100000 therefor; amending the cur
rcnCy acts OF 1864 and 1866; and relating TO Jury
in supreme court Of the District Of Columbia.
4 memorial OF various publishers asking for
change in the postal laws was presented and laid
the tabe.--A resolution was ordered printed
requiring from the President a statement OF
moneys due the government from public Officials,
also the number of acres of land granted TO rail
road companies, etc.-Adjonrned.
House.
Bills were introduced: distinguishing The Indian
title to tile Black Hills; fixing duties merchau-
disc substituting United States notes Tor green
backs for The payment of certain postal service
prior to 1861; to prevent members Of Congress
from acting as counsel in suits against the United
States-passed: restoring duty on certain articles
for am additional representa- i've from Nebraska 10
amend the constitution providing that nothing but
gold and silver shah be declared legal tenders for
free banking; for Improvement of kanawha river;
IN relation to the importation OF coolies to repeal
the act requiring stamps on bank checks also for
system of international arbitration; to regulate
elections IN certain cases, and bin repeating the
increase of the Presidents salary. A resolution
was introduced calling for information relative To
the Sugg claim. The House then Went into COM
mittee Of the whole and considered keleys bill for
exchange of greenbacks into convertible bonds.
After length discussion the committee rose and
the bill was ordered printed. ~ Adjourned.
senate.
WEDNESDAY. December 9-Ihe fol
lowing memorials were presented OF type fouu-
ders of Chicago. and Of the National Lumbermen's
Association, against the Canadian reciprocity
treaty: OF the Texas and Atlantic and Pacific rail
roads asking for aid: Of citizens OF Kansas asking
extension OF time to homesteaders who have suffer
ed from grasshoppers. and of Bianton Duncan ask
held by him trust during the war. Referred to
the committee claims Bills We're introduced:
To ascertain the expense OF resisting Indian in
yasioH by Kansas and TO aid III constructing the
Texas Pacific railroad
House.
Mr. Wood offered resolution requiring the sec
rotary of the treasury to inform the HoHse to
whether articles have been entered at that port at
higher or lower rates Of duty than prescribed by
law. and other information in relation to the New
York custom house referred. - The Omaha
bridge bill postponed. - That portion of the
Presidents message relating 10 Affairs III southern
states referred to a select committee, when the
District of Columbia bill, which continues the
board OF audit, passed. Mr. Randall. during
the consideration of the bill cOntradcted the Pres
idents statement that the debt of the District was
only sl4O00000, and said it was over S2D,00o,O0O.
-AdlOurned.
THURSDAY, December 10.-The House
resolution relating to binding the revised statutes
passed; also a resolution appointing Geo. Ban
croft a member Of the board of regeats Of the
Smithsonian Institute. Mr. Wright gave notice
that on Friday of next week he would ask the Sen
ate to proceed with the consideration OF the bill re-
ported from the judiciary committee at the last
session. declaring the true intent and meaning of
the Union Pacific Railroad acts, approved July ],
1862, July ,, 1863, July ,, 1864, and July 3, l566-
Next Monday fixed for the consideration of the
District of Columbia !s-u.-The Senate then held
short executive session. and soon after adjourned
House
resolution relating to the Freedmen'S Bank was
agreed TO, and bin on the same subject was re-
ferred.-The consular appropriation bill was re-
ported and made the special order for December 81
-T The 81. Louis bridge bin. and the bill appTopri-
aiug money to purchase scales for the pOstOffce de
partment, We're reported, and the latter passed. -
The bill converting gre9nbaCks then consider
ed in committee of the whole, but definite
ton taken.--The Stowen cadetship sale re
ferred to the committee naval affairs when the
Speaker announced appointments to MI vacancies
on committees and the House adjourned.
senate.
FRIDAY, December 1.-THE Senate
was not in session.
iIause.
The Senate bill for the appointment Of Geo Ban
croft to fill the vacancy of the board of regents OF
the Smithsonian Institute, passed also a bin
allowing pre-emptIOn settlers III Iowa Minnesota
Nebraska and Kansas, whose crops We're DESTROYED
or injured by the grasshoppers in 1874, to leave
and be absent from their lands until Nav 1876
without prejudice to their riEhts-The private
calendar then taken up. when on question of
privilege raised by Mr.. Dawes, the case of r. s.
Irwin, agent of the Pacific Mail Co.. who had re
fused 70 appear before the ways and means com
mittee, directed, account of alleged sickness
was considered, and resolution adopted directing
the arresting the arrest of irwin for cOntrmpt -
The HOuSt then a1 iOUrup1