Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-07-20
CONGRESSIONAL.

The Senate, on the 18th, received
the credentials of James &. Blaine, appointed
to the sest vacated by Lot NJ. Morrill,. The
oint resolution to authorize the enlistment o
volunteers to aid in suppressing the Sioux
Indian hostilities, was referred to the COM
mittee on military affairs.
The bill provididing for the sale of
the Fort kearney military reservation lands
in Nebraska, was passed by the House. The
bill for opening the Black Hills country north
of the North Platte was recommitted. The
report censuring ex-minister Schenck was
adopted. Mr.. Townsend commented severely
Oh the attempt of the majority to cut down
he present pititul number Of the army.
The Senate, on the 18th, refused to
concur in the House bills for the sale of the
reservation of the Otoe and Missouri bands of
bill to establish two military posts on the
Yellowstone was passed.
The conference report OH the silver
bill was reported in the House. 1t Omits all
mention of the silver dollar and to making it
a legal tender. A lengthy discussion fol-
on the one side to show that the value OF sill
vcr was equal to that in gold when the
national debt was contracted, and cOnse-
uently bondhOldcrs have no right to COM
plain i; paid in silver now, when it is worth
| but so cents in gold On the other hand it
was argued that gold is the standard, to make
| the SO cent silver dollar legal tender would
he reputation and revolution The report OF
the committee was adopted by n vote OF 1913
to "a.
The Senate was still at work on the
appropriation bills, Oh the l4th, without any
progress.
The House unseated Mr.. Frost, of
Massachusetts,, and seated in his place Mr..
Abbott, contestant. No other business was
transacted
On the 18th the Senate again took
up the river and harbor bill, and after amend
ing it by increased appropriations to the sum
Of over two millions, adjourned without
voting upon its passage.
The House voted Il pension of $50 Il
month to the widow of Gen. Custer. bill
was also passed giving pension to the
father and mother of Gen. Custer of $50 y
month each. In the discussion of the bill
Tor the protection Of the Mexican border,
motion was made that no troops should bc
taken from South Carolina so long as the
peaceable militia OF that State is attacked and
its members murdered by lawless bands from
Georgia. Mr.. Hartridge defended Georgia
from the aspcrsion directed to it, and Mr..
race.
The Senate, on the 18th, refused to
take up the bill for the equalization of boun-
ties by a vote of 20 to 81, Messrs. Hamilton
and Sargent both voting with the Democrats.
Consideration of the river and harbor bill oc-
cupied the remainder OF the day. In the
House bill was introduced appropriating
one hundred thousand dollars for the com,
pletion of the Washington monument; also
bill authorizing the government to accept
volunteers from Kansas, Nebraska, Minne-
sofa, Wyoming, Colorado, Dakota and Utah,
for service against the Sioux Indians also
for the erection Of All equestrian statue tc
Tv,,o%o TI,o1 III lnVvsvHD <k,o
political disabilities Of Gen. Beauregard.
Another attempt was made to repeal the re-
sumption act, but failed-99 to 80.
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NINETY AND NINE.
The hot spell that succeeded the
Fourth was genuine scorcher from
Maine to California. In Washington
there were numerous deaths from SUM-
stroke, and business was nearly sus-
pended in Congress. In Philadelphia
the effect was still more noticeable.
Never before since way back in 1929,
so the weather-wise say, has the mer-
curry taken such al upward jump i'll
the town. For two weeks or more it
had been going up and up, but on the
9th it beat itself badly. At noon it
was 90 in the shade at 2 o'clock, 100;
at clock, 1O2; and at 4:3O, l02 3-4.
This was the highest point, and at it
began gradually to descend. Gov.
Hartranft was walking up the street
| with Adjt. Gen. LOtta, wearing black
silk hat, and when near the latter's
office he suddenly grew faint, and in
another minute fell to the sidewalk.
He was carried to a neighbOring house
and cared for, but it was not until
early next morning that he had recov
cred strength enough to reach home.
In New York the thermometer stood
ut lOl in the shade. In some places it
reached lO3. This heat, followed up
on a hot term Of two weeks with no
rain, caused very large number of
sun-strokes, about 20 having been re-
ported in two days,nearly one-third of
which have proved fatal. The death
rate rose to an unusual height, a large
! proportion of the fatal cases helm. ),
children. 200 out of 100 members
of the First Brigade Of the New Jersey
national guard, in camp near Trenton.
were Frustrated in three days.
| The city of Eau Claire, on the 18th,
voted to donate to the Eau Claire Dells
Improvement company 100000 to
build dam at the Dells. For the past
fifteen years the dells bill has taken
. up large part of the time of the Wis
consin legislature, and was finally set:
tied last winter. The vote of the city
was light, but almost unanimous. The
, engineer s estimate of the cost is about
$40, 600. The total cost Of the works
with the necessary land, ETC., will b,
, 100000
: Summer bathes the world in sun
5 shine and perfumes it with the tende
: breath of roses, but there will alway
: be one dark, marring blot on the fac
3 of nature SO long as mothers will in
! sist on cutting their boys hair a
= home. A boy with h0me-croppe'
Q head would ruin a landscape in para