Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1876-01-24
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senator Morton Wants the
New Mint at In
dianapolis.
A Bill Reported. Declaring the
True Intent Of the Pa !.
ciRc R. R. Acts.
Tom: Scott to Advocate the Tex.
as Pacific before the
House to-day.
The Specie Resumptionists at
Work in the House.
CONGRESSIONAL.

SSSS AAASs
House.
Under call of states, bills were in
troduced and referred.
BY Mr.. Whitehouse, for funding
legalstepders intos40 year fonr per
cent: gdd bdsds tdthc amount flour
hundred millions, at q rate not to ex-
ceed three million month.
BY Mr.. Lapham,s constitutional
amendment that the presidential term
begin May 1st, and that the FIRST meet
ing scongsesssbe the 1st Monday in
January
By Mr.. Ward, to. protect life on|
steamships, steamboats, and sailing
vessels; also to provide means of
cheap transportation in interior
waters, and the improvement of the
Illinois river.
By Mr.. Dppncll, for % pontoon bridge
across the Mississippi river, in wlnona
county, Minp.
By Mr.. Mills, for repair of leyecs along
the, Mississippi river, in Illinois.
BY Mr.. Morrison, preparatory to re-
Limited States -notes and re-
sumption Of specie payment. The bill di-
rects the secretary Of the treasury to re-
tain the coin in the treasury until it reach
cs 80 per cent. of outstanding legal ten
der notes, and in the meantime it sus-
pends the resumption bill until after the
1st of January, 1879. 1t also requires
national banks to retain the coin interest
received on bonds deposited 10 secure cir
culation, to ahe amount Of their legal re-
serves, and such sum in addition as
equals so per cent.@of their circulation,
which amount Of 80 per cent. the banks
are to retain as security for the redemp.
ton, in coin, Of their circulation; it also
repealssthe legal tender provision from
the time that the banks have 80 per cent
IN coin of their circulation.
4 By Mr.. Willisms, Of Michigan, q con
stitutional amendment prohibiting sena
tors and representatives from SOLICITING
appointments to, o. removals from Office
and providing civil service commission
ByIafr. Wilson, lows, a CONSTITUTIONS
amshdne providing that the term Q
representatives commence Jan. / st ins,eat
Of march. 4th. ,sa..
by Mr. Hurlbut, to provide chea]
transportation Of freight between the AT
lantic and Ohio and mississippi valley.
senate.
The chair laid before the senate tn
annual report Of the commissioner Q
patents; tabled and ordered printed
number Of petitions pre-
scnted BY Messrs Sherman, Camero'
and others, asking government aid 70
the CONSTRUCTION If the Texas Pacifi
railroads.
ByaMr. Morton, for mint at In
disnpeiiiis. b ifesrred: "a
On motion Ut MI. Morton tn
papers purporting to be the creder
tials IS Eustis as senator from Louis
ana, were referred to the elcct;o
committee.
Mr.sWright, from judiciary CON
mittee, reported without ameudmc.
.tAY a.
the bill declaring the true intent !.
the Union sPAcific railroad acts.
provides that none Of these shall +
construed TO grant, : subsidy or Ian
tolthe Hannibal and st. Joe railroa,
q. tho central g4a branch 2 81 Of the Unit
PaciGq cpmpeny5 for The extension
their road Overcome hundred mil
next to the Missouri river.
Placed on calendar. :
( Mr.. Msrrinon fioan ths commit
on rules, reported adversely the resol
ton BY Mr.. Morton to amend the a5
rule, IS tF1at ii should not be nee, nsect
ys1o:I..te in the record and jo,
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