The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-04-21
XLVth CONGRESS.
Summary Of Proceedings in Both Houses.

oumndIy u IIoCoco1n6s IN boLn Houses
SATURDAY, April 8.-Senate not in
session.
SATURDAY, April 8.-Saturday's SEES
sion, as announced, was only for debate.
Mr.. Lawrence spoke in favor of the bill in
troduced by himself, in relation to land
patents. The bill applies mainly to mill
tary titles in Ohio and Kentucky, and pro-
vides that in all actions to recover. land
patents shall, for the purposes of the statute
of limitation, have effect as if issued when
the entry of land was made. The House
then adjourned.
MONDAY, April 10.-A resolution
which was agreed to- from the special COM
mittee, to investigate the recen. election in
Mississippi authorizes the employment of
clerk and stenographer, and the sending
for books, papers, ETC., to take testimony.
Pending discussion on the House bill to
provide for the deficiency in the Printing
Bureau of the Treasury, the morning hour
expired, and Senator Hamlin's bill to fix
the rate of postage on third class mail mat
ter was taken up, but laid aside informally,
and consideration on the currency bill was
resumed. After discussion it was read a
third time and passed. The bill appropri-
ates $163, 900 for the deficiency, and pro-
vldes for the issue of silver coins of the de-
nominations; 10, 20, Is and so cents.
House.
MONDAY, April 10.-The bill appro-
priating S., 872, $50 for the construction, re-
pair and preservation of different public
works on rivers and harbors, passed. yeas
Ill, nays 3d.. Resolutions were adopted,
to define the relations of the army to Con-
gress, instructing the Committee on Judicial
ry to inquire into the cause of the imprison-
ment of Z. O. NJ Condon......T To-day, Tues
day and Wednesday the evening sessions are
to be continued, the House adjourning at
4:30 P. M.
TUESDAY, April 1.-THE House bill
providing for the expenses of foreign goods
admitted to the Centennial, passed "A
bill to make $40, 900 appropriation to i'm
prove the capitol grounds passed ....Senator
Hamlln's bill to Fix the rate of postage on
third-class matter came up, the discussion
being upon an amendment submitted by
Merrimon to strike out of the third class of
mail matter prints, engravings, blanks fiexi-
BILE patterns, samples of merchandise,
sample cards, Photographic paper, letter
envelopes, postal envelopes and wrappers,
cards, plain and ornamental paper photo
graphic representations, seeds, cuttings,
bulbs roots and scions. The amendment
was rejected yeas IL; nays 80.
House.
TUESDAY, April IA bill was passed
authorizing the construction of bridge
across the Missouri River, at or near Sioux
City. ...... The Senate bill appropriating
$4,000 for improvement of the capital
grounds, being amended by reducing the
amount to $40, 900, passed. ..... Little progress
was made in the legislative appropriation
bill during the evening session, discussion
and action being confined to the reduction
of special treasury agents, who were limited
to ten; to a proposition by Mr.. White, of
Kentucky, to relieve small private distil-
leries from taxation, which was voted down
Senate
WEDNESDAY, April 1.-THE only
matter of importance in the Senate pro-
ceedings to-day was the passage of Ham
Inns bill to fix the rate of postage on third
class mail matter. A vote upon the substi-
tute offered by Harvey, restoring the old
rates. stood % to 25, and it was rejected
The bill, as passed, enumerates the articles
to be comprised in third class matter, which
briefly is any matter not liable to injure the
contents of the mail bag, and under foul
pounds in weight. Postage shall be pre-
paid, land if the sender negl oct this, the
matter will not be transmitted through the
mails until the postage is paid. Transient
newspapers and magazines shall be admit
ted to and transmitted in the mails at the
rate of one cent for every three ounces OF
fractional part thereof, and one cent foI
each two additional ounces, or fractional
part thereof.
WEDNESDAY, April 12.-The bill to
supply the deficiency in the Printing Bureau
and the silver currency bill being agreed to,
as to the Senate amendments, now goes to
the President $50. During the evening ses-
sion, after an animated discussion, mo-
ton made by Hill, of Georgia, to strike out
of the Legislative Appropriation bill $780,,
900 for Furnishing violations of the internal
revenue laws, was rejected ..... While con-
sidering the item for the Bureau OF Statistics
the House adjourned.
Senate.
THURSDAY, April 13.-Mr. Bogy pre-
scented memorial from the st. Louis Cot
ton Exchange advocating an increased APP
preparation for the signal service. Re
ferred The following bills passed. Pro-
viding for the separate entry of packages
contained in one Importation; authorizing
the construction of a pontoon bridge across
the Mississippi River from some point in
La Crosse county, Wis, to some point IN
Houston cotnty, MINI. ......After short ex-
ecutive session the Senate adjourned until
Monday.
House.
THURSDAY, April 13.-Bills passed to-
day in the House: Granting an island in the
Wisconsin river to the city of Stevens Point;
to confirm presumption, and homestead en-
tries of public lands within the limits of
railroad grants, in cases where such entries
have been made under the regulations of the
land department; restoring to the market
the Uintah Indian reservation, in Utah; al
so bill prospecting the limits of the reserva-
ton for town sites on the public domain; to
authorize claimants on even numbered sec
tons of lands within twenty miles limits OF
the Northern Pacific Railroad, to make
proof and payment of their claim at min
imum rate of $1.25 per acre.
Ee Went Away Sad.