Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-12-26

out material amendment. Adjourned.
THURSDAY, December 19.-The house
bill appropriating $45O,ooo for the transport
tation of mails by railroads was passed.
Dorsey then called up the house bill to
amend the act of June 80, 1873, and to fix
the rate of interest on bonds authorized by
said act to be issued by the commissioner Of
the District of Columbia and for Other pur-
poses. Passed-2S to &c.. ... The vice.presi.
dent announced as the select committee to
enquire whether the constitutional right of
citizens were violated in the recent cleo.
tons, in accordance with the resolution of
Blaine, adopted on Tuesday, Senators Teller,
Cameron, (Wisconsin,) kirkwood, Bayard,
Wallace, Bailey, Garland, Hoar and Nc.
MILAN. .....After an executive session, the
senate adjourned.
FRIDAY, December 20.-After some
discussion of the bill introduced by Beck to
repeal section 500 of the revised statutes the
senate went into executive session. When
amendment to the bill to repeal section $40
of the revised statutes SO as to repeal section
S21, also in regard to the test oath. The bill
to repeal the frst-named section WAS then
passed without opposition, and the senate
adjourned until January Z, 1879.
House.
MONDAY, December 16.-The follow
ing bills were introduced and referred {:
Providing for the payment of duties on i'm.
ports in U. S...notes; reducing the charge
for postoffce money orders to five cents; to
place Jas. Shields on the retired list as q
brigadier general; for the exchange of
standard silver dollars for trade dollars to
amend the coinage act of February Is, 1873,
so as to limit the coinage of standard silver
dollars to five dollars per capita according
to the census. about to be taken,
and makes them legal tender to
tho amount Of $40 for all debts to place the
the basis of its intrinsic value, and pro7id.
ing for its free coinage without limit;
requiring the secretary of the treasury to
exchange United States notes for silver dol.
lars when presented in sums OF $1,000 or
any multiple thereof; for the improvement
of the Mississippi and it's tributaries from
the head of its passes near its mouth to its
head waters......A bill making it a penal Of
tense for any officer of the United States to
intermeddle with the elections by contribu-
tons of money or by use or abuse of official
ETC., and also making it penal offense to
solicit or receive contributions for election
purposes from persons in the employ of the
government, was rejected-yeas 1872, nays
lO3, not the necessary two-thirds in the
observation-disclosures.
TUESDAY, December 1.-THE house
went into committee Of the whole on the
bill sppropriating $3.50, 900 to meet the de-
ficiency in the appropriation for the postal
mail service, and prohibiting any increase
49, 6o~ nkn1~ Al
year. A heated discussion ensued relative
to the administration of the affairs of the
postofice Departmental. After the rejection
Of several amendments the committee rose,
the house passed the bill and adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, December 18.-The sem
ate amendment to the adjournment resolu
ton, extending the recess from December
Goth to January 9TH, was concurred in......
The senate amendments to the fertilization
and consular and diplomatic bills were nom
concurred in. The bill appropriating $780,
GOO for the expenses of the committee on
passed, ard the house went into committee
Of the whole on the Indian appropriation
bill, but rose without coming to any definite
action. Adjourned.
- THURSDAY, December 19.-J. q.
i VUOk SVVA SA0 OSdO A0SUos v0C0ut NY stuo
death of J. J. Leonard, of the Fifth Louis
lana district. 900. The house went into COM
mittee Of the whole on the Indian appropri-
alton bill. After action on several amend
ments the committee rose and reported the
bill to the house. A separate vote was de.
manded on the amendment agreed to in
committee prohibiting the removal of the
Indians Of Arizona and New Mexico to the
Indian territory, and it was adopted, yeas
81, nays 81. The bill then passed. .....Ad'
journed. = ,:Fs + -:
FRIDAY, December 2o.-A' communi.
cation was received from the secretary of
the treasury to the resolution calling for in.
formation - to what balances on loan &C.
counts were standing to the credit of the
United States in any national bank from
March, 1875, to the present time. The let
ter was read on motion of Hewitt, IN. w.
who, amid much confusion, endeavored to
have table of figures read, showing, he
claimed, that there has been for six months
IN average Of $50, 0C0, 600 to the credit Of
the United States in the First National bank
of New York. "..Adjourned. until January