Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-06-13

CONGRESSIONAL.

CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE, June 4..-TAe select committee
ON Mexican relations was authorized to ait
through the recess. The bill creating the
once OF railroad commissioner was passed.
Mr.. Burnside reported bill to create CON-
nor bills were passed, among them one for a
military telegraph In Dakota and Montana.
Mr.. Spencer introduced bill for military
post on Milk river. The post-route bill was
considered and the army bill reported with
amendments.
HOUSE, June 4.-Bills were passed fix
ing the day of election of congressman in sew
eral States; also the time for holding courts,
an and relating to other unimportant matters.
The The bill recognizing the life-sav:ng service
was passed. The house then went into com
mite OF the whole on the tariff bill, and after
q brief discussion the bill was read first
time.
SENATE, June 5.-Mr. Matthews made
q personal explanation denying cohtplicitt
in any plots and previous connection with the
Louisiana election as charged in the testi-
mony OF Anderson before the Potter CON-
mittee, and moved the appointment of COM
Mr.. Sherman introduced a bill creating sink
ing fund for the Kansas Pacific, railroad, sim
liar to the Pacific railroad funding bill. lately
passed. The Texas Pacific bill was consid-
cred. the post route bill came up, and discus
SION OF the Brazilian steamship line subsidy
was resumed. Several amendments were
offered, which created discussion.
HOUSE, June 5.-The tariff bill coming
up as special order, the enacting clause was
stricken out by vote of 1S4 to 12O. The
Mexican awards bill was then amended and
passed. The House then considered the bill
to amend the internal revenue laws. An
amendment was adopted reducing the tax on
manufactured tobacco to sixteen cents.
SENATE, June Ex-senator Voorhees,
spoke in favor of the specie resumption act.
He said no greater question had ever engaged
Senate had time to pass all sorts of bills to
bridge rivulets, but no time to meet a question
which INVOLVES more peril and distress than
had ever been produced by war and pestilence.
The Senate bill relating to tclegraphic COM
munication between the United states and
lshing trusses to disabled soldiers was passed.
The army appropriation was discussed and
amended, one amendment being to increase
the standing army to $4,000 men. An amend
ment was also attached providing for mill.
tary post in the Black Hills at cost of $75, 900,
and one in Montana in the vicinity Of Milk
river at cost Of 100000. An amendment to
strike out all House sections in regard to re-
organizing the army WIS agreed t3
HotsE, June 1.-THE Senate bill grant
Ing. the use of tents, artillery, &c., to the
soldiers reunion at Centrevillc, Iowa, passed.
The bill for printing the agricultural report
for 1877, with Senate amendment providing
for printing 5000 copies of the colonial char.
ters and constitutions, was passed. The con-
ference report on the hill making appropria-
tions for the payment of invalid and other
pensions was agreed to. The general efficiency
bill was discussed at considerable length in
committee OF the whole. The bill appropriatcs
$3.50, ,l2O. The House adjourned before com
ing to any ditinite agreement.
SENATE, June 7.-The President pro
tenn. laid before the Senate communication
from the secretary announcing he had been
summoned before the Potter committee to
that he had obeyed the subpoena. In conclu-
sion he says II respectfully request you to
lay this communication before the Senate that
may, II deemed necessary and proper, have
instructions as to my duty in this and similar
cases that may hereafter arise.' Senator
tary OF the Senate attend before the committee
OF the House mentenioned with the papers
described by the committee, and submit the
papers to examination from time to time &C.
cordlng to the convenience Of the committee.
A long discussion cnsued when the order of
action touching the regularity of the action
OF the House in calling for the papers, instruct
ing the secretary to attend the committee.
and as modified agreed to. The army appro-
priation bill was further discussed and
amended.
HOUSE, June THE civil sundry ap-
preparation bill was referred to the committee
OF the whole. The general deficiency bill was
then taken up, and amendments adopted CIV
in n m fhn kS1~1 ~f a. -
42s37e instead Of s766ls; and to the Bureau eau
Of construction and repairs 81 1,327, ,45S instead
OF $55S.3 354; and to the bureau of provisions
and clothing $150,O00 instead of $73,8OO. The
committee on military affairs was directed to
inquire into the conduct of United State
troops engaged in the battle of the Little Big
Horn. -
SENATE, June Ex-senator Spencer offer
ed Cd the following resolution, and gave notice
was reached. Resol,eel, In order that all facts
connected with the Presidential election of
1876, and the result thereof, which was finally
reached, may be fully known to the American
people, a select committee of eight Senators
be appointed and instructed to inquire into
ana INVESTIGATE charges of fraud, illegality,
intimidation, violence and other obstacles to
free and honest ssutfrage, occurring at said
election, in the States of South Carolina,
FLORIDA and Louisiona, and also into all simi-
lar charges which said committee may deem
OF sufficient gravity, concerning said election
N stosa Alabama Mississippi Oregon or any other
may deem expedient to investigate connect
ed with the presidential electoral count in the
forty-f Congress-; also into circumstanc
es OF the dissolution of the Legislature and
governmnt in the State of Louisiana known
as the Packard government, and the establish
ment OF the Legislature and government
known as the Nichols government, and to as
certain whether oT1 not such Hdissolution of
one government and the establishment of the
other was in consequence of any act or trans
actions occurring prior to March 4th, 1877,
ana ana through what persons or agencies, if any,
such results were accomplished; and the said
committee have power to appoint sub-com-
mittees, employ clerks and stenographers,
administers oaths, send for persons and Da
pers, to examine witnesses, sit during the re-
cess, with all powers of the full committee of
the Senate, and that all expenses thereof he
the Senate. The Texas railroad bill
in December next. The committee
on pensions, reported in favor of concurring
In the House amendment increasing the pen
per month. The bill modifying the contract
wich James B. Eads, for construction of jettics
at the south Pass of the Mississippi river was
passed IS to3
HOUSE, June S.-A joint resolution was
passed authorizing the secretary of State to
submit the subject Of goloid coinage, with ex-
hibits explanatory thereof, to the internation-
al congress, proposed by the act of Feb. Is.
A reference cammittee was ordered upon the
Mexican award bill. The general deficiency
bill was passed after having been further
amended. Sessions were ordered for every
night next week. :, : '..- 80
SENATE, June lO.-A bill from the con-
ference committee, providing for a permanent
government for the District Of Columbia was
submitted and concurred in, and is in the
hands of the President. Senator Wadliegb,
chairman, said 1t was the intention; of his
committee to submit report at the present