The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-12-21

FRIDAY, December 13.-Bllls intro
duced and referred: To amend the laws |
relating to pensions, so as to regulate attor-
ney's fees; to provide for temporary in
crease of the army in an emergency; to
secure more efficient collection of revenue
from cigars At the expi alton of the
morning hour consideration was resumed
on the bill in regard to the count of the
electoral vote, and Bayard spoke in its
favor. Eaton, Garland and Hill opposed
the bill and Merrimon spoke in its favor
After some further discussion between
Messrs. Hoar, Cockrell and Edmunds, the
bill was read a third time and passed-yeas
30 nays Co.. Adjourned till Monday.
House.
MONDAY, December 9.-Bills intro
duced: To repeal the United States cleo
toraI supervisors law; to make minor or
subsidiary legal tender receivable for all
debts due the government, including the
payment of customs dues; to compel
national banks to receive standard silver
dollars as equivalent in value to gold coins
of the United States to make standard sill
yer dollars interchangeable with gold; to
enforce the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments to the constitution in South Carolina
49,. Motion to suspend the rules and pass
the bill prohibiting the further coinage of
of trade dollars, and directing their ext
change for ard their recoinage into
| standard silver dollars, was defeated
yeas 154, nays 91,-not the neces-
sary two thirds; also one to suspend the
rules and adopt the resolution declaring the
| legal tender quality of silver dollars, 4l2K
grains, shall be maintained and enforced
and that any discrimination against them
by any national bank, shall be deemed
defiance of the laws, and instructing the
banking committee to report bill for the
withdrawal of the circulating notes so offend
ing; yeas $50; nays 80; not the necessary
two-thirds in the afirmative......Ad journed.
TUESDAY, December 10-The house
went into committee of the whole on the
consular and diplomatic. appropriation bill
80. On motion of Hale the salary of min
listers to England France, Germany and
Russia reported in the bill at ST., 600 was, by
a vote of SO to 81 put back to the present
figure, ST. 800. Several minor amendments
were adopted when consideration of the
bill having been concluded in committee of
the whole, the house passed it after strik-
ing out the amendment agreed to in COM
mittee increasing the salaries of the minis
tiers to Great Britain, France, Germany and
Russia. The house then went into COM
mittee of the whole on the naval appropri-
alton bill. Clymer explained that the bill
became a law last year. Nota single amend
ment being offered to the bill the committee
rose and reported it to the house, and it
was thereupOn passed. The speaker laid
before the house the request of the senate
to be furnished with copy of James E.
AnGerson's testimony relating to Senator
Matthews, and on motion of Potter the re-
quest was complied with. Adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, December 1.-THE bill
reported last year from the committee on
commerce to regulate the interstate com
merce and prevent discrimination by COM
mon carriers, was taken up and discussed.
The bill makes it unlawful for any person
or persons engaged in the transportation of
property by railroad from one state to an
other or to or from any foreign country, to
receive any greater or less amount of COM
pensation from one person than another for
like and contemporaneous services. At the
close of the discussion the bill was passed
ayes 1885, nays 0......Adjourned.
THURSDAY, December IA resolu-
ton was passed ordering a recess from
December Goth to January 9th .. Baker,
from the committee on appropriations, re.
ported bill repeating SO much of the civil
sundry bill as appropriates 900 to the
payment of claims of Chas. P. Burkirk, late
Indian agent at the Ponca agency. Passed
..... Smith, of Pennsylvania, from commit
tee on appropriations, reported a substitute
for the pension appropriation bills. 1t was
referred to the committee of the whole and
the house went Into such committeer, re-
jected several amendments and passed the
BILL. Evans introduced bill removing
the political disabilities of ex-senator James
Chesmet, OF South Carolina. Passed..
Adjourned.
FRIDAY, December ia resolution
looking to the investigation of the official
conduct of j. j. Davenport, United States
supervisor of elections at New York, was
adopted without objections after being
amended so as to make the investigation
extend to his conduct on the days of regis
tration...... The bills on the speakers desk
since last session were then taken up and
referred to the committees, except where
objections were made, as was the case with
the bill to repeal the resumption act and
bill to extend the time for constructing the
Northern Pacific railway. These bills re-
main on the speakers table The house
then went into committee of the whole on
the senate calendar. The first bill on the
calendar was bill for reimbursing the
College of William and Mary for property
destroyed during the late war. After
speeches by Kiefer and Eden in opposition
to the bill the committee rose..... Wilson,
of West Virginia, introduced bill making
the trade dollar legal tender. Referred -.