The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-12-28
FoRTY-FIFrH CONGRESS.

visit any portion of the country when such
visit may in their judgment facilitate any
portion of the object in view. Butler moved
an amendment so as to provide that the
committee or any subcommittee there
of shall sit with open doors. Re-
jected after debate by strict party vote
yeas 80 nays so. The question then
being on the amendment Of Blaine, Davis,
of West Virginia, moved to amend so to
provide that the committee or any sub
committee should sit with open doors when
requested to do so by any member of the
committees. A spirited debate followed
between Blaine aud several southern sena-
tors. Finally Davis amendment was re-
jected by another strict party Vote.
Adjourned.
TUESDAY, December 17.-Windom,
in explanation of the consular and diplo-
matte appropriation bill, said as it came to
the senate it appropriated $1,04O, 1856; the
senate committee added So, 100, and rs now
reported the bill appropriated sos less
than the estimates for the next fiscal year.
The various amendments proposed by the
committee were agreed to without discus
sion aud the bill passsd. ..... The vice presi-
dent laid before the senate q communication
from the secretary of the treasury 10 reply
to Mr.. Beck's resolution of December 3D.
calling for information as TO the amount of
silver coin received from customs duties
and if applied to the payment of interest on
the public debt. Consideration was then
resumed of the Blaine resolution regarding
the constitutional rights of citizens After
remarks by Merrimon and Wallace, Blaine's
amendment, offered yesterday, authorizing
the committee to take testimony and to
administer oaths and visit any portion of
tho country when such visit may in their
judgment facilitate the object of inquiry,
il was agreed to without discussion. After
further discussion the resolution as amend.
ed was agreed to-yeas Sc, nays g.. Morrill,
called up the house resolution providing
for holiday recess, and it was amended by
Blaine so as to have recess from Friday,
December 20 to Tuesday. January T.
Agreed to.....After an executive session the
senate adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, December 18.-The
house bill giving twenty condemned cannon
TO the Custer monument at West Point
passed AFTER a short executive session
the bill apprOpriating $4,000 to defray the
expenses of the commission On epidemic
diseases and the bin to amend the posse
c0mltdtus clause Of the army appropriation
bill for the present fiscal year, so as 20 pro-
vide that it shall not be construed to apply
TO any part of the army or portion thereof
engaged in the protection of life and prop
erty IN the states and territories subject to
indian instruction, were passed The
pension appropriation bill was passed with
out material observation-disclosures.
THURSDAY, December 19.-The house
bill appropriating $450000 for the transport
tttion of mails by railroads was passed ....
Dorsey then called up the house bill to
amend the act of June so, 1873, and to fix
he n int ~ On hOn dc -
said act to be issued by the commissioner of
the District of Columbia and for other pur-
poses. Passed-2S to TO-. 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, Bsiley, Garland, Hoar and Nc
Mulan......After an executive session, the
senate adjourned.
FRIDAY, December 20.-After some
discussion of the bill introduced by Beck to
repeal section $40 of the revised statutes the
senate went into executive session. When
the doors were reopened Beck withdrew his
to the bill to repeal section $50
OF the revised statutes so as to repeal section
81, also in regard to the test oath. The bill
70 repeal the nrst-named section was then
passed without opposition, and the senate
until January Z, 1879.
House.
SATURDAY, December 14.-Durham, |
from the committee on appropriations re-
ported the military academy appropriation
bill with the senate amendments which, |
with trivial exceptions were non-concurred |
in. Phillips submitted resolution reciting |
Ini Id i Nj
ka, and the capture of maraudels, and call |
ing on the secretary of the interior for in |
formation as to why he had not surrendered /
the guilty and responsible parties of such |
Indian bands to the authorities of Kansas |
and Nebraska. Adopted THE senate bill |
the issue of duplicates of regis
tered bonds stolen from the Manhattan
savings institution, in New York, was
passed......The senate bill to regulate the |
presidential elections was taken from the
speakers table and referred to the COM
mltteee on the subject. journed.
MONDAY, December 16.-The follow
ing bills were introduced and referred
Providing fer the payment of duties on i'm
ports IN U. s.. notes; reducing the charge
for postoffice money orders to FIVE cents; to
place Jas. Shields on the retired list as a
general for the exchange of
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 10
the amount ef $40 for all debts /; to place the
silver coinage of the United States upon
the basis of its intrinsic value, and proyid
my Tor It's Tree coinage without limit.
requiring the secretary of the treasury to
MT Tod tota g. IL. |
lars when presented III sums of 81 900 or
any multiple thereof; for the improvement
OF the Mississippi and its tributaries from
the head OF It's passes near its mouth to its
head waters......A bill making it q penal Of
tense for any officer of the United States TO
ntermeddle with the elections by coptribu-
lions of money or by use or abuse of official
privilege, or by brides or threats influence.
ETC., and also making it penal offense to
solicit o. receive contributions for election
purposes from persons in the employ of the
government, was rejected-yeas 1872, NAYS
u3, not the necessary two-thirds in the
journed
TUESDAY, December 1.-THE house {
vent into committee of the whole on the
ill appropriatng $3.50, 900 to meet the de-
lciency in the appropriation for the postal
nail service, and prohibiting any increase {
n the postal car service during the present I
ear. A heated discussion ensued relative {
the administration of the affairs of the 6
ostothce departm nt...... After the rejection }
several amendments the committee rose
ne house passed the bill and adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, December lS.-The SEN
tie amendment to the adjournment resolu
on, extending the recess from December 7
9TH to January 9TH, was concurred in ...... c
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