Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-12
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.

NAOSh
the committee on finance to inquire in
to the expediency of making trade dol
lars legal tender for all debts, public
and private, and providing for the
suspension of coinage ofthe standard sill
yer dollar of 4122 grains and recoining of
the same into trade dollars of 400
grains, and for such additional coinage
of trade dollars as the needs of the
country may demand. The Senate
then received a large number of exec
utive appointments, after which Mr..
Beck submitted the following
ReSOlred, That the secretary of the treasury
be, and is hereby directed to inform the senate
what amount and denomination Of silver coin has
been received in payment of custom duties since
the beginning of the current f-cal year, and
whether or not he has applied the silver coin so
received in whole or in part, to the payment of
interest on bonds or notes of the United States:
If 1t has not been so applied to that purpose or
If in part only, TO state what portion h9s been so
used, and on what character of obligation; also,
that he be directed to inform the senate the
amount of interest he has pa d on bonds and
notes of the UnSted states since the current fiscal
year began, and the amount he has paid in gold
and silver coin respectively.
Debate followed upon the Texas Pa
cific railway bill, and the senate ad-
journed.
TUESDAY, Dec. 3-House. Bills were
introduced as follows: To abolish the
tariff on matches; to abolish the re-
quirement of proof Of loyalty as a
condition and precedent to obtaining
pensions for services in the war of 1912;
to authorize tobacco raisers to sell
their products without payment
OF tax; for the improvement of the Mis-
sissippi river, from its mouth to its
headwaters; to make trade dollars legal
tender; to require the secretary of the
treasury to receive trade dollars in ex-
change for legal tender silver dollars.
Several bills were introduced for re-
coming the silver trade dollars into
standard silver dollars, and for the re-
peal the resumption act, and the ap-
pOintment of committees on the vel
low fever epidemic. The house went
into committee of the whole on the
military academy appropriation bill,
which appropriates $276, 1864, which is
$4,000 below the appropriation of the
current year. The military academy
and fortifcation bills passed. Ad-
iourned.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 4.-iSenate-Bills
were Introduced: Mr.. Salisbury,
authorizing the secretary of the treas
ury on redeeming United States legal
tender notes, as required by the special
resumption, act. to pay rs per cent. in
gold coin, and 25 cent. in standard
silver dollars; Mr.. Eustis, to appropriate
$50O.OOO for constructing levees on the
Mississippi river. Amotion to take up
the Texas Pacific railway bill was de-
feated.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. .-House-The
bill providing for the Hot Springs COM
mission, with an amendment that
free bath be maintained for indigents,
was passed. No other important bus
mess was transacted.
THURSDAY, Dec. 5.-Senote-The pres
ldent announced as the special commit
tee IN yellow fever investigation: Messrs.
Matthews, Lamar. Paddock, Conover,
Garland and Eustis. Mr.. Ferry sub
mitted a resolution calling upon the
president to submit to the senate any
information he may have in regard to
postal communication with the South
American countries. After executive
session, adjourned until Monday.
THURSDAY, Dec. 5.-House-The con-
sular and diplomatic bill was reported
and made a special order for the COM
ing Tuesday. The naval appropriation
bill was also reported and referred to
the committee of the whole. Mr..
Brentano offered resolution directing
an investigation of certain charges of
bribery made against him by the Wash
ington Post. A very friendly debate
n nyof VOL
fever resolution, which was adopted
and the house adjourned until Monday.
MONDAY Dec. 9.-Senate- and
resolutions were introduced: Conkling,
a bill granting a pension to the widow
of Rear Admiral .Paulding; a resolu-
ton setting forth that the United States
patent office has become an institution
of imposition, and therefore directing
the committee on patents to consider
the eXpediency of some other mode of
compensating inventors in place of the
present system; Cameron. resolution
requesting the president of the United
States to furnish the senate with copies
of the reports of u S. Marshalls, or 9TH
er officers, and such other correspon-
dence as he may have, relative to the
recent elections in South Carolina and
Louisiana. Mr.. Edmunds then ad-
dressed the senate in favor ofthe bill to
regulate the counting Of votes for presi
dent and vice president.
MONDAY, Dec. 9.-HOuSe-RIlls were
Introduced: Vance, to repeal the Z. S.
electoral supervisors law; Atkins, to
make minor or silver coins legal ten
der for all debts due the government;
Atkins, to make minor or subsidiary
legal tender for all debts due the gov
ernment, including payment of custom
dues; Burchard, requiring national
banking associations TO receive legal
tender coins on deposit at par and in
exchange at par for United States and
national bank notes; also, directing
United States treasurer to receive coins
Of United States in exchange for U. S.
notes; Buckner, amending the silver re-
monetization act; Cummings; to pro-
vide for the redemption of subsidiary
coins Of the United States and for their
reissue; Hewitt; to make the silver
standard dollars interchangeable with
gold. A motion to suspend the rules
and pass the bill declaring that silver
dollars Of 412! grains shall be main
tanned, and providing for any discrim-
nation against them, was lost by less
than the necessary two-thirds vote.
Naming the BABY.
Inter-Ocean.
What shall we name the baby" is
an important question this year, for the
crop, like the wheat, was never better.
1t is rather soon to grade them as No.
1, No. 2, or rejected" and your head
and reputation are both safer to pro-
nOnnce the entire lot No. /: but the