Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-04-03

Grafton of the Pacific railway sinking
fund bill was resumed, and Mr.. Melon
aid, member of the judiciary COM
mittee, spoke in favor of the bill re-
ported by that committee. After
long debate the bill was then laid
aside, with the understanding that it
should not lose its place as unfinished
business, and the senate resumed con-
siderat ton of the house bill authorizing
the secretary of the treasury to employ
temporary clerks, and making apprO-
priation for detecting trespass on public
lands, and for bringing into market
public lands in certain states. and for
other purposes.
After numerous amendments to re-
duce the appropriations had been voted
down, the other amendments of the
committee on appropriations were
agreed to without debate, as follows:
Appropriating $4,000 for deficiency
in the appropriation for salaries and
expenses of collectors Of internal reve-
nue., and 81 900 to enable the secretary
of war to employ 32 additional clerks
and 2 laborers in the pension divisions
of the surgeon generals Office during
the balance of the present fiscal year.
The bill was then reported to the senate
and the question being on concurring
in the amendments made in committee
of the whole, they were all adopted and
the bill passed.
FRIDAY, March 22.-House. -The
house at the expiration Of the
morning hour went into committee
of the whole on the private calendar.
The committee disposed of large
number of bills, and then rose and re-
ported them to the house, and they
were passed; principally pension bills to
the number of forty, among them bills
pensioning widows of Rear Admiral ST.
las II. Stringhan, Lieutenant Colonel
JAS. Totten and Commodore Benjamin
J. Totten. and bill to pay the widow
of Gen. Custer three thousand dollars
for money paid by her fathers estate to
the government on forfeiture bond. A
bill was also passed pensioning widows
and minor children Of Capt. Guthrie
and the surfmen who were drowned in
rendering assistance to the crew of the
wrecked Huron. On motion of Critten-
den. the senate bill to authorize the
Worthington and Sioux Falls railroad
company to extend its road into the
territory of Dakota to the valley of Sioux
Falls was taken up and passed.
MONDAY, March 25.-Senate. Win
dom, from the committee on appropria-
tons, reported the 9Th amendment to
the house bill making appropriations
for consular and diplomatic service
for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1879. Placed on calendar.
The committee on public buildings
and grounds reported favorably for a
bill to provide building for 9 post
Office, United States court rooms, ETC.,
at Topeka, Kansas, and with amend
ment to senate bill to provide for pub
lie building mt Kansas City, Mis-
souri,. Both placed on calendar.
Mr.. Wallace submitted an amend
ment to the house bill to repeal the
specie resumption act which provides
that on and after July l. 1878, United
States legal tender notes will be re-
ceivable for all debts and duties public
and private; that any national banking
association hereafter authorized or any
national banking association now in ex-
istence which may desire to increase
its circulation, shall deliver to the sec
rotary of the treasury for cancellation
any Of the bonds of the United States
payable within 10 years and bearing 6
per cent, interest and shall receive in
exchange therefor legal tender notes of
the United States to the
amount of the nominal value
of such bonds, which said bonds shall
be treated as part of the sinking fund
and recorded and destroyed under ex-
isting laws; but the whole amount of
legal tender notes issued for this pur-
pose and otherwise outstanding shall
never exceed 1882, 100000. No tax up
on the circulation shall be imposed up
on legal tender notes issued under the
provisions hereof. and no reserve shall
be required to be kept for their redemp-
ton by any such national banking as
sociation. All laws or parts of laws IN
consistent with the provisions hereof, be
and they are hereby repealed. Referred.
At the expiration of the morning
hour Mr.. Howe called up his resolution
asking the president for information in
regard to the alleged defalcation of
Judge Whitaker, of Louisiana, and
made his promised speech. At
the conclusion of Howe's speech
the senate went into executive session
and adjourned.
MONDAY, March 25.-HomS.-Bills
were introduced and referred: MIR.
Stephens, by request, authorizing the
issue of postoffice bonds, bearing
a. &c on napts 10Y for