The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-02-15
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS
Senate.

to the extravagant damages awarded by local
juries for damages under the Fox
and Wisconsin river Improvement act. Re-
ferred......A minority report was presented |
from the committee on privileges and |
elections, signed by Hoar, Cameron. of |
Wisconsin, and Mitchell, in favor of the |
sixteenth amendment TO the constitution
prohibiting states from DISTINGUISHING per-
sons on account OF sex.....The senate went |
into executive session, and when the doors |
were reopened adjourned until Monday.
MONDAY, February 3.-Senator Voor-
hees took the oath of Office under the re- |
cent election to fill the unexpired term of
the late senator Morton .....,A bill was intro
duced 10 transfer the office of Indian affairs |
from the interior to the war Department..
A petition of colored people of Louisiana
was presented, complaining that they are
not protected either in life or property |
that at the recent election they were met by
armed white men known as the Democratic
club; that they were shot and not allowed
to hold meetings they therefore invoke
the protection of the Federal government
Referred to the select committee of which
Teller is chairman 1.-The senate then went
into executive session, and when the doors
were re-epened, adjourned.
TUESDAY, February AFTER num-
Der of committee reports had been received
and placed on the calendar, Coke spoke at
| length in favor of constructing a railroad in
Texas to the Rio Grande..... .Edmund's
resolutions declaring the validity of the
! thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments were then debated, after which the
| senate went into executive session w Ad-
! journed.
WEDNESDAY, February 5.-The vice
president laid before the senate the creden-
tials of j Ohm p. Jones, elected United States
senator from Nevada......A bill was passed
appropriating 81 1888 to pay the Richmond
Female institute Richmond, Va, for the
use OF its building by the army of the United
States from October, 1865, to 1866 IA res
olution of the New York legislature was
presented, asking an appropriation for the
removal of distractions in st. Msry's river,
st Clair river, and Detroit river. Referred.
| 1.-The senate resumed consideration of
the resolution of Edmunds declaring the
validity of the thirteenth, fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments 10 the constitution.
After long debate, the rejection of mum.
Der of amendments, and the defeat of several
motions for adjournment the question was
demanded and the resolutions passed by a
vote OF % to II. ..-Adjourned.
THURSDAY, February 6.-Blaine pre-
scented a memorial of the manufacturing
companies of Maine representing $4,000
900 capital and employing thousands of per
sons asking an appropriation for mail ser
vice between one or more OF our Atlantic
ports and South American ports. Referred
1.-The bill TO provide for the taking of the
| tenth and subsequent censuses was taken
up and after slight amendmentwa passed
yeas 46, nays 4......The vice-presdent laid
before the senate a message from the preSi-
| dent, enclosing q report Of the secretary of
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terEGtl0naI monetary conference, held in
Paris in August, 1873. Ordered printed
and referred After an executive session
the senate adjourned.
FRIDAY, February THE senate bill
to extend the provisions Of the act of June
s, 1874, in regard to prize money to all feet
officers was passed. The house bill grant
ing a pension to Julia Watkins, widow of
Thomas II. Watkins, late captain of Co. B,
Purnell Legion, Maryland, was passed after
some discussion.....Tne bill providing for
holding terms of Circuit and District Courts
of The United States for the district of Col
orado was passed. The house bill to re
move certain disabilities of women was
taken up and passed-yeas 40, nays 20. 1t
provides that any women who shall have
been member of the highest court Of any
st1te or territory or of the Supreme Court
| Of the District of Columbia for the space of
three years. and shall have maintained a
good standing before such court, and who
| shall be person of good moral character,
| shall, on motion and production of such
record, be admitted to practice before the
! Supreme Court OF the United States. The
bill, having passed as it came from the
house, now goes to the president for his
signature. AFTER executive session the
senate adjourned.
House.
SATURDAY, February latter long
debate On a claim bill the house went into
| committee of the whole on tne army appro
prlation bill but rose without action ....,Ad-
journed.
MONDAY, February Bills intro
duced: Appropyiating one hundred million
dollars for the payment of the arrearages OF
pensions; authorizing the issue of per
cent bonds 10 the amount of $500, 600, coo,
the proceeds CT the sale of which shall be
devoted to the payment Of arrears of pen
SONS; Tor the relief of persons whose lands
have been or may be washed away or sub
merged by the Mississippi river or its trib-
utarles; extending the time for the com
pletlon Of the National Pacific railroad w
The house then commenced memorial SER
vices in respect for the late Terrence j.
Quinn, representative from New York.
Resolutions appropriate for the occasion
were offered by Mr.. Lockwood and unani.
mously adopted, and eulogies on the life
end character OF the deceased pronounced
| by Messrs Lockwood, Mayham, Bailey, Co
vert and Townsend IN. ", Jones, (Ohio),
Caldwell, (Tenn.l Everett. Adjourned.
TUESDAY, February 1.-The house,
on assembling, went into committee of the
whole on the army appropriation bill.
hot debate was ELECTED by Cox's amend
ment fixing the army force at 900. 1t
was defeated by a vote If 66 TO us, The
| committee rose without further action
After recess the house went into commit
tee OF the whole on the Mississippi leyee
bills. An amendment was offered directing
the commission to consider and report on
the practlcability of improving the naviga-
ton, deepening the channel and redeeming
alluvial lands of The Mississippi by means
OF outlets into the gulf; also one striking out
| of the bill all that alludes to the protection
of alluvial lands. The committee rose and !
reported the bill and pending amendments !
The main question was ordered, and the |
house adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, February s. The |
speaker announced the regular order to be |
the consideration of the Mississippi levee
bill. TIE amendment appropriating So, ST. |
500 for strengthening the levees was with.
drawn and the bill passed-yeas 100, NAYS
ID. The report of the committee on cleo. |
tons n the Florida contested case was sub /
mltted IN favor of Jesse J. Finlay and ad-
verse to the claims of Horace Bisbee. The |
minority submitted dissenting view, and |
both reports were reccmmitted.. -. A fter a
short session in committee of the whole on
the army bill without any definite action,
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