The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-12-16

VI MAdICus OBJ Juc TT5SlucuG anu vice freSl
e n shall hold Office for six years and shaI
not be eligible for more than one term con
secutively, and that members of Congress
shall be elected forthree years. Referred. TIL
Speaker then called the States for bills 70
reference. F.,
By F. Wood to amend the laws relatin
to internal revenue. 1t proposes q drawback OF
all manufactured tobacco of taxes paid be
yond the rate of 10 cents per pound prior tt
the first of May. 10.
This bill is introduced by request; abolish
ing from import duty classical antiquities ant
ancient coins and medals also relating t.
the treaty making power. 1t declares tina
while the treaty making power is confined tt
the President and the Senate two-thirds con
curing, such authority does not extend tc
treaties that require appropriations Of money
to execute them, but that in all such case!
the consent of the law-making power of the
government is required, which includes the
House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-Mr. Myers intro.
duced a bill to retire the national bank circu.
fation and substitute United States Treasury
notes therefor.
The following joint resolutions in regard to
irish affairs were introduced and referred by
Frost:
WHEREAS, 1t appears that the people of
SA~tA Va UIlICuICluCu Will lne nOI-
rors of famine, and
WHEREAS, The destituion and suffering
that are now prevailing and are likely to in
crease, are in d great measure due to the sys-
tenn OF land tenure which exists in hat I'm
fortunate country, therefore
ResOtoed, By the Senate and House of
Representatives, that Congress views with
the most earnest and heartfelt sympathy the
efforts now being made by patriotic Irishmen
to ameliorate the condition of their beloved
country, and extends to the Irish people its
sincere wish for their success in their endeav-
ors to obtain for themselves and their POSTER
ity the inestimable boon of equal laws and
self-government.
By Gillette, of Iowa:
ResOtped, BY the Senate and House of Rep
rentativeS, First that we cordially synpathize
with the people of Ireland in their present
alarming condition from a threatened famine,
and in their efforts to obtain relief from the
oppressive landlord system. Second, that we
request the President of the United States to
communicate to Her Majesty's Government
our hopes that some just arrangement may be
early made by which the Irish peasants may
become owners of the land they cultivate.
Mr.. Newbury introduced a bill to author
ize the issue of $50, DOC, 900 in gold certificates.
II to establish redemption fund therefor.
Also to authorize the issue of $4,000, 900 in
silver certificates, and to establish a redemn-
ton fund therefor.
Mr.. Jones, of Texas, introduced a bill to
repeal the act for the resumption of specie
payment.
Mr.. Price, of Iowa, introduced a bill re-
curing the reserve of national banks to be
kept in gold and silver coin of the United
states. Also a bill in relation to bank de-
posts.
MIR RnGf0rI irtrpI,,a,J 4, 1:n -
a commission to negotiate with the Ute In
dams for the extinguishment of their title to
the Ute reservation.
MI. Blount, on behalf of the Appropriation
stated that the committee had
expected to report and to have passed by the
lIth OF December, the pension, ratification
and military academy bill, and he offered all
that recess on the 10Th.
cas- and nays were ordered on the amend
Warner, from the Committee on Coinage.
Weights and Measures, reported a resolution
recltlng that by an act of June 2lst, 70, the
OF twenty thousand dollars was appro-
for negotiations with foreign govern
with a view to the international re-
nonetization Of silver and calling on the
Secretary of State for information as to the
made to secure the cooperation of
other governments with the United States in
he full RECOMMENDATION of silver. Adopted.
Ihe House then went into committee of
he whole on the bill defining the duties of
he reporter of the Supreme Court of the
United States, fixing his compensation and
providing for the publication and distribution
the Supreme Court reports. 1t provides
hat the reporter shall report and prepare for
publication the decisions of the Supreme
court and such other decisions as the Court
EnSlpn1tn anI thn co1nny of a..
hall be $4,000 a year nj $500 more when
here shall be more than one volume of de-
rees published. Without final action the
arose and the House adjourned.
IIe House bill introduced by Kelley pro-
'ldeS a Constitutional amendment prohibiting
General legislation on appropriation bills and
flowing the veto of any one or more of the
TENS in such bills.
BY Muller: to establish a United States
mint i'll New York city.
by Chalmers: defining the meaning of the
Vord dollar. 1t relates that the debts of the
are evidenced by promises to paw
n dollars, and that any change in the mean
nS of the word dollar which increases the
after it was contracted is a fraud on the
1t therefore declares that the old
ehnltion OF dollar made in grains of silver
y the statutes of 1902 and 1884 are restored
tina. the act of '73, defining dollars as so
lany grains in gold, is repealed.
BY Hurd: declaring that after the first of
anuary nothing but gold and silver coin of
he United States shall be legal tender in the
OF debts thereafter contracted unless
therwise expressly stipulated.
BY Warner: to make United States legal
snder notes subject 10 taxation after the list
f March.
BY Slemons: to prohibit the further re-
lovai OF Indians to Indian Territory.
BY Culberson: %pensloning soldiers of the
lexican and other wars. .-0
By Kinna: to settle claims of the citizens
t West Virginia for losses sustained during
he late war on property chargeable to the
.nited States.
Cox, chairman of the Commute of Foreign
fairs, reported back favorably the bill to
'gulate immigration. 1t provides for the
system and federal appropriations in