The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23
FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.

TUESDAY, Jan. l4.-SENATE-M Butler
submitted resolution directing the Secretary of
the interior to inquire and report what railroad
com pany individual or individuals are building o
railroad across the public domain in Arizona. and
by what authority the road is being constructed.
Agreed to. Mr.. Davis wv Va) called up the reso-
luton submitted by him early in the session to
promote the agricultural interests of the country,
and made long speech upon the subject.
Mr.. Matthews made speech in opposition to the
bill to amend the Patent laws.
HoUsE.-The House spent the entire day in COM
mittee of the whole. considering the bill for the
payment of pensions to survivors of the Mexican
war.
WEDNESDAY,, JAN 15.-SENATE. House
bill for the payment to officers and soldiers of the
Mexican war of three months extra paw provided
for by the act of July 10, 1848, led to long dis
cussion. Mr.. Edmunds submitted an amendment
to make the act apply to those who served in the
late war for the preservation of the Union.
The bill was laid aside without action.
FIR. Voorhees, submitted resolution instructing
the Committee Indian Affairs to inquire into the
| circumstances which led to the recent escape or
! Cheyenne Indians from Fort Robinson, Neb, and
their slaughter by United States forces Agreed to-
| IA communication was laid before the
| tary Sherman on the subject of the New
York Custom House appointments, de-
signed to show that the removal of Collector Arthur
| and Naval Officer Cornell made for sufficient
cause. At the conclusion of the reading of Secre-
i tary Sherman's communication Senator Conkling
! made an earnest speech defending Arthur and Cor
nell from the charges of inefhciency and denounc-
ing the charges pretenses and after thoughts put
forth by the administration in effort to justify
action which was wholly unwarranted ON civil
| service grounds, and prompted merely by personal
! or partisan considerations.
| HoUsE.-Mr. Wood, Chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee, reported back the bill authoriz-
ing the issue of certificates of deposit in aid of
| funding the public debt. The bill authorizes the
Secretary of the Treasury to issue in exchange
| for lawful money United States certificates
| of deposit of the denomination of $40,
bearing interest at the rate Of per cent and
vertbe at any time with accrued interest into per
cent. bonds. authorized to be issued, and directs
that the money received shall be applied only to
the payment of $50 bonds. The bill, after some
| what protracted debate was passed-yeas 1854;
nays AZ. :. Mr. Wood also reported bill to facili-
| tate the refunding of the national debt It Gu
thorizes the Secretary of the Treasury in the pro-
| cess of refunding the national debt to exchange
directly at par bonds bearing per cent interest for
| bonds commonly known as the 5-20s outstand-
! ing and uncalled, and directs that whenever
all such 500 bonds shall have been redeemed, the
provision of this section and all existing provisions
of law authorizing the refunding of the national
debt shall apply to any bonds Of the United States
| bearing per cent. or higher rate of interest
which may be redeemable, and that, in any such
! change, interest shall be allowed on bonds re-
deemed for period of three months The main
question beng ordered, the House adjourned.
| THURSDAY, Jan. 16.-SENATE.-M Dorsey
submitted resolution calling upon the Secreta1 y
of the Treasury for statement of all the appropli-
ations and expenditures from the national treasul
for the purpose Of paying the expenses of the In
dian Department from July 1899 to June So 1879.
| Agreed to The bill providing for the payment
| of arrears of pensions passed. Mr. Window
offered resolution calling for committee to in
quire into the propriety of encouraging the nligra
ton Of blacks from those States where they do not
| receive such treatment ought to be accorded
American citizens to States where theirGights will
| be respected.
| HoUsE.-The House passed, without division, the
bill reported from the Ways and Means Committee
to facilitate the refundng of the national debt.
| The Mississippi Levee bill was taken I'D and the
remainder of the day devoted to its discussion.
In the evening memorial exercises in homer of the
late Prof Joseph Henry were held in the presence
of a vast audience
FRIDAY, Jan. 17.-SENATE.- resolution was
offered by Mr. Salisbury calling upon the Secretary
of the Treasury for information in regard to the
refunding of the national debt 1t laid over.
The balance of the day spent in consider
ing the bill to amend the Patent laws
Messrs. Mcdonald and Randolph appointed
to serve as members of the Teller Com
mittee, in place of Messrs. Wallace and Bayard,
who were excused at their own request.
Adjourned till Monday. #ft
HoUsE-The House devoted the day, in com
mittee of the whole, to the private calendar.
After laying aside several bills to report to
| the House, the bill reached for the payment
of $500 00O to the trustees of the Protestant Eps-
cOpaI Seminary and High School of Virginia for
| rent Of buildings during the Quite a lengthy
discussion followed, the opponents of the Ii as
sorting it was war claim, and the friends of the
measure stating it was just bill for rent of prop
erty, and the Government was as much bound to
pay rent for the building for any other building
occupied by it. Without reaching vote the com
mittee rose and the House adjourned.
SATURDAY, Jan. 18.-SENATE- in sessi n.
HoUsE.-The House took up and passed the Gen
Award bill. 1t revives and continues the Court
Of Commissioners of Alabama Claims; fixes the
number of Judges at three requires the court to
convene and organize soon practicable in
Washington, and limits its existence to eighteen
months. Iprovides thatno claim by or in behalf of
any insurance company shall be admitted or al
lowed by the Court of Claims unless such claimant
shall show that the its losses in respect to war
risks exceeded the premiums gains, and then the
allowance shall not be greater than such excess.
No claim is to be admissible in favor of any insJlr-
ance company that was not lawfully existing at the
time of the loss under the law of the United States
MONDAY, Jan. 20-SENATE Mr.. Cockrell in
troduced a bill to provide uniform national cur
rency. Mr.. Morgan submitted substitute agreed
upon in the Democratic caucus for Mr. Edmunds'
resolution concerning suffrage and the later const-
tutional amendments. Laid Oh the table, The fol-
lowing the resolutions: Il. 1t is the Judgment
of the senate that the Thirteenth, Fourteenth aud
E1ftetnrh amendments I'd the constitution OF the
United States are valid and binding as any
other part of the constitution. That the people Of
| the United States have common interest in the
enforcement of the whole constitution in every
State and Territory of the United States and that
it is alike the right and duty of the United States
SO far power has been delegated to them to
enforce said amendments and to protect every
citizen in the exercise of all rights thereby secured
2. That the Government of the United States
and the Governments OF the several States
ars distinct, and each has citizens of it's
own who owe it allegiance, and whose rights
within it's jurisdiction it must protect That the
Government of the United States is of delegated
powers alone: its authority is defined and limited
by the constitution; all powers not granted it by
that instrument, not prohibited to 1t by the States
are reserved to the States respectively or to the
people. and that no right be acquired under
the constitution, secured through the laws of
the United States except such the Government OF
the United States has authority to grant or
secure B. That the constitution of the United
States has not conferred the right of suffrage
upon any one and the United States have no voters
of their own creation in the States. bnt the Fiji
teenth amendment o. the constitution has invested
citizens of the United 6ta,es with a new
constitutional right which is an exemption
from discrimination in the exercise Of the elective
franchise on account of race. color or previous
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