The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-03-15
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS
Senate.

SAIURDA1, haiCu Is--CO uSlU6TdllOD
Of the sundry civil appropriation bill was
resumed. Several amendments were regis.
tered and Others adopted when q motion to
go into executive session prevailed. 49,.
When the doors were reopened the legisla-
tive bill was considered for short time. ..
The vice president submitted the message
from the president in answer to a resolution
enclosing report from the secretary OF
state in regard TO railroads in Mexico. Laid
on the table Adjourned.
SUNDAY, March 2.-The senate re.
sumed consideration of the river and
har5or appropriation bill. Among the
amendmentsagreed to were the following
AppropriatiIg $50, coo to $50, COO for the sur
vey of the Missouri riv er from its mouth "a
Fort Benton Montana: Increasing the ap
preparation fer improving the Missouri
river at Eastport, Iowa, and at Nebraska
City from $25D00 to $4,000; that for i'm.
proving the sane river at Council Bluffs and
Omaha from 10000 to $4,000, and for i'm,
proving i above the mouth of the Yellow.
stone river, from $4,000 to $40, coo; for the
removal of a bar in the Mississippi opposite
Dubuque. Iowa, from 81, 600 to $1,000; for
Saint Croix river, below Taylor's Falls
from $4,000 to S., 000; for the Red River OF
the North, in Minnesota and Dakota, from
$4,000 to 5000. Increasing the appro-
priation for the Fox and Wisconsin rivers
from $100,O to $l50,000; for St. Mary s
river and canal from $250,000 to $500 600,
and allowing 100000 to be expended to-
wards obtaininga channel sixteen feet deep;
increasing the appropriation for examina-
ton andsurveys for reservoirs the sources
OF the Mississippi, st. Croix, Chippewa and
Wisconsin rivers from 600 to $4,000
increasing the appropriation for the Yellow
| stone from $4,000 to $25, 600; appropriating
$1,000 Tor the improvement of the Missis.
sippi river at Fermilion, Dakota. A large
number of amendments were then offered
and agreed 20, among them one increasing
the appropriation for the harbor of refuge at
the entrance of Sturgeon Bay canal from
! $4,000 to 900. All the amendments
made in committee Of the whole were con-
Cured in.
MONDAY, March 3.-The Teller com
mittes vas authorized to sit during the re-
cess to continue inquiry into the alleged
violations Of the constitutional rights of
citizens during the late elections. An exec
utiye session was then held. When the
| doors were reopened message was re-
| ceived from the house announcing the non
| concurrence OF that body in the amend
ments OF the senate to the river and harbor
appropriation bill. The senate insisted on
! its amendments, and committee on con
! ference was ordered..... The bill providing
| for the tenth and subsequent censuses was
called up. The amendments by the house
were agreed to and the ILL passed. .... The
! house bill for the relief of soldiers and
sailors becoming totally blind in the service
| of their county was passed The report
of the conference committee on the fortif-
cation appropriation was adopted and
the bill passed .... The conference commit
tee on the deficiency appropriation bill,
submitted report, which was agree j to. .....
After recess the senate took up the report
of the committee of conference on the disa-
greeting amendments to the sundry civil bill
and after debate agreed to the conference
report. TIE bill appropriating $850,000
for the promotion. of the education Of the
blind was passed, ... The report of the con-
ference committee on the disagreeing
amendments to the river and harb0r bill
was agreed to.....Adlourned.
TUESDAY, March A fter a long de-
bate on the legislative and army bill, a vote
was taken on the motion that the committee
recede from lis position relative to the legis-
latlye bill. LOst-yeas so, nays 20. 1t was
then moved that the senate strike out from
the amendment TO the house bill that part
relating to Jurors. This was ruled out of
order, and an appel from the decision ia
bled. The senate amendment to the bill was
then austaiued-ayes %, nays 24... An
other committee Of conference on the legis-
iatiVe appropriation bill was asked Of the
house, and motion made that the senate
still further insist on its amendments to the
army biH......fhs committee Of conference
On the postotice appropriation bill made
report, which was agreed to......The Gus
tOmary thanks of the senate were ten
dered Vice President Wheeler, and
Il recess was TAKEN. Upon Eeassem-
bling note was read from the vice
president saying that he would not pre-
side again during the present session, and
that president pro tenn. might be elected.
Anthony submitted a resolution declaring
ThOs. w, Ferry elected president pro TEN
pore. Bayari moved to substitute the name
of Allen @. Thurman. Rejected-yeas %,
nays %, Ferry was then declared elected,
and was escorted to the chair by Thurman.
IA number of bills on the calendar and
pension bills were then passed . The bill
to prevent the introduction of infectious
diseases into the United States and
to establish q national board Of health
was called up and passed. ....After an ex-
ecufive session, Window submitted reso-
luton continuing the appropriations for
the army and for the legislative, judiciary
and executive expenses of the government
Tor SIX months from July 1st, so as to avoid
an extra session of congress. Salisbury
objected to the present consideration, and
1t went over....At noon Ferry, president
pro tenn, said: "The time fixed for the final
adjournment of congress having arrived,
the chair declares the forty-ffth congress
adjourned without day."
House.
SATURDAY, March 1.-The bill ex.
tending the provision of the act of 1874 for
the relief Of settlers on public lands was
passed; also bills granting lands to Mime
sofa IN lieu OF Lands heretofore granted and
extending time of payment of exemptions
on public lands IN MinnesOta THE senate
bill passed for furnishing trusses to disabled
soldlers......The sugar bill was withdrawn
not to be presented again this session. The
senate yellow fever bill was taken up and
substitute for it offered by Young. 1t es-
tablishes board of health to meet in Wash
lngton to frame rules and regulations and TO
make investigations. After debate the sub
stitute was adopted The question re-
curing on the passage of the senate bill as
amended, it was defeated. The vote was
recons1dered and the bill tabled. Spring.
er, as question Of privilege, presented
from the committee on expenditures
in the state department, reported
resolution fyr the impeachment of Geo.
F. Seward, late consul general at Shanghai,
and uJta3 Gfafac T,,ipiC}ar 10