Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-03-12
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS
Senate.

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| WEDNESDAY, February 25.-The ere
dentials of senator-elect Hill, of Colorado
were placed on fle...... The committee Oh
Indian affairs reported favorably on the bill
for the relief Of settlers upon abssnte,
Shawnee lands in Kansas. Placed on tn,
calendar.....The conference committee OF
the bill to amend the internal revenue laws
submitted q report, which was agreed to
and the bill passed.. Consideration wa,
bill, the amendment appropriating $3.50, ,0OC
| to supply the deficiency in the department
OF justice in the payment of deputy mar.
shals, provoking long discussion. An
Amendment to reduce the sum to
46O,6G9. was, defeated by . vote oi
"a to S.. The bill having been considered
in committee of the whole, was reported to
the senate and the amendments made in the
committee cOncurred in with the exception
of that appropriating $24, 4,13O for detecting
and bringing to trial and punishment per.
sons guilty of violating the internal revenue
laws, or conniving at the same, including
payment for information and detection Of
such violations, being q deficiency for 1878
and prior years. The bill was then read a
third time and passed. "A recess was taken
until evening when a large number of pen
sion bills passed. At IL o'clock the senate
went into executive session in order to refer
various nominations heretofore made by the
president, and when the doors were opened
several bills passed donating cannen for
monumental purposes, and at II 80 the sen.
ate adjourned.
THURSDAY, February 27.-Teller,
from the special committee to inquire into
the alleged violation of the constitutional
rights of citizens during the late elections,
submitted report of the ma iority and said
the minority reserved the right to submit
report. Ordered printed ..... The house bill
to provide for holding district and circuit
courts of the United States ct Fort Scott,
Kansas, was passed.. Conever presented
the petition of 1856 colored people of Co.
lumbia county, Florida, complaining that
they are not protected in their rights BY the
laws OF Florida. Referred.....By a vote of
yeas 25, nays 4, the senate refused to take
up the Geneva award bill, and took mp the
house bill making an appropriation for the
payment OF arrears OF pensions. Before
disposing of the bill the senate went into
executive session. When the doors re.
opened the committee on commerce report.
ed the river and harbor appropriation bill.
with amendments. Placed on the calendar.
...... The senate then resumed consideration
OF the bill making an appropriation for the
payment of arrears of pensions. The
amendments proposed by the committee ON
providing that pension
agents shall receive for their services in
paying arrears 80 cents for each payment,
and sppropriating $4,000 to meet
such expense, and striking out of the
house bill the clause providing that
the act granting arrears of pen.
sions shall extend to pensions granted by
special act OF congress, were agreed to. An
from the committee on finance
providing that in no case shall arrears of
pensions be allowed and paid them from a
time prior to the date of actual disability
was agreed to. After debate ON an amend.
ment from the committee on pensions divid-
ing the states and territories into districts,
and take testimony, the bill
was temporarily laid aside. .....A committee
on appropriations reported with amend.
ments the sundry civil appropriation bill,
and 1t was placed on the calendar -. The
house resolution in memory of the late
Beverly B. Douglas was called up. Suitable
remarks upon the life and character of the
deceased were made by Messrs. Withers,
Thurman, Hereford and Ransom, and the
senate, as further mark of respect to the
memory of the deceased, adjourned.
FRIDAY, February 2s.-A communi-
cation was read from David T. Corbin, con-
testant for the seat from South Carolina,
stating that after an effort of two years
in view of indications that his
case will not be acted on this session, he
from the contest.....After pass.
q number of private bills on the calendar
the bill making an appropriation for the
payment of arrears OF pensions was taken
up, the pending question being on the
submitted yesterday providing
for the division of the country into districts
and appointment of a surgeon and pension
clerk to visit each district, make examina.
tions. takes testimony in pension cases,
etc., with view to preventing frauds on
the pension bureau. Rejected-yeas %,
nays S6. An amendment was submitted
providing that pensions shall commence
from the date of death or from the time::of
actual disability of the person on whose &C.
count granted, where the application shall
be fled prior to the 1st of July, 1880, in.
stead Of the LIST of January, 1880. az pro-
posed by the committee, after that date the
pension to commence from the fling of the
application. Adopted. After disposing
of the financial amendments the senate pro-
ceeded to vote on the amendments hereto
fore made in committee of the whole. An
was agreed to that the law
granting pensions to soldiers of the war Of
1912, approved March 9th, 1878, be made
applicable to soldiers and sailors in the war
with Mexico in 1S46. Question was then
taken on the bill, and it was passed-yeas
SO, nays 2l......The senate then considered
the sundry civil bill for awhile and aa.
journed.
SATURDAY, March Consideration
of the sundry civil appropriation bill was
resumed. Several amendments were regis.
tered and others adopted when motion to
go into executive session prevailed......
When tho doors were reOpened the legisla-
tive bill was considered for short time......
The vice president submitted the message
from the president in answer to q 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
amendments agreed to were the following:
Appropriating 5000 to $50, 900 for the sur.
vey Of the Missouri river from its mouth to
Fort Benton, Montana: Increasing the ap.
PiVPAA".ayu AW AUpIoViuS tuo dlSbOuIl
river at Eastport, Iowa, and at Nebraska
City from $4,000 to $50, 900; that for i'm.
proving..the same river at Council Bluffs and
Omaha from $40,O 600 to $4,000, and for i'm.
proving 1t above the mouth OF the Yellow.
stone river, from $25, GOO to $40, 900; for the
renewal of bar in the Mississippi opposite
Dubuque, lows, from 1900 to ts,oO0; for
Saint Croix river, below Taylor's Falls,
from $6,Ooe 70 5000: for the Red River Of
the North, in Minnesota and Dakota, from
$50, 600 TO 425, 1000. Increasing the appro.
priation for the Fox and Wisconsin rivers
from 100000 70 $3.50, 900; for st. Mays
river and canal from $25O, to 500, 900,
and allowing 100000 to be expended to.
wards Obtaining q channel sixteen feet deep;
increasing the appropriation for examine
ton andsurveys fnr reservoirs at the sources
Of the Mississippi, St Croix, Chippewa and
Wisconsin rivers from $4,000 to 425, 900;
Increasing the appropriation for the Yellow.
stone from el0, 600 70 $4,000; appropriating
$500 for the improvement Of the Nissis.
sippi river at vermilion, Dakota. A large
number Of amendments were then offered
and ssresd to. among them one increasing
the appropriation for the harbOr Of refuge at
the eptranCo Of Sturaa0n Raw canal from