Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-05-21
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.

providing Tor the payment OF money
heretofore appropriated TO James B..
Eads and his associates, for construct
ing letties and other works at the
mouth Of the Mississippi. was passed
with an amendment. Consideration
Of the bill preventing military inter-
ference at elections, was resumed.
After a long debate by Ed
munds, Blaine, and Chandler, the bill
to prevent military interference at the
polls vas passed in the precise form in
which it came from the house by a vote
of 33 ayes, % noes. On motion Of Mr..
Beck, the senate took up the house bill
making appropriations for the legisla-
tive, executive and judicial depart
ments of the government, and then
adjourned till tomorrow.
FRIDAY, May 9-House.-A bill
was reported from the judiciary
committee to remove the political dis
abilities of J. G. ~Pemberton, of Georgia.
1t gave rise 10 an amusing scene be-
tween Conger and Cox, which was cut
short by moving the previous question,
and the bill passed. Mr.. Cook,
chairman OF the committee on
public buildings and grounds, re-
ported a resolution testifying TO the
high qualities of the late Rush Clark,
of Iowa, who had been a member of
that committee, and directing the COM
mittee on appropriations to appropriate
to the family of the deceased MS salary
to the close of the forty-sixth congress.
Adopted. The house then resumed o n
sideration ofthe Warner silver bill and
was addressed by Weaver in advocacy of
the bill, and in favor of q double stand
ard.
SATURDAY, May 1O-Senate-Mr. Eaton
introduced, by request, a bill relating to
telegraph communication between the
United States and foreign countries.
Consideration was resumed of the
bill making appropriation for legisla-
tive, executive and judicial expenses of
the government for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1880, and for other pur-
poses. Adjourned without action.
SATURDAY, May 10-HouSe.-A bill
was reported from the commit
tee on revision of laws, and passed,
amending the law relating to writs of
prohibition and mandamus; also the
bill relating to widows Of pensioners of
the war of 1872, so rs to give pensions TO
women who are the second time wild
ows. Opposition was made to the lat
ter bill, as being Il change of the pen
sion laws, and, on motion Of Mr..
Garfield, it was referred to the pension
committee. The bill prohibiting the
presence of the military at the places
Of elections was presented, as enrolled.
1t was signed by the speaker, and was
sent to the president pro tenn. of the SEN
ate. At the expiration of the morning
hour, consideration was resumed of the
Warner silver bill, but no vote was ta-
ken.
MONDAY, May 12-Senote.--The senate
gave the session to a debate on the log
i~slative appropriation b.ii, but adjourn
ed without reaching a vote.
MONDAY, May 12-House.- A
large number of bills we're intro
duced and referred. At 2:l6 p. NJ, q
message from the president was receiv-
ed, supposed TO be a veto message of
the bill prohibiting military interfer-
ence at the polls Mr.. Dibbrell
moved to suspend the rules and
pass the bill imposing a tax OF :
per cent.in excess of incomes over $1,000
and three per cent. IN excess of IN
comes over three thousand dollars; re-
lected; yeas 104, nays 81, n o the neces-
sary two-thirds in the affirmative.
The speaker then, at 2:5S y. M, laid
before the house the presidents veto of
the military interference bill. There
was considerable applause on the re-
publican side when the sentence was
read which insists that the power of
the federal authority to supply troops
when necessary should not be interior
ed with, and there was an ~incredulOus
sheer on the democratic side at the
presidents assurance that he desired to
act in harmony with congress. The re-
publican applause was repeated at the
reading of sentences relating to Presl-
dent jackson crushing notification and
to President Lincoln issuing a call for
troops to save the union III 1851, also
at the allusiOn of the hostility OF the
state government, and again at the sug-
gestiOn that the bill was an intrusion Of
state supervision amounting / n spirit
and tendency to state supremacy. On
conclusion of the reading Knott offered
a resolution directing the message to he
entered in the journal and that the
house will proceed tomorrow to
consider the same; agreed to.
Mr.. Deering moved to suspend the
rules and pass the bill making approp-
r~iations for the support of the army.
Mr.. Knott thereupon interposed a
motion to adjourn which was defeated
yeas 81, nays 24O. The democrats vot-
ing against adjournment were Black
burn, Bliss, Bioun, Clymer, Cottroth,
Culberson, FELTON,, Geddes, Martin, W.