Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-02-13
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Senate.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Senate.
MONDAY, February Ex-senator Voor-
hees took the oath of Office under the re-
cent election to fill the unexpired term OF
the late senator Morton. .....A bill was intro
duced to transfer the office of Indian affairs
from the interior to the war department......
A petition of colored people of Louisiana
was presented, complaining that they arc
not protected either in life or property
that at the recent election they were met by
armed white men known as the Democratic
club; that they were shot and not allowed
to hold meetings; they therefore invoke
the protection of the Federal government.
Referred to the select committee Of which
Teller is chairman ...... The senate then went
into executive session, and when the doors
were re-opened, adjourned.
TUESDAY, February 4.-After num-
Der of committee reports had been received
and placed on the calendar, Coke spoke at
length, in favor of constructing railroad in
Texas to- the Rio Grande.. 80. Edmund's
resolutions declaring the validity Of the
thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments were then debated, after which the
senate went into executive session ......A
journed.
WEDNESDAY, February 5.-The vice
president laid before the senate the creden-
tails of John P. Tones, elected United States
appropriating $4,933 to pay the Richmond
Female institute, Richmond, Va, for the
use of its building by the army of the United
to%o ~ A
olution of the New York legislature was
presented, asking an appropriation for the
removal of distractions in st. Mary's river,
st. Clair river, and Detroit river. Referred.
| The senate resumed consideration of
the resolution of Edmunds declaring the
validity of the thirteenth, fourteenth and
| fifteenth amendments to the constitution.
After q long debate, the rejection of mum
Der of mendments, and the defeat of several
motions for adjournment, the question was
demanded and the resolutions passed by a
vote of % to II. .....Ad journed.
THURSDAY, February 6.-Blaine pre-
sented a memorial OF the manufacturing
companies of Maine representing $4,000
600 capital and employing thousands of per.
sons, asking an appropriation for mail SER
vice between one or more of our Atlantic
ports and South American ports. Referred
...... The bill to provide for the taking of the
tenth and subsequent censuses was taken
up and after slight amend mentwas passed
yeas As, nays 4.....The vice-president laid
before the senate a message from the presi-
dent, enclosing report of the secretary of
the state in regard to proceedings of the in.
ternational monetary conference, held in
Paris in August, 1878. Ordered printed
and referred ...... After an executive session
the senate adjourned.
FRIDAY, February 1.-The senate bill
to extend the provisions of the act of june
s, 1874, in regard to prize money to all fee
officers was passed. The house bill grant
ing pension to Julia Watkins, widow o
Thomas H. Watkins, late captain of Co. B
Purnell Legion, Maryland, was passed aftel
some discussion. The bill providing fo1
holding terms of Circuit and District Court
of The United States for the district of Col
orado was passed 1.-THE house bill to re.
move certain disabilities of women was
taken up and passed-yeas 40, nays 20. 1t
provides that any women who shall have
been a member of the highest court of any
state or territory or of the Supreme Cour
Of the District of Columbia for the space o
three years, and shall have maintained .
good standing before such court, and Wit
shall be person of good moral character
record, be admitted to practice before tn
Supreme Court of the United States. Thu
bill, having passed as it came from the
house, now goes to the president for his
signature. latter executive session tn
senate adjourned.
SATURDAY, February S.-The ere
dentials Of Jas. D. Walker, elected senate
from Arkansas, W ere placed on fle... TIL
| no
priation bill, submitted report, which wa
, agreed to, and the bill was passed. TIL
total amount appropriated was $4,713,20f
r current fiscal year,. The conference CON
, mittee's report on the bill to- abolish tn
+ volunteer navy was agreed to. The bill
r allows all officers mustered out one year
pay. It afe cted one line officer and twenty
six medical officers. Provision is made TO
the admission of medical officers to tn
medical corps of the navy after examination
, 1.-THE house bill providing for the pay
ment to officers and soldiers of the Mexican
t war OF the three months extra pay provide'
for by the act of July 10, 184S, passed ate
being amended to provide that the act sha]
include the officers and men of the army
navy, and marine service. ..Adjourned.
House. q
MONDAY, February 3.-Bills intro
duced: Appropriating one hundred millio,
dollars for the payment of the arrearages o
pensions; authorizing the issue of pc
cent. bonds to the amount of 0,O00, 600
; the proceeds of the sale Of which shall b.
devoted to the payment of arrears OF pen
sions; for the relief of persons whose land
have been or may bewashed away or sub
merged by the Mississippi river or its trib
utaries; extending the time for the Gem
pletion Of the National Pacific railroad .....
vices in respect for the late Terrence
Quinn, representative from New York
Resolutions appropriate for the occasio,
were offered by Mr.. Lockwood and unani
mously adopted, and eulogies on the lif
and character of the deceased pronounce
by Messrs. Lockwood, Mayham, Bailey, CO
vert and Townsend IN. Y Jones, (Ohio,
Caldwell. (Tenn.), Observation-Disclosures:
TUESDAY, February 1.-THE house
on assem- bling, went into committee of tn
whole on the army appropriation BILL l
'hot debate was elected by Cex's amend
ment fixing the army force at 1900.
was defeated by vote of Sc to 49, TIL
, committee rose without further action.
After recess the house went into commit
tee of the whole on the Mississippi leve
bills. An amendment was offered, directing
the commission to consider and report OF
the practicability of improving the naviga
ton, deepening the channel and redeeminl
alluvial lands Of the Mississippi by mean
of outlets into the gulf; also one striking GU
!, of the bill all that alludes to the protection
of alluvial lands. The committee rose ant
reported the bill and pending amendments
The main question was ordered, and tn
house adjourned.
., WEDNESDAY,, February 5.-Th'
speaker announced the regular order to b
the consideration of the Mississippi leve'
bill. The amendment appropriating 1851,
500 for strengthening the levees was with
drawn and the bill passed-yeas 1865, nay
49, The report of the committee on cleo
tions in the Florida contested case was sub
; mitted in favor Of Jesse J. Finlay and I'D
verse to the CLAIMS of Horace Bisbee. Tn
ninorifv snh,nikted a. dissenting view. AM