The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-02-08
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS
Senate.

tails of Senator Shields, of Missouri, were
presented, and the general took the oath
of otice......A large number of bills were
referred, including one to organize and dis
cipline the militia of the United States. $40.
Bills passed: To abolish the volunteer navy
of the United States; appropriating SAC, 900
for the purchase of site and erection there.
on of the military post of Ell Paso, Texas.
......After dlsposing of the morning bust
ness, passing several bills on the calendar,
the bill to pay Warren Mitchell for cotton
taken during the war was taken up, and
long discussion followed......After an execu-
tive session the senate adjourned.
TUESDAY, January 2S.-A resolution
was submitted and agreed to, instructing
the committee on railroads to inquire into
the expediency of authorizing railroad COM
panies operating interstate railroads to con-
struct and operate lines of telegraph for
commercial purposes and to connect with
other lines that competition in telegraphic
communication may be encouraged. A
favorable report was received on the bill to
extend the time of pre-emptOrs on public
lands, and it was placed on the calendar.
The senate resumed the consideration of I'M
finished business, beingthe bill to pay War
rem Mitchell for cotton belonging to him.
at length and the senate refused to order its
third readlng-yeas II, nays 3O......Adjo urn-
ed.
WEDNESDAY,, January 28.-Bills
passed: Granting pension of $50 menth
to the widow of the late senior rear admiral
Hiram Paulding; increasing DR.. Mary
Walkers pension to $40 month; granting
pension of $50 month to the widow of
pnhn Y = l
to restrict Chinese immigration, which
passed the house yesterday, was laid before
and referred to the committee on foreign
relatlons.....The senate then went into ex-
ecutive session, and when the doors were
reopened adjourned.
THURSDAY, January 30.-The resolu-
ton of Edmunds declaring the validities of
the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments to the constitution were taken
up, and Morgan advocated the substitute
therefor presented on the goth. Before
Morgan concluded his remarks the senate
went into executive session, and when the
doors were reoenped, adjourned.
FRIDAY, January 3l.-The vice-presi-
dent laid before the senate the credentials
of Geo. j. Vest, elected United States sena.
tor from Missouri. Placed on file. Shields
was appointed member of the committees
on railroads and enrolled bills in place of
his predecessor, Armstrong .. Saunders,
from the joint committee to inquire into the
expectancy of transferring the Indian bu-
reau from the interior to the war depart
ment, reported that the committee had
been unable to agree and submitted a report
accompanied by bill to authorize the
president temporarily to transfer the custo-
dy, control and management of certain In
Clan tribes from the interior to the war de-
partment, and for other purposes. Laid on
the table After an executive session the
senate adjourned.
House.
SATURDAY, January 25.-The house,
soon after assembling, went into committee
CT the whole on the postofice appropriation
bill. Amendments were agreed to: In
creasing the sum to $3,600,00O; increasing
the appropriation for letter carriers from
81 900, 600 to s., 000,0 900; directing postofice
employees, on railways, who cancel stamps,
to keep an account of the stamps SO can
celled, the same to be credited to the post
master at the station where the mail was
put on the cars, for the purpose of fixing
basis tor the pay of such postmaster; in
creaslng the appropriation for star service
to IS, ,0O0. The committee then rose and
the house adjourned.
MONDAY, January 27.-Wright's bill
to loan $500 to every man not worth $500
desiring to take advantage of the provisions
of the homestead law came up and was de-
feated-yeas %, nays 212.... Bills intro
duced and referred: Providing for a treaty
with Mexico; proposing an amendment to
the constitution providing that terms of
Judges Oh the supreme and inferior courts
OF the United States shall be limited
to twelve years, and that the Of
fees of those now on the bench
who have served twelve years be vacated
granting a medal to each of the survivors
OF the five companies of Pennsylvania vol
unteers who were the first troops to come 10
Washington at the call of the president at
the beginning of the late warThe bill
authorizing the secretary Of war 10 erect
headstones over the graves of Union sol.
dlers IN private, village or city cemeteries
was passed under suspended bridesmaids
journed.
TUESDAY, January 2S.-After the
legislative appropriation bill was received
and referred to the committee of the whole.
the bill TO restrict the immigration of the
Chinese, was taken up. After debate the
bill passed, yeas 155, nays 70. 1t provides
that no master of a vessel owned by any
citizen of the United States, shall take on
board at any foreign port any number of
Chinese exceeding 10 with the intent to
bring them to the United States, under
penalty one hundred dollars for
each passenger in excess of fifteen, such
penalty to become lien on the vessel $500
Inc mouse then went into committee of the
whole on the postoffice appropriation bill
Amendments were agreed to: Increasing
the appropriation for mail transportation
by railroad from $S,715,00O to 100000
increasing the appropriation for transporta-
ton on steamboats, from $4,000 to $780,
600. Without final action the committee
rose and the house adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, January 29.-The house
went into committee of the whole on the
postoffice appropriation bill. Amendments
were adopted making the appropriation for
the deficiency in the appropriation for post
al transportation by railroad for the fiscal
year ending in June, 1879, which forbids
any increase in the postal car service be-
yond what existed December /, 1878; pro-
vlding that the postmaster general shall
make DO deficiency during the current fiscal
year by placing postal cars on any line
increasing the appropriation for route agents
from S1,075,000 to 81 ,125 600; providing
that If the stampsrequired by the post Office
department can be manufactured at less
than their present cost by the bureau of en-
craving and printing, the work shall be
transferred to that bureau. The committee
rose and reported the bill to the house |
which agreed to the amendments increasing |
the appropriation for clerks, letter carriers, |
and railroad and steamboat transportation. |
Without final action on the bill the house |
took a