Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-01-01
FoRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.

WEDNESDAY, December l8.-Tht
house bill giving twenty condemned cannon
to the Custer monument at West Point
passed......After a short executive session
the bill spproprating $50, 900 to defrsy the
expenses of the commission on epidemic
diseases and the bill to amend the posse
cCmHdtns clause of the army appropriation
bill for the present fiscal year, 80 as to pro.
vide that it shall not be construed to apply
to any part OF the army or portion thereof
engaged in the protection Of life and prop
erty in the states and territories subject to
Indian insurrection, were passed.. The
pension appropriation bill was passed with
out material amendment. djourned.
THURSDAY, December 19.-The house
bill appropriating $45o,O0O for the transpor.
tation OF mails by railroads was passed..
! Dorsey then called up the house bill to
amend the act of June 80, 1873, and to fix
! the rate of interest on bonds authorized by
said act to be issued by the commissioner of
the District of Columbia and for other pur.
poses. Passed-2s to 16..... The vice-presi
dent announced as the select committee to
| enquire whether the constitutional right of
citizens were violated in the recent elec.
tions, in accordance with the resolution of
Blaine, adopted on Tuesday, Senators Teller,
Cameron, wisconsin, kirkwood, Bayard,
Wallace, Bailey, Garland, Hoar and Nc
MILAN After an executive session, the
senate adjourned.
FRIDAY, December 2O.-After some
discussion OF the bill introduced by Beck to
repeal section $50 of the revised statutes the
senate went into executive session. When
the doors were reopened Beck withdrew his
amendment to the bill to repeal section $50
OF the revised statutes so as to repeal section
Sal, also in regard to the test oath. The bill
to repeal the first-named section WIS then
passed without opposition, and the senate
adjourned until January :, 1879
House.
WEDNESDAY, December lS.-The sem
ate amendment to the adjournment resolu
tion, extending the recess from December
Goth to January 7th, was concurred in.....
The senate amendments to the fortifcaton
and consular and diplomatic bills were non
concurred in THE bill appropriating $5O,. !
600 for the expenses of the committee on
yellow fever epidemic was taken up and
passed, aud the house went into committee /
of the whole on the Indian appropriation
bill, but rose without coming to any definite |
action ...... Ad ourned.
THURSDAY, December l9.--J. &. |
iouUg toUk the seat IudUc VdchuL Dy the
death of J. J. Leonard, of the Fifth Louis .
lana district. The house went into COM
mittee of the whole on the Indian appropri-
alton bill. After action on several amend.
ments the committee rose and reported the
bill to the house. \ separate vote was de.
manded on the amendment agreed to in
committee prohibiting the removal of the /,
Indians Of Arizona and New Mexico to the
Indian territory, and it was adopted, yeas
81, nays 81. The bill then passed. %. Ad-
journed. 4
FRIDAY, December 20.-A communi-
cation was received from the secretary of
the treasury to the resolution calling for in
formation as to what balances on loan ac.
counts were standing to the credit of the
United States in any national bank from 4
March, 1876, to the present time. The let
ter was read on motion of Hewitt IN. W Il
who, amid much confusion, endeavorcd to
have a table of figures read, showing, he
claimed, that there has been for six months
an average of $So,O00,000 to the credit of
the United States in the First National bank
of New iork.....Adjourned until January
Z, 1879.