Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-12-11
FORTY.SIXTH CONGRESS.
Senate

senate.
MONDAY, December lat noon the
senate was called to order by Vice President
Wheeler and prayer was offered by the
chaplain. After the regular routine Of in
forming the president had been observed,
the annual report of the secretary of the
treasury was pre- 'ented. The presidents
message was next received and read. Ferry
formally announced the death of Senator
Z,charlah Chandler, and the senate ad-
journed out of respect to the deceased.
TUESDAY, December 2.-Gordon in
troduced a resolution declaring that, as the
project Of the construction of an inter.
oceanic canal at Nicaragua is recognized as
necessity for the prosperity of commerce,
and as such an enterprise must of necessity
be considered as of international utility,
therefore the government of the United
States pledges to accord full and entire pro.
lection to the company which shall be
granted concession by the government of
Nicaragua. Referred to the committee on
commerce. Eaton introduced bill to
protect life AID property and to prevent
accidents ana delays of mails on railroads
and small boats opera ed under the juris.
dic,ion OF the United States Referred ......
Burnside called up his resolution of last
session reaf6rming the Monroe doctrine in
connection with the proposed Darien canal,
aud made speech thereon. At its con clu.
sion the senate went into executive sess, on
and when the doors were reopened ad-
journed.
WEDNESDAY, December 4.-Ferry
presented the credentials OF Henry P. Bald.
win, the new senator from Michigan, and he
was sworn in......B:lls and resolutions in.
troduced: That treasury notes of the Unit.
ed Safes shall be receivable for all dues to
the United States except duties on imports,
and shall not be otherwise legal tender, and
any of such notes hereafter reissued shall
payment of custom duties in legal tender
notes; to amend the revised statutes so as
to authorize the purchase of foreign built
ships By citizeas Of the United Ststes for
use IN the foreign carrying trade; calling on
the president for information as to whether
any money due the Ute Indians under the
agreement of September 18th, 1873, has re.
manned unpaid, az claimed by those In.
dams, end also the nature OF investments
made for the Utes under that agreement;
authorizing the secre.say of the navy TO re
ceive By donation site for and to construct
! marine hospital at Nebraska city: thst in
the opinion OF the senate the present volume
OF United States notes should not be re.
duced, and that said notes ought to con.
tinue to be legal tender in payment of debts
......Adjourned.
THURSDAY, December 4.-Bills and
resolutions introduced: To facilitate the
; funding OF the national debt; declaring
that as the resumption of the circulation Of
gold, silver and greenbacks as law full money
and the expectation that the finances would
not be disturbed by precipitate legislation
had been followed by revived industry and
general prosperity, the successful conduct
OF business depended on q stable financial
policy, and that, therefore, in the opinion oil
session materially changing the existing
system of finance would be inexpedient; to
provide for the sale of the remainder of the
! reservation OF the confederated Otce and
Missouri tribes Of Indians in Nebraska an d
Kansas; calling on the secretary of the
! treasury for tabulated statement showing
the total amount paid out in each fiscal : cal
from 1866 to 1879, inclusive, for claims grow
ing out Of the late war After short ex.
ecutive session tie senate adjourned till
Monday.
MONDAY, December 1.-Speaker Ran.
dali called the house to order at noon. The
roll call showed 232 members present and
Sc absent. Newly.elected members from
California, Iowa and New York took the
iron-clad oath. After q short recess, while
the president was being informed Of the
convention of congress, the presidents
message was received and read......Ad.
journed.
TUESDAY, December "a resolution
offered by Price declaring it to bs the opir.
ion of the house that no hange should be
made in the currency laws at the present ses.
sion of congress-, was referred, as was also
a joint resolution introduced by Ellis,
pledging the protection of the government to
the Nicaragua Inter.oceanic Canal company
when it shall have obtained the grant from
the Nicaraguan government......Y Young of.
fered resolution for the appointment of a
committee to consist of three senator's and
five representatives. to inve stigate the pres.
emit system of paying tees OF officers Of
United States circuit and distri It courts,
Referred ...... White introduced joint
processing *"1,a constitutional
appropriation bills shall contain moth.
ing but appropriations, and granting
power to the president to disapprove of any
separate item of bill without thereby de.
feating the entire bill. Referred. go. Fort
introduced q resolution declaring against
any attempt to change the legal status and
quality OF any paper money issued by the
United States or reopen the currency ettled
by the Supreme Court. Referred 49,. Bills
introduced and referred: Equalizipg boun-
ties of soldiers of the late war; to remove
the Ute Indians from Colorado; relating to
the crime of bigamy; revising the statutes
so as to provide that deputy marshals shall
be selected from the different political par.
t:es...... Mc',erd proposed the following ad.
ditional article to the constitution: econ.
2ress, for the protection of trade and manu-.
facture, and to carry into effect international
treaties, shall have power to grant, protect
and regulate the exclusive right to trade
marks" ......Adjourned.
WEDNESDAY,, December 9.-Bills and
resolutions introduced: That so much of
authority conferred on the secretary of the
treasury by the acts of July IA, 1870, and
January 20, 1871, to refund the public debt
to the extent of s., 6oo, 000, 600 as has not
been exhausted and executed, be modified
so az to limit the rate of interest on bonds
yet to be issued to So per cent. per annum;
directing investigation into the removal of
the Ponca Indians; for the relief of soldiers
and sailors who served in the late war, and
to restore to them equal rights with holders
of government bonds; for the appointment
of select committee of thirteen to consider
the expediency of erecting q monument at