Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-02-05
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.

FRIDAY, Jan. 24-Senote.
Sharon presented a resolution of
the Nevada Legislature favorins leg
isation preventing the Central Pacific
railroad company from making unjust.
Determinations and practicing extradi-
ton Mr.. Edmunds then moved to take
up the resolutions recently submitted by
him, declaring the validity of the 18th,
18th and 10th amendments to the CON
s,itution. After several dilatory mo-
tons the senate adjourned by a vote of
IS to %, until Monday
FRIDAY, Jan. 24-Holse. SEN
ate amendment to the bill
appropriating $50, 900 for the transport
ation of coin and bullion, and $4,000
for miscellaneous expenses of the
house, was concurred in. The house
then went into committee of the whole
on the private calendar; Mr.. Bragg oo-
jected to all VIZ claims. Several bills
were passed, among which was the
senate bill disappearing and an
nuling the act of the assembly of the
territory of New Mexico, incorporating
the society of Jesuit fathers in New
Mexico. Adjourned.
SATURDAY, Jan. % Senate. - The sem
ate was not IN session.
SATURDAY, Jan. 25-House -The house,
soon after assembling, went into com
mittee of the whole on the post office
appropriation bill, and Mr.. Bount ex-
planned its provisions. 1t appropriates
$4,000, 900, a decrease of about two
millions on former estimates, and an
increase of one million over the appro-
priation of last year. After long, de-
sultory debate, the house adjourned.
MONDAY, Jan. 27-Se71ate.-General
Shields was sworn in and took his seat
Among the many bills introduced was
one to reorganize and discipline the
militia of the U. S. The bill to abolish
the volunteer navy of the u. S. passed.
also the bill to appropriate SAC, 900 for
purchasing site and erecting military
post at Ell Paso, Texas.
MONDAY, Jan. 27-House -Wright's
bill loaning $500 to every man who is
not worth $500, and who desires to settle
upon the public lands, was taken up
and defeated by a vote of % ayes to
2ll nays. Bills were introduced: pro-
posing an amendment to the constitu-
ton making the term of office for Judge
of the U. s. supreme and inferior courts
twelve years. A bill was passed au-
thorizing the secretary OF war to erect
headstOnes over the graves of union
soldiers inferred in private, village or
city cemeteries. Adjourned.
TUESDAY, Jan. 2S-Senate. The COM
mittee on public buildings and grounds
reported adversely on all propositions
to remove the national capitol. The
bill to pay Warren Mitchell for cotton
taken by u. S. authorities during the
war was defeated. Mr.. Edmunds then
called up his resolution declaring the
18th, 18th and 10Th amendme nts valid,
and after an attempt to adjourn the
motion to take up was carried by vote
Of 20 to l6 The resolution was then
laid over. Adjourned.
TUESDAY, Jan. 2S-HouSe-T bill
to restrict the immigration of Chinese
was passed by vote of 155 to rs. A
joint resolution was adopted calling for
a detailed statement of expenses incur
red at the Paris exposition. A bill to |
create another land district in Idaho !
was passed. Adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, JAN 29-Sendte. The bill |
for promoting the efficiency of chap
lains in the U. S. navy, and it was pass
ed without discussion. The bill provides |
that no person under % years nor over
80 shall be appointed as chaplain, and
fixes the relative rank of the whole |
number, not to exceed twenty. |
The senate bill increasing the pen
sion of DR.. Mary f. Walker to $50
month, and the house bill granting
pension of $50 month to Mrs. Eliza
B. Anderson, widow of Gen. Robert
Anderson, U. S. A., passed. An execu-
tive session followed, and when the |
doors reopened Mr.. Allison was APP
pointed on the judiciary committee in
place of Mr. Christiancy, when the SEN
ate adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 29--H0use-The |
postottice appropriation bill occupied |
the attention of the house in committee |
OF the whole where several amend |
ments were agreed to. In the evening
reports from the committee on COM
merCp were cOnsiderpd Adjourned