The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-02-13

In the house Dill approprlAting one nun.
dred million dollars for the payment of arrear.
Assembly of Alabama. asking the enactment OF
laws to prevent the exercise of Jurisdiction by
United States courts in proceedings against
municipal corporations. Authorizing the issue
of four per cent bonds to the amount of forty
million dollars, the proceeds of the sale Of
which shall be devoted to the payment of Ar
rears of pensions. To establish q national
board Of agriculture. For the relief of persons
whose lands have been or may be washed away
by the Mississippi river or its tributaries. Ex-
tend the time for the completion of the North
ern Pacific railroad. For the relief of Chief
Joseph of the Nez Perces Indians. To prevent
undue detainment of the United States mails
on account of snow-drifts. A bill for the erec-
ton Of various public buildings, Withdrew
that proposition and moved to suspend the
rules and pass . bill to secure . uniformity in
the standard of values. 1t provides that the
gold and silver coins of the United States
which have been declared full legal tenders
shall hereafter be interchangeable at their law
full value on the demand of any holder at the
Office of the assistant treasurer, at New York
city, or at the mints in Philadelphia and San
Francisco, when presented in sums of one hun
dred dollars and multiples thereof. 1t directs
the secretary of the treasury to provide for
such interchange, and in all coin payments
made by the treasurer to make no discrimina-
ton in favor of or against such gold and silver
coins. Motion to suspend the rules and pass
the bill was defeated; yeas, l0l; nays, 136.
Very little business was transacted in
the Senate on the 4th, the time being con-
sumed by the different committee reports all
of which were referred, postponed or ordered
printed. After some discussion over the 18th,
18th and 18th amendments, the Senate went
into executive session and when the doors were
re-Opened adjourned,
The House went into committee of the whole
on the army appropriation bill. Mr.. Durham
submitted an amendment reducing the army
to twenty Thousand enlisted men. A hot de-
bate followed that consumed almost the entire
day, all the amendments were defeated and the
House rose without taking action. Mr..
Butler submitted an amendment authorizing
and requiring railroad companies who have
telegraph lines to transmit kilograms for the
government and for the general public at rates
to be fixed by the government according to
provision of the revised statue. Adopted. The
House went into committee of the whole, Mr..
Carlisle in the chair, on the Mississippi levee
bill. No action.
In the Senate on the 5th bill for new
naval observatory; . resolution providing for
a committee to inquire into the claims of citi-
zens against Nicarauga agreed to. The bill
passed appropriating $4,933 to pay the Rich
mond female institute, of Richmond, Va, for
the use of its buildings by the United States
from Oct, 1865, until Oct 1866. A joint res0lu-
ton of the Alabama legislature favoring the
passage of necessary laws to prevent the exer-
else of jurisdiction by the courts of the United
States in the proceedings against the municipal
corporations of the several States. Referred.
The Senate then resumed consideration of the
resolution of Mr.. Edmunds declaring the
validity of the 18th, 18th and 18th amendments
to the constitution of the United States. The
remainder of the session was taken up in dis
custom of this bill, no action being taken.
The House resumed consideration of the
Mississippi levee bill and after rejecting sever
al attachments, and Mr.. Robertson withdraw
ing his amendment appropriating 1851 500
the bill then passed-yeas, 155; nays, %. The
reports of the committee on elections in the
Florida contested cases were then submitted
in favor of Jesse ]. Findlay and averse to the
claims of Horace Bisbee. The minority sub
mitted dissenting views, and both reports were
recOmmitted. The House went into commit
tee of the whole on the army appropriation
the general of the army shall be entitled was
increased from to 4.
In the Senate On the 9Th, the committee
on agriculture submitted resolution to in
quire in regard to the reports concerning in
fictitious diseases among horned cattle. Agreed
to. The Vice President laid before the Senate
unfinished business, being the joint resolution
proposing an amendment to the constitution
prohibiting the payment of disloyal persons
for property injured or destroyed in the late
war of the rebellion. The bill for taking the
census, was taken up and the following amend
ment submitted: Providing that upon compi-
lation and publication of the census, the office
of the superintendent shall cease and the
period of the service of clerks shall end.
Agreed to. He also submitted an amendment
providing that a subdivision assigned to any
enumerator shall contain not less than 5000
inhabitants where the last preceding census
shows the inhabitants thereof. Agreed to. The
bill was then passed-yeas 46. nays 4. After
executive session the House adorned.
bill was introduced appropriating 10000
for the improvement of the Illinois river. Re-
ferred. A resolution calling on the commits
sioner of pensions for statements in relation
sions. Adopted. The army reorganization
bill was before the House, innumerable amend
ments were offered, and lengthy discussions
made, but no action was taken. A substitute
for the amendment authorizing the President
to transfer the care and control of any of the
Indian tribes to the war department Temporal
rily. whenever he shah deem it advisable to do
SO, either on account of hostile action On their
part against the United States, or in case Of
any difficulties arising between them and the
settlers. The committee rose and the House
adjourned.
The committee on foreign affairs on the
18th, reported back the Senate bill to restrict
the immigration of Chinese to this country,
and committee was discharged from further
consideration. The committee then reported
back the House bill for the same purpose and
asked that the committee be discharged from
its further consideration. but that the bill be
,<,l L., l.:
tice was gaven that when the bill came up they
would move its indefinite postponement. The
select committee to inquire as to the best
means of preventing epidemic diseases report
ed q bill to prevent the introduction of conta-
geous diseases and to establish bureau of
public health. Placed on the calendar. The
resolution in regard to the migration of negroes
was called mp. Mr.. Mcdonald moved to post
pone pending and all prior orders for the pur-
pose of taking up the House bill to relieve GER
tain legal disabilities of women. Agreed to
yeas, 81; nays, 20. The bill provides that any
woman who shall have been . member of the
highest court of any State or Territory, or of
the supreme court Of the District of Columbia
for the space Of three years and shall have
maintained good standing before such court,
and who shall be person of good moral char
acter. shall on motion and production of such
record. be admitted to practice before the su-
preme court of the United States. After dis
cussion the bill passed without amendment;
yeas. 40; nays, 20. The bill having passed as
it came from the House. now goes to the Pres
ident for his signature. After executive session
adjourned.
In the House the Senate amendments to the
naval appropriation bill were non-concurred
in. The conference COMMITTEES on the forti6-
cation appropriation bill, reported that the
committee had been unable to agree, and ask
ed for further conference. Agreed to and
adopted. The report of the conference COM
mittee ON the Indian appropriation bill WAS
submitted; the bill Was substantially the one
that passed the House. Agreed to. The re-
port of the conference committee on the bill
fixing the terms of the district and circuit
courts of Colorado, was agreed to. The House
then went into committee Of the whole, when
. movement was made to adjourn, notwith-
standing that there had been . night se~sion
ordered from the reports of the committee on
coinage, weights and measures. and the motion