Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-02-19

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS
/ Senate.
| THURSDAY, February S.-Blaine pr
sented a memorial of the manufacturin
companies Of Maine representing $4,000
600 capital and employing thousands of pei
sons, asking an appropriation for mail sci
vice between one es more of our Atlanti
ports and South American ports. Referre
.......T The bill to provide for the taking of tn
tenth and subsequent censuses was takeI
mp and after slight amendment was passed
yeas 46, nays 4....The vice-president lait
before the senate a message from the presi
dent, enclosing report of the secretary o
the state in regard to proceedings OF the in
Paris in August 1873. Ordered printed
and referred. .....After an executive session
the senate adjourned,
FRIDAY, February THE senate bill
to extend The provisions If the act of june
8, 1874, In regard 10 prize money to all fee
officers was passed. The house bill grant
ing . pension to Julia Watkins, widow ol
Thomas II. Watkins, late captain of Co. B.
Purnell Legion, Maryland, was passed after
some discussion ... =. The bill providing for
holding terms of Circuit and District Courts
of the United States for the district of Col.
orado was passed. ..,... The house bill to re.
move certain disabilities of women was
taken up and passed-yeas 40, nays 20. 1t
provides that any women 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 a
good standing before such court, and who
shall be person of good moral character,
shall, on mosion and production of such
record, be admitted to practice before the
Supreme Court of the United States. The
bill, having passed as it came from the
house, now goes to the president for his
signiture. ...After executive session the
senate adjourned.
SATURDAY, February S.-The ere.
dentials of Jas. D. Walker, elected senator
from Arkansas, were placed on file..... The
conference cominittee on the Indian appro.
priatioDyy IN, submitted report, which was
agreed to; and the bill was passed. The
total amohnt appropriated was $4,7l3, ,206,
So, ,064 less than the appropriation for the
currelx fiscal year 1.-THE conference com.
mittes report on the bill to abolish the
voluA3 navy was agreed to. The bill
allows officers mustered out one years
pay. II Affected one line officer and twenty.
six medical officers. Provision is made for
the admission of medical officers to the
medicalcorps OF the navy after examination.
The house bill providing for the pay
ment to officers and soldiers OF the Mexican
war Of the three months extra pay provided
Co. h. - rxfT T,,1~x nSt
being amended to provide that the act shall
includesGAe officers and men of the army,
navy, s.d marine service. Adjourned.
Mo1DAY, February 10.-The creden-
tials of Senator Carpenter were placed on
file......A resolution was submitted request.
ing the committee on naval affairs to con-
slider and report upon the advisability a
making Sufficient appropriation for the
of the four double turreted
and Terror, now in process of construction.
The army appropriation bill was re.
ported from the house and referred to the
eonrststses %S. appropriations. Paddock
sailed up the resolution submitted the 4th
of December last, by Davis, (W. Va.), iE-
structing the committee on agriculture to
consider what can or ought to be done by
the general government to advance, encour.
age and foster agricultural interests. Pad.
dock made brief speech. and the resolu-
ton of Davis was agreed to...After an
executive session the senate adjourned.
TUESDAY, February 1.-THE confer
ence committee on the naval appropriation
bill, submitted report which was agreed
to, and the bill passed. The senate added
$50, 500 10 the house bill. The house con.
ferees receded from the disagreement to the
involving $il 500, and the
senate receded from an amendment iuvolv-
ing s75,c(0 additional for provisions and
The bill, as agreed upon, appro.
priated $l4 ,029 96S, being 1884 less than
the appropriation for the present fiscal year.
and $l57 4l2 less than the estimates for
next year. The committee on military
affairs, reported, with amendments, the sen.
ate bill to provide for ascertaining and re-
porting the expenses incurred by the terri
tory OF Idaho and the people thereof in de-
Tending themselves from attacks and host;l.
tiles Of the Nez Perces Indians in 1877.
Placed ON the calendar. The committee
on territories reported fayorably the bill to
establish United States court in the In.
dian territory, and for other purposes.
Placed on the calendar, with the written
report on the subject ect....~Adjeurned.
WEDNESDAY, January II. The senate
bill authorizing the establishment of naval
station and depot at Port Royal, South Caro-
lima, was indefinitely postponed......A reso-
luton providing for select committee of
senators to examine into the circumstances
attending the escape of Indians from Fort
Robinson, their subsequent slaughter, etc,
was agreed to......The committee on Indian
n - 10 "a III
for the relief of the Winnebago Indians in
Wisconsin, aud it was placed on the calen.
dar.. The house bill to restrict the immi-
grafton of Chinese into the United States
was taken up, 80 it should be unfinished
business tomorrow. This motion was agree
to by rising vote, 20 to 25.....Adjcurned.
THURSDAY, February GA bill was
introduced and referred appropriatine
s5o0, 600 for the improvement Of the Illinoi,
river......T The bill making appropriations fol
the payment of claims reported allowed by
the commissioners Of claims was passed.....
The house then went into committee Of tbs
debated it until adjournment.
FRIDAY, February THE senate
amendments to the naval appropriation bill
were non concurred in ...... Reports Of con
ference committees on the Indian appro
prlation bill and on the bill fixing terms o
the District and Circuit Courts Of Colorado
were agreed t0......A recess was then takel
until evening when the committee ON coin
age, weights and measures, reported bill
authorizing the treasurer Of the United
States to receive coins of the United State
in exchange for United States notes. Al
amendment was offered as substitute pro
viding that on presentation of any coins o
the United States at the sub.tressury o
New York there shall be exchanged there
for on demand to the extent and amount Il
which coins are legal tender, an equa
amount Of treasury notes, and all silve
coins 30 received, which are unAt for circ1
lation, shall be recoined. Adopted. ....Afte
the defeat Of motion to lay the bill on tn
table the house adjourned.
SATURDAY, Eehxuary s.-Beale tool
his seat ~ the sususaDor Of the late Beverl,
Douglas. Of virefniAs. $780, The bill reporte'
| yesterday from the committee on coinage
weights and measures, was laid on ths1abl
yeas, 127; nays, 10A.....T The house the