The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-01-30
TELEGRAMS.
FoRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
REGULAR SESSION.
SENATE.


Washington, 29.-DaVia, Illinois,
presented a petition Of citizens OF
Bloomington, Ills, against sDy re-
duction of the duty on sheet zinc.
Herman presented q petition OF !
claimants to the uBapproprlateo
balance Of The Geneva award, also
persons not claimants.
Petitions we're presented OF ex-
soldiers against the passage oil the
Senate bill for examinations II pen
sion cases.
A communication wRs received from
| the secretary of war recommending,
ON the suggestion of Gen. Newton,
that 81. 60O,O 900 be appropriated, IN
annual installments, for improving
Harlem River, New York.
It was resolved that when the
Senate adjourned today it would be
till Monday.
Allison, from the committee on ap'
propriAtions, reported, with sundry
amendments, the House bill making
appropriations for Notifications ana
other works of defense. Ordered
pYinted and placed on the calendar.
Herman introduced bill to provide
ksr celebrating the Tooth anniversary
At the treRt7 of peace and recognition
, of American independence, by e1ul'
q hitions Of arts, manufactures and pre-
ducts of mines, in New York, IN 1858,
The postofhce committee reported
the Senate Joint resolution to pay Ger
tain southern mail contractors ioi
services prior TO May 81, 1861, u
being shown that neither the Confed.
crate States nor the United States had
raid them.
Baysrd, from the committee OF
2 isance. reported, with amendments
bill for the conversion OF na!lona
gold notes. Calendar.
Johnston submitted 4 resolution re
7 ouesting the President of the Unltef
p States to inform the Senate II sn!
: asonev has bsen paid by the govern
meng Of Venezuela as awards Of tn
United States commission organized
0 under the treaty of 1866. when suol
Y payment was made, the cum, AM
whether it has been distributed to tn
persons entitled ID receive it, and
not. the reasons thereof; also cope
d of al correspondence between the tw
b governments relative to the subleC
u during 1879. Adopted.
Gordon submitted resolution tbs
Is a committee OF nine senators b
n appointed to take into considerable
:. the subject OF the construction OF
a canal to connect the Atlantic an
Pacific Oceans, and that all paper
u documents and information reiatin
t TO said subject be referred to 1t. an
n that said committee be Authorized
!. confer AID act eoDCurreDtly with an
;, gimilsr committee of the House, an
- be authorized to employ clerk.
IL The chair, in the absence Of oble
d ton. declared the resolution sdopte'
}. Dsvis, w. Va, called attention
:, the great number of special COMM
sions appointed during the presel
ID session and the expense thus incur-e'
Of He asked if one of the regular con
" rnittees could not consider this sn
It jeot.
" Gordon said if the Senator frol
West Virginia vas as conversant vii
the facts In the case as ne (Gordoi
was he would probably make no o
lection to the resolution. The matt
was the most important nov beto
= the American psople, and the cor
n mittse en- commerce had found
{. impossible to give it the attention
/. Edsmsnded.
> Davis desired to resume his con
i ments on the resolution. but Il
1g morning hour having expired, De e
20 tered a motion to reconsider the vo
:. by which the resolution was adopte
" and the matter went over.
It The Senate then went into exec
s. tive session, after which it adIourne