Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-06-10
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.



| MONDAY, May 31.-McMillan introduced bill
for the relief of certain settlers on swamp lands
IN Minnesota. Referred. :. The house Joint
resolution requesting the president to open ne
gotlatlon with France, Spain, Austria and Italy,
with view to removal of restrictions upon the
| importation of tobacco in said countries. was
| passed The house bill providing times md
places Of holding Circuit Court of the United
States in the district of Iowa, and for other
purposes, was passed The house bill to au-
thorize compromise of the claims eff the United
States under the will of Joseph l.. Lewis. of
Hoboken, who devised about 81, 200, 900 toward
paying off the public debt, was taken up and
passed. Adjourned.
TUESDAY, june 1.-The river and harbor APP
preparation bill was taken up for consideration
Amendments were conculred in as follows: In
creaslng the appropriation for the ice harbor at
the mouth OF the Muskingum, Ohio. to So. 900;
increasing the appropriation for Toledo harbor
to 900, appropriating $4,000 for the Mich
lgan City harbor; increasing the appropriation
for Calumet ILL.,, harbor to S25, 200; for Grand
Haven, Mich, to $4,000; for removing the bar
IN the Mississippi river opposite Dubuque, Ia,
to $4,000; for improving the Missouri at Coun-
cll Bluffs, Ia, t. 100000: for improving the
Missouri at Eastport, Ia, and Nebraska City to
$4,000; for improving Saginaw river, Mich,
to $4,000; striking out the appropriation of
$780, 600 for improving the falls of the Cumber-
uon or S75,0UO for reservoirs at the hea adj
waters of the Mississippi river to be used in the
construction OF dam at Lake Winnebagos.
hlsh; reducing from 100000 to 100000
the appropriation for improving the
Kentucky river from its mouth to Three
Forks; reducing from 100000 TO S85, 900
the appropriation for the improvement
OF the Illinois river; the amendment striking
out the clause amending the joint resolution
authorizing the construction of bridge at Rock
Island so as to require the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific Railroad company to charge IS foi
loaded and - for empty cars other than its own
for crossing the bridge one-half of said sum to
got the United States treasury, was adopted
also one for an appropriation of $40, 900 for the
Missouri river at Brownsville and SO, 900 for
the Missouri at Portsmouth; also one for an
appropriation of $4,000 for dredging the west
EN- channel of the Mississippi near Gutenberg
la. An amendment for survey to ascertain
the practicabiIity and cost of ship canal from
Lake Erie to the nayigable waters of the Wa
bash and Ohio rivers was adopted. Adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, June 2.--The consideration was
resumed of the river and harbor bill Browns
amendment increasing the appropriation for
savannah harbor from S65,000 to 5100,0 was
rejected-2Sto 16. The bill was reported to the
senate and all amendments in committee of the
whole being agreed to. except the amendment
reducing from $4,000 to $50, 600 the appro-
priation for the improvement of the Illinois
river, which was disagreed to. On motion of
Davis, of Illinois, the bill was then read third
time and passed-yeas, SO; nays 49,. Adj
journed.
THURSDAY, June 3.-Ihe senate bill to con-
summate the resolution of the Continental con-
gress by appropriating S4l, 900 to erect monu-
ment to Gen. Herkimer at the battlefield of Or
iskany, y. Y, passed. e. The tariff COM
mission bill was then taken up, and after long
debate, the pending question being on the
amendment offered by Kirkwood directing the
commission to include in their report the rela-
ton Of the tariff to the existing system Of inter-
nal revenue laws, II was adopted The question
recurring on kirkwood's amendment including
in the investigation the system of charges and
fees at the principal ports for loading and UNI
loading, clearance and pilotage Of vessels engage
ed IN foreign commerce, it was adopted. Gar
lands substitute amended was then rejected
yeas 81 nays 25. The question recurring on
Eaton's bill, Brown moved to amend so that the
commission shall report in January, 1881, in
stead of December, 1881. Adopted-yeas 25,
nays "a, The bill was read third time and
passed-yeas 81, nays 15. Adjourned
FRIDAY, June 4.--The senate bill for the re-
lief of settlers within the late Fort Kearney
military reservation, Nebraska, was passed. -.
after general debate on District of Columbia
matters the senate adjourned.