The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-12-23
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
WEDNESDAY DEC. Is.

CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
WEDNESDAY DEC, Is.
SENArE-Bills were introduced to retire
small legal tender notes; to regulate the civil
service; to prohibit federal office holders from
making or receiving political assessments;
sales of public lands to public education was
discussed, the principal speech being made by
DR.. Brown, the new senator from Georgia, who
spoke in support of the bill. A bill to pay
Samuel A. Lowe something less than 5000
for services as clerk Of the Territorial! !eg1s1a,
ture of Kansas in 1855 came up and formed
the basis of a somewhat heated political debate.
HousE-A bill was introduced for the retire
ment of small legal tender notes. The FORTH
cation bill appropriatng $500. 600 for coast de-
lenses was argued at great length and rejected.
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 16
SENA1E-The vice president submitted re-
port by Mr. Glazier, transmitted by the score
tary Of the treasury, regarding trichine IN
by reason thereof A bill was introduced to
place Gen. Ord on the retired list with the rank
of major general The education bill was dis
cussed, the principal speechl ing made by Mr.
Pugh, the new senator from AL bama-
HoUsE.-A concurrent resolution to adjourn
The pension appropriation bill $3.50, 0O0, GOO
was passed 1t is more money than the ccm-
bined pension payments Of England, France,
Germany, Russia and Austria. The hasty and
mconsiderate arrears of pension law has swelled
the annual pension list from about $29, 0O0,-
600 to $5O, OOO, 600 exclusive of amount paid
directly as arrears Hubbel, of Michigan,
showed that the arrears bill will cost the treas
ury probably $3.50, OOO, 600. The pension list
is isl. now nearly twice az large as ten years ago.
With the lapse Of fme ne & Rsna1n Of ' West H W.
ginia, offered a resolution directing the COM
mlttee on Pacific railroads to inquire into the
alleged mortgage and sale of unearned land
grants by the Northern Pacific and Atlantic l.
Pacific Railroad companies.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER II.
SENATE.-The house joint resolution to ad-
journ from December % to January was dis
agreed to-27 to 81. bill approp1iating
$lSO,OOO to rebuild the Pensacola custom
house passed. Mr.. Wallace introduced bill
establishing uniform system of bankruptcy.
The education bill was again debated. MI.
Iellers amendment, providing that for the first
ten years the proceeds of public lands and
patents shall be paid to the States according to
the proportion Of iliteracy, was rejected An
colleges established under the act of 1862 to
establish industrial schools for women, was
adopted and the bill passed-41 to 6. The nays
were Senators Jones, Mcdonald, Salisbury,
West, Williams and Voorhees,.
HousE-A bill passed limiting the sessions of
1Gi11lolAal lesslatuIes 10 Sixty Gays Nearly
all the day was spent on the private calendar
The senate bill passed granting pension to
Margaret A Heintzelman, widow Of the late
Major General Heintzelman Some time was
consumed in the consideration and discussion
OF the bill granting pension to VIM G. Parker,
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. company, had
been injured while acting under the perempto,y
orders OF q military commander It was op-
posed on the ground that it would be setting
dangerous precedent to grant q pension to men
who had not been on either the army or navy
roll, but it was finally passed.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER IS.
SENATE-Not in session.
HoUsE-There was sharp debate in which
Mr.. Congor Of Michigan moved to strike ont
the PROVISION allowing the secretary of war TO
aass,ga any any officer Of the army as professor Of
| he said, abiding to the Whitaker case, an ea-
hlbihon made by the officer in charge of the ex-
animation of the colored cadet at West Point,
| that was unworthy of any officer in the service
of the government. The motion was finally
withdrawn, and the military academy bill, ap-
propriating 81 19O, 625, was discussed, togetf
er with the foreign commerce and carrying
trade Of the country. The house adjourned for
| want Of a quorum.
MONDAY DEC. 20
SENATE-The motion by which the Joint 1850
luton to adjourn over the holidays was disagreed
to, was reconsidered, and the resolution laid On
the table, No business Of importance was done.
HousE-A bill was introduced declaring lands
in the Indian Territory to which the Indian title
has been extinguished, and which are unoccu-
pied by Indians, public lands of the United
States, subject to settlement A bill was intro
duced repeating the tax on bank checks and
bank deposits. The consular appropriation bin
passed A motion to suspend the rules and pass
the bill to abolish the tax on bank checks was
lost, there not being two-thirds in the affisra
tive.