The Newtown bee., 1880-02-25
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.

1Hc UorfflaH Dark Marie W1netmlna, rom Liverpool for Baltimore, has been lost at sea, Only four of her crew were saved
 
 CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
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 Mr. Blaine submitted resolution, which was adopted, asking the President to com municate any information in possession of the government touching the alleged false statis- tics and fabricated testimony imposed upon the Halifax commission and used as the basis of their award in the matter of the fisheries.
 MT. Saunders has introduced bill to abolish all duties on the importation of salt.
 MT. Mcdonald submitted resolution pro- viding for the appointment ot committee oi nine Senators to consider memorials, resolu- tions, proposed bills, etc., relating to female suffrage Laid on the table.
 MT. Richardson introduced bill to return to the producers of cotton the tax collected by the government, which has been declared by the United States supreme court to have been illegally collected.
 Petitions were presented by several Sena- tors for a sixteenth amendment to the Consti- tntion giving women the right to vote.
 MT. Teller has introduced & bill to enable Indians to become citizens of the United States, and for other purposes.
 Mir. Herman from the committee on finance, reported with amendments the bill to provide tor a celebration at New York in 1881 ot the one hundredth anniversary of the treaty of peace and recognition of American independ- ence. The bill creates the " United States International Commission" under whose direction the exhibition is to be held. This commission will consist of two members from each State and one from each Territory, and about sixty citizens oi New York, men, toned by name in the bill. This commission is to be appointed within sixty days after the passage ot this act, and is required to report 10 Congress at the first session after its ap- p0utment @ suitable date for opening and closing the exhibition, and such other matters as in it's judgment may be important. The | bill provides that no compensation shall be | paid to the commission, it's officers agents, from the treasury, and that the United States | shall not be liable for any expenses attending the exhibition or accrueing by reason ot the same. IT commission Is authorized to re- ceive subscriptions of capital stock, not ex- ceeding SIP, ,000 900, to be divided in ten dollar shares. The shareholders are to be called | together in the city ot New York, by public notice, and are to elect a finance committee from among the shareholders or members oi | the commission, consisting of twenty five persons, who, when elected, shall-if no already so appointed-be ex-officio member of the commission. The bill was placed or the calendar.
 Majority and minority reports from th committee on privileges, and elections in tn case oi Senator Ingalls,, charged with securin; his election by the means of bribing member of the Kansas legislature, were presented | The ma ority report exonerates MT. lngalls but says that bribery and corrupt means wer employed by persons iavoring his election t secure that end. The minority report, signe by Messrs. Cameron, Of Wisconsin, Logan an
 Hoar, exonerates Mr. Ingalls, from any com plicity in improper practices, and asserts fur ther that corrupt means were used to defes and not to elect him.
 Petitions against the passage of the propose
 House bill reducing the duty on importatlo
 ol steel rails from twenty-eight dollars to te
 dollars per ton were presented by sever,
 Senators, signed by officers oi many railroa
 companies, among them the Pennsyivani,
 the Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Philadelpbi
 and Reading, the Central oi New Jersey, au
 the Delaware and Hudson Canal. Mir. Randolph introducei an amendment 1
 the bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter. II 1 amendment authorizes the President to non
 mate, and with the consent ot Congress, appoint General Porter colonel ot infantl in the United States army.
 , A memorial from the St. Paul (Minn chamber ot commerce, asking that the Pres , dent may employ public steamship to receiN
 and transport contributions to Ireland, ait,
 debate, was referred to the committee C appropriations.
 , | Ml Harris, from the select committee ( , epidemic diseases, reported tavorably q I 1 call an international sanitary conferenc | Placed on the calendar. Mir. Stephens, chairman of the commits , oa coinage, weights and measures, reportt
 back i've bills relative 10 tho metric system
 coinage. The five bills provide as follow
 First, for the coinage of a metric gold coin,
 be called the |" Stella,' of the value of 8 second, for the coinage of the goloid metz dollar two dollars and fractions of a dolla and also the coinage of the metric gold doubl ) eagle, eagle and halt-eagle, all of standa value; third, tor the minting of ingots metric gold alloy, its deposit in the treasur and the issue of certificates therefor; fourt for the making of ingots of fine gold al ingots of fine silver of the value ot $100 eac for exrortation manufactures, etc.; fifth, i 7 the coinage of silver dollars and tractio ! thereof ot full standard value upon the met l system. The bill was referred to the COT 3 mittee of the whole.
 1 Mr. Stephens has reported resolution a thorizing the secretary of the treasury : furnish States for the use of agricultural e i leges one set of standard weights and mef ures. Passed.
 3 On motion of MT. Bragg, the Senate bill f Q the removal of the body ot the late Majc
 General George Sykes from Fort Brow 5 Texas to West Point, N. Y, was taken fro , the speakers table and passed. 1 Mir. Baker introduced bill amending t statutes prohibiting the employment of co 7 victs ill the manufacture ot such articles g may be brought into competition with skill 3 labor.
 } Mr. Frost introduced bill to repeal certa 3 sections of the act of August, 1871, relative l the use ot msrshals and supervisors at t 3 polls, and the act oi 1872 on the same subje 3 bill has been introduced by Mir. Keif, r granting pensions to certain sailors and s, B dlers of the late war who were confined in 2 called ConiedeI ate prisons.
 f MT. House introduced bill requesting t l President to open negotiations with certs : foreign governments relative to the import q tion of tobacco into their dominions. k MT. Persons introduced bill admitting fl r of duty machinery tor manufacturing colt fabrics.
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