The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-02-26
EPlTOME OF THE WEEK,
Interesting News Compilation
. CONGRESSIONAL.

RESUIONAL
SENATE.--On the 10th Messrs. Win
dom, Blaine and withers were appointed
aConference Committee on the disagreement
OF the House to the Senate amendments to the
Military Academy Appropriation bill. :. The
fiye-per-ccnt. Military Land-warrant bill was
House. Bills were introduced-by
Mr.. Townshcnd, to repeal the duty on medi-
cincs; by MIR. Henderson, reducing the duty
free of duty machinery for manufacturing
cotton fabrics: by MIR. Baker, amending the
statutes prohibiting the employment of con-
vlcts in the manufacture of such articles as
may be brought into competition with skilled
labor; by MIR. Frost, to repeal certain sections
of the acts of August, ISL, relative to the use
Of Marshals and supervisors at the polls. and ,sl
qhpifjRY ief 1pPSsasiSG, Sr rss ordered en.
to 81.
SENArE.-Several petitions from rail-
road companies against the reduction of the du-
ties on steel rails were presented on the 18th.
Mr.. salisbury presented a majority report of
the Committee on Privileges and Elections in
the Ingalls, case, to the effect that bribery and
corruption were employed to secure Mr..
dence that ingalls, authorized such improper
acts. or that they in fact, secured his election.
Mr.; Cameron r;s,. Wis., presented La minority
and himself, concurring in that Por-
onerates .Irgalls, but expressing the opin-
employed it should in justice state, what was
proved. that such means were employed In OPP
position to his election. A resolution was
Committee on Naval Affairs providing that the
Secretary of the Navy be authorized to equip
and furnish vessel for the purpose of con.
and other supplies as are furnished in the
United States for the relief of the suffering in
Ireland. The bill authorizing the Secretary
ury to employ additional clerks to facilitate
the transaction of pension and other business
was taken up, debated and passed.
HOUsE.--A motion was agreed to to
reconsider the vote by which the House, ON
the 10th, ordered the main question ON the bill
prohibiting the publication of lottery schemes
IN IN, inc District ; OF Columbia, and motion to
lbs to 10. In Committee of the Whole on the
revision of the rules several amendments to
the pending rule mo. 2D, which amendments
Tended to take away or limit the power of the
House to legislate on Appropriation bills, were
voted down by majorities ranging from five
to ten.
SENATE.-On the 18th the joint reso-
luton authorizing the Secretary of the Navy
to furnish ship to transport to Ireland any
provisions or other supplies that may be fur
n,s ssn IN this country was passed
Veteran Club, numbering loo ex-soldiers, re-
nonstrating against the passage of the
weaver bill =" on the ground that, If passed,
will distract the business interests of the
country.
HOUsE.-Mr. Warner, from the Com
mittee on Coinage, reported back adversely
the petition of the Bullion Club Of New York,
praying for a specie currency. :. "A bill was in.
troduced by MIR. Morton, fixing the duty on
barley malt at twenty-five cents per bushel.
::..M Mr.. Cox, Chairman of the Committee on
FOREIGN Affairs, submitted the unsnimous re
port of the committee in regard to the charges
made against Mr.. Acklen. The committee
member Of the Committee on For:
eign Affairs, presented, on the 18th OF
January, q paper purporting to be
NE OF that submitted by
Gems against the Government Of Nicaragua,
which paper was printed at his request; that
of the
ca or favorably considered by such commit.
that that WAS done in the
Acklen; that that alleged report, as pre-
scented, consists of four pages of man
p psSTe report printed If M aaSen and
Forthwith Congress; that the manuscript is in
the form of report from the Committee on
Foreign Affairs for the speedy passage of q
resolution; that the manuscript is in the hand
writing of Acklen's clerk, and copied by him
from draft made by Acklen; that the manu-
script so prepared was handed by Acklen to
that he should adopt it; that the committee
did not adopt it as their report, or favorabiy
consider it, and that it was returned early in
December to Acklen, and he was informed
that the committee was probably adverse to
1t; that Acklen subsequently altered it by
FASTING to it printed copy of the resolution
Nicaragua Claims. and Introduced tsP0 i so So
changed on January 23d; that Acklen, being
inquired Of at the time by the journal clerk,
tailed IinI TO- to convey to him any other impress.
for King: that it was King. and not the Chair
man OF the committee, who asked Acklen what
the introduction of the report meant, and who
received an unsatisfactory reply. After de-
bate Mr.. Hawley moved, as an amendment to
tue report, that the report and evidence pre-
sented by the Committee on Foreign Affairs
COMMITTEE is hereby authorized to make
further inquiry if it should appear essential to
Just Judgment, and is instructed to report
what action. If necessary, is required on the
part of the House. The motion was agreed to
Il6l to 22-and the report as amended was
then adopted.
SENATE.-The motion of MIR. Davis
wv. Va.) to reconsider the vote adopting the
resolution for the appointment of Special
Committee on the Interoceanic Canal was
S1-On n.
The Five-per-cent. bill was further de-
bated.
HoUsE.-Mr. Bland, from the Com
mittee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, re-
ported bill to establish a mint at st. Louis.
The bill regulating the removal of causes
from State to FEDERAL Courts was taken up
and debated. In Committee of the Whole
on the state of the Union Mr.. Stephens
spoke in opposition to the practice of
attaching legislative enactments to Ap-
preparation bills, claiming that, un-
der the Constitution, the Executive
mad the same -ightful and constitutional
power to veto a bill as the House and the SEN
ate had to pass it. and the doctrine of making
war upon the veto power through means OF
the Appropriation bills was anti-constitution-
al. In Committee of the Whole on the revis-
ion OF the rules Rule q was further amended
as finally agreed to the rule IS not materially
changed in respect to political riders from
the rule as originally reported.
FROM WASHINGTON.
The United States Attorney-G General
has decided that Immigrant railroads cannot
deviate from the lines of route originally 10.
Gated without s1bjecting themselves to the
charge of building different road. 1t is ad-
mitted that some reflections may be neces-
sary, but substantial compliance with the act
IS L. 10 sc~