Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-02-04
FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Senate.

TUESDAY, January 27.--MaJ Or1ty and minority
reports on the bill for the relief of Fitz John
Porter were presented by the committee on
military affairs and the bill was placed on the
calendar. i. Petitions were presented from ex-
soldiers and sailors for the passage of the
Weaver bill for the payment of the difference
between gold and greenbacis. Bills intro
duced and referred: TO incorporate the Cosmo-
American Colonization and General Improve
ment bureau; to increase the pension of all
wounded soldiers of the war of 1912 who now
receive less than $15 per month"; to regulate In
dian affairs. Consideration was then resumed
of the JOINT resolution introduced by Bayard to
withdraw the legal tender power of United
States notes, and Bayard spoke in favor of the
resolution. Adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, January 28.-No business was
transacted, the day having been set apart for
the delivery of commentaries upon the life and
character of the late Senator Chandler. Eulo-
ges were pronounced by Ferry, Bayard, Blaine,
Logan, Morrill,, Cameron and Baldwin, and reso-
lutions of respect and sorrow for the late sena-
tor were adopted. Adjourned.
THURSDAY, January 29.-Petitions presented:
Against any reduction of the duty on sheet
zinc; against the passage of the senate bill for
examinations in pension cases. "A resolution
was adopted for the appointment of a commit
tee of nine senators to take into consideration
the subject of a canal to connect the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans. Bailey, from the commit
tee on pOstOthceS and pOstroadS reported with
amendments the senate joint resolution to ap-
ply the amount appropriated by the act of
March I'd, 1877, to pay certain mail contractors.
Placed on the calendar. 1t authorizes the sec
Rotary of the treasury to pay southern mail
contractors for carrying the mails prior to May
81, 1861, upon their presenting satisfactory
evidence that they had received no pay for
such services from either the confederate or
United States government =. .Bayard, from the
committee on finance, reported with amend
ments bill authorizing the conversion of ma
tonal gold bonds. Placed on the calendar
Bills introduced and referred: For the relief of
the Stockbridge and other Indians in Wisconsin,;
to provide for celebrating the one hundredth
anniversary of the treaty of peace and recOgni-
ton Of American independence, by an exhibition
OF arts, manufactures and products of mines in
New York, in 1888; to amend the act granting
railroads the right of way through public lands
in the United States. Adjourned till Monday.
House.
TUESDAY, January N.-Bils passed.: Appro-
priating 100000 for O monument at Yorktown,
and $40, 900 to enable the committee on celebra-
ton to make all necessary arrangements for
such celebration of the centennial anniversary
of the battle of Yorktown as shall befit the his
torical significance of the occasion; setting
apart for park purposes certain lands in Califor-
mia on which are grown the red wood or " big
trees" After a session in committee of the
whole on revision of rnles the house adjourned
WEDNESDAY, January 28.-Bills were passed
granting pension to the widow of Lieut. Hiram
Benner, and appropriating 81, 100 for a monu-
ment to Gen. Herkimer "A bill imposing tax
on smoking opium was introduced and referred.
| IA message was received from the senate
transmitting the resolutions adopted by that
body relative to the late Senator Chandler.
Speeches were then made in eulogy of the late
senator by NewbeTy, Williams, of Wisconsin,
Hubbell, Brewer, Robson, Burroughs. Hawley,
Dunnel, Stone Keller. Conger, Briggs, Grape,
Barber, Willets, and Garfield At the close of
the addresses the house adjourned.
THURSDAY, January 29.-The bill declaring all
public roads and highways post routes was
passed. Several bills were reported back from
committee and referred, after which the house
went into committee of the whole on revision of
rules. :. When the committee rose the house
adjourned.
! FRIDAY January 30.-Orth offered q resolu-
ton, which was referred, instructing the COM
mittee on railways and canals to inquire
| into the expediency of providing for a survey to
ascertain the practicabiity of constructing a
/ ship canal from Toledo, Ohio to the navigable
waters of the Wabash river at Lafayette, Ind
! After the passage of number of private bills
the house adjourned.
SATURDAY, January 31.-A petition of Jere
| Haralson relative to the contested election case
! of HARRISON against Shelley from the Fourth
district of Alabama was ordered printed and re-
! ferred to the committee on elections. .EuIo-
gies ON the late Rush Clark, representative from
Iowa, were pronounced by Rice, Sapp, Thorn
son, Carpenter, Coffroth, Manning, Neal Ben
nett and Henderson, after which the house adj
! journed as a mark of respect to the memory of
the deceased.