Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-02-05
FoRTY-slxTH CONGRESS.
Senate.

FoRTy-slxTH CONGRESS.
Senate.
MONDAY, January 26.-The vice-president laid
before the senate communications FROM the Sec
retary OF war recommending an appropriation
OF $1OO, 600 for the erection of Headquarters
building for the department. of Dakota, on Fort
Smelling military reservation. Referred. :.
Petitions, ETC., presented: Against the pro-
posed Detroit river bridge; for the continuance
OF the coinage of the silver dollar and the legal
tender capacity of the greenback; for the pas
sage OF the Reagan interstate commerce bill;
until silver and gold dollars have the same
value; for the abolition of the legal tender quail
lty OF greenbBcks. .Edmunds, from the COM
mttee on judiciary, reported adversely on the
memorial OF the legislature Of Missouri asking
congress to repeal the existing laws for the re-
moval of causes from state to federal courts, so
as to confine the jurisdiction of the latter to
cases arising under the constitution and laws of
the United States, and the committee was dis
charged from its further consideration. After
an executive session the senate adjourned.
TUESDAY, January 27.-Majority 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. Petitions were presented from ex-
soldiers and sailors for the passage of the
Weaver bill for the payment Of the difference
between gold and greenbacks Bills intro
duced and referred: 10 incorporate the Cosmo-
American Colonization and General Improve
ment bureau; to increase the pension of all
wounded soldiers of the war of 1872 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-
gles were pronounced by Ferry, Bayard, Blaine,
Logan, Morrill,, Cameron and Baldwin, and reso-
!utlons OF respect and sorrow for the late sena-
tor were adopted. Adjourned.
THURSDAY, January 29.-Pettions 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 postofiees and poetroads reported with
ply the amount appropriated by the act of
March Sd, 1877, to pay certain mail contractors
Placed on the calendar. It authorizes the Sec
retary OF the treasury to pay southern mail
contractors for carrying the mails prior to May
81, 1861, upon their presenting. satisfactory
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
tlona! 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,
MONDAY, January 21.-Clark presented the
credentials Of J. F. Phillips, representative
elect from the fifth district Of Missouri, and
Phillips took the iron-clad oath Bills intro
duced and referred: For the appointment of a
commission to ascertain and report the losses
sustained by citizens on account of Indian dep
relations: for monument to F. s. Key, author
of the 'Star Spangled Banner;'' to incorporate
Improvement bureau, the object of which is to
be the encouraging, promoting and conducting
of emigration from the over-crowded
cities and other districts of the United
States and from all parts of Europe
to the states of the United States needing set
poses; to increase the number of justices of
the United States Supreme Court to twenty -one;
to abolish the court of claims. The morning
hour having expired, the question REQUIRED on
suspending the rules and adopting the resolu-
ton offered last Monday by Kelley, of Pennsyl-
vania, the roll call on which had been interrupt
ed by district business, declaring that the nego-
tiation by the president of a commercial treaty
fixing rates Of duty is in violation of the consti-
tuition. The vote resulted, yeas ITS, nays 62.
So the rules were suspended and the resolution
was adopted. Adjourned.
TUESDAY, January 27.-Bills passed: Appro-
prlatmg $10O, 600 for monument at Yorktown,
and $20, 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 beft 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 rules the house adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, January 28:-Bills were passed
granting pension to the widow of Lieut.. Hiram
ment to Gen. Herkimer. "A bill imposing tax
on smoking opium was introduced and referred.
....A 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 Newberry, Williams, Of Wisconsin,
Hubbel4 Brewer, Robson, Burroughs, Hawley,
Dunnel, Stone, Keifer, Conger, Briggs, Grape,
Barber, Willets, and Garfield. AT the close of
the addresses the house adjourned.
THURSDAY, January 49, 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 3O.-Orth offered a resolu-
ton, which was referred, instructing the COM
mittee on railways and canals to inquire
into the expediency Of providing for survey to
ascertain the prac6cabiity Of constructing a
ship canal from Toledo, Ohio, to the navgable
waters of the Wabash river at Lafayette, Ind. . .
After the passage Of number Of private bills
the house adjourned.
SATURDAY, January 91-A petition of Jere
Haralson relative to the contested election case
Of Haralson against Shelley from the Fourth
district of Alabama was ordered printed and re-
ferred to the committee on elections. .Eulo-
gies on the late Rush Clark, representative from
Iowa, we're pronounced by Rice, Sapp, Thom-
son, Carpenter, Coffroth, Manning, Neal, Ben
nett and Henderson, after which the house ad-
journed as mark Of respect to the memory of
the deceased.
Rather Crushing.
[From the Chicago Tribune.]
It was "Please pass the butter, dar-
ing;" "Does my lovely want some more
potatoes?" "Do you think it will rain
pet ?" "What theatre are going to this
evening, sweetie?" etc., until one of the
boys calmly remarked in loud voice to