Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-01-22


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PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
In the Senate on the 18th, several Senators
presented numerously signed petitions for the
appointment of commission of inquiry into
the alcoholic liquor traffic. Mr.. Herman, of
New York, presented memorial Of over 6f-
teen hundred individuals and firms of New
York State and city, of all political parties,
for the withdrawal of the legal tender quality
of Treasury notes. Mr.. Herman, in present
ing the memorial, stated that he believed it
represented the views of majority Of the
citizens of New York, and asked for it the
consideration it deserved. Similar petitions
from Delaware were also presented by Mr..
Salisbury. Mr.. Butler, of South Carolina,
presented a petition from the citizens of
South Carolina for the improvement of Wa.
teree river Mr.. Salisbury introduced a bill
to preserve the secrecy of kilograms. Refer
red. Mr.. Morrill, introduced resolution in
structing the finance committee to inquire
into the practicability of refunding any part
of the national debt at lower rate of inter-
est than four per cent. Laid on the. table.
The Vice President laid before the Senate a
recommendation from the Secretary of War,
that the appropriation for arranging Confed'
crate archives be increased to seventy-6ve
hundred dollars. Referred. Mr.. Morrill,
introduced a bill for the appointment of a
committee on alcoholic liquor traffic. Re-
ferred to the finance committee.
In the House, Mr.. Bicknell, Of Indiana,
from the committee on counting Of the vote
for President, reported back bill amending
the statutes relating to Presidential election,
providing for the counting of votes and for
a decision of the question arising therefrom,
and it was made the special order for Janu.
ary 9th. Mr.. Money, of Mississippi, sub.
mitted report to accompany the bill for the
establishment of return letter Offices. Refer
red to the committee of the whole. The
House then went into committee Of the whole
on revision of rules, and there was more dis
cussion of the rule requiring the commerce
committee to report the River and Harbor
bill for reference to the appropriations COM
mittee. Pending the discussion, at 4:25, the
committee rose, and, after introduction and
reference of two or three bills, the House ad-
iourned.
In the Senate on the 14th, Mr.. Davis,
of Illinois, the Vice. President, Messrs. Beck,
Williams, Allison, Kirkwood, Baldwin, An
thony, Ferry. Dawes, Pendleton, Herman,
Conkling and others, presented petitions OF
women asking for the removal of political
disabilities and for constitutional amend
ments giving women citizens the right to
vote. Messrs. Herman and Bayard pre-
sented petitions in favor of the Bayard reso-
luton, Withdrawing the legal tender quality
of Treasury notes. Various petitions were
presented for a Liquor Traffic Commission ;
for cable to Central and South America,
vsa the Gulf of Mexico; for the relief of Fitz
John Porter, and for amendment of the law
relating to the seizure and forfeiture of yes.
sells for breach Of the revenue laws. Mr..
Hoar introduced bill relating to the claims
of States against the United States Mr..
Davis, of West Virginia, from the appropria.
tions committee, reported, with amendments,
bill tc relieve the United States Treasurer
from the amount now charged against him and
deposited with the several States. Placed on
the calendar Mr.. Kirkwood called up the
bill to increase the pensions of certain totally
disabled soldiers and sailors, and it was pass
ed. 1t increases the pensions Of such persons
from fifty to seventy-two dollars per month.
The session of the House was occupied
mainly in discussing the proposed revision of
the rules for the government Of that body.
In the Senate on the 18th, additional petit
tions of women, asking a constitutional
amendment giving women the right of suf
frage, were presented. Mr.. Allison, Of Iowa,
from the committee on finance, announced he
was directed by that committee to report back
Joint resolution for the withdrawal of the
compulsory legal tender power of United
States Treasury notes. The committee had
made verbal amendment to the resolution,
unanimously agreeing to it, and with that
amendment, directing him to report the reso-
luton adversely. He understood there was
a minority report to be presented, otherwise
he should ask indefinite postponement of the
resolution. He asked that it be placed on the
calendar for the present. So ordered. Mr.
Bayard, from the same committee, presented
the views of the minority upon the same SUBJ
ject as follows; "The undersigned, believing
that the industrial, commercial and financial
of the country, in order to be en-
during and secure, must be based upon mon
ey of actual and intrinsic value, and that our
Government has no power and is incompetent
to endow its obligations with such value, and
the United States Treasury notes in existence
n mi ~, o;ronlo tim hainu now rpdaemable in