Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1880-06-10
F0RTI-SixTH CONGRESS.
Senate.

toA Cuo 1e1Ael VI CeItdsu seCtleTS On swamp lanOe
in Minnesota. Referred. the house joint
resolution requesting the president to open ne.
gQtlatlon will France, Spain, Austria and Italy,
with view tC removal of restrictions upon the
importation of tobacco in said countries, was
passed The house bill providing times and
places Of holding Circuit Court of the United
States in the district of Iowa, and for other
thorize compromise of the claims of the United
States under the will of Joseph L. Lewis, of
Hoboken, who devised about 81 ,00O, 900 toward
paying off the public debt, was taken up and
passed. .Adj djourned.
TUESDAY, June 1.-The river and harbor ap-
preparation bill was taken up for consideration.
Amendments were concurred in as follows: In
creasing the appropriation for the ice harbor at
the mouth Of the Muskingum, Ohio, to $50, 900;
to $780, 600; appropriating $15, 1000 for the Mich
igan City harbor; increasing the appropriation
for Calumet, ILL.,, harbor to $25, 600; for Grand
Haven, Mich, to $50, 1000; for removing the bar
IN the Mississippi river opposite Dubuque, Ia.,
to $1,000; for improving the Missouri at Coun-
Missouri at Eastport, Ia., and Nebraska City to
$780, 600; for improving Saginaw river, Mich, to
$15, 900, striking out the appropriation Of 1886,
600 for improving the falls of the Cumberland
river, Kentucky; inserting an appropriation of
$4,000 for reservoirs at the headwaters of the
Mississippi river to be used in the construction
Of, Of = dam at nsd Lake e. Winnebagoshish;
the appropriation for improving the
kentucky river from it's mouth to Three
Forks; reducing from 100000 to 1886, 900
the appropriation for the Improvement
Of the Illinois river; the amendment striking
out the clause amending the joint resolution
authorizing the construction of a bridge at
Rock Island so as to require the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific Railroad company to charge
SIS for loaded and So for empty cars other than
its own for. crossing the bridge, One-half of
said sum to go to the United States treasury,
was adopted; also one for an appropriation Of
10,000 for the Missouri river at Brownsville
and $40, 900 for the Missouri at Plattsmouth;
also one for an appropriation of $4,000 for
dredging the western channel of the Mississippi
near Guttenburg, Ia. An amendment for q
survey to ascertain the practcability and cost of
ship canal from Lake Erie to the navigable
waters of the Wabash and Ohio rivers, was
adopted. Adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, June 2:-The consideration was
resumed Of the river and harborbill. Browns
amendment increasing the appropriation for
Savannah harbor from $65, 900 to 100000 was
rejected-28 to 16. The bill was reported to the
senate and all amendments in committee of the
reducing from $4,000 to $4,000, the appro-
priation for the improvement of the Illinois
river, which was disagreed to. On motion of
Davis, of Illinois, the bill Was then read a
third time and passed-yeas, 36; nays, 49,. il.
Adjourned.
THURSDAY, June 3.-The senate bill to con-
summate the resolution of the Continental con-
gress by approp1iating $41, 900 to erect mon1-
ment to Gen. Herkimer at the battlefield of
mission bill was then taken up, and after long
debate. the pending question being on the
amendment offered by Kirkwood directing the
commission to include in their report the rela-
ton of the tariff to the existing system of in
ternal revenue laws, it was adopted. The ques-
ton recurring on Kirkwood's amendment in
Guiding in the investigation the system of
charges and fees at the principal ports for load
ing and unloading clearance and pilotage of
vessels engaged in foreign commerce. it was
adopted. Garland's substitute as amended was
then rejected-yeas 21, nays Is. The question
recurring on Eaton's bill, Brown moved to
amend so that the commission shall report in
Adopted-yeas Is, nays "a. The bill was read a
third time and passed-yeas 81, nays Is. 90.
Adjourned.
FRIDAY, June 4.-The senate bill for the re.
lief of settlers within the late Fort Kearney
military reservation, Nebraska, was passed
After general debate on District of Columbia
matters the senate adjourned.
SATURDAY, June 5.-The bill for the sale OF
Detroit arsenal was passed. The bill appro-
fund was passed. The senate bill to promote
the civilization of Winnebago Indians in Wis
consin Granting them their pro rata proportion
of annuities to the Winnebagos of Nebraska anG
Wisconsin for the purpose of securing home
steads) was passed., The house bill granting
to the corporation of Council Bluffs, Ia., fo1
public purposes meandered lake near that city
was passed. Adjourned.
MONDAY. May 3a.-The senate amendments te
the house bill for relief to certain homestead
ka we're conculred in. Consideration of the
sundry civil appropriation bill was then re-
sumed. a number of amendments were agreed
to and several rejected, after which the bill
passed-yeas 112, nays 53.. Adjourned.
TUESDAY, June 1.-The house went into com
mittee of the whole on the deficiency bill. Ar
amendment appropriating 5000 to the daugh'
Zachary Taylor was adopted. After debate or
other amendments the committee rose. .Ad
journed.
WEDNESDAY, June 2.-The house went into
committee of the whole, on the general defcien.
cy appropriation bill, the pending paragraph
being that appropriating $20,0O0 to enable the
secretary of the treasury to provide storage fo1
silver coin. A substitute by Bland and a large
number of amendments were rejected. Warner
paragraph and it was agreed to: ''To enable
tie secretary of the treasury to provide more
secure andi needed be additionalvault room fol
coin, $40, ,000." The amendment was adopted
appropriating as deficiency So, 500 for detecting
persons guilty of violating internal revenue laws
....Adjourned.
THURSDAY, June "a joint resolution appro
priating $50 900 for a monument to mark the
birthplace of George Washington was agreed te
means reported resolution for the final ad.
journment of congress at noon on the 10th
inst. The general deficiency bill was then
taken up. Townsend (Ill.) offered an amend.
ment striking out the paragraph appropriatine
$4,000 to enable the secretary of the treasury
to provide more secure vault room for coin and
bullion. Rejected-yeas Is, nays s6. Page
pay special deputy marshals IN California at the
September election. Rejected-yeas 78, nays
GA party vote. The next vote was taken on
the amendment adopted in committee provid-
ing that no part of the appropriation made for
the payment of narshals shall he paid to any
general or special deputy marshal for services
rendered at elections. The action of the COM
mittee was concurred in-yeas IS, nays 79. The
bill was then passed. The house then consid-
cred the amendments to the postofice appro-
priaton bill. The senate amendment increas-
ing from $3.50, 900 to 100000 the appropria-
ton for inland transportation by steamship
routes was conculred in. The senate amend
ment increasing the appropriation for inland
mail transportation $356, 1000 was non-concurred
in. The senate amendment striking out the
provision for rc]etting of contracts on all star
routes on which pay for expedition of schedule
shall exceed fifty per cent. of contract price
before such expedition, was concurred in. %.
After the introduction Of petition for the pas
sage of the bill granting lands in severaty to In
dams the house adjourned.
FRIDAY, June 4.-The senate amendments to
the house bill granting condemned cannon for a
soldiers monument at Marietta, Ohio, were
concurred in. On motion the senate bill passed
for disposing of Fort Harker military reserva-
ton. The speaker stated that the regular
order was the motion to lay on the table the
motion to reconsider the vote by which the
house yesterday concurred in the senate amend
ment to the.postoffice appropriation bill, striking
out the proviso relative to the reletting of the
star routes. The motion to table was agreed
to-yeas 81, nays 72-so the proviso was shick.
en- from the bill, which now goes to the senate
for its action in regard to the amendments non
concurred in by the house. The house then
went into committee of the whole on the private
calendar, but after considering three pension
bills the committee fOurd itself without g