The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-01-15
Congress.

bills In reduced in the Senate were-to estab-
lish Court of Appeals; to provide that no
person on the retired list of the army, navy
or marine corps shall draw a pension; to adj
5 at tSs ~ erers for
hibilfOn at Cincinnati in June, 1880 Mr.
Conkling presented petitions from a large
n fan OF ,, CITIZENS of New York State.
fOrme ~ soldiers, demonstrating against the
pas .age of Senate Bill 498, providing for
medical and surgical examination and the
taking OF testimony in pension, cases. Mr..
petitions Of soldiers for the Equalization Of
bounties. On motion of Mr.. Morgan, as
mark OF respect to the memory Of the late
the House Mr.. Scales. Chairman of the Com.
mittee on Indian Affairs, reported resolutions,
which were adopted. directing that the COM
Of
the White River Agency, in Colorado, and ar-
thOrizing it to send for persons and papers;
calling canng ~ IN the Secretary Of the Interior for
January, 1879, by N. Z. Meeker with the Secre-
tary of the 1nteriOror Commissioner of Indian
AT ard the copies Of all correspondence
Adams and Speciai-Agent Pollock with the
Interior Departn ent concerning the Ute
Indians. Mr.: Blackburn submitted the report
to the Committee of the Whole. Mr. Hawk in
troducea bill directing the Issuing of patents
for land, on which bounty land-warrants have
death of Senator Houston, and the House, as
mark OF respect adjourned.
WEDNESDAY,, January I'm the Sem
ate Mr.. Pendeton gave notice of an amend
ment to the Bayard Finance resolution, pro-
vfdfnR that said notes shall not be available
for any of the reserves required to be kept by
the National Banks, and all such reserves
shall be kept in cUin." Mr.. Window submitted
q resolution instructing the Committee on
establishing an additional Executive Depart
ment OF the Government, to be called 1.-THE
Department. of Agriculture and Commerce."
culture, domestic and foreign Commerce, man
ufActufes, mines ana mining, public lands,
geological and other surveys, and abroad sta
tistics. A communication was received from
the Secretary Of the Interior, transmitting the
correspondence called for concerning the Ute
Indians, excepting two letters received from
General AdamsIone concerning the testi-
other concerning further negotiations with
:sss Esssss is'ssS =. $ecrsssIy
demand should be withheld from publication
at present. "A large number of bills we're in
trGduced in the House. among which were the
restrict the. immig on Of the Chinese; to
ammunition to uncivilized Indians; for the
segals1 alto e OF freights and
lions OF local quarantine; for the appointment
OF Commission to ascertain the losses sus-
tatned by citizens of the United States from
Indian depredations: authorizing the recoin-
age OF the trade dollar: extending the Land
the Territory of Pemb;na. The Senate bill
amending Sections 2,a24 and 2,325, Revised
Statutes, in regard to mineral lands, was re-
ported back from the Committee on Mines and
Mining, debated and passed-177 to 20; the
purpOrt of the bill is to add to the existing
law the provision that, when the claimant of q
patent is not a resident Of the land district,
the necessary application and affidavira may
be made by his authorized agent.
THURSDAY. January 8.-The Ser
geant-at-Arms brought to the bariof the Sem
ate Messrs. L. T. Smith, Levi Wilson and E. B.
Purcell, to answer to a charge of contempt in
not obeying the summons to testify in the In
gals ca9e. After considerable dehafe they were
d1scharged, having purged Themselves d con-
tempt. A bill was introduced TO create an Ad-
dittOnal Land District in Kansas. Mr.1Wallace
presented the petition Of Drexef eAs Co. and
others, OF Pennsylvania, for the withdrawal
OF the legal-tender quality Of Treasury
notes. Adjourned to the 12th. AresolutiOn
was adopted in the House directing the Com
mittee on Appropriations to inquire into the
in the postal "star" service for the fiscal
years 1879 and 1850. Several bills were re-
ported from committees. The Senate bill
providing for the publication ana 6ieftibution
OF supplement- to the Revised Statutes was
pittee on the Revision Of the Rules was con-
stdered in Committee of the Whole, and a
lengthy debate ensued on the new rule pro
posing to transfer the River and Harbor Ap-
preparation bill from the Committee ON Com.
MERGE to the Committee ON Appropriations.