Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-12-23

the Senate concurrent resolution as to count
ing the Electoral VOTE MIR. Bright 3D.. TENN
raised the question of consideration. and the
House then went into Committee of the
Whole, Mr.. Sparks d., ILL., In the chair, on
the private calendar. Adjourned till Mon
day.
DEC. 13.-In the Senate, the bill for the
relief of Fitz John Porter was taken up and
discussed at considerable length, but no &C
ton was taken. Upon motion of Mr.. Vest, the
Committee on Military Affairs was instructed
duced was one By Mr.. Plumb. making the
elect e from the Nineteenth ohio District
&ard rs o to Tayor
that asa The district boundaries had been Changed
credentials being referred to the Committee
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of a canal across the Isthmus of Panama un:
der foreign auspices to be in eo contra OF
Calkins (R., INDY introduced a resoIu:
Ireland h nd which Was u, unanimously adopted
Mr.; Meyers o., Ind.) INTRODUCED resolution
information as to what sums of money had
been paid by the Government to General Grant
from the time of his entering the Military
introduced a bill providing for joint com
mission to revise and readJust the tariff. The
Electoral count resolution was taken up and
further considered, but without coming to q
vote the House adjourned.
DEC. 14.-The Senate adopted a resolu-
ton instructing the Post office Committee to
investigate the propriety of the Governments
assuming control of the Geographic service.
The Fitz John Porter case was finally dis
posed of, the act as passed, by party vote,
providing that the President be authorized in
| hi diSor tn 1Qin afa POI.far xxrif6 no
higher rank than Colonel on the retired list
and without pay or compensation for the time
Bill was Rfntrodnced Incorporating the MARI
name le Of 9. S. Grant heads the iiss of incor e
porators. Mr.. Bicknell 3D., INDY called up the
Electoral count resolution and demanded the
MI Bicknen thezesspon announced that he
the Of
would bring it forward in January, as soon as
the Democrats could r muster quorum
in the contested cases from the Fifth
Massachusetts. and Eighth and Ninth
bers, all RepnS SEc NoW1aln was ap
pointed Postmaster of the House. The Con-
sular and Diplomatic and Military Academy
Appropriation bills were reported. A motion
was then adopted to take up the Funding bib
in Committee of the Whole, the vote standing
yeas, 1856; nays. 80. Substitutes for the pend
ing bill were offered by Messrs. Kelley (R.,
Pa.), Buckner 3D., Mo-, Gillette &C., Iowa) and
speech in opposition to the bill 100000 ~
DEC. 15-Among the bills introduced in
the Senate were two by MIR. Pendleton, to
regulate the Civil Service and prohibiting
Federal officers, claimants and contractors
from making or receiving assessments or con-
tributions for political purposes. Mr.. Hill in
troduced a bill for the retirement of small
legal tender notes. The bill devoting a part
public education was further considered, and
speeches in favor Of the bill were made by
introduced by Mr.. Cockrell, appropriating
81 $50 to pay Samuel A. Lowe for services and
expenses as Clerk of the Territorial Legisla-
gals on the ground that the services for
which Lowe asks compensation were mainly
in compiling the !" infamous slave CODE of the
Territory" the blacklist and most damnable
body of laws ever attempted to be passed"
He further said that thelaws were never legal.
ly enacted, and that loves own party In the
Legislature had refused to sanction the claim
Mr. Cockrell showed that the Legislature that
authorized the compilation was the only one
that ever assembled under the act of 1854. 1t
was not the fault of Mr.. Lowe that the laws
he was employed to compile were bad or
his pay for services rendered to a legally or
ganized LEGISLATURE Aftersome further dis
cussion, upon motion Of Mr.. Allison the
Senate went into executive session..
pension Of 500 a month to the widow Of the
temporarily laid aside and the Fertilization
Appropriation bill was considered in Commit.
tee OF the WHOLE ,s reported to the House and
bill for the retirement Of small legal tender |
notes. Mr; Gibson o., La), from the Commit:
appropriating 81 SOC, 900 for the improvement
of the Mississippi River, to be expended by |
war in accordance with recommendation |
plans, specifications and estimates, and I'M
der the advisory supervision of the Mississippi !
River Commission. Ordered printed and re.
committed.