The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-28
Senator Morgan's resolution determining the

Senator Morgan's resolution determining the
method of counting the electoral vote was discussed
at some length in the Senate, on Saturday, May %
but no action was taken. The bill passed extending
the northern boundary Of Nebraska 30 as to include
the present Territ ~ Of Dakota south Of the forty
third parallel, Keyaoada river and west of the
main channel Of the Missouri river, when the Indian
titles shall have been extanguisnedA on motion OF
Mr.. Hampton, the bill was taken up and passed
to complete the survey of Gettysburg battlefield and
provide for the compilation and preservation of data
showing the various positions and movements of
troops in that battle, illustrated by diagrams. It
appropriates $4,000. The House discussed the
bills reported from the Committee on Public Build
ings and Grounds. None were passed. The bill
passed to provide that dealers in leaf tobacco who
not sell consign for sale leaf tobacco to amount
exceeding q, 600 pounds in any specia-tax year
shall pay license of but SIS.
The Senate worked for ten hours on Monday,
May "a, and in the forty-fve minutes of the morn
ing passed pension bills at the rate of every two
minutes. There then followed long, dreary debate
on the Morgan resolution relative to the electoral
count, which participated in Messrs. Teller,
Morgan, Edmunds, Thurman and Ingalls,.
The heat in the Chamber was very OPP
pressive, and the galleries were emptied
long before the debate closed. At s
O'Clock the joint resolution passed by ~
yeas to 13 nays. communication from the Presi-
dent Of the Smithsonian Institution received,
recommending the appropriation of $50 900 for
pletng the preparation of the scientific results of
Halls Arctic expedition. resolution providing
for special committee to examine into
the management of the Soldiers Home in
the District passed, a bill
appropriatng $4,000 for statue of Joseph Henry,
late Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The
Carlisle Revenue bill was amended and passed. The
President nominated james O. Putnam, of New York,
Minister to Belgium vice William Cassius Goodloe,
resigned. Mr.. Blackburn presided in the House in
the absence of Speaker Randall. Bills were
introduced: By Mr. Sherwin, fixing the duty
of 40 per cent. ad valorem on the
importation of CONDENSED milf; BY Mr..
Ellis, calling for information as to what
steps have been taken for the acquisition of naval
and coalng stations in Central America; by Mr..
Cox, appropriating $4,000 for printing and dis
tributing more frequently Consular and other COM
mercis& reports; by Mr.. Finley, for the appoint
ment of special joint committee Of three Senator'S
and four Representatives to investigate the
condition and status of public property
in the Hot Springs Reservation; by Mr..
Whitaker, to reduce the price of lands to
actual settlers within the railroad limits to $1.2o per
acre by Mr.. Hunton repeating section 3, 48O of the
Revised Statutes far as bounty lands concerned
by Mr.. Buckner, relative to the of distinctive
paper fer printing United States bonds and notes;
by Mr. Prescott to pay to soldiers and sailors of the
late who totally disabled all the moneys ex-
ncnded by ITEM for medical and surgical treatment.
Nearly the whole day passed in committee Of the
whole on the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, small
progress being made.
The President pro tenn. laid before the Senate
on the morning of Tuesday, May Is, communica-
ton from the Secretary of the Treasury stating that
the amount due Kansas per cent of the sales o.
public lands in that State is s19O,26 Also, COM
munication from the Secretary of the Interior
transmitting information concerning the entry
of town sites in mineral lands, and in
closing report of the Commissioner of the
General Land Office on the subject, in
which the Secretary concurs. concurrent
resolution that the Secretary of the Treasury be d
rected to seek cooperation between the General Gov
eminent and the several State Governments in the
establishment of uniform and efficient system for
the registration of Deaths births and marriages. and
appropriatng sum therefor, was referred. The
Senate passed some thirty pension bills fast
they could be got ready, and after the morning
hour, took up the bill regulating the ap-
pointment of Supervisors, on which protracted
and at times acrimonious debate arose.
bill passed providing that Sec of the act increas-
July 25 1866 and Sec Is of the Pension act Of July
q, 1868, and Sec 4,712 Revised Statutes shall not
operate to reduce the rate of pensions which had
been allowed to naval officers and their widows etc.
prior to July 90 1866 and that such pensions shall be
restored to the rate from which they were reduced
to date from the original date of such pensions.
pension bill in favor of Commodore William B.
Whiting, the retired list, disabled, taken
up, and passed. :. In the House, the whole day was
consumed in committee of the whole on the Sundry
Civil Appropriation bill.