Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21
xLVI CONGRESS-.
Senate.

Senate.
MONDAY, January 12.-Bills intro
duced and referred To authorize the secre.
tary of the interior to allot lands in sever
atty to Indians; to authorize the appoint
losses sustained by citizens of the United
States on account of the Indian depreda.
tons and to adjust the claims arising there.
FROM. .... The senate bill for the increase of
pensions of totally disabled soldiers and
sailors was reported back favorably by the
committee on pensions and placed on the
calendar. 1.-THE military acad envy bill was,
after discussion, passed as reported from
committee, and after q short executive ses.
sion the senate adjourned.
TUESDAY, January Expeditions
were presented for commission of in
quiry into the alcoholic liquor traffic; for
a reduction of the duty on zinc; for the
withdrawal Of the legal tender quality OF
greenbacks.... Morrill, offered a resolution
which was laid on the table, that the com
mittee on finance be instructed to inquire
as to the practicability of refunding any
part CT the national debt at less rate than
4 per cent. interest, and also as to whether
or not some effective provision can be made
whereby bona fide subscriptions for sums
in moderate amounts may be available, and
report by bill or otherwise The commit
tee on public lands reported favorably on
the bill for the relief of settlers on the
Kansas trust and diminished reserve fund
lands in Kansas, snd it was placed
on the calendar. The committee on
finance reported fsvorably on the bill to adj
init free of duty articles intended for the
millers' international exhibition in June and
it was passed.. Bills introduced and re-
ferred: To preserve the secresy of tele-
grams to establish an additional land dis.
trict in Kansas; regulating the authen IT,
eating and use of proxies in meeting of ma.
tionsl bank associations 49,. After an execu.
tive session the senate adjourned.
WEDNESDAY January 14.-Petitions
were presented for a constitutional amend
ment giving women citizens the light to vote;
withdrawing the legal tender quality of the
treasury notes; for a commission of in.
Quiry into the alcoholic liquor traffic..
The bill to increase the pensions of totally
disabled soldiers and sailors was taken up
and passed. 1t increases the pension of
such persons from $50 to $72 per month,
.....After a short executive session the SEN
ate adjourned.
THURSDAY, January 15.-Several petit
constitutional amendment giving women
the right to vote. The joint resolution for
the withdrawal of the compulsory legal
tender power of U. s treasury notes was
reported back adversely by the committee
On tinsnce. A minority report was pre-
sented..... Morgan presented the credentials
of Luke Pryor, appointed senator from
Alabama. Pryor took the modified oath.
secs. Morrill, called up for consideration his
resolution instructing the finance COM
mittee to inquire into the practicability of
rounding the public debt at less rate of
interest than four per cent, and made a
speech thereon. 1.-THE bill to establish a
new land district in Dakota was passed .....
Adjourned till Monday.
MONDAY, January 12.-Bills intro
duced and referred To reduce the tax GU
deposits subject to payment with persons
and associations engaged in the bank.
ing of the national debt, to stop paper in.
fation and provide for necessary increase
in the volume of currency by the free coin.
age of silver and gold, and silver and gold
certificates; for a national jail and prison !;
issued for wages; relative to monuments to
Zachariah Taylor and Thomas Jeffer.
on; repeating the law for the is.
suing of "request" envelopes; to equalize
homesteads and to graduate and reduce the
price of public lands to actual settlers; re-
pealing the law imposing special tax on
domestic wines; extending the jurisdiction
of United States Circuit and District Courts
over crimes committed by Indians; 10 pro.
nd oh &ba I, 1a4k E.
of mail lettings; to increase the circulation
of national banks, and relieve them from
the payment of the tax on circulation to
Hquidate the national debt, and to strength.
en- the public credit; for the importation of
cork free Of duty; for the transfer of the
INDIAN bureau to the war department; to
restrict Chinese immigration; fixing the time
fer counting the vote for president and vice
PRESIDENT for the issuing of certifi-
Gates of the denomination of one and two
dollars and fifty and twenty-five cents.
A motion to suspend the rules and pass the
bill providing for the importation of salt
free from duty was lost-yeas 115, nays
115-n OF the necessary two thirds in the at.
frmative..... A memorial from number of
western railroads asking a reduction of the
duty upon steel rails from 1913 to $40 per
ton was referred to the committee on ways
and means......A petition was presented
York asking for the enactment of a law to
give effect to treaty obligations SIS to trade
marks. Adjourned.
TUESDAY, January 13.-BicknelI,
chairman of the committee on counting
votes for president and vice president, re-.
ported back the bill to provide for and
regulate the counting of votes, for the
presentation of questions arising thereupon.
It was made the special order for the 29th
of January 1.-THE senate bill touching the
Hot Springs reservation in Arkansas, was
reported back from committee and passed
..:...A petition from the general assembly
of the Presbyterian church on the subject
of the liquor traffic was referred.... After q
session in committee of the whole on the
report of the committee ON rules, bill au-
thorizing the refunding of the national debt
reducing the annual interest thereon and
improving the public credit, was introduced
and observation-disclosures.
WEDNESDAY, Januaryl lathe bill
for free importation of classical antiquities
WAS passed also the hill for the froo i'm mr.