Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-06-03
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Senate.

! electoral vote was taken up, and Morgan SUP
/ ported the measure in speech. When he had
concluded the senate held an executive session.
and when the doors were reopened adjourned
until Monday
/ MONDAY, May 24.-The president pro tenn,
laid before the senate communication from
! the president of the Smithsonian insti-
/ tuition, recommending an appropriation
OF $4,000 for completing the preparation
of the scientific results of Halls Arctic expedi-
ton. Referred. bill passed appropriating
! 49, 200 for statue of Joseph Henry late Sec
rotary of the Smithsonian institution =. A
| resolution instructing the committee on military
! affairs to examine into the management of the
/ soldiers home III the District of Columbia, was
/ adopted. The morning hour having expired
/ the senate resumed consideration Of the Morgan
! joint resolution providing rule for counting
| the electoral vote and after long discussion
the resolution was passed by a strict party vote
! -. Adjourned.
! TUESDAY, May pa large number of pension
| bills passed, including the bill giving pension
to the widow Of Hosea Sutherland, of the war
Of 1912. To this bill Cockrell submitted an
amendment, extending pensions to all persons
IN similar cases, but withdrew it finally, stating
he would introduce a bill on the subject A bill
| passed providing that section of the act in
creasing the pensions OF widows and orphans
approved July 25. 1866. and section IS. of the
! pension act of July 81, 1863 and section Alp,
revised statutes, shall not operate to reduce the
rate Of pensions which had been allowed to
naval officers and their widows, etc. t,r1or to
July 20 1866 and that such pensions shall be
restored to the rate flO.n which they were re-
duced to date from the original date of such
pensions. pension bill in favor of Commo-
dore William B. Whiting, now on the retired list
of disabled, was taken up and after discussion
passed by vote of SO to II. On motion of
Mcmillan the bill passed authorizing the AIisss-
slppi River Logging company to construct and
operate their booms at or near Straight Slough.
... In division the supervisors bill was taken
up. The bill was read as follows: "Be it en-
acted, ETC., That the term Of Office of chief
supervisors Of election provided for in section
2,O25, revised statutes, sholl be two years.
Such term shall begin the first day of May of
each even numbered year. The terms Of those
now IN Office shall expire the first day of May,
1880, and their SUCCESSORS shall be appointed
from among the qualified electors of the proper
judicial district by the president Of the United
States by and with the advice and consent of
the senate" After protractcd discussion
without coming to q vote, the senate adjourned.
WEDNESDAY. May 26.--Ex-Gov. Brown took
the modified oath aud then took his seat as SEN
ator from Georgia, III place of Gordon resign
ed. The president pro tenn laid before the
senate IA message from the president recon-
mending the immediate attention Of congress
to the danger that would result from failure to
act upon the agreement with the Ute indians.
III pensions deficiency appropriation bill
was taken up, and on motion of Eaton $4,000
additional for senate committee expenses was
added. Amendments were agreed to appropriat-
ing $4,000 for the propagation of food fish and
$4,000 for fish Matching steamer and ma
chinery, $4,000 for vessels for coast survey,
$4,000 for the contin uation of the coast
survey, and $4,000 for continuing the
work of settling claims Of states under the
act of 1850, for swamp lands including drains
ar nd r,lp ha
acts of 1856 and 1857, and the bill passed. The
amount appropriated for pensions is 50. 2i0, 900.
&c. On motion of Paddock the house bill passed
for the relief of homestead and presumption
settlers in Kansas and Nebraska who lost their
crops by drought, extending for one year the
time in which to complete their payments. .
The morning hour having expired, the senate
resumed consideration of the bill defining the
terms of chief supervisors OF election. After
lengthy debate the bin passed Following is the
text of the bill:
Be it enacted, etc, That the term of Office of
chief supervisors of election provided for in section
2025 of the revised statutes shall be two years. Such
term shall begin on the first day of May in each
even numbered year. The terms of those now in
office shall expire the first day of May, 1880, and
their appointed from among the qualified
electors of the proper judicial district by the pros
dent OF the United States by and with the advice aud
consent Of the senate.
The president may appoint such officers during
of the senate who may hold and exercise their
be the duty of the president to send in all such nom-
nations within thirty days after the next ensuing
sion of the senate, provided that person hold
ing or who has held the office of chief supervisor of
elections shall be reappointcd.
After an executive session, adjourned.
THURSDAY, May 27.-l}ills were passed au-
thorzing the postmaster-general to treat the
mail service between West st. Louis and st.
Louis as other than railroad service and let it to
the lowest bidder; providing for a reappoint-
Off Of no Ia Of
Idaho and WyominG by boards composed Of
speakers Of the house of representatives and
presidents of the council upon the basis of the
census of 1880; authorizing the purchase Of
ground contiguous to the postoffice at Toledo
and to erect on the enlarged grounds a building
for the United States courts, custom house,
bonded warehouse. etc, and appropriating
$4,000 therefor. =. Thirty condemned bronze
cannon We're voted to Paramount Park Art as
ISOLATION for statue to Maj. Gen. Meade. -.
Mr.. Eaton's bill to provide for the appointment
by the president Of a commission of citizens to
investigate the question Of tariff was taken up
and the amendments reported by the
finance committee, mostly verbal, agreed to,
but was temporarily laid aside and the agricul-
tural appropriation bill taken up. After being
amended, thus adding $4,000 to the bill as it
came from the house it passed. The senate
adjourned after holding an executive session.
FRIDAY, May 2S.-Eaton offered a Joint resolu-
ton that the president be requested to open
negotiations with France Spain, Austria and
Italy, with view 10 removing the restrictions
ON the importation OF tobacco and securing to
our citizens an open market Printed and
placed on the calendar A resolution submitted
by Butler, requiring that the secretary of the
treasury be directed to report to the senate
within ten days time copies of all papers,
figures, decisions and opinions, with all other
records Of interest in his department, relating
to the claim of the United States against tie
New York Central and Hudson River railroad
comDanv for a five Der cent tax on a scriu diy Vi