The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-12-21
CONGRESSIONAL

SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-Coke announced
that on Tuesday next he will ask the consid.
Grafton of the senate of a bill providing fol
the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians
ard extending the law of states and terrific.
ries over Indians. He said the bill is thought
to be Of very great Importance by the interior
department.
On motion of Cockrell the senate took up
the bill for the relief of Samuel A.. Low, ap-
propriating 81, $50 to pay him forservices and
expenses as clerk of the territorial legislature
of Kansas IN 1855.
Ingalls, said this was an attempt to have
granted a remuneration for the compilation of
what are known as the bogus statutes of
Kansas, or the slave code, which were repeal
ed and publicly burned by the free-soilers as
soon as they obtained control of the state.
The statute were the blacklist, most dam
nable body of laws ever attempted to be pass
ed. They never were recognized as the laws
Of Kansas.
In responding to Vest, Ingalls, said that he
did not propose, at this period of the nations
history, to enter On a vindicatien of John
Brown. John Brown was executed on the
I'd of December, but the nation took up the
Lay tudb uc udu ldlu uOWu dG hdEpcIS TcIIy
and bore it in triumph through a four years.
wal to the Appomattax court house. John
Brown was about four years ahead of his
time; it was the nation that was the laggard,
and it required but a very few years after his
death for the nation to occupy the platform
on which he had stood. ingalls, did not in
tend to be drawn into any controversy on
this subject with Vest; he had simply stated
that the law Of Missouri formed the basis Of
the code in question, being changed or sup
plemented in such respects as to fit them for
the peculiar state Of society desired to be
formed in Kansas. He said Lows claim had
slept to await its opportunity.
Cockrell held that Low had earned his
pay.
I Vest referred to the remark of Ingalls, that
the code was based on the code of Missouri.
No such statutes ever existed in Missouri.
He did not propose to revive the question of
that terrible period. Slavery was dead, and
he had no wish to bring it to life, but he
could not refrain, since the subject had been
brought up, from saying that violence begot
violence, and outrage provoked outrage. Peo-
pie sent cut by Plymouth church and other
pillars of God and mercy, headed by that old
%scoundrel John Brown, who afterwards justly
expiated his crimes on the scaffold at Har-
pers Ferry, were responsible for much of the
violence of that unavoidable crime. Low
had been a good servant and should be paid
for his clerical work.
Edmunds said he began to get interested
in this bill since Browns name had been
brought up, although, he added, nothing that
can be said of him in this senate, good or
evil, will mar the brightness of that name,
that will 60 down as a type of honest, though
it may be misguided, love of liberty.
The senate, without action on the bill ad-
journed.
A bill was introduced by Senator Hill of
Colorado, to-day, for the retirement of one
and two dollar greenbacks-a measure of
much interest to silver producing regions.
He has been investigating the subjects in
volved in this bill for some time, and intends
to support it in a speech in the senate which
will present SEINE startling facts. For instance
he has ascertained that the cost of maintain
ing in circulation the amount OF these small
greenbacxs now outstanding is not less than
/ $4,000 a year, it is necessary to redeem and
reprint them so frequently. The main pur-
/ pose of the bill, of course, is to enlarge the
demand for silver coin by an amoun equal
] in the aggregate to the one and two dollar
greenbacks, and this will put in circulation
the standard silver dollars now SO rapidly &C
I cumulating in the q. S. treasury. 1t is re.
i marked in this connection that Great Britain
issues no money of a lower denomination
/ than a five pound note, and that in France,
/ also, small notes are unknown.
u Senator Teller to-day introduced a bill pro.
viding that any person owning six or any less
] number of mineral lodes, ledge or blanket
y claims adjoining to each other or not more
\ than one-half mile apart, on which the ass
Il essment and labor for the first year has beer
! performed, may hereafter perform upon any
q one claim of the combined number the entire
{ assessment and labor due upon the Who'll
/ number of claims. If payment be reached
i on the claim worked, it shall then cease to b.
I counted as one of the combination, and an
4 other shall be selected on which to work TIN
assessment of the remainder, and so on unit
4 payment is reached IN all or the groun'
abandoned. The bill also provides that min
ing claims located since May 10, 1877
whether located by one or more persons
shall not exceed 1900 feet in length alon
] the vein or lode and that ne claim shall ex
coed more than 800 feet on each side OF tn
4 middle of the lode or location at the surface
Senator Farley to-day introduced a bill di
recting the secretary of the treasury to pa.
J.. Bayard Smith of Baltimore $57S, amour
of coupons of 35 Indian war. bonds issued b
California in 1852, tine liability for whicl
was subsequently, assumed by the genera
& government. It appears that these coupon
were not presented for payment until the bal
ance of ths congressional appropriations ha
lapsed into the U. s. treasury.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-The presider
sers the nominations Of Charles Il. Johnston