The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-02-24
ONGRESSIONAL
SENATE.

gill tsA" W NeSASS
! ference committee on the disagreement of the
House to the Senate amendments to the mill
tary academy bill.
Pending the debate, on the giving of a PEN
sion to Netterfield, a scout, the morning hour
expired, and consideration was resumed OF the
g five per cent. military land warrant BILL"
Senator Farley presented a memorial OF the
Legislature of California for better protection
of commercial interests of the Pacific Coast
by the completion of the United States iron
clad Monadnock.
WASHINGTON, Feb 16.-On the five per
cent. military land warrant bill Allison quoted
authorities contemporary with the passage OF
enabling acts of Safes, intended to prove
that the land warrants at that time were re-
garGed as cash certificates, and a location on
scrip was held to be a sale. This was shown
by an Act of Congress giving Mississippi five
per cent. i'll the Indian reservation in that
State.
Senator Edmunds remarked that the de-
bates on the act named showed that 1t was a
successful begging operat on and not a legal
construction of the enabling acts.
Allison said he was showing the general in
tcntion of the acts, if not the strict legal
Interpretation. He held that five per cent.
was guaranteed to provide a school fund, and
$SI, 900, 900 have been put into the United
States Treasury in the last thirty years by
people in the new States. He believed it no
of il annliad f. thce education Of the people,
as thn nnahIino acts Intended it should be.
Danrinn tho .cfior tho Senate went into ex-
ecutive session and adjourned.
WASHINGTON, Feb. l7.-Ihe OIL proVldihg
for the celebration of the hundredth recogni-
ton of American independence by a national
exhibition at New York in 1883 was placed
ON tine calendar.
salisbury presented the ma orlty report OF
the committee on eiecliois III lNe l,salls
case. Inc report hldS that ofloerS ana COR
~FulfIoh were Employed 10 secure .Ie e'ec.1oi
OF InSaiis, out tnere was ITO e'loehec .n".
Ingalls, authorized Sucll improper aus u wa.
'heE III TACT secured Ills eiecIloh. lhe lePo''
was ordered printed. 90,
ifaildoiph inttonuceo the iolioWiHs a'ht'u-
me'i' 10 'ie pm inr lne rei'ei VI ~ 'onn
forter, pfoVl"lilS tl'at Tie iIes'ueht IL nefeuS
authorized TO nominate, a'd' py anu WIN tle
ADVICE Oh the oelacc' 10 appoint rH" 'oni
lorter as coiniel OF iilah'Ty III me army I"
date January, 1863, with the nav and emolu-
ments of that rank from that date until he
be retired according to law, or as hereinafter
provided for. Section > states that a: any
time after The granting of such commission it
shall be lawful for the President to place the
said Porter on the retired list of the army on
the paw of retired colonel. Ordered printed.
Tabled subject 10 Randolph's call.
Gordon rave notice that tomorrow he
would move that the doors be closed and the
Senate proceed to consider the motion of
Davis TO reconsider the vote appointing a
sperjal committee on the intcr-oceauic canal.
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WASHINGTON Feb. 1f-The MORNING hour
having eypired. and while the bills were be-
inc introduced. Weaver demanded the regular
or1}nr ,nI tbn Sne,kar inuod,atelv recog-
njypd CotirOth. as chairman of the committee
on invalid nensious who moved 10 susneud
the rules and adont \ resolution for a session
an Wednesday niaht. for the consideration of
nension bills.
This brought forth a protest from Weaver.
I'm, the Sna,Eer adhered to his r,,linc.
penlino vote on Coffrotb:s nronosition.
Buckner moved to adjourn. The yeas and
NAYS ware called for. The call was not com
Melted mill two o'cIock. when tine district
committee took the floor.
N~ASHlNGTON, SEP. I'll he Dill regulating
the removal OF causes from state % the FEDERAL
courts was taken up III the morning nOur.
Knot supported 1t, and lnstahced the great
power OF corporations, one OF winch, ike an
enormous octopus, stretched Its monstrous
~
miles OF railroad, and Its financial operations
were second to the government itself. Con-
sress could not disturb these parasites OH the
body polite, but 1t ought to deprive them OF
extraordinary privileges as this bill contem-
plates, and which they had in contraVentlon
to the constitution. He criticised the courts
DECISIONS, which regarded corporations as
cltlzens; the logical conclusion from their
decision Was thai 1t might become President
or General OF the army, but 1t had no soul
and could not take an oath or be damned.
The bill went over.
The House then commenced a revision Of
the rules. Narrens amendment substitute
to Speers amendment to rule Il provided
that it should be i'll order to reduce the