The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-02-17
FoRTY-sIxTH CONGRESS.
HOUSE.
. wAsHIseToY, Februaar, o

Y wAsHNeToS, February 10.
Mr.. Eaton withdrew his motion to re
consider the vote by which the bill passed
authorizing the transportation Of Gen
Sykes, body from Fort Brown towes
Point. The bill now goes to the House
SIessrs. Window, Blaine and withert
were appointed as a conference committee
on the disagreement Of the House to The
Senate amendments to the military
academy appropriation bill.
Pending dabate on giving a pension tc
Netterfeld A Scott the morning hour ex
pired, and consideration was resumed O
the Eve per cent military land warrant
bill.
Mr.. Allison quoted authorities contempt.
rary with the passage Of the enabling of the
State interested to prove that land war.
rants at that time were regarded as cash
certificates. and location on scrip was held
to:be sale. This was shown by an act oil
Congress giving Mississippi FIVE per cent
on 1ndian reservations In that. State.
Mr.. Edmunds remarked that the debates
on the act named showed that that was
q successful begging operation and not q
legal construction Of enabling acts.
Mr.. Allison said he was showing the
general intention OF the acts II not the
strict legal Interpretation. He held thai
fye per cent was granted to Iowa as q
school fund. Eighty.one million OF dol.
lars have been paid into the United States
Treasury for public lands in the last thirty
years by people in the newer States. He
believed It no waste OF this money TO have
small portions Of 1t appiiedt to the educa-
ton OF the people as the enacting acts in
tended 1t should be.
Pending the! debate the Senate went into
executive session jand soon after ad-
HOUSE.
The following bills were introduced and
referred:
ByMr. Townsend ITO repeal the duty on
medicines.
[ By Mr.. Henderson: Reducing the duty
on iron and steel. - Pfs> - :.
By'Mr. Richardson: To return to the
producers Of cotton the tax collected by
the Government, which has been declared
by the United States Supreme Court 10
have been illegally collected.
BY Mr.. Persons: Admitting free OF duty
machinery for manufacturing cotton fab
RIGS. w. t.t
/ BY Mr.. Keeier: Granting pensions TO
certain sailors and soldiers in the late war
who were confined In the so-called Com
federate prisons. 'SEtf
By Mr.. House: Requesting the Presi-
dent to open negotiations with certain
foreign governments relative to the impor-
|tation OF tobacco into their dominion,
& BY Mr.. Baker: Amending the statutes
prohibiting the employment OF convicts
in the manufacture OF such artiales rs
may be brought into competition with
skilled labor. 20 CNssfs
By Mr.. Frost: To repeal certain sections
OF the act ot. August, 1871, relative 10 the
use Of marshals and supervisors at the
polls, and the act Of 1872 on the same SUBJ
jeet. -
On motion Of Mr.. Bragg, sepate bill for
the removal Of the body OF the late Gen.
George Sykes from Fort. Brown, fexas,
lowest Point, n. Y, was taken from the
Speakers table and passed. -
Z The morning hour having expired while
bills were being introduced, Mr.. Weaver
demanded the regular order and the
Speaker Immediately recognized the de-
mand. n "A
Mr.. Cofforth, Chairman OF the Commit.
tee on Invalid Pensions, moved to sus-
pend the rules and adopt a resolution for
q session Wednesday night for the con-
sideration Of pension bills. This brought
forth "a protest from Mr.. Weaver, but the
Speaker adhered to his ruling.
Pending the vote on Mr.. Cofforth's pro-
position Mr.. Buckner moved TO adjourn
and the yeas and were called on that
motion.
The call was not completed until two
o'clock, when the District Committee took
the floor.
Mr.. Neal, from the Committee on the
Districtof Columbia, reported bill pro-
hibiting the publication of lottery
schemes in the District.
Some opposition was shown the bill on
the ground that 1t Disseminated against
papers published in the District, and on
the further ground thatit was in violation
of the first amendment TO the constitution
prohibiting Congress from abridging the
freedom Of the press. Motions TO lay on
the table and recommit wero SUCCESSFULLY
voted down and the bill was finally or
defed engrossed and read o third time,
yeas 90, nays 81. Pending further action
the House adjourned. Sl't ''