Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-12
FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.


cyclone at Macon, Miss. was passed. .Ingalle
introduced bill to establish o uniform system
of bankruptcy throughout the United States
A large number of petitions in favor of the
Eaton tariff commission bill were presented
=. A bill was introduced by Williams to estab-
llsh ocean mail service between the Union Pa
cltic and certain foreign ports, and providing
adequate compensation therefor. Vance then
addressed the senate in support of the resolu-
lions declaring Spofford entitled to the seat
occupied by Kellogg. Adjourned.
TUESDAY, Nav A bill was introduced by
Morgan to provide that the president of the
senate shall submit to the senate and house
when assembled to count the votes for president
and vice president all packages pulporting to
contain electoral votes. . Many petitions in
favor of the Eaton tariff commission bill were
presented. ..The House hi II to furnish four
condemned cannon for the soldiers monument
at Marietta, o., passed; also the senate resolu-
ton authorizing the loan of tents for the
soldiers reunion at Wichita Kansas. . AT the
expiration OF the morning hour Vest spoke in
favor of the Spofford- Kellogg resolution . .
After an executive session the senate adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, May 5.-Booth, from the COM
| mlttee on public lands, reported favOrablv the
house bill for the relief of settlers on public
lands, and it passed. 1t provides that when a
pre-emption homestead or timber culture claim
ant shall file written REIMBURSEMENT of his
claim in local land Office the land covered by
said claim shall be open and subject to entry
without further action by the land commission
er When any person has contested, paid the
land fees and procured cancellation of any
entry he shall be notified by the register of the
land Office of that district and shall be allowed
thirty days to enter the land. Any settler who
hereafter proceeds to enter land under the
homestead laws shall be allowed the same time
to perfect his original entry as is now allowed
settlers under the presumption laws, and his
right shall rebate back to the date of settle
| ment as if he settled under the pre-emption
laws. The bill authorizing the sale of Fort
| Logan, Montana, and to establish new post
on Musselshell river, Montana, was passed. :.
The Kellogg-Spofford resolutions were tempo
rarily laid aside and the District of Columbia
| appropriation bill taken up, discussed at great
length, and pending debate the senate adj
! Journed.
THURSDAY, May 6.-Hoar submitted resolu-
| ton instructing the judiciary committee to re-
port bill providing compensation for all per
SONS whose ships we're destroyed by confeder
| ate cruisers during the late rebellion from
moneys received under the Geneva award
| Laid over under the rules Morgan submitted
| a resolution providing rule for counting the
electoral vote. Referred to select committee.
The bill appropriating 1916, 900 for public
! printing was passed. The morning hour hay
| ing expired the senate resumed consider ton of
! the District of Columbia appropriation bill.
After a long discussion 1t passed On motion
| of Beck, the report Of the conference committee
on the Indian appropriation bill was taken up.
| Without action thereon the senate went into
executive session, and when the doors reopened
adjourned.
FRIDAY, May THE president pro tenn. laid
before the senate the credentials of Senator
James A. Garfield, and they were placed on file.
1.-The conference report on the Indian apprO-
priation bill was taken up on motion of Beck,
and after short debate passed without division.
-. AT the expiration of the morning hour the
senate resumed consideration Of the Kellogg
! SpofOrd resolutions. After a speech by Pryor,
HOar offered as substitute for the pending res
olutions q resolution that in the Judgment
| of the senate matter, reported by the COM
mittee on privileges and elections Of the pres
ent session respecting the right to the seat now
! held by William Pitt Kellogg, and claimed by
| Henry M. Spofford, ARE not sufficient to justifya
reOpening of the decision of the senate prOnounc-
cd inits resolution adopted Nov. 80, 1877, that
said Kellogg was, upon the merits of the case,
tied toa seat in the senate of the United States
| from the state of Louisiana for the term of SIX
| years commencing March 4, 1877, and that said
| Spoford was not entitled to seat. Ordered
printed and laid on the table. The resolutions
were then temporarily laid aside, and the senate
bill authorizing the st. Paul and Chicago Short
Line Railway company to build a bridge across
! the st. Croix was taken up and passed The
bill to abolish Fort Harker (Ks.) military reser-
yation and dispose Of its lands to actual settlers
was taken up and passed. The bill making an
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site and erection of @ lighthouse and fog
signal at the entrance of Little Traverse harbOr,
Lake Michigan, was taken up and passed.
, Adjourned until Monday.
! MONDAY, May 3.-A bill was introduced by
| Ellis to establish government postal telegraph
service for the United States between Boston
and Washington and intervening post Offices.
| Daggett introduced q bill to establish a UNIFORM
! sUstaN1 of haDIZ111ntoV Adjourned.
| TUESDAY, May At speaker laid before the
/ house the presidents message VetOing the
special deficiency bill, and it was read. The
veto message was referred to the committee OH
appropriations, and the bill laid upon the
| speakers table. The effect of this action is to
| postpone its consideration until the house sees
| fit to call it up Consideration was then re-
| sumed of the internal revenue bill, and the
amendment leaving the law in regard to ten
cent stamps as it stands at present. was reject
ed-yeas 81, nays 65 The amendment striking
out the 'leskage" clause of the bill was re-
| jected-yeas So, nays 127. The bill was then
passed-yeas 1885, nays g.. The house went
| into committee of the whole Carlisle Id the
chair) on the postoffice appropriation bill. The
bill appropriates $38, SIC, 400, being 81, 294 500
below the estimate, and S940, 1000 above the
| appropriation of last year. There was no gen
! eral debate, and the bill was Immediately read
| by sections for amendments. Several amend
! ments we're acted upon, when the committee
rose and the house adjourned.
| WEDNESDAY, May 5.-The postofice appro-
| priation hill was taken up in committee Of the
whole. Amendments were adopted increasing
from 1926, ZOO to $3.50, 900 the appropriation for
inland transportation by steamboat routes and
authorizing the postmaster general to use
$35O,0OO of the $9,49o, 900 appropriated for
railway mail service in securing necessary and
special facilities. Blackburn proposed an
amendment relating to compensation on star
! mail rOI1tes but without coming to q vote the
council rose. . The senate amendment to the
house bill for the sale of Fort Logan and the es-
/ tablishment of q new fort on the frontier was
concurred in The house then took recess,
the evening session to be for consideration of
/ the district code bill.
! THURSDAY, May 6.-Wells submitted a con-
ference report on the Indian appropriation bill.
| Agreed to. The report states that the main
! point of difference between the clauses was in
| regard to the discontinuance of the board of
Indian commissioners. AS finally agreed up
on the commission is still continued, but pro-
| @lo4, c1,o1 Io,N fO.