Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-02-03
One Hundred Thousand Dollars to
be Appropriated for Ireland.
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania,
Instructs for Grant.
A Polar Wave Sweeping Down
from the North.
XLVI. CONGRESS.
SENATE.

w AoulNulON, ~ We, Il ODs $50
Senator Garland (Ark.l, from the
Committee on the Judiciary, re-
ported adversely the bill extending
the benefits of the Southern Claims
Commission to the Indian tribes, and
it was indefinitely postponed.
Senator Thurman (Ohio.), from
the Judiciary Committee, reported a
bill for reviving and continuing the
Court of Commissioners of the
Alabama Claims, and for the dis
tribution of the unappropriated
money of the Geneva Award. 1t
was placed on the calendar. 1t
confines the jurisdiction of the
Court to the claims Of insurers, and
to claims directly resulting from
damage done on the high seas by
Confederate cruisers during the Re-
hellion.
Senator Harris (Tenn.) intro
duced bill to increase the efficiency
of the National Board Of Health.
1t provides that the Board shall re-
port to the President when any
place is dangerously infected, and
after the official publication of such
report shall prohibit the transporta-
tion of goods or persons from such
place into any place in other
States until the President shall pro-
claim the place no longer infected.
Italso provides that the Captains of
all merchant vessels coming from
any foreign port, between 800 south
and 400 north latitude or
upon the Mediterranean Sea
shall show at the port Of
entry such bill of health as the
Board shall prescribe from the
proper health officer at the port Of
departure. e
Senator Harris Tenn. J introduced
a Joint resolution authorizing the
President to call an International
Conference to adopt an Information
al system of notification as to the
sanitary condition of ports and vess
sells leaving ports likely to be in
fected.
Senator Jonas La. presented the
credentials Of Gen. Randall Lee
Gibson, elected Senator from Louis
lana, for six years, beginning
March 4, 1883, which were read.
After transacting some unimport.
ant business, the Senate adjourned
| at $3.50 p. m.
The Senate in executive session
confirmed the following nominations
for Census Supervisors: j. Grat-
tin Cabell, 3rd district, Stuart F.
Linday, 4th, and Rufus Ayers for
the 5th District of Virginia A.
Rederick, G.. Bromery, Sidney
Kirkland, 4th District Of Alabama,
and W. w. Goodpasture, End, F.
M. Paul, Srd, L. II. Payne, 4th;
VIM. M. Smith, for the 5th District
of Tennessee.
h gAM WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.
Among the bills introduced this
morning were the following:
| By Mr.. Phelps (Conn. )-Apppro-
priating 100000 for the relief of
the Ireland sufferers; also levying
a duty of thirty per cent. ad valorem
ON all bonnets, hats or hoods i'm
ported into the United States, COM
posed of palm-leaf, chip, grass, will
low, straw or other vegetable sub,
stance, or Of hair, whalebone or
other material not otherwise pro-
vided for.
MIR. Thompson (Ky.) introduced
a bill providing that no claim of a
citizen whose State did not rebel
shall be disallowed because of dis,
loyalty, unless such proof be made
against the claim as will convict the
| claimant OF treason.
Mr.. Bland (Mo.) introduced .
bill, making the mints free and
open to the coinage of standard sill
yer dollars on the same terms and
conditions now or hereafter pros
vided for the coinage of gold bull
lion, said silver dollars to have the
same legal tender capacity and cer>
tifcate to issue them as now pro-
vided by the act Of 1878.