New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-02-25

III the DlStr1CC OF COlulnDla was OrOereO en-
crossed and read third time, by vote Of 80
to 81.
SENATE.-Several petitions from rail-
road companies against the reduction Of the du-
ties on steel rails were presented on the l7th...
Mr.. Salisbury presented a majority report of
the Committee on Privileges and Elections in
the Ingalls, case, to the effect that bribery and
were employed ITO to- secure Mr.
dence that Ingalls, authorized such improper
acts, or that they, In fact, secured his election
9 M ~ Hoar
an: and himself, oencuEring in that por-
onerates ingalls,, but expressing the opin.
employed it should in justice state, what was
proved, that such means were employed in OPP
position to his election. "A resolution was
Committee on Naval Affairs providing that the
Secretary Of the Navy be authorized to equip
and furnish vessel for the purpose OF con.
and other supplies as are furnished in the
United States for the relief Of the suffering in
Ireland: The bill authorizing the Secretary
ury to employ additional clerks to facilitate
the transaction of pension and other business
was taken up, debated and passed.
HOUsE.-A motion was agreed to to
reconsider the vote by which the House, on
the 18th, ordered the main question on the bill
prohibiting the publication of lottery schemes
INT IN the ne District h; Of Columbia and motion to
los to l2O. In Committee of the Whole on the
revision of the rules several amendments to
the pending rule mo. FL, which amendments
tended to take away or limit the power Of the
House to lcgislate on Appropriation bills, were
voted down by majorities ranging from five
to ten.
SENArE.-On the 18th the joint reso-
tuition authorizing the Secretary of the Navy
to furnish ship to transport to Ireland any
provisions or other supplies that may be fur
Logan presented the memorial OF tho Union
Veteran Club, numbering l,0W ex-soldiers, re-
Monstratlng against the passage, OF the
"Weaver bid on the ground that, if passed,
1t will distract the business interests of the
country.
HoUsE.--Mr. Warner, from the Com
mittee on Coinage, reported back adversely
the petition of the Bullion Club Of New York,
praying for specie currency. :. A bill was in
ttroduced by MIR. Morton, fixing the duty on
barley malt at twenty-five cents per bushel
80. Mr. Cox, Chairman Of the Committee on
FOREIGN Affairs, submitted the unanimous re-
made against Mr.. Acklen. The committee
finds that Mr.. Acklen, not being
men member OF the Committee on For:
the report Of that Committee, e. s5 by
Mr. King relating to claims of certain citi.
VIII oh paper was printed at his request; that
that paper was not report of the Committee
on Foreign Affairs. and had never been adopt
tee; that that was done in the absence of Mr..
King, whose absence was known to Mr.
Acklen: that that alleged report, as pre-
Ssoript, printed ' 2esodRt iSe' and NH" the
printed report of Mr.. Acklen to tho
forty-tifth Congress; that the manuscript is in
the form OF = report from the Committee on
Foreign Affairs for the speedy passage of
resolution; that the manuscript is in the hand
writing Of Acklcn's clerk, and copied by him
from draft made by Acklen; that the manu-
script so prepared was handed by Acklen to
klng during the extra session, with desire
that he should adopt it; that the committee
did not adopt it as their report, or favorabiy
December to Acklen, and he was informed
that the committee was probably adverse to
1t; that Acklen subsequently altered it by
asking for special committee to report on
changed On jaauasy sd; that %oSien, being 80
failed to convey, to him any other impress
SION than that he had presented the report
Tor King; that it was King, and not the Chair
the introduction Of the report meant, and who
received an unsatisfactory reply. After de-
bate Mr.. Hawlcy moved, as an amendment to
6v and
be referred to the Judiciary Committee, which
Committee is hereby authorized to make
further inquiry if it should appear. essential to
just Judgment, and is instructed to report
what action, if necessary, is required on the
part of tho House. The motion was agreed to
--l6l to 22-and the report as amended was
then adopted.
SENATE.-The motion of Mr.. Davis
Nv. Va.) to reconsider the vote adopting tho
resolution for the appointment of a Special
Committee on the InterOceanic Canal was
taken up and agreed to-29 to 25-On the 18th.
80. The Five-percent. bill was further de-
HoUsE.-Mr. Bland, from the Com
mittee On Coinage, Weights and Measures, re-
ported a bill to establish mint at St. Louis.
The bill regulating the removal of causes
from State to Federal Courts was taken up
and debated. .. In Committee of the Whole
on the state of the Union, Mr.. Stephens
spoke in opposition to the practice of
attaching leeisiia;tive enacements to AP
der the Constitution, the Executive
had the same Tightful and constitutional
power to veto a bill us the House and the Sem
ate had to pass It, and the doctrine of making
war upon the veto power through means Of
the Appropriation bills was anti-cOnstitution-
A.. In Committee of the Whole on the revis-
Ion OF the rules Rule Il was further amended;
as finally agreed to the rule is not materially
changed in respect to political riders'' from
the rule as originally reported.