The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-02-10
SENATE.

SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2~.-Thurman, from
committee on Judiciary, reported a bill revis-
ing and continuing the court of Alabama
claims and for the distribution OF the unap-
propriated money of the Geneva award. Cal
endar. Thurman will call 1t up Monday.
Edmunds said the report was unanimous.
He and other members of the committee
disagreed.
Mr.. Pendleton, from the committee on In
dian Affairs. reported a bill to authorize the
! Secretary of the Interior to deposit Indian
funds in the United States Treasury in lieu
Of investment. Calendar. This is a new
bill drafted to escape the objections made to
a former bill which was considered ana re-
committed.
A bill was passed providing that writs of
error from the Supreme Court OF the United
States to the Supreme Court Of the Terrific
ries shall lie in criminal cases when the ac-
cuSeu shall be sentenced to capital punish
Incnt, and in such case the allowance of such
writS shall operate as supercedas and all cases
removed from the Supreme Court OF any
Territory to the Supreme Court of the United
States as provided by this act Shall have pre-
cedence Of hearing in said court. The act
applies to all cases heretofore tried end deter
miued in which judgment has not been exc
cuted. In such cases the defendant shall
have six mouths from the passage Of this act
in which to obtain and perfect such writ Of
error.
WASHINGTON, February ,.
Cameron, of Wisconsin,, Pendleton and
HARDWOOD presented petitions of eN-Soldiers
against the passage Of Senate bill 1876 for
medical examination i'll certain pension cases.
kirkwood said: :" think it right to say that
the bill is now undergoing some investiga-
ton. and | am strongly Inclined to believe
that The petitioners misunderstood both its
purpose and its effect in case it should become
Il law.
kirkwood, from the committee on pensions,
reported adversely on the bill granting an in
crease of pensions to the widow Of Major
Thornburgh, late of the United Sthtes army,
by request of Mr.. Saunders, the bill was
placed IN the calendar.
Mr.. Pendleton, from the committee on
census, reported a bill to amend al act TO pro-
vide for taking the tenth and all subsequent
census.
The credentials of Randall Lee Gibson,
Senator from Kentucky for six years from
March I. 1888. %ere read.
When the doors were reopened the Senate
adjourned.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Ex-senator Bayard.
from til" finance committee. reported adverse
~ OF HE Warner silver hili.
Senator Beck said the majority had a re
port 20 make. also Mr.. Teller submitted II
resolution directing the Secretary OF the In
terror to inform the Senate tlle general line Of
location of the Northern Pacific railroad, and
what changes have been made in their general
Inc of location up to date; also what lands
lave been withdrawn from settlement IN
favor of sad company, and how such changes
affect til" rights OF settlers. Adopted.
The Senate, having received the resolutions
passed Ivy the House in respect for the death
Of Rush Clark, OF Iowa, Allison submitted
the proper resolution, and Allison and Her
ford pronounced euiUgies.
{ WASHINGTON, Feb. Ex-senator BayarG
presented a memorial and urged the compile
tiun IF our iron clad terleted monitors in
certain ship yards. Which lie said would require
about three million dollars. They should be
completed at once if at all.
Senator Cockrell, from the military COM
mittee, reported adversely the bill to remove
the charge Of deSertion from the military rec
ord, and said the disabilities Of altering that
charge are not O%nerOus, and that back pay
AID pensions are paid freely without inquiry as
to ueSertlOn.
Senator kirkwood said Cockrell seemed to
consider the worst consequences of desertion
to be be the loss of back pay or bounty. 1t
was not so in Iowa soldiers there consider
me tISSluCe dlldcllcu W StlCti Il lCCOlu tS "
serious than the loss of back pay or bounty.
Some think themselves entitled t. the re-
moval of such record, and yet are not within
the rule governing the department. He said
he would like the bill placed on the calendar
until he could examine it. SO ordered.
Senator MaXey submitted a resolution to
the military committee to inquire into the
eXpediency of authorizing thar worthy and
meritous non-commissioned army officers he
placed on the retired list after thirty years OF
honorable service, pay and allowances to be
properly regulated. Adopted.
On motion of Teller, the bill granting the
right of way through the public lands to the
Cheyenne, Black, Hills 4 Montana Railroad
and Telegraph Company, was taken up.
The second section, authorizes the COM
pany to raise money on mortgage bonds, and
Edmunds thought as the corporation was Or
ganized under the Territorial laws of Wyom'
ing, permission or prohibition to issue bonds
should come from the Territorial Legislature
and not from Congress, and on his motion
the second section was stricken out.
Senator Teller said with the second section
stricken out probably no capitalists would
care to invest money III the enterprise, an(
the bill would be useless. and he therefore
moved its recommittal 10 the OF
railroads. Agreed to. Senate adjourned.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4-Slater, from Com
mittee on Indian Affairs, reported a bill
directing the Secretary of the Interior t.
negotiate with the Umatiila, Warm Sprin:
: and certain other tribes of Indians, o%ccupyin:
reservation in Oregon, for the extinguislmen
of their title to the land now occupied b.
them and for their removal to other lands o
reservations without the limits CT Oregon
Printed and recommitted.
The bill authorizing the conversion of ma
tional gold banks into national banks wa
passed and the Senate went into e~Xecutiv
!, session.
A Political Struggle.
NEw YORK, Feb. 3.-The Tribune has TIL
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