The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-02-17
FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
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joint resolution inviting the Government
and the people Of France TO Join in the cele-
bration Of the Yorktown Centennial was adopt
cd and ~, 600 appropriated to the purpose.
Resolutions from the Board of Agriculture
OF Illinois urging the passage of law on the
subject OF infections diseases among meat
animals In the United States were presented.
The Senate bill for the erection Of public
building in Quincy, H. the House bill author
izing the survey Of parts of certain townships
in Crawford County, Wisconsin, and making
an appropriation therefor; the House bill to
grant the corporate authorities of Council
Bluffs, Iowa, for public uses, Carr Lake; the
House bill relative TO the erection of a monu-
ment at Wyandotte Mission, Upper Sandusky,
Ohio, and the Senate bill to establish an ad-
ditional land district in Kansas were passed.
Senators Hamnn ana thurman were appoint
ed tellers for the Senate in the Electoral count
meeting.
The subject Of the alleged census frauds in
South Carolina Was taken up, and the letter of
the Secretary of the Interior was read. 1t was
followed by q somewhat personal recrimination
between Senators Butler and Conkling.
The consideration Of the Pension Appropria-
ton Bill was resumed, the question being upon
the amendment from the Pension Committed
surgeons bill. The proposition was 80 modified
as to limit its application and operation to the
next fiscal year, but was decided to be not in
order.
An hmenQment apprOpr1atlng SZUU,UUU 1Or
any additional examiners for the Pension Office,
and for the clerical force necessary for the PEN
sion, Adjutant General, and Surgeon Generals
Offices, to render effective the work of the paid
examiners, was declared to be in order.
The credentials of Philctus Sawyer and Ar
thur T.. Gormad were received.
joint resolution to provide for the enforce
mcnt of the eight hour law was reported ad-
versely from the Committee on Education, and
indefinitely postponed.
Meskrs. Beck, Herman, and Wallace discussed
the Pension Appropriation Bill in the Commit
tee of the Whole.
Mr.. Blair introduced joint resolution pro-
posing amendment to the Constitution to
prohibit, after 1900, the manufacture and sale,
anywhere within the United States of distilled
alchoholic and intoxicating liquors, or any in
toxicating liquors mixed or adulterated with
ardent spirits, or with any poison whatever ex-
cept for medical, mechanical, chemical and
scientific purposes. 1t also prohibits exporta-
ton and Importation of such liquors, and their
transportation through any part of the United
States, except for medical and scientific uses.
1t was referred.
The House joint resolution granting con-
demned cannon to the Morton Monumental
Association passed.
The Pension Appropriation Bill and the Post
Office APPROXIMATION Bill were discnssed-
the purchase of grounds and the erection
thereon Of a hall for the deposit of Govern
ment records was passed.
Messrs. Pendleton, Anthony, and Bayard
were appointed a committee to make the neces-
sary arrangements for the Inauguration of the
President-elect
The amendments of the committee to the
Postal Appropriation, which involve changes
aggregating S42, ,472 972 or 81 32S, $50 less than
the estimates, and 20, ,054, OLE in excess of the
bull OF the last fiscal year, were taken up and
agreed to with the exception of the one regu-
lating the manufacture and cost of postal cards
by specific provision in regard to single and
return cards, which was stricken out.
The item of S25, 900 for special railroad
service at st. Louis was increased, on motion
of Mr.. Vest, to $4,000.