The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-17
FORTY.s1xTH CONGRESS.
GENATTY

A joint resolution inviting the Government
and the people Of France to join in the cele-
bration of the Yorktown Centennial was adopt
ed and $2O, 900 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 q public
building in Quincy, H.; the House bill author
izing the survey of parts of certain townships
an appropriation therefor; the House bill to
grant the corporate authorities of Council
Eluns, 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 Hamlln ana Thurman were appoint
ed teilers for the Senate in the Electoral count
meeting.
South Carolina was taken up, and the letter OF
the Secretary of the Interior WAS read. 1t was
followed by somewhat personal recrimination
between Senators Butler and Conkling.
The consideration of the Pension Appropria-
tion Bill was resumed, the question being upon
the amendment from the Pension Committee,
for local pension courts, the so-called sixty
surgeons bill. The proposition was so modified
as to limit its application and operation to the
next fiscal year, but was decided to be not in
order.
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 Philet6s Sawyer and Ar
thur p. Gormad were received.
A joint resolution to provide for the enforce
ment of the eight hour law was reported adj
versely from the Committee on Education, and
indefinitely postponed.
> Messrs. Beck, Herman, and Wallace discussed
the Pension Appropriation Bill in the Commit
tee of the Whole.
Mr.. Blair introduced joint resolution pro-
posing an 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 Appropriation Bill were discussed
The Senate bill appropriating $500, 200 for
the purchase of grounds and the erection
thereon of q 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, 1928, $50 less thar
the estimates and 80. .O54, ,O12 in excess of the
bill 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 $4,000 for special railroad
service at st. Louis was increased, on motor
| of Mr.. Vest, to So, 900.