The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-01-22
THE FORTY-SlxTH CONGRESS.
Senate.


general of the army. The bill also authorizes the
president, when he shall consider an emergency has
arisen requiring the services of Gen. Grant active
duty TO assign him to any command cummens urate
with the rank OF general Referred to the committee
ON military affairs. Other bills introduced
and referred, az follows: To amend the revised
statutes to require signatures national bank
notes to be written not engraved to provide for the
distribution of unclaimed dividends among creditors
OF national banks; to extend the ranking privilege
to all official business sent through the mails by
tors, representatives and delegates in congress.
aid on table and ordered printed) to regulate and
improve the civil service of the United States to
prevent extorton from persons in the public service,
and bribery and corruption by such persons. The
bill for the punishment of tramps in the District of
Columbia occupied the remainder of the morning
hour, but went without action. The Ben Lolli-
day relief bill was then discussed until adjourned.
TUESDAY, January 11.-Cameron, pa from the
military committee, reported adversely the bill to
| reorganize and discipline the militia of the United
States, and its further consideration indefinite
~ postponed. Slater introduced d bill to reduce
the price of numbered sections of public lands
within the limits of any railroad, military wagon
road grant to presumption settlers to 81 rs per acre.
! THE Holiday relief bill debated until adj
journment.
WEDNESDAY, January 12.-Dayis (W, Va) sub
mitted resolution instructng the committee on
finance to inquire into the advisabity OF change
IN the organization of the treasury and other de-
partments so as to divide accounts, etc. for collect
ing receipts and the safe-keeping of from
the disbursement accounts; to transfer from the
treasury to the navy department steamboat
inspection, life aving and other services, and to
place under the state spartment matters connected
with our domestic and foreign commerce, Tabled
and ordered printed. .Logan's joint resolution
tending the franking privilege to all official business
sent through the mail by senator's sentatiyes
ana delegates in congress, debated until the
! plraton of the morning hour, when the army ap-
preparation bill taken up and discussed length
in committee Of the whole the clause appropriating
$4,000 to pay land grant railroads so per cent. of
what the quartermaster's department finds justly
due them for transportation Ito which the senate
| committee added proviso that such payment shall
/ a sai3 Gnr-
vices) receiving the most attention Without action
| on the amendment the senate adjourned.
THURSDAY January 13-On motion of Mcmillan
the bill recently introduced by him (and which had
/ been reported on favorably by the committee on
( commerce), providing for the payment of damages
/ which may be occasicned to Indians on Minnesota
reservations by the construction of reservoirs at the
head waters of the Mississippi under the of last
year, and also providing that the appropriation here
tofore made for the construction of dam at Lake
! Winnebago shall be applied Immediately, taken
up and passed. The bill relating the extension
OF the Thanking privilege was referred to the commit
tee on postothces by vote of $50 to 90 Discussion
/ of the army bill then resumed, the ques ton
being upon the amendments the item for the pay
ment Of government transportation on land grant
railroads. Edmunds offered an amendment proyid-
ing for the adjustment Of all payments due such
land grant railroads as have not received aid in gov
eminent bonds by the proper accounting officers
accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court
in the decided under the land grant acts; but
in no case shall more than 80 per cent Of the fun
amount OF service be paid until nal judicial dec-
sion shall be had respect to each in dispute
! Agreed to-ayes 23, noes Is. Edmunds moved that
the amendment reported from the senate committee
appendiHg proviFo that "such payment shall be
accepted in full of all demands for such services "
/ be stricken out. Agreed to after dscussion-aycs
/ p, noes D. The amendments of the senate conf
mttee to the other items of the bin were agreed to
as reported. Pending action upon the bill the senate
adjourned.
FRIDAY, January 14--Hoar presented, with petit
ton In its favor bill to prCyide for retiring prcsi-
dents of the United States The District of Column
ba tramp bill was passed and the senate went into
4 committee of the whole and resumed consideration
| of the army appropriation bill. After long discus
/ sion on the correctness of certain ruling by the
chair the bill reported to the senate and passed
80. On motion of Window the senate took up the
military academy appropriation bill. Window stated
the total of the bin ut 1892 1885, which S72 3OT less
/ than the estimates 1t exceeded the appropriation
for 1881 by 8, 9Ol. The senate committee had made
/ single important amendment. The bill was dis
cussed in committee of the whole, reported to the
! house without amendment and passed. =. After an
executive session the senate adjourned till Monday
House.
SATURDAY, January 8.-BriPgs from the Third
district of New Hampshire, took his seat -. On mo-
! ton of Fernando Wood the house went into COM
/ mittee Of the whole on the funding bill The bill
was read by the secretary for amendments. F. Wood
offered, under instruction of the committee on ways
and means, an amendment fixing the rate of interest
on bonds and notes authorized to be issued by this
act at per cent it being 81 per cent in the print
ed bill Cafin opposed the amendment and read an
amendment which he proposed to offer leaving the
/ interest at 80 per cent, and providing that
bonds shall be redeemabe after FIVE years and payG-
/ bic in twenty years. Kiefer offered amendment
! to Woods amendment to Tx the interest at a
rate not exceeding per cent. Anderson offered a
substitute providing that the interest shall not exceed
- per cent at the discretion Of the secretary of the
/ treasury. McLane offered an amendment to knder-
sons substitute as to make it read g at not
exceeding per cent. vote taken OH
Kiefer's amendment, and it was defeated
/ II to 149. Baynes offered amendment providing
/ that the rate shall not exceed 4 per cent, and
making If the duty o. the secretary of the treasury
to negotiate the sales and exchange of such bonds
the lowest rate of interest possible. Rejected with
out division. Newberry offered an amendment
striking out so much OF the bill as authorizes the is
sue Of bonds and notes, and inserting the following:
The secretary Of the treasury is hereby authorized
issue bonds not to exceed $3.50 600 redeeable
at the pleasure of the United st after two years.
and payable thirty years after issue also, notes
the amount of sos 100000 redeemab!e at the pleasure
OF the United States after two years, and payable
ten years after date of issue, which rates shall be
lawful, and national banks shall be permitted to hold
them as part Of the legal reserve and the interest
said bonds shall be 3 per cent, and the interest
said notes 81 per cent" The committee then rose
for the purpose, stated by Fernando Wood, of
limiting the debate but motion to adjourn was in
teriected. Wells reported from the committee on
Indian affairs the Indian appropriation bill, which
appropriates 81 &c, 600. Printed and recommitted
80. The speaker laid before the house for the third
time the report of the postmaster general in regard
TO the abuse OF the rankng privilege, but it was not
J received. Adjourned.
/ MONDAY, January 10.-Bills introduced: Declaring
silver certificates t. possess the legal tender
quality the coin for which they are issued: to in
crease 80 per cent the duty on axseed or nseed and
al amendment providing that all the civil Offices of
the United States, except judges of the supreme and
inferior courts heads of departments and officers
( where duties temporary, shall hold office for
term of four years, and that congress may provide
! for election by the people Of postmasters and
other officers whose duties to be performed with
IN the limit of any state, such officers to be subject
to removal by the president on other than political
religious grounds; to prevent extorton from per-
in public service, and bribery and coercion by
such persons; requesting the president to open ne
gotiations with Mexico or the Central American
states for the purchase and cession to the United
States of a territory for voluntary colonization of
the colored population of the United States; relative
TO the transportation Of dutiabe goods; to regulate
/ the importation of articles made in imitation of
butter or cheese to re ieve the Supreme Court and
establish Superior Court of the United States
The Indian appropriation bill ported back from
committee, and the house Immediately went into
! committee Of the whole TO consider it. Frost Of
fered an amendment providing that Joseph's band
of the Nez Perces Indians shall be transferred to
such Indian reservation north of the 45th parallel
north latitude, as the secretary Of the interior may
select. Rejected without division. The committee
Z then rose and the house adjourned.
TUESDAY, January I1.-On motion of Blackburn
(Ky.) a resolution adopted appointing a COM
lnitee of five to inquire into alleged abuses of the
tTankng privilege. The house then went into COM
mittee on the Indian appropriation bill. The pend
{ ing amendment that offered by Hiscock, apprO-
prating $4,000 to defray the expenses of commits
sion of citizens provided for in the act Of 1869
and striking ont the clause repeating all laws creating
or authorizing such commission. Adopted by a
standing yote-S7 to 70. Hiscock rose to a point of
order against the sixth section Of the bill which
provides that all bids for supplies Of provisions for.
Indians and for transportation of the shall be
/ first opened and contracts awarded thereon at some
suitable place in the Mississippi valley and Missouri
valley. After discussion the point of order sus-
/ tanned and the section stricken ont. Hooker
offered amendment providing for the transfer of
the management of Indian affairs to the depart
ment after the first Of July next. Haskell then rose
to point Of order that the substance of the amend
ment embodied in two bills now pending before
{ the house, and that therefore, the amendment was