The Russellville Democrat., 1881-02-10

been given him by bis country to strike down that country. Laugbter on the 1 Democratic side.l The whole day was con- sumed ill debating it. Mr. Chittenden said
 this was the case of widow asking for $l36 1 honestly due her husband who had been an officer of the United States navy, and if the 1 Congress of the United States refused to pay
 that debt in his judgment 1t did an act
 which appealed to the manhood outside of ! Congress to see that another Congress should
 pay that debt with double interest Mir.
 Hawley said that if lie were asked whether
 he were willing to pay to the widow of . useful officer he should very likely make
 no objection, but when gcntlemes presented bills of this description and said they were
 as good debt as any represented by any bond and that nothing had been done to forfet any obligation which the government was under, he was disposed to resist it. During the war somebody was right and somebody was wrong somebody won and
 somebody lost. The fourteenth amendment
 was the judgment of the nation on that sub
 ject. Mir Wright declared that if the friends
 of the pending bill would withdraw it
 from the calender he would give the woman check for the amount involved
 Mir. Goode said he appreciated the generous
 motives which prompted the gentleman
 from Pennsylvania (Wright) to make the
 offer, but he wanted the house and country
 to understand that the widow of Hugh M
 Page, the hero of Lake Erie, was not here begging aims; she came asking the passage of this bill as a matter of justice The govern
 ment owed her husband for gallant services
 rendered The government owed the hus-
 bands estate to-day; and if the government pursued the man in his grave and said it
 would not pay the widow, it was guilty of
 rank repudiation. The bill went oyer
 JAN. 29.--Consideration of the contested election case of Yeates vs. Martin consumed the day. Martin was unseated and Yeates took the oath of office.
 JAN. 31.-A great number of bills were in troduced ...,.The sessions of the House be- gin hereafter at II a. m.......The Iowa con- tested election cases were disposed of: Sapp i and Carpenter retain their seats m Mir Cox l gave notice that he would tomorrow call i up the apportionment bill and press it
 against every other busin. ss. The House | then wentinto committee of the whole (Mr | Converse in the chair) on the District of ! Columbia appropriation bill The bill rec i ommends $3,272, ,224 being Sl52, 900 less than l the amount appropriated last year. and ESQ., i QUO less than the estimates of the District 1 commissioners. Aftera brief debate the bill i was read by sections for amendment i The appropriation for the removal of old
 wood pavements was increased from $150, GOO | to $500 600. Various provisions of the bill i while of little public interest, gave rise to 1 debate, and but of the 23 pages had been l disposed of when the committee rose.
 1 FEB. 1.-The House met at Il o'clock
 and immediately went into committee of 1 the whole (Mr. Converse in the Chair on the District of Columbia appropriation bill. 1 Various items in the bill gave rise to sev- eraI long and uninteresting discussions, but the committee finally rose without having completed its consideration .A Ad- | journed.
 1 FEB. "A message from the President was received. The message deals with the Ponca Indian question and was referred to the committee on Indian affairs. It reeom-
 mends future Indian policy for the gov ernment, with the following outlines: First, preparation of Indians for citizenship by
 educating the children; second, allotment
 of lands in severalty; third, compensation to the Indians for their lands not required for individual allotment; fourth, with these prerequisites secured the Indians should be made citizens. ......The post-route bill was passed The District of Columbia appro- priatiOn bill was also passed. The legisla tive, executive and judicial appropriation bill was reported 10 the House. It appro- priates Sl7, ,1Sl ,0O0.....A letter from the Sec
 retary ofthe Navy was read, recommending
 an appropriation of S200,0 GOO for the es.ab-
 lishment of naval stations on the American
 isthmus"..The House considered the ap- portionment bill, and Mir. Cox made
 speech in support of the measure.