Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-21
SENATE PROCEEDINGS.
Further Discussion of the Woman Suffrage
Resolution-Bru Fixing a Term of Office
for Collectors of Internal Revenue-Pas-
sage of the House Resolution for the
Holiday Adjournment-The Frankipg
Privilege Granted to Mrs. Garfield.

sage OF the House Resolution for the
Holiday Adjournment-The Frankipg
Privilege Granted to Mrs. Garfield.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.-Ingalls, from the
committee on Indian affairs, reported favora-
bly, the bill for the sale to the Miami Indians,
Kansas.
johnson, from the committee on claims
reported adversely the bill to authorize the
president to make necessary arrangements to
carry into effect any convention between the
United States and Nicaragua for the adjust
ment of claims, which may be concluded be-
tween the two governments. Indefinitely
postponed:
Anthony, from the committee on printing,
reported that the responsibility for the delay
in the publication of the agricultural reports
was not chargeable to the public printer; that
that that officer had been unable under the
statute to make contract for printing lithO-
graphic engravings until Jnly 1, when the ap-
preparation will be available; that these could
not be completed in less than eight months
and that the work had been temporily super
seded by more important government printing.
Pendleton, from the committee on foreign
relations, reported adversely the bill authorlz-
ing Lieutenant Commander Chas. D. Sigsbee,
United States navy, to accept decoration
from the emperor of Germany. Indefinitely
postponed.
Butler offered resolution instructing the
committee on civil service and retrenchment
to inquire into the advisability and propriety
of providing @by law for the compensation of
United States district attorneys, assistant dis
trict attorneys, United States marshals, depu-
ty marshals, collectors of customs, collectors
of internal revenue, deputy collectors and
United States commissioners, by applying to
them fixed salaries, to be regulated, as near as
may be, by services rendered and responsible
ties imposed, and that said committee have
leave to report by bill or otherwise.
The house resolution for adjournment from
tomorrow until Jan. 5, was adopted. Ayes,
II; noes, Is.
At the expiration of the morning hour the
senate resumed consideration of Hoar's resolu-
tion for a committee on woman suffrage, and
Morgan addressed the senate.
At the conclusion of his remarks, the reso-
luton was laid aside indefinitely, and the
chair announced his signature to the enrolled
bill giving the franking privilege to Mrs. Gar
field.
Blair introduced bill to protect pension
money from attachment, levy or seizure by
process of law, and amounts Of the same mon
ey when inyesttd in homesteads. Referred.
The following bill was introduced by Roll
Inns:
Section 1. Hereafter collectors of internal
revenue shall be appointed for term of four
years.
Sec. 2. The commissioners of internal rev.
enue who shall have served four years or
more on the 30th of June, 1881, shall, on and
with that date, expire; provided, that they
shall hold after that date until their success
ors are qualified.
After a short executive session the senate
adjourned till tomorrow.