Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1881-02-17
CONGRESS.

In the Senate of the United States
Tuesday the credentials of Philetus Saw
yer and Arthur p. German were receiv-
ed. a joint resolution to provide for
the enforcement of the eight hour law
was reported adversely from the Com
mittee on Education, and Indefinitely
postponed. MeSSrs. Beck, Herman, and
| Wallace discussed the pension apprOpri-
alton bill in the Committee of the
Whole. Mr.. Blair introduced joint
resolution proposing an amendment to
the Constitution to prohibit after 1900
the manufacture and sale, anywhere
within the United States, of distilled al
coholic and Intoxicating liquors, or any
Intoxicating liquors mixed or adultera-
ted with ardent spirits, or with any poi.
son whatever except for medicinal, me-
chanical, chemical. and scientific pur.
| poses. 1t also prohibits expectation and
importation of such liquors, and their
transportation through any part of the
United States, except for medicinal and
| scientific uses. 1t was referred.
In the House Mr.. Reagan reported
back the river and harbor appropriation
bill, and it was, with the legislative, ex-
ecutive, and judicial appropriation bill
referred to the Committee of the Whole
The east gallery was set aside for visi-
tors of members of the House or Senate
| who desire TO witness the counting of
the votes. The legislative appropria-
zion bill was considered in Committee
of the Whole. The customary resolu-
tiOns respecting the death of Mr.. Farr,
of New Hampshire, were adopted.
In the Senate Wednesday the House
joint resolution granting condemned
cannon to the Morton Monumental AS
SOciatlon passed. The pension appro-
priation bill were discussed.
In the House the formal count of the
Elecoral vote was completed, after which
the legislative appropriation bill was
discussed in Committee of the Whole,
which was passed after the committee
rose. A resolution was adopted provi-
ding that hereafter, whenever the morn
ing hour is dispensed with, the hour
shall he set apart as the hour during
which members may ask to pass bills on
the calendar by consent, five objections
to be fatal to the consideration of any
bill.
In the Senate Thursday the Senate
bill appropriating 100000 for the pur-
chase of grounds and the erection there
on of hall for the deposit of govern
ment records was passed. Messrs. PEN
dletOn, Anthony, and Bayard were ap-
pointed committee to make the neces-
Sary arrangements for the Inauguration
of the President-elect. Tie amendments
of the committee to the postal appropri-
alton, which involve changes aggrega-
ting $42, ,472,972, or Sl,32S,590 less than
the estimates, and $2,054,012 in excess
of the bill of the last fiscal year, were
taken up and agreed to with the eXcep-
ton Of the one regulating the manufac-
ture and cost of postal cards by a speci-
flc provision in regard to single and re-
turn cards, which was stricken out. The
item of $25,00O for special railroad SER
vice at st. Louis was increased, on mo-
ton of Mr.. Vest, to $4,000.
In the House the river and harbor ap-
preparation bill was considered in Com
mittee of the Whole, the discussion be-
ing enlivened by an angry personal con-
trOvery between Messrs. Reagan and
Cox. Mr. Dunnell, of Maine, marveled
at the just generosity of the bill, and
Mr. Turner, of Kentucky, asserted that
there were I,SOO miles of water way in
his State, and yet a pitiful appropria-
tion of $l32,000 for the improvement Of
those water ways seemed begrudged.
In the Senate on Friday bills were in
troduced: Concerning the Worlds Fair
of 1888; for the preservation of court
records at Frankfort, Kentucky. The
Postal Appropriation bill was consider
ed, but not finally.
In the House the day was spent con-
sidering the private calendar, during
which bill was passed allowing Col.
Tom Worthington pension of $50 per
mouth.
The session of the Senate on Saturday
was mainly devoted to debate on the
amendment to the Postal Appropriation
bill providing for a subsidy for Ameri-
can vessels carrying the mail to foreign
ports. Senator Whyte made telling
speech in opposition to the bill.
LII the House the bills to incorporate
the Nicaragua Interoceanic Ship Canal
Company and the Eads Ship Railway
Company were indefinitely postponed,
and thus probably disposed of for this
session. The River and Harbor Appro-
priation bill was taken up and debated
at length, but no action was reached
on it.
In the Senate Monday the credentials
of the reelected Senators, Cockreli and
Dawes, WIRE filed. An extraordinary
large number of petitions from temper
ance organizations of many States, for
constitutional amendments to prohibit
the manufacture and sale of alcoholic
beverages, were presented. The postal
appropriation bill was proceeded with.
The amendment by Mr.. Morgan to al
low steamships to be steel or iron was
agreed to. A long discussion followed
on the question of subsidizing the ocean
mail service, which was finally cut off
by motion to lay the subject on the ia
ble,
In the House the Senate amendments
to the joint resolution authorizing the
President to invite the government and
people of France to join the govern
ment and people Of the United States in
celebrating the centennial of the surren-
der of CORVALLIS were concurred in.
The announcement of the death Of Hon.
Fernando Wood was followed by the
customary resolctions and adjournment.
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