Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-04-20
CONGRESS.

In tie U. S. Senate, Tuesday, the bill
for the relief of Capt. Corbin, of the Ma
Wy, passed. Mr.. Cameron, of Wisconsin,
reported back from committee the orig
inal bill for the relief of Ben Halliday.
1t apprepriates 1920, 153 for losses sas-
tanned by him as mail contractor on ac-
count of ln1ian hostilities.
In the House, the bill passed appropri-
ating $4,000 for the subsistence of GER
tain Indian tribes in Indian Territory.
The Postoffice Appropriation bill was
considered in Committee aud the follow
ing Senate Amendments concurred in
Appropriating $4,000 for furnishing
fourth-clasS pOstmasters with the neces-
sary implements for cancelling stamps,
etc. increasing the appropriation for
compensation to clerks in pOstoffices by
$150,000; increasing by S500,000 the ap-
preparation for mail transportation by
railroads; providing that if any person
shall hereafter perform any service for
any mail contractor in carrying the
mails, he shall have lien on any mon
ey due by the Postoffice Department to
that contractor. The Senate amendment
restoring the franking privilege to men,
bers of Congress was non-cOncurred in,
as were number of minor amend
ments. The House subsequently Iati-
fed the Committee action and the bill
was left for the consideration of the
Conference Committee.
The Senate, Wednesday, passed two
bills: Removing the Southern Utes to
the URitah reservation in Utah; and re-
ferring to the Court of Claims the claim
of George E. Payne for alleged wrongful
seizure and occupation of his sugar
plantation in Louisiana in 1862 under
the orders of Gen. Butler. Mr.. Seward
presented the petition of 97s army Off
eers, praying for the passage of the bill
for compulsory retirement at the age OF
sixty-twc years.
The House, in Com. of the Whole, con-
sidered the Tariff Commission bill,
Messrs. Hubbell, Townsend, Dunn, Up
son and Updegraff speaking thereon.
The committee rose without action on
the measure and the Committee on
appropriations was instructed to report
further measures of relief that should
be extended the sufferers by the present
hoods of the Mississippi river and its
tributaries.
The Senate, on Thursday, passed sew
eral bills as follows: Adjusting claims
growing out of the destruction of the
United States private armed brig, Gen.
Armstrong, in Port Royal, in 1914; re-
pealing the discrimination duty of ten
per cent. on coffee and other products |
of the Netherlands and other countries |
east of the Cape of Good Hope when |
imported from places west of that cape |
granting the right of way to a Ger |
tain railroad through Indian Territory |
appropriating $4,000 to supply the def |
cheney in the current year in subsis-
tcnce for Indian tribes; supplying de-
liciency of $4,000 for printing stamps,
ETC., for the Revenue Department; also,
$150,O00 to continue work on the Wash
ington Monument, the latter appropria.
tion being for the next fiscal year, and
to enable the person in charge of the
work to make his contracts for the com.
ing year at this time; and, establishing
al assay office at Omaha.
The House,in Committee of the Whole,
the Tariff Commission bill,
and MeSsrs. Updegraff, Turner, Brumon
and Armfield spoke upon it. When the
Committee rose, the bill passed appro-
Driating $4,000 for the erection of a,
over the grave of Thomas
Jerson.
Senator Voorhee, on Friday. introdu-
ed in the Senate "a resolution declaring
he conduct of The State Department in
elation to tie arrest aud impris Jn-
nent by the British authorities of Dan
ell McSweeney and other American cit
zens is in violation of American law,
nd derogatory to the honor of the Uni
ed States, He spoke in advocacy of the :
esolutiOn and, at the GnHelHsion of his 4
peech, was applanded by members Of
he Land League Convention who ecGl- ir
led the galleries, Mr., Serpsn yemark, II
d that the statute which PROTECTS the J.
ights of foreign-borD citizens had been I; v
assed by the Republican party. and y
lat party had established the right of p