Huntsville gazette., 1882-03-18
FORTY.SEVENTH CONGRESS.

MOTION to refer the liquor traffic COM
mission bill to the Finance Committee was
rejected by the Senate, March Sth. The Chi.
nese bill was taken up and debated at length.
lngalls's amendment limiting the coming OF
Chinese laborers to ten years was defeated by
a tie vote. Messrs. Hoar and Edmunds opened
little scene which introduced Messrs. Teller,
Ingalls,, and Dawes. Mr.. Edmunds held that
the Declaration of Independence declared
the right of the colonies to establish gov
ernment for themselves, not for 9th
er people, an idea followed in the
lafen py reagldpg natura
made before the debate closed for the day,
one OF which provides that the act shall not
take effect till ninety days after passage.
Bills were introduced to complete the leve es
temporarily repaired on the Mississippi and
to appropriate So, 600 for improvements at
Memphis. In the House an amendment to
the rules was proposed providing that it shall
be in order for that body to go into commit
tee to designate bill which shall be first
considered. The Harris bill for new war ships
was reported. The bill appropriating $3.50 900
for purchase of the Freedmans Bank passed.
Discussion of the anti -pOlygamy bill was cut
short by motion to adjourn.
In the Senate. March 9th, resolutions
were adopted instructing the State Depart
ment to ascertain the cause of Imprisonment
by the British Government of Daniel Nc
Sweeney, a citizen of the United States; in
structing the Secretary of War to report the
cost, etc, of the Sturgeon Bay and Lake
Michigan Canal, the intention being to con
slider the propriety OF making the canal free.
traffic was discussed and amendments
adopted providing that not more that three
members shall be of the same political party.
The Chinese BILL providing that from and
after the expiration of sixty days after the
passage of the act and until the expiration
of twenty years after its passage, the coming
of Chinese laborers to the United States shall
be suspended, was debated and passed.
In the House, batch of bills were reported
and referred. Several amendments to the
agricultural appropriation bill were adopted,
one OF which increases the appropriation for
purchase OF seeds to Sl32, 600, and the measure
passed.
RESOLUTIONS looking to settlement,
through convention, of claims against the
Government of Nicaragua and directing the
use of Government vessels to distribute flood
relief supplies were adopted by the Senate,
March 10TH The bill for commission on al
coholic traffic was taken up. the number of
the commission was fixed at seven, and the
bill passed. The tariff commission bill, after
protracted wrange, was taken up and laid
over as unfinished business. In the House
memorials were presented from citizens of
Utah asking suspension of action on all Utah
bills. Among the signers were ii 900 girls,
1900 old women, 200 boys and 1900 men.
The claim of Chas. +. Choteau, after q tedi-
GUS debate, was reported from committee of
recommitted to the Committee on Claims.
Consross adiorrned until the 18th.
CONSIDERATION Ol IHe IaIil CoHlHlsslou
bill was resumed by the Senate on the 18th,
and Mr.. Slater advocated free trade. In
the House, the petition for suspension of ac-
ton on Utah affairs was referred. The billfor
bridge across the Mississippi, below the
mouth of the Chippewa, passed The
Army bill, appropriating $29,293,3SO, was
reported and referred to committee
of the whole The st. Louis Mint
bill was reported favorably. The Senate bill
to punish polygamy was taken up and long
discussion ensued on point of order that the
bill must first be considered in committee of
the whole, because it provided for the ap-
pointnent of salaried officers. The pointwas
oyerIuled and the bill went over.