The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-01-19

Of the. Attorney. General on the subject
Agreed TO, and the resolution was passed
! Bills were introduced M follows:
by Mr.. Jonas-FQr relief Of the Mechan'
les and Traders Bank Of New Orleans.
BY Mr. Misunderstanding to the quo.
rum of the Supreme Court Of the United
States providing that hereafter the major
| ity of Justices. instead of six, shall COnsti-
tutc quorum
| BY Mr.. Kellogg-To extend the limits of
| the port of New Orleans and making an
appropriation of 100000 for the improve
ment of that harbor.
BY Mr.. Johnson (by request)-Threc bills
as follows
To authorize the coinage of silver dollars
and fractions thereof. full standard value,
upon the metric system.
To authorize the coinage of gold metric
dollar two dollars and fractions of a dollar,
and also the coinage of metric gold double
eagle, eagle and half eagle, all of standard
value.
To authorize a new metric gold coin for
international use, to be known as "the
stella"
The foregoing three bills are copies of
bills heretofore introduced in the House by
Stephens, of Georgia.
Mr.. Brown offered declaratory resolu-
ton that it is ineXpedient and unwise to
contract the currency by the withdra wal
from circulation Of what is known
as silver certificates or to discontinue
and further restrict silver, coinage other
than gold and silver coin based upon the
proper value of the equivalent of The two
metals, and that issues of paper, predicated
upon and convertible into coin on demand,
constitute proper circulating medium in
this country. Laid over temporarily.
The Senate then went into executive SEES
sion, and adjourned till Monday.
HOUSE.
Robson, of New Jersey from the Com
mittee on Rules submitted report in
creasing the membership of the following
committees:
Ways and Means to fifteen.
Judiciary to nineteen.
Banking and Currency to thirteen
Commerce to nineteen.
Agriculture to nineteen.
Foreign Affairs to fifteen.
Military affairs to fifteen.
Post-otlcGs and Post-roads to fifteen.
Public Lands to fifteen.
Pacific Railroads to fifteen.
Improvement Of the Mississippi River to
fifteen.
Invalid Pension to nineteen.
War Claims to fifteen.
Accounts to fifteen.
Also, for the appointment of Committee
on the InterOceanic Canal and Foreign
IL,
bers, to which shall be referred all meas
ures relative to those submitted.
Also to amend the rules so as to refer to
the Committee on Improvement of the
Navigation of the Mississippi River all mat
tiers relative thereto.
Under the rules the report was laid over
for the next dav.
The H ouse then went into the COMMITTEE
of the Whole OH the Census Deficiency APP
Pill p,;ttaa ot ~
rose and reported the bill to the House,
when it passed with division. 1t appro-
PIRATES $4,000.
On motion of Epson, of Texas, resolu-
ton was adopted calling on the Secretary of
War for copies of all correspondence, en-
dorsements and recommendations in his
office relating to expenditures
of appropriations for the acquiring of sites
and the erection of posts for the protection
of the Rio Grande frontier.
Baine of Pennsylvania, introduced bill
to repeal the tax on bank deposits and the
stamp tax on bank checks, and to reduce
the tax on the circulation of National
banks. Referred.
Prescott of New York, introduced an
apportonment bill, providing for $40 repre-
sentatives. Referred.
Brown, of Indiana, offered a resolution
calling on the Secretary of the Interior for
the following information: If all pensions
arising from the war of the rebellion shall
be adjudicated within seven years, termin-
ating June 30th, 1888; and if at the end OF
that period the survivors of the war with
Mexico and their widows shall be pensioned
at the rate of IS per month, what approprl-
alton will be required annually to pay the
pensions during the next twenty-five years?
Referred.
The House, then, at $50 p. M. adjourned
until Monday.