Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-18
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Senate.

Senate.
MONDAY, January Bills introduced: For
the organization of the territory of Oklahoma
donating 800 acres of public land to each sur
vlvor of the Mountain Meadow massacre or
their heirs; granting pensions to prisoners of
war; to appropriate and expend the entire in
come derived from internal revenue taxes OH
the manufacture and sale of distilled spirits for
the education of all children OF the United
States. .Hoar offered a resolution which was
adopted (35 to 23) for o select committee on the
rights of women, to whom are to be referred
ali petitions and resolutions relating to woman
suffrage. On motion of Sherman, his bill to
provide for the issue of per centdm bonds
was taken up without formal vote. Vest Of
Tered an amendment, which was ordered print
ed, adding to the bill section identical with
the fifth or compulsory section vetoed in the 3
per cent. bill of last session, but modified to
cover the provision for 100000 It max IS the
bonds sale basis for bank circulation. After
debate the amendments to the bill reported by
committee were agreed to. The senate went
into executive session and soon after adjourned.
TUESDAY, January 1O.-Bayard from the
finance committee repaired with a recommend
alton that it pass the Morrill, tariff commission
bill, and also, with an adverse report, the Gar
land commission bill Beck then addressed the
senate at length onthe tariff bill, occupying the
floor nearly three hours. Morrill, replied
The chair then LAID before the senate the unfi1-
lshed Sherman funding bills. Adjourned.
WEDNESDAY,, January ia number of peti-
tons for a commission to inquire into the alco-
holc liquor traffic were submitted, nearly
every senator present having submitted one u,
more memorials on the subj -. Morgan SUBJ
mltted resolution directing the special COM
m1ttee on woman suffrage III Utah to report a
bill to annul any existing law comforting the
right OF suffrage upon women in that territory
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funding bill was then taken up and Vest ad-
dressed the senate on the subject. Remarks
were also made by Mcpherson and Sherman
1.-The president pro tenn. announced special
committee on the rights of women as follows
Lapham, Anthony, Ferry, Blair, George, Jack
son and Fair. Anthony introduced bill
providing for the retirement Of any person who
served fifty years or upwards in either house Of
congress. Morgan had read petition from
members of the Omaha tribe Of Indians pray
ing congress to grant each one of them clear
and full title to land on which he has worked.
49,. Morgan offered q resolution which was laid
over to be printed, declaring for q special COM
mlttee on woman suffrage question, the matter
Of suffrage III Utah, and report bill to set
aside any existing laws comforting suffrage on
women in that territory. Adjourned
THURSDAY, January 12.-Sherman's funding
bill was proceeded with, and after debate was
informally laid aside till Monday. .Edmunds
introduced bill providing that hereafter a
majority OF justices of the supreme court, in
stead of six, constitute a quorum. Brown
offered declaratory resolution that it is mex
pedient and unwise to contract the currency by
the withdrawal from circulation of what are
known as silver certificates, or discontinue OF
further restrict silver coinage further that gold
and silver coin based upon properrates of equiya-
lent betweenthe two metals and issues of paper,
predicated upon and convertible into coin on
demand, constitute the proper circulating
medium of this country. Laid over tenn
porarily The senate went into executive ses-
sion and then adjourned till Monday.
House.
MONDAY January Bills introduced: To
provide for the appointment of commission
10 investigate the question of tariff and intern
al revenue laws identical with the bill intro
duced in the senate December 5. by Senator
Morr1lD; to equalize pensions; to repeal the
arrearages Of pension act; to provide for the
circulation by national banking institutions of
notes of lower denominations than SIS: to re-
peal the duty on salt, printing paper, and type;
for the distribution of pure vaccine matter to
the people; making polygamy disqualification
for office III the territories; for the construction
Ct the Mississippi and Illinois canal; for the
appointment of a special committee on the sup
preston of the crime of polygamy; authoriz-
ing the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad to con-
struct a bridge across the Missouri River; to
term of collectors of internal revenue at four
years; granting 160 acres of land to every vol
unteer officer, musician and private who served
three years IN the Union army In the late re-
bellion; proposing constitutional amendment
relative to the election of senators (provides
that the senate shall be composed of at least
two senators from each state, but for each
million inhabitants in excess of two millions an
additional senator shall be allowed; and fur
ther, that senators shall be elected by the peo-
ple): proposing a constitutional amendment
relative to polygamy. Adjourned.
TUESDAY, January 1O.-The house resumed
consideration Of the Utah contested election
case, the pending resolution being that offered
by Haskell, declaring Allen G.. Campbell the
delegate-elect from Utah and entitled to be
sworn as q delegate on his 10rinn0 .fQcie case.
Reed offered as a substitute resolution re-
ferr1ng to the committee on elections the ques-
ton on pri11d .facie right, as between Campbell
and Cannon to be sworn in. together with all
certificates and papers presented on each side,
with instructions to that committe to report at
as early a day as possible. Haskell, Cox and
McCord Qa.) addressed the house on the Nor
mon question, the latter reading bill which
he intends to present at some future time dis
qualifying polygamists from representation in
congress Haskell offered resolution to the
same effect. After further debate Reeds sub
sttute was adopted-189 to "a. Adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, January 11.-Orth offered a
resolution instrueting the committee on civil
service reform to inquire into the expediency
of providing mode different from the present
for the appointment of committees of the
house, with leave to report at any time. Re-
ferred to the committee on rules. Haskell
rose to question of privilege and sent to the
clerks desk and hadread a resolution which he
failed to have considered yesterday, declaring
it to be the fixed and final determination of
the forty-seventh congress that no person
polygamous marital relations or
teaching or melting others 50 to do, is entitled
to be admitted to the house of representatives
as delegate from any territory. After ex-
tended debate the house decided by vote of
100 yeas to 139 nays that no question of privi-
lege was involved III the resolution, as the Utah
case had been referred to committee. The
chairman of the committee ON appropriations
reported bill making an appropriation of
$40, 900 for final expenses of the tenth census,
and gave notice he would tomorrow ask to
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