The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-02-10
FORTY.SEvENTH CONGRESS.

IN the Senate, on the 3Oth, Mr.. Edmunds,
from the Judiciary Committee, reported fav-
| orably with an amendment the bill re-estab-
fishing the Court of Commissioners of Ala.
bama claims and for the distribution of un.
| appropriated moneys of the Geneva award.
Further discussion on the Sherman funding
bill was confined to the merits of the fourth
section of the act of 1874, which the
$3.50 and s. l6O of Revised statues, which it re-
| enacts. Among bills introduced in the
House was one by Mr. Berry proposing con.
nee o making
| detection, providing that ut the end of his
term of office the President shall receive a
pension of 5000 per annum and declaring
Cabinet officers ineligible for election to the
Presidency for the term following that during
which they held such office.
MESsRS. HAwLEY and ingalls, discussed
the Sherman funding bill in the Senate on the
31st. Mr.. Vests amendment was rejected
yeas 2S, nays 81. Mr.. Plumbs amendment
was agreed to-8 to 49, 1t is As follows:
sh That the or Secretary tar of the Treasury
Treasury for the redemption of United States
notes, in excess of 100000, 600, in redemption
of bonds of the United States, such redemp-
ton to be made in not less than three install.
ments, and said sum of 500, OO0, 600 so lett in
the Treasury shall not be increased or dimin-
ished, except in redemption of United States
notes.. The Speaker of the House stated
the regular order to be the question of
reference of the joint resolution introduced
some weeks ago by Mr.. Robson IN. j. to de-
clare certain lands heretofore granted
to railroad companies forfeited to the
United States, and restore the same to the
public domain, and open the same to settlers
Mr.. Robson withdrew the resolution and in.
troduced in lieu of it one which applied to all
railroads except the Pacific Railroads, in ref
erence to which bills had already been intro
duced. Referred to Judiciary Committee.
WHEN the three-per-cent. bond bill was
reached in the Senate, Feb. 1st, Mr.. Morgan
advocated, as an additional section, an
made with the holders of bonds of the United
States since the adjournment of the Forty
sixth Congress by which the rate of interest
on such bonds is reduced to 81 per.
centum per annum is hereby fully ratified
and confirmed according to the terms and in
tent of said agreement. The amendment was
modified and adopted without vote, as also
the provision offered by Mr.. Davis, of West
Virginia, declaring that nothing in the act
shall be so construed as to authorize the in
crease of the public debt The bill was then
and, the question being upon agree.
ing to the amendments as a whole,
Mr.. Sherman asked tor a separate vote
sur plus revenues over 500 600, 600 to the redac
ton OF the public debt. He said If the prOpo-
sition was not stricken out he and others who
vote against the bill. House concurrent res
olution fixing the eth of February as the day
for the Garfield memorial services was con-
Cured in. The Post office appropriation
bill occupied the House, but no action was
taken.
FURTHER discussion of Mr.. Plumb's
amendment to the three-per. cent bond bill
in the Senate, Feb. 2, resulted in its rejection
yeas Is, nays q. Debate followed on the
amendment proposed by Mr.. ingalls, and
modified by Mr.. Hoar, which was
adopted-s to 10. 1t inserts the
valid" in the first section, making the section
read "that the Secretary of the Treasury is
hereby authorized to receive at the Treasury
and at the Office of any Assistant Treasurer of
the United States, and at any postal money
order Office. lawful money of the United States
to the amount of $50, or any multiple of that
sum, on any bonds of the United States bear
ing 81 per cent interest. which are hereby
declared valid, and to issue in exchange
therefor an equal amount of registered or
coupon bonds.".... In the House, Mr.. Bing-
ham (Pa.) advocated an amendment to the
Post Office bill increasing by 100000 the APP
for expenses of the free delivery
system, urging its extension and an increase
of salary to letter carriers.