The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-05-16
Work at the National Capital Yesier.
day-The Various Subjects Legis.
lated Upon by the Senate
and House.
Nominations Of Interest to Texans Sent
In by the Presidept-An I'm.
looked for Confirmation.
StiilWell II. Russell Arrested on Charge
Of Embezzlement- Robert e..
IngersOll His Security.
Fluctuations of the Call Board d-Necro.
logical Record.
The Trail Of the Dublin Assassins Get.
ting Faint.
Other Foreign and Domestic News.
Other Foreign and Domestic News.
Forty-Seventh Congress.


WARRINGTON, May 15.-nouse Geneva
award bill was tabled temporarily, the ju.
dietary committee, which has jurisdiction
OF the subject, having already reported the
bill; also, house bill for public buildings at
Louisville, Kentucky.
Bills were introduced and referred as fol-
lows:
By Mr.. George (by requesD TO aid in
the construction of the railroad and leyees
of the Memphis & New Orleans railroad
company.
Mr.. Pendleton submitted from the COM
mittee on civil service, ETC., re-
port to accompany the civil service
reform bill He said the formal statements
made before the committee would be pre-.
sented as addenda. Ordered printed.
Mr.. Morrill, presented amendments to
house bonded distillery spirits bill, in the
form of a substitute for that measure. Re-
lerred to the finance committee,
House bill for the removal of the remains
of the late Minister Fitzpatrick from Chill to
New Jersey was passed.
The Senate then listened to n speech by
Mr.. Beck upon the house bonded distilled
spirits bill, now in the finance committee,
his pending resolution 10 gve the measure
precedence of consideration hereafter, beng
taken up.
Mr.. Window followed Mr.. Beck in
reply to an allusion of the latter to the
pending investigation of the doings of
whlskey men by special committee of
which Mr.. Window is chairman.
Mr.. Beck's resolution having served its
purpose in calling attention to the subject,
it was indefinitely postponed
Following are The amounts aDprOpriatpd
by the bill favorably reported; Public
buildings at Jackson, Tennessee, $50, 900;
Newcastle. Delaware, $4,000; Council
Bluffs, $4,000; Detroit, 100000; Hannibal,
Missouri, $4,000; Louisville, S50O,0OO.
A letter was transmitted from the com
missioner of pensions inviting attention to
the needed deficiency appropriation Of Sl6,-
900 900 to meet the June payment of army
pensions.
After an executive session the senate ad-
| iourned.
| The vote in the executive session on the
confirmation of Roland Worthington, of
the Boston Traveller, as collector of customs
OF the port of Boston, was 81 ayes to II
nays. The may" vote comprised eleven
republicans and three democrats.
HOUSE.
Under the call of states. the following
bills were introduced and referred:
| "
public lands in Mississippi, and Louisiana
to the New Orleans 4 Northeastern rail-
road company; also to regulate the sale of
coal and iron lands in Alabama.
BY Robinson, of New York-Calling on
tue president for further correspondence
| with Great Britain in regard to American
citizens imprisoned in Ireland
| BY Lynch, of ississippi-Amendator
of Federal election laws; also, to reimburse
depositors of the Freedman's Savings and
Trust company for losses incurred by fail
ure of said company.
| Under the suspension of the rules the
bill passed providing that no action for
damages for infringement of patents shall
be sustained for the use of any patented
article or device when 1t shall appear on
/ trial that defendant purchased such article
for valuable consideration in open
market.
The speaker laid before the house mess
age from the president transmitting a COM
municaticn from the commissioners of PEN
sions, calling attention to the fact that the
deficiency appropriation of $4,000, 900 to
meet June payments of army pensions,
should be available MS early as the 25th
inst, II practicable. Referred.
Adjourned.
NoMINATIoHss
| The president to-day nominated James
| l.. Mckee, of Texas to be marshal of the
northern district Of Texas; II. l.. Gosing,
of Texas, marshal of the western district of
Texas; j. c. Bigger, OF Texas, attorney for
The northern district of Texas; NJ. T. Will
| liams, OF Tennessee, as marshal of the
western district of Tennessee; William A.
Maury, of the District of Columbia, as
sistant attorney general of the United
States.
English and Irish Affairs.