The National tribune., 1882-05-13

influx of Chinese cheap labor and taking out
of politics question that promised embarrass-
ing complications at future elections.
SENATE
In the Senate, on Thursday, May 4, the bill
repeating the disqualifcations for army service
imposed upon ex-confederates was committed
to the Judiciary Committee. The court Of
appeals bill was further discussed.
In the Senate on Friday a resolution was
adopted appointing special committee to in
quire whether any money has been raised for
the purpose of promoting the passage or defeat
of the bill to amend certain laws on the subject
of distilled spirits. A communication was read
from the Secretary of the Navy recommending
an increase of 800 enlisted men in the naval
service, and bill providing for such increase
was introduced. The bill to establish a court
of appeals was further considered. A bill was
passed opening to settlement and entry certain
lands in Nebraska withdrawn by executive
order for military purposes.
The Senate was not in session on Saturday.
On Monday in the Senate the President pre-
sented petition of Walford Post, No. 81, Grand
Army of the Republic, Department of Ohio,
praying for increase of pensions in the mill
tary or naval service to those who lost a limb
in the line duty, &c. Referred to the Com
mittte on Pensions.
A bill was introduced providing for an ex-
tension of the Executive Mansion. The House
tariff commission bill was considered. The bill
establishing a court of appeals was discussed
at length.
On Tuesday in the Senate the Committee on
Military Affairs reported bills which were
passed, donating condemned cannon and can
non-balls for monumental purposes, as follows:
Cannon and cannon-balls to aid in the con-
struction of suitable soldiers monument at
Portland, Maine; authorizing the Secretary of
War to furnish condemned cannon for the SOL
diers cemetery at 'Gallipolis, Ohio; donating
condemned bronze cannon to the Soldiers
Monument Association of Birmingham, Conn. /;
to donate condemned cannon to the Soldiers
and Sailors Association of Bellaire, Ohio; to
authorize the Secretary of War to turn over to
Sampson Post, No. %, of the Grand Army of
the Republic, of Rochester, New Hampshire,
four condemned canHon; to donate one con-
demned bronze cannon to the citizens of OtsegO,
Michigan; to donate iron cannon TO the town
ship of Milan Ohio; donating condemned can
non and other munitions of war to the Soldiers
and Sailors Monumental Association of Lycom-
ing county, Pennsylvania; to authorize the
Secretary of War to turn over to E. E. Sturte-
want Post, No. 2, of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, of Concord, New Hampshire, six con-
demned cannon; to donate two condemned iron
cannon to the city of Mansfield, Ohio, to be
placed on the public square near the soldiers
bronze monument; to authorize the Secretary
of War to furnish condemned cannon for the
soldiers cemetery at Hamilton, Ohio; granting
four condemned cannon to the town of Bran
don, Vermont, to be placed near a soldiers
monument; authorizing the Secretary of War
to deliver to the city of Waterloo, Iowa, three
condemned cannon and four cannon-balls for
decoration Of soldiers cemetery; to Charles
Russell Lowell Post, No. 7, OF the Grand Army
of the Republic, of Boston, two condemned cast
iron guns and two condemned carriages for
monumental purposes; to each of the towns of
WobuTn, Winchester, and Wakefield, in the
State of Massachusetts,, four condemned cast
iron cannon, to be used in the decoration of the
soldiers lots in the cemeteries in said towns to
Post 7S, Of Massachusetts; Mcpherson Post 70,
Massachusetts,; the town of Paxton, Massachu-
sets; to VIM. Fl. Bartlett Post, No, 3, of Mas
sachusotts; to Sampson Post, of Massachusetts,; :;
to Wetzel Compton Post, Hamilton, Ohio; to
the city Of Mansfield, Ohio; to Stover Post,
No. l, Portsmouth, Hew Hampshire; to the
town of Brandon, Vermont; to the town of
Milan, Ohio; to the city of Topeka, Kansas; to
Post Bosworth, Portland, Maine; to National
Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky; to Village of
Hyde Park, Illinois; to National Cemetery
Memphis; to General Skunk Post, Marion, In
diana. A number of personal pension bills
were reported favorably. The House Tariff
Commission bill was passed.
On Wednesday in the Senate bill was in
trOduced to turn over to the Interior Depart
ment parts of the Camp Douglas military
reservation in Utah Territory. Various mat
tiers of no special interest were considered and
the remainder of the session occupied in hear
ing speeches on the bill for intermediate ap-
pellate courts.
HOUSE.