Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-08-09


overtaken by avengers and shot dead.
Charles Price was fatally shot at Frankfort,
KY, on the 31st, by Frank Stanley, who had
just been informed that Price made an indecent |
assault on his daughter, recently. stray
shot shot, from @ stsaleys s Weapon dangerously IN
At Fayetteville, Texas, H. G. Sholes, an at
torney, was fatally shot by young merchant !
named Seapp.
At late hour on the night of the 29th, Ed
ward Thaler and Fred. G1ozier quarreled in a !
saloon at Cleveland, o. The men were sepa-
shot him dead
FoRTY-sEvENTH CONGRESS.
Senate.
MONDAY, July 31.-The bill was passed to
prevent counterfeiting within the United States
Of securities of foreign governments, and pro-
viding penalty for circulation of such securi-
ties. The naval appropriation bill was proceed
ed with. After action on several amendments
the bill was reported to the senate, and all the
amendments made in the committee of the
whole were concurred in, except one offered by
Beck reducing the appropriation for finishing
the MiaHatOnomah and other ironclads from
81, 100000 to 100000, and stopping further
proceedings under the contracts Of March 8,
1877. Upon this separate vote upon the con-
321, nays %; SO the amendment was retained in
the bill. The bill was then passed by uiU0
UOce vote. The house bill restoring the Fort
Benton military reservation to the public do
main and for other purposes was passed..
The legislative bill was then considered till adj
journment.
TUESDAY, August 1.-Seventy-six pages of
the sundry civil bill we're disposed of. Two
house amendments. to tho amendments
of the senate naval appropriation bill
concerning the completion of the unfin-
ished ironclade, were concurred in. The
other senate amendments we're insisted upon
and Messrs. Logan and Davis Nv. Va.) appoint
ed conferees on the bill. =. Adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, August "A message was re-
ceived from the house informing the senate of
! the action of that body inpassing the river and
harbor bill over the Presidents veto. The
pending business was suspended and the veto
| message read. A vote was Immediately taken
upon the question, ''Shall the bill pass, the OBJ
| jections of the President to the contrary not
w1thstanding p The result was yeas Al, nays
16. So the bill passed. The sundry civil bill
| was then proceeded with in committee. .Ad-
| journed.
THURSDAY, August ga motion by Morrill,
| to take up the knit-goods bill met with objec-
ton from the democrats and a vigorous debate
however, and the tax bill was proceeded with,
but nothing was accomplished. .Adjour ned.
FRIDAY, August 4.-The house bill for the
establishment of diplomatic relations with
Persia and authorizing the appointment of
consulgeneral to that country at a salary of
$4,000 was passed. Debate on the tax bill con-
sumed the balance of the day.
SATURDAY, August 5.-The conferees on the
naval appropriation bill reported an agreement
The house bill paying employees of govern
ment contractors on the Fox River improvement
in Wisconsin $7, 1876 was passed. ..Bayard then
submitted jointresolution appropriating $685.
900 for the pay of mileage to senators who at
tended the session convened October 10, 1881.
laid aside informally, and the knit goods bill
taken up. A number of amendments were re-
jected and the bill was passed precisely as it
came from the house-yeas 36, nays 15.. .Ad-
journed.
| MONDAY, July 31.-The bill restoring Fort
Benton military reservation to the public do
| main, was passed The senate bill,' to provide
! for the disposition of Fort Larned military
| reservation, was passed. The senate bill for
the retirement of Ulysses S. Grant, late general
| and president of the United States, having
laid on the table. Lost-yeas II, nays 49,. The
| bill was then referred to the committee on
military In the evening the house after
passing fifteen pension bills and several bills
giving condemned cannon for monumental
purposes, adjourned.
TUESDAY, August. Ia resolution was
passed authorizing the secretary of the treas
ury to deliver flag to the l08th Ohio Volun-
teer Infantry, now in his custody. Williams
! Owls. }, chairman of the committee on foreign
affairs, submitted report upon the Chili-Peru
investigation. Placed on the calendar. "A
motion to adjourn sine die at noon on the 4th
was lost after debate. "A message was re-
iVyo1f ft,o 6nrof
approval of the river and harbor appropriation
bill, and the house Immediately became atten-
tive as the clerk read the document, which was
ordered printed. The reading was only once
interrupted and then when hearty laugh
greeted the sentence, "thus as bill becomes
Beyond this there was no manifestation of ap-
proval or disapproval of the Presidents action,
and as soon as the reading was concluded the
house adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, August 2.-The house-yeas 1923,
! nays 60-passed the river and harbor bill over
| the presidents veto. The announcement of the
veto was greeted with applause and Cox N. W
ought to adjourn sine die. Then Aldrich and
Murch, the former of whom had voted in the
affirmative and the latter in the negative, dis
| covered that they were paired with absentees,
obtained permission to withdraw their votes
and thus the aggregate was reduced to yeas
122. nays 59.. The bill granting pension Of
$37 month to soldiers who lost an arm at the
shoulder passed. "A joint resolution passed
authorizing Lieutenant Commander sigsbee to
| receive decoration from the government of
Germany, and Joseph B. Hawley. president of
the centennial commission, to receive deco
rations from the governments of Spain and
Japan. :. Adjourned.
THURSDAY, August "a resolution was
adopted providing for final adjournment on
Saturday, the 9Th inst. Davis Ol.) offered &
resolution which was referred, proposing con-
stitutional amendment providing the President
may disapprove any item of bill appr0priat-
ing money embracing distinct items, while ap-
proving others. The bill passed providing
that all charges for license and inspection fee
ceed $6, and for admeasurement shall not
exceed 10 cents per ton. Adjourned.
FRIDAY, August 4.-Hutchins offered a
resolution which was referred proposing con.
situhonal amendment providing that it shall
take two-thirds of the members Of each house
to pass bill over the Presidents veto, instead
of two-thirds of the members voting, as al
dry civil bill were acted upon and the bill was
signed by the speaker. Adjourned.
SATURDAY, August 5.-The senate amend.
ment to the joint resolution for the establish
ment Of diplomatic relations with Persia were
concurred in. The joint resolution passed in
snuctlng the secretary OF the navy to convene
. court Of inquiry to investigate the loss of the
Jeanette. .Calkins submitted conference
report on the bill to relieve certain soldiers Of
tie late war from the charge of desertion. II
was agreed to. The bill as agreed to extends
its provision to technical deserters who served
more than six months in the army. Hiscocl
presented the conference report upon the sun
dry civil appropriation BILL. He stated simply
that the senate amendments had been reduced
by the conference committee to the amount OF
$958, 900. After debate the conference report
was agreed to. and thus the last general ap
preparation bill was disposed of by the house
80. The house then took a recess till Monday
ut 10 O'Clock. es.t.a se...a.e%. ,.>s..5-z-
| SEVERAL years ago, Daniel Weld, o.
Abbott, Me-, who served in the war o.
the rebellion, and afterward received {
pension on account of injuries, wrote t.
the authorities at Washington that h
thought he had fully recovered hi
/ health, aud therefore desired that hi
name might be removed from the pen
sion list. This was the first case of th,