Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-10-16

mittee on Finance; is member of |
the Committees on Education and /
Labor, and Public Buildings and
Grounds, as well as a member of the
Select Committees on the Census and |
on Library Accommodations. He |
was excused, however, from service I
on the two latter committees on ac-
count of the exacting nature of his
duties as Chairman of the Committee
on Finance. The only public bills
which Mr.. Morrill, introduced related
to the entry and withdrawal of dis
titled spirits to apply the net pro-
ceeds of public lands and patents to.
education; to require written sigma
lures no national bank notes and to
amend the law relative to the circu-
lation of national banks, and to APP
point a Tariff Commission. This
latter bill, owing in great measure to
his eXertions, passed. He also in
troduced several bills of Importance
in the District of Columbia. AS the
organ of the Committee on Finance
he reported from that committee thir-
ty-nine bills, and from the Committee
on Public Buildings and Grounds he
reported ten bills. He did not ask
for a leave of absence, and appears
not to have been absent from the
Senate single legislative day. His
record as to faithfulness of public
service is one which no younger mem
bers have surpassed and which few
have equaled. Mr.. Morrill, spoke
upon variety of subjects, particu-
larly on the bills coming from his
committee. He made special speeches
on the Apportionment bill on the
bill to permit the grinding of Cana
dian grain at mills in the United
States; on Chinese immigration on
discriminating duties; on distilled
spirits on the bill to extend the
Executive Mansion; foreign tariff
internal taxation; Tariff Commits
sion; 3 per cent. bonds; japanese
indemnity; labor strikes reciprocity
with Mexico; national banks Paci-
fic Railroad sinking fund, and the
River and Harbor bill. Altogether
his record indicates wonderful activ-
ftp. He is looked upon in his party
as the representative of sound finan-
cial principles and as the most earn
est exponent of the protective tariff
system.
CHARLES H. JOYCE
was appointed member of the COM
mittee on Invalid Pensions, and of
the select committees on bounty and
back pay, alcoholic liquor traffic and
the death of President Garfield. He
was an active and industrious menu
Der of the Committee on Pensions,
and throughout his public career has
been the soldiers most earnest
friend. He reported to the house
nearly sixty pension bills. He in
troduced a good many pension bills.
The public measures which he intro
duced were for the Alcoholic Liquor
Commission, for apportionment, for
the repeal of the tax on bank checks
and proprietary medicines. He
spoke upon the Agricultural Appro-
priation bill, apportionment, Chinese
immigration and on pensions, bounty
and back pay.
JAMES NJ. TYLER.
Mr.. Tyler was member of the
Committees on Education and Labor
and the Census. The public bills
which he presented related to appor-
tionment, to the inspection of steam
vessels, to amend the bill to give the
Court of Claims jurisdiction of claims
and to provide for the erection of a
public building at Brattleboro. He
spoke on the bill to make the Agri-
cultural Bureau an executive depart
ment, on apportionment and made
very earnest fight to secure justice
for his state, but in vain, on Chinese
immigration, on internal tax reduc-
ton and on the death of the late
Senator Carpenter.
WILLIAM w. CIRCUIT
was appointed a member of the Com
mittees on Territories and Expendi-
lures on Public Buildings. He re-
ported from the Committee on Terri
tories the bill relative to North Da-
kota. The public bills which he pre-
scented were to suppress polygamy in
the territories to allow arrears of
pension to widows and orphans, and
he asked for cannon for a soldiers
monument at St. Johnsbury and
Newport. He remembered the SOL
diers in numerous pension bills. His
principal speeches were on the bill to
make the Agricultural Bureau an ex-
ecutive department and on the bill to
distribute the balance of the Geneva
award. The latter speech was not
able one. In it Mr.. Grout present
ed, in very forcible way, the entire
Geneva award ques ton Webb an
Boston Journal.
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