Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-04-27
CONGRESS.

Three bills were passed by the United
states Senate Tuesday as follows: Dona-
ting to the Ladies' Soldierss' Monument
Association of Portsmouth, Ohio, four
condemned cannon; accepting and ratl
fying the agreement with the Crow In
dians for the sale of their reservation
in Montana required for the Northern
Pacific railroad, -appropriating
$4,000 therefor; and the Agricultural
Appropriation bill, making an appropri-
alton of $414,7SO, being $l9.100 less than
the aggregate as passed by the House. a
message from the President was read
on the subject of the circular invitation,
extended to all independent countries
of North and South America, to partici-
pate in a General Congress, 10 be held
in Washington, on November % next,
for the purpose of considering and dis
cussing methods of preventing war be-
tween the nations of America.
In the House, the contested election
case of Cannon VS.. Campbell, of Utah,
was discussed and temporarily lai6 aside
without action. The bill was passed
regulating the carriage of passengers by
sea.
In the Senate Wednesday Mr.. Sher7
man presented a petition signed by the
Governor, members of the General As
sembly and other citizens Of Ohio, set
ting forth that the enfrarchisement of
the freedmen imposed on the Govern
ment the obligation to qualify them fer
citizenship, and praying, in view of this
fact and the appalling illiteracy of the
voting population, as revealed in the
last census, that liberal appropriations
be made for the education of the people
of the States The Senate, without a
dissenting vote, insisted upon its amend
ment to the Postofice Appropriation
bill, for ratable distribution of special
mail facilities on trunk lines. .1 -.
The time of the House was mainly
occupied with discussion of the Utah
contested election case. Cannon was
allowed to argue his claims upon the
seat. The resolution declaring Cannon
entitled to the seat was voted down
yeas 70, nays 123, mainly party vote,
the negative vote being Republican with
ten exceptions and the affirmative being
Democratic with but one exception. The
resolution declaring neither Cannon nor
Campbell entitled to the seat was adopt
el without division.
In the Senate on Thursday bills were
passed for the sale of certain property
at Harrisburgh, Ky, belonging to the
Soldiers Home; for the sale of the Oma-
ha and Kickapoo Indian reservations;
and appropriating $465, 900 to supply the
deficiency for public printing.
In the House, the Naval Committee
reported favorably the bill for the sale
of the Charlest0wn navy yard. The
Committee on Agriculture made an ad-
verse report on the bill to authorize the
Commissioner of Agriculture to distrib.
ute seeds to destitute farmers and plant
ers in the flooded sections. The Com
mittee on Pensions, Bounty and Back
Pay reported on the bill granting PEN
sions for injuries received or disabilities
incurred in the life-saving, railway mail
and internal revenue services. The bill
was also fayorably reported for estab-
fishing Board for reviewing pension
and bounty land warrant claims and to
prevent frauds and injustice in granting
pensions. The bill provides for the APP
pointment by the President Of two Com
missioners at $4,000 per annEm each,
one to a lawyer, the other a physician,
who shall constitute a Board, with the
Commissioner of Pensions as ex-OfficiO
President. The Senate bill passed, ap-
propriating 100000 for public build
ing at Frankfort, Ky.
In the Senate, Friday, the resolution
for the apposntmeEt of three Senators
to investigate charges and complaints
against the internal revenue officials of
the Sixth collection district of North
Carolina, with power to compel the at
tendance of witnesses. ETC., was adopted
The House gave the greater portion
of the session to consideration of the
bill TO afford assistance and relief to
Congress and the Executive Department
in the investigation of claims and de
mands against the Government. An
evening session was held, at which
twenty pension bills were. passed; also
bills giving condemned cannon for mon
amental purposes, including thirty can
non for monument to Gen. John Ful-
ton Reynolds, tweve for one in Indian
apolis to Oliver P. Morton, anu eight,cap-
tured from Gen. Burgoyne, to the Sara
toga Monument Association.