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CONGRESSIONAL.
TUE5DAY, MAY 16.

the senate to-day temporarily, to permit theH
discussion on the g. per cent. land bill, cham
pioned by Mr.. Plumb of Kansas. He and
Mr.. Blair found SO much to talk about on
the subject that no one else had an oppor-
tunity to do SO, and when the latter conclud-
ed q motion to adjourn was promptly adopt
ed.
HoUsE.-The house resumed the considera-
ton of the national bank charter bill and
Hewitt spoke in favor of the banks, stating
that the present system was the best yet de-
vised by the ingenuity of man. If the ma
honal banking system were to be continued
he favored an amendment which would let
every bank know it could not at its mere
caprice reduce or increase its circulation.
Mr.. Butterworth and others spoketo the same
effect. Ten members were present at the.
evening session. McSscrs. Hazeltine Ander-
son and Holman made speeches in opposi-
ton to the bill to extend the charters ofna-
tional banks.
WEDNESDAY, MAY IL. - s
SENATE.-Mr. Cameron reported adversely
the joint resolution rendering the thanks O.
congress to Chief Engineer Melville. Th,
remainder of the session was devoted to tn.
discussion of the 5 per cent. land bill. II
executive session the following nomination.
were received:
Thos. Wing, Illinois, register of the land
office, Prescott, o.
Postmasters-Beni. Z. Robinson, Fair
bury, ILL.,. John G. Stevenson, Mount Yer.
non, o.; Wm. T. Yoe, Independence Kan.
Samuel w. Backus, San Francisco, Cal.
The senate confirmed Vim. A. Mauris,
assistant attorney general of the United
States.
United States Consuls-H. S. Miller, Min.
nesota, at Guayaquil 0. V. Tousley, Min.
nesota, at Trieste
VIM. M. Ridpath, Indiana, Indian agent
at Yankton, d. T.
P, s, Corbett, United States marshal dis.
trict of Nevada.
Jas. C. Jewell, Purveyor of customs, Evans.
vile, Ind ~
A. J. Kaufman, collector internal revenue,
Pennsylvania.
Postmasters-Lewis c. Smith, at Stating
ton, Pa; Amanda o. Sillyman, Pottesville.
Pa; Geo. P. Humphrey, Cheboygan, Mich;
Morton l.. Cardell, Hancock, Mich; Jos. NJ
Bracket, Eau Claire. Wis; Charles H Jack.
son, Georgetown, Colo; J. Z. Epping, Darien,
Ga.
HoUsE.-The bank charter bill was dis
cussed. Mr.. March's amendment, reducing
from twenty to three years the period fo-
which banks may extend their charters was
rejected-yeas 61, nays III. Mr.. Hazeltine,
from the committee on elections, reported in
favor OF MIR. Lowe from Alabama.
THURSDAY, MAY 1s.
SENAJE.-The morning hour of the senate
was unusually lively, number of bills being
hurriedly pushed through, not, however,
without remonstrancc fer such undue haste
from Senator ingalls, Of Kansas. Among
the measures thus disposed cf was measure
to refund s., 227, 100 10 certain claimants in
Henderson, Tenn, ior assessments paid by
them in reimbursement for public buildings
destroyed by the rebel forces.
The senate to-day by vote of 25 to 81 in
definitely postponed the bill to extend the
patent on the steam grain shovel of Messrs.
Wilson, SpendeioW and Watson. Protests
against the extension have come from all
parts of the country and comprise an enor-
nous bulk of papers and petitions.
The senate proceeded with the per cent.
bond bill, but did not take decided action as
was anticipated.
In the executive session of the senate there
was another display OF independence, John
Sherman vigorously opposing the confrma-
ton of Mr.. Buckner in the Louisville district.
The senate finally deferred action on this and
the contested Pennsylvania appointment for
a week, to give Senator Mitchell chance.
HoUsE-On motion of Mr. Kasson, bill
passed providing that any person being orig
inally a citizen of the United States who
has been naturalized as q subject of Great
Britain, may publicly declare his renunci-
alton of such naturalization and resume his
character and privileges as 4 citizen of the
United States on signing an instrument to
that effect
A bill passed changing the boundaries of
the fourth collection district ofSarginia, and
making new port of entry.
tl,E1o nod ITlaTo TInrN of
the bank charter extension bill, the pending
question being on an amendment offered by
Mr.. Bucl>ner reducing the period for which
banks may extend their charters from twen-
ty to ten years which was lost-92 to 116
Mr.. Springer offered an amendment pro-
viding that all charters of national banks
shall expire at the end of ten years from the
1st of January, 1883, unless congress shall
provide for an earlier period for expiration
of such charters. Rejected.
Various other amendments were proposed
and a long debate cnSued but without final
action.
FRIDAY, MAY 10.
SENArE-The house bill for public build
ngs at points named, with amount of ap-
preparation stated, passed: Louisville, $780,,
600; Hannibal, $4,000; Detroit, 5000, 200;
Council Bluffs, SIOO, 900. The senate bill ap-
propriating 100000 for building at La
Crosse also passed. The aggregate ofappro
priations passed by the senate during morn
ing hours was S, l,975,000.
What is known as the five per cent land
bill finally passed. The bill provides that
lands entered by military scrip or bounty
land warrants in the States of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota,
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisi-
ana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Oregon,
Nevada and Colorado, including Virginia
military and United States military land
warrants located in Ohio, shall be construed
to come within the provisions of the law for
the payment to the states of 5 per centum of
the proceeds of public lands disposed OF
within their borders, the lands to be estimated
in cash. 1t also provides that money re-
manning on the books of the treasury to the
credit of any public land states under the act
of 1886, which distributed the treasury sur
plus, shall not be charged as an offset against
any part or amount coming to the state I'M
der the bill. The bill prohibits the states
from paying any part of money received by
them to agents or attorneys for services in
procuring the passage of the act, or in con-
nection with claims of states, unless such
payments are authorized by state laws
passed after the date of the act.
HousE.-The bill to enable National
banks to extend their corporate existence
passed by vote of 125 to 67. 1t provides as
amended and passed not only for the extern
sion of the characters of the banks but for q
limitation on their power over their circula-
ton which will prevent them from contract
ing the currency at will, as they did last
spring. 1t provides as we'll that hereafter
the banks shall issue circulation to the
amount only of 80 per cent. of the par value
of the bonds deposited by them to secure
~ ofsr>,, ,,-ba, ba bonds ahovsa
and 80 per cent. of their market value when
they arebelow par.
Another Sad Lake Disaster.
Sunday morning John Cretzelo, George
orswald, George G. Knoll and Otto Gibson,
who belong to the Wolf Lake Pleasure club,
left the city for the lake near Sheffield, Ind,
to spend q day fishing. They were to have
returned Sunday night, but as they did not
their friends became alarmed and Monday
went in quest of them. Their day suits
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