Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-01-26

based based thereon in lieu of national bank cur:
in conclusion he was not welded to
had mo- persona Interest n It. nnt
believed it supplied the best form of banking
ever devised by man. and one now being cop
led by other nations. The President pro TEN.
announced as Il specia! committee on rights
OF women: Lapham, Anthony. Ferry, Blair,
trodneed bin providing for the retirement
Years any Gr unsra in who served fifty
Gongres In the House ar MI Hoos orth IS
resolution instructing the Committee
on Civil Service reform to inquire into the ex-
pediency of providing mode different from
the present for the Appointment of commit
tees of the House. with leave to report at any
Mr. Haskell then rose to a question of priv.
lege and sent to the Clerks desk resolution
declaring it to be the fixed and final deter
mination of the Forty seventh Congress
that no persons maintaining poiygamous
marital relations, or teaching or melting 9TH
ers to do so, be admitted to the House of Rep
resentatives as delegate from any Territory.
After debate. by vote of yeas 1903, nays 139,
the House determined that no question of
privilege was involved in the resolution.
THE Senate bill for bridge across the
Missouri, near st. Charles, passed, 18th, with
amendments. The Sherman bill was dis
cussed by Messrs. Garland, Allison. Vest. and
Plumb-the latter renewing his amendment
treasury for the redemption of United States
notes in excess of 100000 1000 in the redemp
ton of 81 per cents, such redemption to be
made in not less than three installmentS, said
sum of 500 000, 900 so left in the Treasury not
to be increased or diminished except in re-
demption of United States notes. Laid over
Mr. Brown offered a resolution declaring it
inexpedient and unwise to contract the cur
rency by Withdrawal aI from cremation OF
discontinue further restrict silver COIN
age; that gold or silver coin based upon
metals, and issues of paper predicated upon
and convertible into coin on demand, consti
eotH ehe ofer s OF
House passed the Census appropriation bill
$4,000.
THE Senate, on the 10th, passed the Cen
sus deficiency bill. When Mr.. Ingalis's reso-
luton that the Pensions Arrears act ought not
| to be repealed came up, Mr.. Voorhees,
said the denunciatiOns of the act by the press
of the country, and particularly by prominent
organs of ali kinds of corporation wealth,
were made without the slightest basis tor
of these denunciations by members of the
| Senate had filed him with amazement and
should make good his allegations against the
Pensions Arrears act its supporters would
Shame ne eamed hea shat
was work of justice on the part of the
Government. dictated by duty and paNe
| ism. The only question raised was whether
/ the payment of a pension should date from
| the wOunding, disease or death of a soldier, or
| should not commence until he had spent ff-
| teen or sixteen years in hunting up proofs of
| the fact of his wounds or disease. He secuted
| as absurd the charge that claim agents pro-
| cured passage of the act; the frauds COM
mitted were trivial in amount compared with
| that in popular imagination: Nh: Beck said
| that in the passage of the bill both Houses of
| Congress were imposed upon by pension
claims agents. who devised the scheme for
| their benefit. and that if its actual cost had
| been foretold or in any way indicated at the
| time the bill would not have received the sup
| port OF any of the members who voted for it.
lie gave an outline of the progress of the bill,
! showing had passed the House under n
pension of the rules which cut off debate;
| that the measure passed was not the one
| recommended by the committee, but one that
| had not been before the committee; that the
| question was passed for action upon the eve
| of adjournment, when members were going
| home for election and were indisposed to
vote against a proposition which upon its
| face had only a patriotic object. The bill, al
though not understood, was allowed to pass
buttons would be equivalent to telling the
| House that it might as well cease to consider
| all notifications of the law, as the Senate had
| committed itself against them. Mr.. Ingalls,
eff a majority of members think, with the
Senator that the Arrears bill was fraud and
that every man who voted for it was an
| ton will be given the House to pass their
| bill" Mr.. Cameron (Pa.) spoke upon the
| his pending resolution declaring II hAyyssii-
| ent to reduce the revenue by abolisIfing all
existing internal rev d ds taxes EXCEPT those
the House, Mr.. Rcbeson called up priv
| legged question the report of the Committee
on Rules, increasing the membership on the
various committees. A point of order and
| the question of consideration being raised, it
was decided not to consider the question of
privilege Bills were introduced: By Mr..
Parsons-To define the crime of bigamy; by
| Mr.. MISUNDERSTANDING fractional paper
currency; by Mr. McCord-Makins four years
power to act in case of death or disabilts of
the President or Vice President: by Mr. Bur-
rows-To retire national bank notes.