The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-02-16

/ savings Repositories AZ branch NJ The post
Office department Placed on The house
| calendar, ....
a biil for tie erection Of public buldlng'
/ NJ Lynolibufg, virginia was repqfled lfdlil
| the committee on public buildings hntl
grounds, aud referred 10 the committee ol
/ The whole
AZ the conclusion Of the morning hour
! the house resumed consideration of the bil
| authorizing the pOstmaster.gcncrnl To ~.
| lust claims Of pOsimasters Tor losses ny
burglary, fire or other unavoidable casual.
| ties. The bill confines the Jurisdiction OF
the postmaster general to claims when
may arise hereafter or which have
arisen within the past six years, but on
motion of Robinson, of Massachusetts, this
limitation was increased to ten years The
bill, rs amended, was passed ,,
Consideration of the apportionment Dill
was then resumed.
Mills, of Texas, submitted an amendment
fixing the number of representatives NJ
3J1.
After several members had spoken the
matter went over Tor the present and the
Sherman funding bill was taken from the
speakers table and referred TO the commit
tee on ways and means.
At o'clock public business was sns-
pended and the house proceeded to pay its
last tribute of respect to the late NJ. L.
O'Connor, OF South Carolina.
Eulogies were delivered by Dibble, OF
South Carolina Randall, of Pennsylvania
Bowman, of Massachusetts; Maginness, of
Montana; Lindsay, Of Maine; Hooper, OF
Pennsylvania; Ellis, Of Louisiana; Robin
son, Of New York and Evans, of South
Carolina, and then at 4:3O p. m, out of re-
spect to the memory of deceased, the house
adjourned.
| CONTRIBUTIONS.
mat 10 nj
+. A. Vaughan as collector of customs,
Salurio, Texas II. &. Atwood, OF Lou
is-ana consul at Trinidad, and I. W. Thur
man, postmaster at Griffin, Georgia.
WAsHINGToN, February 0.-Bills were
troduced as follows
BY Mr. COkc-For the erection Of public
buildings at Brownsville, Texas.
By Mr. Grover-Proyidn for the cree
ton of public buildings, for the organization
| of the district of South Alaska, and provid-
ing q civil government therefor,
Mr.. Harris moved to lay aside the. Irregular
order of the calendar TO take up his resolu-
ton appointing Neal S. Brown, ir., of Ten
nessee, to perform the duties of chief clerk
of the senate, the present chief clerk per-
forming the duties of secretary.
Mr.. Mcmillan demanded the yeas and
nays, when the resolution was defeated on
! party WOKE ny IL tle-S cas-, ~, nay 80
| President pro tenn. Davis voted aye with the
democrats, and Mr.. Brown voted no with
the republicans. Mr.. Malone also voted no
with the republicans.
The senate then proceeded to consider
the bill on the calendar under the new An
thOnv rule, which sets apart the interval
between the close of the usual morning
| business and 1870 o'clock each day for legis
ton, reported from the committees, to which
there is no objection.
| The only bills CONSIDERED were several OF
private interest.
Unfinished business being the resolution
declaring that the pension arrears law
should not be repealed, was taken up
Mr.. Plumb referred to the argument upon
which the law was predicated, and spoke
of the injustice and unfairness of the repeal
to those who had filed claims. He thought
the position assumed by Senators Vest and
Butler one that did them honor, as they had
| been regarded as representing large class
peculiarly hostile to our wa" veterans.
| Mr.. Call submitted an amendment to the
resolution tavoring pensions for the. needy
and disabled survivors of the Indian wars
prior to 1915, including the Black Hawk,
Creek and Seminole wars.
| Mr.. Brown said that as many union sol.
| ders had already received the benefit of the
law and as it would do injustice to many
others equally meritorious, and show, a lack
of consideration, it was now too late to
question the wisdom of the law.
| The south, for various reasons,
cared not 10 agtate the question,
but the unanimous sentiment on the sub
| ect was welcomed by him as most graft
| flying evidence of harmony and fraternity
prevailing between once hostile sections,
Mr.. Maxey expressed his dissent from the
| doctrine that because few OF the survivors
| of the old wars were not in independent
circumstances their fortunate brethren
should for that reason be deprived of gov
ernment aid. Mr.. Aaxey was interrupted
| by the arrival of the hour @ o'clock) fixed
for the encomium upon late Representative
Michael Z. O'Conner, of South Carolina.
| The pension arrears resolution was ac-
cordingly laid aside as unfinished business,
and encomlums upon the character ana
| services of the deceased member were pro-
nounced by Senators Butler, Bayard, Jones,
| of Florida and Hampton. After the
| adoption of appropriate resolutions the
senate, as a testimonial of respect, at $3.50 p.
m, adjourned.
| After the introduction of q number OF
| bills. the house resumed consideration OF
| the apportionmentb bill.
| Cobb, OF Indiana, from the committee on
public lands, reported back resolution
calling on the secretary of the interior for
| information as to the names OF all railroads
to which the government has granted lands,
amount of lands granted to each, ETC.
Adopted
The house then resumed consideration OF
| apportionment bill.
Davidson, of Florida, attacked Seaton' $
method of anportionment, contending that
under it New York with population nine
teen times as large as that of florida, was
given three times as many representa-
tives.
| Dihbla of South Carolina criticized Sea.
toms method, pointing out what he consid
cred to be a great error in the system EN-
ployed BY the committee ia apportioninG
representation. The committee must take
into consideration the fact that the popula
ton of Nevada and Delaware fell below