The patron of husbandry., 1882-01-28

propriate and expend the entire income de.
rived from internal revenue taxes on the
| manufacture and sale of distillers' spirits for
| States. 1t provides that the national school
/ fand thus created shall be distributed among
the several States and Territories pro
rata, according to census statistics of
| illlteracy, but prohibits any State or Terri
tory from receiving proposed benefits which
/ does not provide by local enactment th at all
cnildrrn between the ages of Z and I2 wears shall
1 attend school at least six months each wear.
Mr.. Hoar's pending resolution for select
com mmittee on the rights of woman to whom
| are to be re erred all petitions and resolves
/ relating TO woman suffrage, was adopted by
/ vote OF 35 to 23. \ message was read from the
/ ffeS dent, transmitting various papers re-
| latlng to n bill providing for the right of wav
/ through the Indian Territory for the St. Louis
| Y SAN Francisco Railroad. Ordered printed
| On motion of Mr.. sherman, his bill to pro-
vide Tor the issue of g -per-centum bonds was
! taken up without a formal vote. Mr.. Vest
t offered am amendment, which was ordered
/ printed, adding to the bill section identical
with the fifth or compulsory, vetoed az per
cent. bin of last session, but modit1ed to COW
/ er provisions tor 5000 900 000 1t makes bonds
/ the sole basis for circulation. Mr. sherman
said that in view OF the very full discussion of
/ the general propositions of the bill in debates
/ upon the vetoed measure. and aS he believed
/ every senator had made. up his mind on it,
/ he would confine himself to a brief statement
/ OF a few facts, and hoped before the day end
/ ed decisive vote would be taken and the
/ Bill passed or defeated. The bill presented
except as to details, purely business ques-
/ ton, whether it was advisable not to place
| at a lower rate, at any time. any part of the
/ debt that now stands -redeemable at
| the pleasure of the Governments Mr.
Bayard spoke of the exceptionally fa-
| vorable condition of the Government with
reference to its currency at this time, and
! questioned the confidence of holders in the
i security of the bonds He was averse to as
sunlng any risk that would tend to disturb
this security, even for the sake of apparent
/ reduction of of / per cent in interest.
Amendments to the bill reported by the COM
mittce were agreed to- Messrs. Mcpherson
and Beck exchanged views, and then Mr. Vest
| secured the floor, whereupon the Senate went
into executive session. Chief among the
large number of bills introduced in the House
We're measures for suppression of polygamy
! have the right to vote directly for Presidt MT
and Vice President; defining the law of in
sanity in criminal cases; providing q sound
| and uniform paper currency.
| IN the Senate, Jan. 10, Mr.. Dawes, from
the Committee on Indian Affairs, reported a
bill to accept and ratify agreements submit
| ted by the Grow Indians of Montana. Mr..
! Bayard, OF the Finance Committee, reported, /,
! with a recommendation that it pass. the Nor
/ rili Tariff Commission BIN; and also, with
| adverse report, the Garland Commission bill
/ Mr. Beck opposed the bin as a cunning
scheme OF mOnopOlists for the delay to which
| they had resorted not only as a means of pre-
venting legislation by the present Congress-
/ but of whitewashing all the enormities of the
/ high protective system. Mr.. Morrill, replied
| to Mr.. Beck, after which the Sherman fund
| ing bill came uD...-..The House resumed
| consideration Of thet Utah contested election
case, the pending resolution. being that Of
| fered by Mr.. Haskell, declaring Allen G.
Campbell, delegate elect from Utah, entitled
| to be swo as delegate on his prima facie
! case Mr.. Reed offered substitute reso-
| luton referring to the Committee Elec-
tlons the question on the prima facie right
as between Campbell and Cannon, TO be
| sworn in. together with all certificates and
| papers presented on each side, with instruc-
tions to that committee to report at as early a
day as possible. Adopted-169 to "a.
THE Sherman funding bill came under
consideration Jan. llth Mr.. Vest referred to
the act remonetizing silver, and suggested
the propriety of the purchase by the Govern
ment OF all the silver bullion it could get issu-
ing Government notes or silver certificates
based thereon in lieu of national bank cur
rency. Mr.. Sherman replied, saying
=. in conclusion he was not welded to
the national banking system, and
had no personal interest in it, but
believed it supplied the best form of banking
ever devised by man, and one now being cop
led by other nations. The President pro tenn.
announced as special committee on rights
OF Q women: Lapham, Anthony, Ferry, Blair,
troduced bill providing for the retirement
of any person who served fifty
years or upward in either House of
Congress. ss......In the House Mr. Orth's
resolution instructing the Committee
on Civil Service reform to inquire into the eX-
pediency of providing q mode different from
the present for the appointment of commit
| tees of the House, with leave to report at any
time, was reIefreu 10 committee on Rules.
MIR. Haskell then rose to a question of privi-
| Iege and sent to the Clerks desk a resolution
declaring it to be the fixed and final deter
minatiOn of the Forty seventh Congress
| that no persons maintaining polygamous
| marital relations or teaching or melting 9TH
crs 10 do 50, be admitted to the House of Rep
! resentatis es rs a delegate from any Territory.
/ After debate by a vote of yeas 100, nays l39,
the House determined that no question OF
privilege was involved in the resolution.
THE Senate bin for a bridge across the
Missouri, near st. Charles passed, 18th, with
amendments. The sherman bill was dis
cussed by AIessrs. Garland, Allison. Vest, and
| Plumb-the latter renewing his amendment
! requiring the use of all funds now in the
! Treasury for the redemption of United States
notes in excess of $l00, ,000 900 in the redemp-
| tiOn of So per cents, such redemption to be
! made in not less than three installments, said
! sum of 500, 600 600 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 1t
| ineNpedient and unwise to contract the cur
| rency by a withdrawal from circulation OF
! what are known as silver certificates, or to
discontinue or further restrict silver coin
/ age; that gold or silver coin based upon
! proper rates of equivalent between the two
| metals, and issues of paper predicated upon
! and convertible into coin on demand, consti-
| tute the proper circulating medium of this
! country. Laid over temporarily. The
House passed the Census appropriation bill
| S54O 600.