The Worthington advance., 1882-03-02
IDOINGS OF CONGRESS.
sATURDAY, FEB. 18.

sATURDAY, FEB. 18.
bENATk-The senate was not In session TO.
Gay, having adjourned until Monday,
House The bill to promote the efficiency
ot me hfe-saving service was reported and the
| house went into committee Of tho whole on the
ammsdlate I'm S deficiency bill. which appropristes
The item Of deficiency for public printing esve
rise to debate. during whith Atkins stated that
ne great cost Of public printing was in great
Measure due to the extravsSanoe Of the COM
! n1ttoe on printing Of the Last oonRress
| Over the clause in the immediate deficiency
Dal appropriating $75, 900 for the construction
| OF vaults in the treasury and sub-treasuries
quite an interesting discussion arose upon the
oliver dollar question, one side stacking and the
other defending the silver dollar. The COM
5ourned.
| MONDAY, FEB. 20.
I :-s1NATR The discussion in tho senate bv
Logan and Vest Of the claims Of Grant to re-.
tiremens in the army with the rank and pay of
general, was Ii tened to with interest by full
senate and crowded galleries. The text Of the
discussion was Logans old bill, in which, d.
spite his forvid and somewhat tinged panegyric
OF to:da!, he is believed to tske y less ]ivid in
terest than OF yore, with Bayard's amendment
restoring Grant to the army, but
noE W 'ue Ietiro0 uets vests speech, care
fully prepared, flashed forth like Z Damascus
blade. Logsn's consisted in Z rehash of vi at
Ee has said before, freshened by forceful
contrast between John Po, ter and Grant Dur
ing the latter Vest somewhat disconnected him
BY quoting Grant on Porter. ''Oh well." faid
Logan somewhat pettishly, ''Grant can have
Just such opinions as he has . mind too. l
should hold my own il stood alone" No vote
| was taken.
| The PENSION arrears resolution was taken M.
and Mcpherson offered and advocated = sub
stitute declaring that the senate adhered to the
PrlnclPle mat pensions shall be computed from
the time OF disability, aud directing the PEN
sit n committee to bring in bill by which the
| business of tho pension bureau NAV be expe-
! dited and frauds detected and punished.
| Senator McMi:lian's bill for = new land Office
IN Dakota provides that the eame shall be To-
lister shall be appointed to serve for the same
compensation a. other like officers for the same
| territory.
The nomination of Henry R. Denny for mar
shall OF Minnesota was confirmed by the SEN
] ate.
Mr. Window offered bill in the senate pro-
providing for public building at Duluth.
The senate confirmed United States Mar
! shals-Thos. Boles. western district Of Arkan.
sas; Henry II. Denny, Minnesota. REGISTER of
Land Ofice-D. s. Hall. at Benson, Minnesota
Postmaster Cogswell, Ttusville.
SSS. A' OOoAA0AyS 1 A0o0&uS los 1A j. mar
non, Kankakee. Ill Jacob Hammond, Rush
vile, Ill.
Wl'l,am 81. Tucker, Senator Logan's sou-,n
aw, was nominated for major and paymsster
in the army.
HOUSE "A resolution authorizing the score.
ary OF war to grant immediate le ief by issuing
ra'ions to &c stitute citizens of Arksnsas and
Louisiana, in the Red River valley, was re-
terrell
A bill to establish district United States
courts, and officers thereof, in tie northern
aod southern judicial districts Of Georgia, was
agreed to.
A bill to promote tha efficiency Of the life
saving service aud encourage saving life from
shipwrecks passed.
The bill authorizing the payment Of the
Japanese indemnity fund, $l,77O,34O, to the
japanese government, with the exception of
f254 900, which shall be paid to the officers
and crew Of tho Uniel States ship Wyoming,
TUESDAY, FEB. 21.
SENATE senate od.y passed the bill
Thing that could be dignifed by the name Of q
debate.
The resolution introduced several weeks 400
BY Mr.. ingalls, OF Kansas, setting forth that the
srrears of pensions act ought to be repealed,
cal parties, received its quietus by the % edop-
ton Of motion to lay the subject on the table.
tho vote being 26 yeas to % nays
In the executive session, which vas precip-
itated by MIR. Voorhees,, the nomination Of r.
B. ~ Pinchback to be surveyor Of customs at
president o-day, was taken up and confirmed
after few minutes discussion.
The president has nominated the following
consuls: Joseph H. swor.s, District Of Co.
iumbia, at:Caliz; A. A. Ford, Virginia, At
Sagus; ". Il: Joleys, New York, at San Juan
Don klo
public lands, reported resolution calling on
the secretary Of the interior to report the
annual gross earnings of the Central Pacific.
Kansas Pacific, Union Pacific and Central
branch Of the Union Pacific railroads, from tn,
commencement OF operations until the presen:
time Adopted. The house then went into
committee II the whole and passed the appro-
priation bill House adjourned to Thursday.
FRIDAY, FEB. "a.
SENArE.-Mr. Bayard offered resolution
instructing the foreign relations committee TO
investigate the South American scandal Mr.,
Van Wyck spoke upon the alleged frauds in
The township survey system: Mr. Van
ernment land officers had combined to make
surveys Of worthless lands aud then use the
scrip they would get in return for depoeites
for surveys to purchase the most valuable
government lands OF the West. The deposites
amounted last year to about So, ,OOO, 600, but
mO6t O1 tuo surveys wore VSlueloo6 10 Tue gov
ernment because Of the worthlessness OF the
lands surveyed.
Mr.. Beck objected to tho $40, 900 item for
mileage to army officers, and claimed that cer-
tain trips by army officers had been taken for
purely personal reasons, and sometimes for
purposes not entirely proper. He protested
against the payment Of mi eage:to numerous Of
ticers now en- route to the capital TO attend the
Garfield memorial ON Monday. The bill finally
pasaed.
The senate confirmed the following:
Consuls-Bruno Tzchuch, Nebraska, at Vera
Cruz; Thomas Wilson, District of Columbis,
at Nantez; Geo. Clifford. Maine, at La Rochelle.
Theodore D. Wilson, New York, chief Of the
bureau Of construction and repair Of the navy
senate adjourned to Monday.
HoUsE-A resolution similar to that of SEN
tor Bayard referred to, offered by Mr.. Kasson,
was adopted, and the house passed several bills
on the private calendar:
POSTOFFICE CHANGES
During tho Weok Ending February IL, 1882,
MINNESOTA.
Name chanRedADAlston. Yellow Medicine county.