Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-01-20
CONGRESSIONAL
THURSDAY. Jan. II.

THURSDAY, JAS. II.
S,ndte-A resolution was submitted directing a
special committee on w.man suffrage in Utah
and to report bill to sunul any existing law
eerterrng the right Cf suffrage upon women in
that territory The resolution went over
Sen. Brown offered resolution that it is mex
pedient and unwise to control the currency by the
withdrawal from circulation of what is known as
silver certificates. discontinue or further re-
strict the silver coinage further than gold and
silver coin based upon the proper notes, equiv
alent between the two metals and the issues Of
paper predicated upon and convertible.
Sen. ingalls,, having been detained away since
the reassembling OF congress, to-day took the
floor 10 defend the of pension act
which attacked by Sen Beck in his speech
the other day. ingalls, said if there was any
thing wrong in the act in its passage Beck
should have opposea its passage. He offered
resolution declaring il to be the sense of the SEN
ate that the of the pension act should not
be repealed. Beck asked that the resolution lie
over, SAYING he would endeavor to present some
facts showing that the act passed under all
sorts of Misrepresentation. ingalls, gave notice
that he would, on everv occasion that he could
get the floor, ask for his vote on his resolution.
Houss.-A bill was introduced to repeal the tax
on bank deposits, the stamp tax on bank checks
and reduce the circulation of national banks.
Also for the appointment Of a committee on the
inter-Oceanic canal, and foreign inland transpor-
taton, 10 which shall be referred all measures rel
alive to those subjects; also to amend the rules so
as to refer 10 the committee on the improvement
of the navigation of the Mississippi river all mat
tiers relative thereto.
4 resolution was introduced calling on the sec
retary of the interior for the following infor-
nation: II all pensions arising from the war of
the rebellion shall be sdjudicated within seven
years. terminating il June 1855, and if at the
snd of that period the survivors of the war with
Mexico and their widowers shall be pensioned at
the rate of eight dollars per month; what appro-
priation will be required TO annually pension
them during the next twenty-five years. Re
ferred.
The speaker laid before the house letter from
the secretary OF the treasury, enclosing an esti-
mate in the deficiency of the census appropriation
amour ing TO $500. Referred.
Adjourned till Monday.
MONDAY. JAN. 10.
.Seadtc.-Sen. Logan introduced bin to pay
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln arrears of pension for the
five years intervening the death Of her husband
and the passage Of the act granting the pension
the estimated total being 81 .000 and asked i'm
mediate action.
Sen Blair Of the pension committee suggested
the reference of the measure to that committee
as ii was perfecting a more comprehensive bill
which included this case and that Of Mrs. Gar
field The bill was so referred
The senate then took -p ingalls, resolution.
seeking arrears Of pensions
Sen voorhees,, Of Indiana. the champion Of the
soldiers cause, made ringing speech in support
of the resolution Explaining the features Of the
bill formerly passed he said, if soldiers broken
down with disease and wounds, had been slow IN
presenting their claims and have allowed the Eve
year limit 70 pass without doing 50 be would still
be permitted to prove his injuries and receive bis
pension from the time he was discharged from
the army on that account 1t Is said to the SOL
dier's widow, that, though penury and ignorance
might have prevented her from asserting the
right for years, We, the government would still
make annual payments to her from the day and
hour when the husband sealed his neasureless de-
yotiOn 20 that government with death
Hosse.-Under a cal OF the states q large
number Of bills were introdnced Of which the fol-
lowing the most important:
To repeal the law imposing a tar On deposits