Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-06-28
FoRTY-sEvENTH CONGRESS.
Senate

MONDAY, June 19.-George introduced bill
Ippropriating 800, 900 for public building at
7icksburg. ;. .Hoar, from the judiciary commit
ee reported as substitute for the resolutions 80
nittee the bill introduced by him, to provide
'or the performance of the duties of the Office
# President, in case of removal. death, resig-
nation or inability of both the President and
ice president. Ordered printed and recon-
nitted. The house bill to regulate the car
:iage Of passengers by sea was passed without
dissent. :. The joint resolution re-appropriat-
ing $375, 900, voted in 1877, to pay southern
mail contractors, passed in amended form....
The house bill to extend the charters of ma
honal banks came up and action was taken on |
several amendments. (. . "A message was received !
from the President, transmitting from the Sec |
retary Of the interior the draft Of bill to en-
large the Pawnee Indian reservation, Indian
Territory. Adjourned.
TUESDAY,, June 2O.-The house joint resolu-
ton authorizing the secretary of the war to
erect at Washington's headquarters, Newburg,
N. Y, a memorial column, and to aid in defray
ing the expenses of the centennial celebration
to be held in that city in 1883, WAS passed.
The house amendments to the bill for the ex-
Colorado, Oregon and other states, with certain
territories, for Indebtedness assumed in repel-
ling invasions and suppressing Indian hostihties,
were concurred in. The house bill to enable
national banks to extend their corporate exist
ence was taken up and discussed until adjourn
msut.
WEDNESDAY, June 21.-Consideration was re-
sumed of the house bill to enable national
banking associations to extend their corporate
existence. The section before the senate was
on authorizing tho issue of gold certificates.
The pending amendment to allow silver cerdG-
Gates as well as new gold certificates to be
counted by the national banks as part of their
lawful reserve, and to be used in the settlement
of clearing house balances, was adopted with
out debate. Aldrich moved to allow the secre-
tary of the treasury, in his discretion, to sus-
pend the issue Of gold certificates whenever the
amount of gold coin and gold bullion in the
treasury available for redemption of United
States notes falls below 1O0,000,000. After
remarks the motion prevailed, amended at the
instance of Ingalls, SO as to absolutely prohibit
certificates being issued in the contingency
named. Cook offered and advocated an amend
ment requiring that silver certificates be ac-
cepted in settlement of clearing-hou bal
ances. Upon the suggestion of Pugh, the
amendment was modified SO as to read that no
national bank shall become member Of any
clearing house in which silver certificates shall
not be receivable in settlement OF clearing
house balances. 1t was then passed-yeas 29,
nays 20. Beck offered a provision forbidding
the practice of certifying checks when the
dealer has no equal amount of funds on de-
post. This provision was somewhat modified
and adopted. Adjourned.
TnURsDAY, June 22.-The president pro tenn
presented communication from Joseph F.
Smith, president of the convention of citizens
Of Utah, transmitting an application for the
admission Of that TERRITORY into the union IS
state, with copy of the proposed constitution.
-. The joint resolution appropriating $9S, 900
to continue Arctic explorations on or near the
shores of Lady Franklin Bay, and scientific OBJ
servation at Point Barrow, Alaska, during 1883,
was passed >. Window introduced bill ap.
propriating $125,O00 for public building al
Winona, Mimi; The senate blu granting the
way Company the right-of-way through the
Indian Territory, vas passed. The house bill
to enable national banks to continue their ex-
istence came up. Several amendments were
voted down and the bill passed-yeas "a, nays
13.
FRIDAY, June 29.-The house bill to accept
and ratify the agreement with the Shoshone
and Banuock Indians for q sale of portion OF
their reservation in Idaho, required for Utat
| necessary appropriation for carrying out the
| same was passed. Senate bills passed, grant
| ing condemned cannon to organizations at Vim
cennes, Ind, MarshalNown, Iowa, Ironton
Ohio, Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Danville, Ill
| 80. The house resolutions, commemorative O.
nepIcscuLdtlVe AlcIs VI AlS6OuIA, WcIo Ic
ceived, and after impressive remarks upon hi
life and services, by Messrs. Cockrell, Dawes
Brown and Vest, the usual resolutions wer'
| adopted. Adjourned til Monday.
MONDAY, June 19.-Bils introduced: tt
abolish internal revenue tax on tobacco, snuff
cigars and cigarettes, authorizing the remova
of obstruction (bridges in this case) cf naviga
| ;kolO
| international peace commission to consist O
nine members who shall serve ten years; t
prevent discrimination in transportation owe
! Pacific railroads. The pension appropriation
bill appropriating $1O0, COO, 900 passed unde
suspension of the rules. The rules were sua
pended and the bill passed authorizing tn
secretary of the treasury until the list of July
tion, and give in exchange standard silver dol
lars, and repeating all laws authorizing th
coinage of the trade dollar >. The bill to regu
late immigration passed-110 to 16. 1t pre-
v1des that there shall be paid duty of fit
cents for each passenger not citizen of tn
United States who shall come BY vessel from
foreign port to any port within the Unite'
states. The duty to be paid to the collector o
customs of the port to which the passenger vii
come, or, il there be no collector at such port
then to the collector of customs nearest there
to, by the master, owner, agent, or conslgne
of every such vessel within twenty hours
after the entering thereof into such port. :.
The bill to establish bureau OF animal indus
try, and to prevent the expectation of disease
cattle and the spread of infectious and conta
gious diseases among domestic animals wa
passed under suspended rules. Adjourned.
TUESDAY, June 2O.-The house-yeas 154
nays 3O-passed the senate bill authorizing tn
secretary of the treasury to examine and repol
to congress the amount Of all the claims Of tn
states Of Texas, Colorado, Oregon, Nebraska
California, Kansas and Nevada and the terri
tories Of Washington and Idaho, on account Q
money expended and Indebtedness incurred
repelling invasion and suppressing Indian hos
tiIities. -. Young introduced bill providin
that after the LIST of October, 1882 there shal
be levied and collected on all distilled spirits
tax of SO cents on each proof gallon, or win
gallon, when below proof; that after the 31s
Of July, 1882, there shall be paid, on all beer
liquors, a tax of 80 cents for any barrel cor
tanning not more than thirty-one gallons, an
that The commissioner of internal revenue sha
hereafter allow a reduction of 715 per cent. Q
all stamps sold to brewers, and used by them
their business. The bill appropriating $500
600 for an extension OF the executive mansio
was passed. The bill to fix the day for th
meeting of electors for president and vic
president Ga substitute for the senate billy an
provide for and regulate the counting Of vot<
and to decide questions arising thereon WI
taken up. An amendment by Brown strikin
from the bill sections providing for the ajud
cation Of the presidential title by judici'
tribunal was agreed to. The bill as amende
was then rejected-yeas 93, nays 100. Al
journed.
\ WEDNESDAY, June M.--Reagan, rising to
question of privilege, stated that the bill passe
Monday "to regulate immigration" was nj
} in the shape in which it was intended to pa
} it. The committee of commerce had intende
} to pass substitute for the original bill, but
mistake the wrong draft had been sent to Il
clerks desk. A resolution was adopted reques
ing the senate to return the bill to the hous
The bill, as passed, charges the cost Of returl
ing paupers, criminals, ETC., to the nation
which they belong, while the substitute charg
it to the steamship companies bringing the
over. On motion of McCord. Qowa) . b
was passed authorizing the Rock Island
Southwestern Railroad Company to construct
bridge across. the Mississippi River at Ne
Boston, Illinois. :. The house then went into
committee of the whole on the bill to redu
internal revenue taxation. A large number
amendments were submitted and read for
formation. The committee rose without actio