Iron County register., 1882-02-16
FORTY-SEyENTH CONGRESS.

WHEN the three percent. bond bill was
reached in the Senate, Feb. 1st, Mr.. Morgan
advocated, as additional section an
amendment as follows: That the agreement
made with the holders of bonds of the United
States since the adjournment of the Forty
sixth Congress by which the rate of interest
on such bonds is reduced to 81 per-
centum per annum is hereby fully ratified
and confirmed according to the terms and in
tent of said agreement The amendment was
modified and adopted without vote. as also
the provision offered by Mr.. Davis, of West
Virginia, declaring that nothing in the act
shall be so construed as to authorize the in '
crease of the public debt. The bill was then
reported from Committee of the Whole
and, the question being upon agree
ing to the amendments as whole,
Mr.. Sherman asked tor q separate vote
upon Mr.. Plumb's amendment applying the
plus revenues over 500 000, 900 to the reduc-
tion OF the public debt. He said if the propo-
sition was not stricken out he and others who
had acted with him would be compelled to
| vote against the bill House concurrent res
oIution fixing the 9th of February as the day
for the Garfield memorial services was con
bill occupied the House, but no action was
taken.
| FURTHER discussion of Mr.. Plumb's
| amendment to the three-per- cent bond bill
| in the Senate, Feb. ,, resulted in its rejection
yeas %, nays q. Debate followed ON the
amendment proposed by Mt. Ingalls, and
moditied modified 90 by Mr.; Hoar, , which was wa;
words which are hereby declared
vald'' in the first section, making the section
read ''that the Secretary of the Trea sury is
hereby authorized to receive at the Treasury
and at the office OF any. Assistant Treasurer OF
the United States, and at any postal money
order office, lawful money of the United States
to the amount of $50, or any multiple of that
sum, on any bonds of the United States bear
ing So per cent interest. which are hereby
declared valid, and to issue in exchange
therefor an equal amount of registered or
ham U'a) advocated an amendment to the
Post office bill increasing by 100000 the ap
preparation for expenses of the free delivery
system, urging its extension and an increase
of salary to letter carriers.
FEB. 5, the Senate took action on the
Saunders bill to extend the northern boun-
Diary of the State of Nebraska. Mr. Edmunds
thought the act should he subject to all the
limitations pertaining to the original act for
the admission of Nebraska into the
Union. The only point that now occurred to
him was in reference to the free navigation
| of the Missouri River He offered an amend
Adopted. The bill then passed. Mr..
Hawley's amendment to the funding bill, linn
iting. Withdrawals of bank circulation, under
the fourth section of the act OF 1874 to s. 1000,
600 per month, and requiring thirty days pre-
vlous notice thereof, was adopted,
aote aoa of ahe IS to S, 49, "1 The pf5Ifd 6i
ating 100000 for a site for War DEPARTMENT.
buildins as amended d in committee. WAS aS6
releasing the Philadelphia & Reading Rail
way Company from the tax assessed on wages
back unfavorably and tabled-l0) to 10 4
motion to adjourn till Monday rejected
yeas l04, nays los.
THE Post office appropriation bill excited
sharp debate in the House on the 4th, but
no action was taken on any Of the pending
amendments. .....
FEB. 6, the Senate resumed consideration
of Mr. Ingalls's resolution declaring that the
Pension Arrears law ought not to be repealed,
Mr. ingalls, moved to modify the amendment
declaring in favor of soldiers of the
American war so as to limit it to needy
not aware of the proportions which the
casualty list reached during the war. The
grand total of pensionable cases on the rolls
of the War Department was 6-0,5i5. Since
1861 1864 pensions had been granted by
ason of death or disabilities, SO there were
still 3SSl pensionable cases on which
no applications at all had ever been
made. This was a conclusive an,
been swollen by fraud, and we may hereafter
| look for very large accessions to the rolls
without any presumption of fraud as to the
aggregate of cases placed there Without
action the resolution vas laid a: aside n for
fe6Sseutiye f6s session: .kepresentative Bur,
catfo caton Of Territorial deegafes asS
Rep! esentatives. 1t provides th;fs-iio person
guilty of bigamy or pOlygamy shall be eigi-
bic to a seat in Congress as delegrate from q
Territory, The House was in very inatten-
tive mood, and when the Speaker put the
question there were few responses He, how
ever, declared the motion carried and the bill
passed. 4 burst of laughter only theu
apprised many members of the measure
which had been adopted. a motion for the
appointment of a commission on the subject
OF alcoholic liquor traffic failed to receive the
necessary two thirds.