Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-06-28
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.



mittee the bill introduced by him, to provide
for the performance of the duties OF the Office
of President, in case of removal. DEATH resig-
nation or inability of both the President and
vice president. Ordered printed and recon-
mltted l.. The house bill to regulate the car
riage of passengers by sea was passed without
dissent. The joint resolution re-appropriat-
ing $375,O00, voted in 1877, to pay southern
mail contractors, passed III amended form. +.
The house bill to extend the charters of ma
tional banks came up and action was taken on
several amendments. A message was received
from the President, transmitting from the sec
rotary of the interior the draft of a bill to en-
large the Pawnee Indian reservation, Indian
Territory Adjourned.
TUESDAY, June 20.-The house Joint resolu-
ton authorizing the secretary of the war to
erect at WashlngtOn's headquarters, Newburg,
n. Y, memorial column. and to aid in defray-
ing the expenses of the centennial celebration
to be held in that city in 1888, was passed.
The house amendments to tbs bill for the eX-
animation and report upon the claims Of Texas.
Colorado, Oregon and Other states, with certain
territories, for Indebtedness assumed in repel-
ling invasions and suppressing Indian hosti1ties,
were concurred in. The house bill to enable
national banks to extend their corporate exist
ence was taken up and discussed Until adjourn
ment.
WEDNESDAY, June decentralization 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 the issue of gold certificates.
The pending amendment to allow silver certif-
Gates as well as new gold certificates to be
counted by the national banks IS 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
iron iohl of
! States notes falls below 800, 900, 000 After
remarks the motion prevailed amended at the
| instance of ingalls, so as to absoutely prohibit
certificates being issued III the contingency
named. Cook offered and advocated an amend
ment requiring that silver certificates be &C
cepted in settlement of clearing house 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.
| THURSDAY, June 22.-The president pro te11
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 as
state, with copy Of the proposed constitution.
The joint resolution appropriating $33, 900
to continue Arctic explorations on or near the
| shores of Lady Franklin Bay. and scientific OBJ
servation at Point Barrow, Alaska, during 1885,
was passed -. Window introduced a bill ap
propriating $125.000 for a public building at
Winona, Mimi. -. The senate bill granting the
Mississippi, Albuquerque q Inter Ocean Rail-
way Company the right-of-way through the
Indian Territory, was 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 81, nays
| 10.
FRIDAY, June 23.-Tbe house bill to accept
| and ratlfy the agreement with the ShoshOne
and Banuock Indians for q sale of portion Of
their reservation in Idaho, required for Utah
and the Northern railroad, and to make the
necessary appropriation for carrying out the
same was passed. Senate bills passed. grant
| ing condemned cannon to organizations at Vim
| cennes, Ind, Marshalltown, Iowa, IroDton,
/ Ohio, Council Bluffs Iowa, and Danvllle, Ill.
-. The house resolutions commemorative of
Representative Allen, of Missouri, were re-
ceive0, and after impressive remarks upon his
! life and services, by Messrs. Cockrell, Dawes,
Brown and Vest the usual resolutions were
adopted. Adjourned til Monday.
House.
| MONDAY, June 19.-Bills introduced: To
abolish internal revenue tax on tobacco, snuff.
of obstruction bridges In this case) CT naviga-
BILE waters of the United States; establishing an
! international peace commission to consist of
nine members who shall serve ten years; to
prevent discrimination in transportation over
| Pacific railroads. The pension appropriation
bill appropriating 800, COO, 900 passed under
suspension of the rules. The rules were sus-
pended and the bill passed authorizing the
secretary of the treasury until the LIST of July,
1884, to receive trade dollars upon presenta-
| ton. and give in exchange standard silver dol
lars, and repeating all laws authorizing the
coinage of the trade dollar. The bill to regu-
late immigration passed-110 to Is. 1t pro-
v1des that there shall be paid duty of fifty
cents for each passenger not citizen OF the
| United States who shall come by vessel from
| foreign port to any port within the United
| states. The duty to be paid to the collector of
customs of the port to which the passenger will
| come, or, if there be no collector at such port,
then to the collector of customs nearest there
to, by the master, owner, agent, or conslgnee
of every such vessel within twenty-four hours,
| after the entering thereof into such port.
The bill to establish bureau of animal indus
try, and to prevent the expectation of diseased
cattle and the spread of infectious and cOnta-
gious diseases among domestic animals was
passed under suspended rules. :. Adjourned.
TUESDAY, June 20.-The house-yeas 154,
nays 30-passed the senate bill authorizing the
secretary of the treasury to examine and report
to congress the amount of all the claims of the
states of Texas, Colorado, Oregon, Nebraska,
California, Kansas and Nevada, and the terri
tories of Washington and Idaho, on account OF
money expended and Indebtedness incurred in
repelling invasion and suppressing Indian hos
t1ities. Young introduced q bill providing
that after the LIST of October, 1882 there shall
be levied and collected on all distilled spirits
tax of SO cents on each proof gallon, or wine
gallon, when below proof; that after the 31st
of July, 1882, there shall be paid, on all beer,
lager beer, ale, porter and similar fermented
liquors, tax of so cents for any barrel con-
tanning not more than thirty-one gallons, and
that the commissioner of internal revenue shall
hereafter allow reduction of 719 per cent. on
all stamps sold to brewers. and used by them IN
their business. The bill approprlatlng $780,
600 for an extension of the executive mansion
was passed. The bill to fix the day for the
meeting of electors for president and vice
president Ca substitute for the senate bll) and
provide for and regulate the counting of votes
and to decide questions arising thereon was
taken up. An amendment by Brown striking
from the bill sections providing for the AUDI
cation of tba nresidentia1 title bY judicial