Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-19
CONGRESSIONAL.
AospAv. JAS.e.

For the deposit of silver bullion in the ,,Ss.,.
Of the United States, and the issue Of e.rt6cars.
therefor; for the organization of the territory 81
Oklahoma; for the creation Of body Of parlis.
msntary attorneys.
resolution for special committee on woman
suffrage passed.
On motion of Sen. Sherman, his bill to provide
for the issue Of 5 per cent. bonds was taken mn
and without a formal vote Vest offered nm amend
ment, which was ordered printed adding 10 tha
bill section identical with the fifth or compul.
sorry section which vetoed the 3 per cent bill al
the last session. but is modified to cover he nro.
vision for two hundred millions. 1t makes bonds
the sole basis for bank circulation.
Sen Sherman spoke mt length in advocacy of
the bill. Other majors joined in the debate pro
and con.
The amendments to the bill reported BY the
committee were agreed to.
Sen. Vest here secured the floor, and the senate
went into executive session and soon afterwards
adjourned
House Bills were introduced and referred as
follows: For the repeal of the duty on salt.
printing paper and type; providing that the du-
ties on sugar be assessed the quantity declared
from instead of the quantity delivered into bond
ed warehouses; for the distribution of free vac
cine matter to the people; making polygamy
disqualification Tor office In territories to reduce
letter postage to two cents; to restore the public
domain land granted to the Northern Pacific Rail
way company, because of the failure to comply
with its charter, by an act of congress making the
grant; granting 1850 acres OF land to every volun-
teer officer, musician and private who served three
years in the army of the late war; to equalize the
pension; to repeal the arrears-of pension act.
TUESDAY, JAs. 10.
House.-Mr. Haskell stated that he desired to
offer resolution giving certain Instructions to the
committee on elections in case the matter was re-
ferred to it. 1t was read as follows
WHEREAS, Polygamy has been for many years
and is new, practced in several territories of the
United States in contrayenion of the laws thereof
(sec. 1852 revised statutes) and
WHEREAS, There has been admitted into for
mcr congresses of the United States a delegate
from the territory of Utah, who has served in the
house OF representatives as such while sustaining
polygamous marital relations wide document in
contested election cases of Cannon vs. CampbelD
therefore be it
Resolred, as firm and final determination Of
the house of representatives OF the forty seventh
congress, That no person guilty of living in poll
ygamous marital relations teaching in
structing Others to do So is entitled TO be admitted
to this hous-' delegate from any territory of
the United States"
The reading of this resolution was received with
applau,e.
Mr.. Randall raised point of order that the
resolution was not ge,mane to the case under
consideration. He protested against the idea that
in voting upon the pending resolution members
were expressing any opinion on the subject OF
polyeamy.
Tie speaker held the resolution did not give
such instructions TO the committee as were COM
pretended in the rules and ruled it out of order.
Mr.. Reeds substitute was then adopted-lS9 to
"a; the negative votes being all republicans, and
the contested case was thereby referred to the
committee on elections
Mr.. Haskell then desired to offer us a priyi-
legged question, the resolution given above but
cut off by motion to adjourn, which was
carried
THURSDAY, JAN. II.
.Senate---A resolution was submitted directing
n special committee on woman suffrage in Utah,
and to report bill ta-annul any existing law
comforting the right of suffrage upon women in
that territory The resolution went over.
Sen. Brown offered resolution that it is mex
pedent and unwse to control the currency by
the withdrawal from circulation of what is known
as silver certificates, or discontinue or further re-
strict the silver coinage further than gold and
silver coin based upon the proper notes, or equiv
alent between the two metals and the issues Of
paper predicated upon and convertible.
Sen. ingalls, having been detained away since
the reassembing of congress, to-day took the
floor to defend the of pension act which
was attacked by Sen. Beck. in his speech the
other day. ingalls, said if there was anything
wrong in the act or In its passage, Beck should
have opposed its passage. lie offered a resolution
declaring it to be the sense of the senate that the
arrears of the pension act should not be repealed
Beck asked that the resolution lie oyer saying
that he would endeavor to present some facts
showing that the act was passed under all sorts
of Misrepresentation. ingalls, gave notice that
he would on every occasion that he could get the
floor ask for his vote ON bis resolution.
House.--A bill was introduced to repeal the tax
on bank deposits, the stamp tax on bank checks
and reduce the circulation of Rational banks
Also for this appointment of a committee the
inter oceanic canal and foreign inland transper-
tation to which shall be referred all measures rel
alive to those subjects; also to amend the rules
as to refer to the committee on the Improvement
of the navigation of the Mississippi river all mat
tiers relative thereto
A resolution was introduced calling on the sec
rotary Of the interior tor the following intor-
nation: If all pensions arising from the war OF
the rebellion shall be adjudicated within seven
years, terminating in June 1883 and If at the
end 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. Referred
The speaker laid before the house letter from
the secretary of the treasury, enclosing an esti-
mate in the deficiency of the census appropriation
amounting to $500. Referred.
Adjourned till Monday.
MoNDAy, JAN. 16.
.S,aote.--Sen. Logan introduced bill 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 $4,000, and asked i'm
mediate action.
Sen. Blair, of the pension committee suggested
the reference of the measure to that committee,
rs it was perfeeting a more comprehensive bill,
which included this case and that of Mrs. Gar
field. The bill was so referred.
The senate then took up Ingalls, resolution,
seeking arrears of pensions
Sen. Voorhees,, of Indiana the champion of the
soldiers cause, made a 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, lad been slow in
presenting their claims, and have allowed the five
year limit to pass without dors So he would still
be permitted to prove his iniufles and receive his
pension from the time he was discharged from the
army on that account 1t is said to the soldiers
widow, that, though penury and ignorance might
have prevented her from asserting the right for
years, yet the government would still make annu-
al payments to her from the day and hour when
the husband sealed his neasureless devotion to
that government with DEATH
Ho,rs.-Under call of the states large num-
Der OF bills were introduced of which the following