The examiner., 1882-02-04
FOrty.SeYenth COngress...Senate,

A bill restricting the emigration of Chinese laborers was reported from the foreign relations committee. :: MT: Sherman spoke Uh his three per cent. funding bill aiid ths Senate by vote of 23 to 45 refused to lay the bi1i of1 the table .... MT. Allison introduced a bill to provide a reserve fund for tho redemption of United States notes, and for other purposes. It pro- vides, among other things, that maximum reserve fund not exceeding the sum of $12O,- O0O GOO shall be set apart in the treas ury for the sole purpose of redeeming United States notes, tn ee- fourths of which shall be gold coin and bullion and the remainder in standard sll- yer dollars. Referred to the finance committed.
 Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, submitted ap- propriate resolutions of respect to tho memory of his late colleague, Mir. Carpenter, and speeches eIlogizing the dead Senator weie @ made by Messrs. Garland Logan, Kellogg, Bayard, Edmunds, and Davis, of Illinois, after which the Senate, as further mark of respect, adjourned.
 MT. Merrill, from the committee On educa- ton and labor, reporte favorably, with amend ments perfecting in minor details, the bill to es ablish an educational fund and apply DOT ton of the proceeds of the public lands to pub- lie education, and to provide for the more com plete endowment and support of colleges for the advancement of scientific and industrial education. MT. Logan introduced Lill for tie distribution of free vaccine virus to the people, directing it to be furLished by the na- tionai hoard of health to all persons app>ying for it, at cost price.
 A communication was recelVeQ rom COllecLOT Robertson, of the New York custom house, rela- tive to search warrants for the discovery of smuggled goods. .. A bill was introduced to provide for water route to facilitate ranspor- tatitn between Lake Michigan and Lake Erie. co. The Sherman refunding bill was further considered.
 House.
 The Senate bill permitting Justice Ward Hunt of the United States supreme court, to retire, was passed by vote of 137 yeas to 89 nays. ... Tributes of respect to the memory of the late Senator Matthew H. Carpenter, of Wisconsin, Hazelton, Kasson, Dunnell, Orth, Robrson, Tyler, Butterworth and Deuster. Mir Page, from the committee on education and labor reported bill to regulate limit nj -u>pend Chinese emigration Ordered printed and recommitted. ... The bill granting an additional pension to President Lincoln's widow was passed
 RESOLUTION was offered by Mir. Towns bend reciting the charges that certain resi- dents of the Territories known as Mormons are melting the Piute and Navajo Indians in Ari- zona to outbreaks ani lawlessness, and calling upon the creiary of the interior for any in- formation upon the ubject which may be on file in his department. Adopted .. The post office and census appropriations bills were re- ported.
 Bills were introduced to prevent the unlaw ful occupation of the public lands; to regulate railroad fares; for the importation free of duty or non ore rom Canada; proposing cohsutu- tional amendment making a person holding the office of President ineligible for reelection, providing that at the end of his term of office the President shall receive a pension of s6,OOO per annum, and declaring cabi net officers ineligible for election to the presidency for the term following that during which they held such office; defining the powers and duties of the Mississippi river commission; removing the duty upon news papers, periodicals and magazines; to protect the Yellowstone National park: to extend the postal money order system; for the admission of Arizona and Idaho into the Union as States %. There were reported the consular and dip lomatic appropriation bill and bill to resu-. late, limit and suspend the emisration of Chinese laborers The first-named appropri- ates s1, ,198, ,53O, being SIP, APO less than the amount appropriated last year, and s116, 525 less than the estimates.