The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-01-21
FoBTY-sEvENTH CONGRESS.
Senate

MONDAY. January Bills introduced For
the organization Of the territory of Oklohoma7
donating 800 acres of public land to each sur
vivor of the Mountain Meadow massacre or
their heirs; granting pensions to prisoners Oh
war: to appropriate and expend the entire IN
come derived from internal revenue taxes OH
the manufacture and sale of distilled spirits Tor
the education of all children of the Unlteo
States. Hoar offered a resolution which was
adopted (35 to 23) for select committee on the
rights Of women, to whom are to be referred
all petitions and resolutions relating to woman
suffrage. On motion of Sherman, his bill to
provide for the issue of 3 per centdm bonds
was taken up without formal vote. Vest Of
fered an amendment, which was ordered print
ed adding to the bill a section Identical with
the fifth or compulsory section vetoed In the B
per cent. bill of last session, but modified to
cover the provision for 100000. 1t makes the
bonds sale basis for bank circulation. After
debate the amendments to the bill reported by
committee were agreed to. The senate wept
into executive session and soon after adjourned
TUESDAY, January 10.-Bayard, from the
finance committee, Ieparted with recommend
alton that it pass the Morrill, tariff commission
bill, and also, with al adverse report, the Gar
land commission bill. Beck then addressed the
senate at length On the tariff bib, occupying the
floor nearly three hours. Morrill, replied.
The chair then laid before the senate the unhn-
ished Sherman funding bills. =. Adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, January IA number of petit
tons for a commission to inquire into the alcO-
hOlic liquor traffic were submitted, nearly
every senator present having submitted one or
more memorials on the subject. Morgan sub
mitted a resolution directing the special COM
mlttee on woman suffrage IN Utah to report q
bill to annul any existing law comforting the
right OF suffrage upon women IN that territory
The resolution went over. Tie Sherman
funding bill was then taken up and Vest adj
dressed the senate on the subject. Remarks
were also made by Mcpherson and Sherman.
-. The president pro tenn. announced a special
committee on the rights OF women as follows:
Lapham, Anthony, Ferry, Blair, George, Jack
son and Far. Anthony introduced q bill
providing for the retirement of any person who
served fifty years or upwards IN either house of
congress. Morgan had read petition from
members of the Omaha Tribe of Indians pray
ing congress to grant each one of them a clear
and full title TO land on which he has worked.
-. Morgan offered a resolution which was lid
over to be printed, declaring for special COM
mrttee on woman suffrage question, the matter
OF suffrage III Utah, and report bill to set
aside any existing laws comforting suffrage on
women III that territory Adjourned.
THURSDAY. January 12.-Shermans funding
bill was proceeded with, and after debate was
informally laid aside till Monday :. Edmunds
introduced bill providing that hereafter q
majority OF justices of the supreme court, in
stead of SIX, constitute quorum Brown
offered declaratory resolution that it is mex
pedient and unwise to contract the currency by
the withdrawal from circulation of what are
known as silver certificates, or discontinue or
further restrict silver coinage: further that gold
and silver coin based upon prOperrates of equiva-
lent besTeent the two metals and issues of paper,
predlcated upon and cOnyerta bic into coin on
demand, constitute the proper circulating
medium of this country. Laid over tenn
poraliy. The senate went into executive ses-
sion and then adjourned till Monday.
House.
MONDAY. January Bills introduced: To
provide for the appointment of a commission
10 investigate the question of tariff and intern
al revenue laws identical with the bill intro
duCed IN the senate December 5, by Senator
MonllD; to equalize pensions; to repeal the
arreaTaGeS of pension act; to provide for the
circulation by national baHbing Institutions of
notes Of lower denominations than So; to re-
peal the duty on salt, printing paper, and type;
for the distribution Of pure vaccine matter to
the people; making polygamy a dl- qualification
for Office IN the territories; for the construction
Ct the Mississippi and Illinois canal; for the
| appointment OF SPECIAL committee on the sup
preston of the crime of polYgamy; authoriz-
ing the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad to con-
struct bridge across the Missouri River; to
reduce letter postage TO two cents; to fix the
term of collectors of internal revenue at four
years; granting 100 acres of land to every vol
unteer officer, musician and private who served
! three years III the Union army IN the late re-
| belion; proposing a constitutional amendment
| relative to the election of senators (provides
/ that the senate shall be composed of at least
| two senators from each state, but for each
| million inhabitants IN excess of two millions an
/ additional senator shall be allowed; and fur
! Their, that senators shall be elected by the peo-
| ple); proposing a constitutional amendment
relative to polySany. Adjourned.
| TUESDAY, January 1O.-The house resumed
| consideration of the Utah contested election
| by Haskell, declaring Allen G. Campbell the
| delegate-elect from Utah and entitled to be
sworn as a delegate on his primd fdcje case.
| Reed offered as a substitute a resolution re-
| ferrnS to the committee on elections the ques-
| ton on p1'i1ld tdcie right, between Campbell
! and Cannon to be sworn in, together with all
! certificates and papers presented on each side,
/ with instructions to that cOmmitte 10 report at
as early day as possible. Haskell, Cox and
| McCord Ia.) addressed the house on tue Nor
mon question, the latter reading a bill which
| he intends to present at some future time dis
| qualifying polygamists from repres entation IN
| congress. Haskell offered resolution to the
| same effect. After further debate Reeds sub
stltute was adopted-139 to "a. Adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, January 11.-Orth offered a
| resolution instructing the committee on civil
service reform to inquire into the eXpediency
| of providing mode different from the present
| for the appointment of committees of the
| house, with leave to report at any time. Re-
| ferred to the committee on rules. Haskell
| rose to question of privilege and sent to the
clerks desk and hadread a resolution which he
failed to have considered yesterday, declaring
| it to be the fixed and final determination of
the forty-seventh congress that person
maintaining polygamous marital relations, or
teaching or melting others so to do, is entitled
to be admitted to the house of representatives
as a delegate from any territory. After ex-
tended debate the house decided by a vote of
100 yeas to 139 nays that no question of priv
lege was involved in the resolution, as the Utah
| case had been referred to a committee The
| chairman of the committee appropriations
reported bill making appropriation of
! $40, 600 for final expenses of the tenth census,
and gave notice he would tomorrow ask to
have the bill considered. Adjourned.
THURSDAY, January 12-Bayne introduced a
| bill to repeal the tax on bank deposits, the
/ stamp tax on bank checks and to reduce the tax
on circulation of national banks. Referred.
| Also, for the appointment of a committee on
| 1nter-oceanic canal and foreign inland trans
| portation, to which shall be referred all meas
ures relative to those subjects. Brown intro
| duced bill for the issue and exchange of frac-
/ tional currency notes After consideration III
| committee of the whole the census appropria-
! ton bill was passed without division 1t appro-
PIRATES $40, 000. Adjourned till Monday.