The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-03-09
DOINGS OF CONGRESS.
TUESDAY. February CS.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20.
sENATE-Mr. Window introduced resolu-
lion III The senate yesterday providing for an
| lnvestig alton Of the guanO scandal.
MIR. Mcmillan INTRODUCED a joint resolution
| fixing the head o. navigation Of the
Minnesota river in tho state of Minnesota,
il troduced pursuant to resolution OF
C.nkling's nomination was favorably report
! cd from the committee and was laid over un-
dor the rules, to take tho regular COURSE
The president 30 mated Frederick Solomon
Of Missouri United States surveyor general Of
Utah; postmaster. D. E. Cooper, Winterset, la.
Ernest Funk was confirmed as postmaster Of
Oconto Wis.
HOUSE Congressman Pound intrr duced
bin designed 10 simplify the ADMINISTRATION
OF the pension laws It contemp]aes the e.
promptly pass upon doubtful claims and re-
ieve the private calendar.
The military comm ttee Of the house has agreed
to report a bill allowing officers below the rank
OF Major, WHO lave served for fifteen years in
the same grade, the payment and allowance Of
the grade next above that in which they have
so served without D, emotion.
Mr.. Robinson IN. Y by request introduced
bill to organize the National Labor League
Railway company Of America. for the purpose
OF constructing, operating and maintaining
railway from the Atlantic seaboard to Chicago,
St Louis and Council Bluffs. 1t provides for
the purpose Of establishing equal rights in
commerce among states ana for the purpose Of
securing railway highway under such civil
c0nt,ol as to prevent combinations against the
public.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH l.
eENATE.-Mr: Vest introduced bill prohib.
| ltng the issue OF bank notes or currency by new
national banks. The Chill Peru investigation
resolution was adopted.
Senator Mcmillan introduced bill to place
John Jones, late captain OF the First Minnesota
battery, on the retired list Of the army, with
such pay and emoluments as are now author
zed by law for officers of that grade.
Chinese emigration was the principal topic
discussed in the senate, and Mr.. Hoar had a
monopoly of the subject, as he did not finish
his remarks till nearly 5 o'clock.
The Chinese bill wasl laid aside to importantly in
favorirg the construction Of new fire-proof
building for the cougre ssional library, in which
he argued the desirability of purchasing six
squares adjacent to the capitol, containing
80, 900 square feet. Owing to the la,e hour
al which the senate adjourned, there was not
resulted in the Conkling case
HoUsE:-The contested election case of Ian
Ter Va. King, Louisiana, waf, dismissed. The
Indian appropriation bill (S4, 92U, 2U3) lassed
Mr.. Hazelton lWis) attacked the pres
ent system of adjusting the salaries of Indian
nough nor sensible enough to correct this
wrong. A moion to srike out the paragraph
Appropriating $500 for the expenses Of the
lodlan commissioner WAS rejected, 80 to 90
The committee then rose and the bill passed.
THURSDAY. MARCH 2.
SENATE Some discussion wss created by
Mr. Vance who offered 8 resolution for, the ap-
official frauds in the eixth internal reveLus dis
trict OF North Carolina. The Chinese im,ai
,radon bill was further debated.
The senate confirmed Roscoe Conkling asso-
ciate justice Of the Uni ed States supreme
court; Aaron A. Sargent minister to Germany,
and Vim. F. Poston United States attorney Of
sne western district Of Tennessee. The vote on
Conkling's confirmation is understood to have
been SO yeas against IL nays. eight democrats
and four republicans, namely, Hoar, Dawes,
Morrill, and Hawley. Sargent's nomination
VAS confirmed without a division.
were Messrs. Hoar, Morril, Dawes, Hawley,
Bayars, Johnston, Hampton, Jonas, Call, Far
ley, Camden and Pugh. The vote was taken
Without much discussion. Miller OF New York
dodged. Beck and Butler we're: paired, but
but would have v ted no. Mr.. Sherman is al
so understood to have refrained from voting.
seven senators present and impaired refused to
vote.
HousE.-The McDowell-Georgo contested
case (Oregon) was discussed. The coneular
nd diplomatic appropriation bill ISL 1885,
J3O) was considered Mr. Whitthorae Dem.)
spoke in warm approval Of the foreign policy
+ Garfeld's administration, while Mr. Kasson
claimed for the present administration all the
xcellencies Of it's predecessor in this res
1ect.
FRIDAY, MARCH3.
SENATE. Several bills of minor Importance
were passed, when the Chinese bill was again
debated, the PRINCIPAL speeches being made by
Mas To ~ T,1;f
and Bayard, who thought full
significance had not been given to the almost
Unanimous California vote against importation,
aud commented upon it as in licating unanim-
lty Of sentiment without precedent. Those
who felt confronted by danger were the ones
he thought should take action rs to the threat
enad Monaghan overthrow of everything
recognized as Christian civilization. The
brotherhood of humanity was a good idea, but
the instinct Of national self preservation was
stronger than that. A nation must be true to
it's own people before it expended it's energies
in behalf of strangers.
HousE.-A bill was introduced appropriating
p6l 300 for Mississippi river improvement
Several unimportant bills passed and tho for
eisn affairs committee was granted leave to in
yestigate the Chili-Peruvian correspondence
SATURDAY, MARCH f.
SENATE Not in session.
HoUsE.-The Smith Robertson contested case
Loulsiana) was Dismissed. a long debate took
place on the consular and diplomatic approp1i-
ation bill, in which an interesting passage at
arms occurred between Sunset Cox and Robson
concerning the respective meries Of the demo-
cratic and republican parties as protectors OF
the rights and interests of nat
uralized citizens. Mr.. Williams of Wis
consin said that tho committee on foreign
affairs had now under consideration the sub
ject Of the imprisonment Of Irish Amer IAN
cislzsns When it had received all the infor-
m alton it could get the committee would bring
the matter before the honse. Then let the
house decide in due order who was the best
friend of the American citizen abroad. He
cared not whether that citizen were American,
I.if;h, English, German, democrat, republican,
Wits or black. Wherever he was incarcerated,
let every power OF this government be invoked
to burst his prison bonds and set him free.
Mr.. Reed presented protest against the ad-
mission of Dakota as state, signed by numer-
GUS land holders in Yankton county, D. T.
Referrad
Among the bills introduced in the house was
one by Steele Of Indiana, authorizing brevet
commissions for commissioned officers for dis
tinguished conduct in engagements with or
againet hostile Indians.
Mr.. Calkins, Of Indiana, introduced a bill in
| tho house to regulate the coupling Of cars on
the various railroads, which will attract con-
| siderable interest. It provides that all cars
shall have bumpers and couplings of the same
height above the top rail 80 that there may be
no danger in measuring by the eye, the coup
ings when brakemen step between cars to brake
them
How Temperance Meeting Saved Him.
The Lewiston journal is responsible for
| the following: At one of the local tenn
perance meetings Sunday, speaker in
dwelling upon the degradation caused by