Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-26
CONGRESSIONAL
TUESDAY. JAN. II.


.Ssaote-A petition from the citizens of Kansas
was presented favoring womans suffrage.
Bills were introduced: In relation to alcoholic
traffic.
To authorize the cutting and sale Of dead and
damaged timber on Indian reservations BY the in
terror department.
To enable the several states to collect school
funds by the taxation of fermented liquors.
Authorizing and directing the purchase by sec
rotary of the treasury, for public use, of the
Freedmans bank property, and She real estate
and parcels Of ground adjacent thereto; belonging
to the Freedmens Savings and Trust Co.
Ho,sc In the house to-day but little was done
of Importance. The time was m anly spent intro
ducing bills and submitting resolutions, none of
which were of general interest.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. Is.
Senote-A communication was received from
the secretary of the treasury, IN response to the
present rates of duties imposed by France, Ger
many and Mexico on American manufactures.
The committee on Judiciary, reported back ia
vorably, the bill to permit Ward Hunt, associate
justice of the supreme court of the United States,
to retire.
The remainder of the morning hour was occu-
pied by Brown in remarks on the currency. The
question of his text being his resolution declaring
the inexpedency Of contracting the currency by
the withdrawal of the silver certificates or the dis
continuance or further restriction of silver coin
| age; and that gold and silver coin, based on
proper rate as the balauce between the two metals
and issues OF a paper predicated upon and con-
vertible into coin demand to constitute Il
proper circulation medium in this country.
THURSDAY, Jan. 10.
.Se'ate.-The president pro ten, submitted re-
spouse of the secretary of the interior to the
resolution of the 18th inst, inquiring as TO the
apsing OF the land grant to the Northern Pacific
railway and in connection Herewith to the actor
of ex-Secretary Sohurz, etc. The chair referred
the communication to the committee on railways.
long and earnest debate was had upoa the
bill for the retirement of Judge Hunt from the
supreme bench, which was finally passed by a vote
of Al to IA.
Senator Sherman's funding bill was taken up,
and Sen. Salisbury favored the bill. When he had
concluded, motion was made by Sen. Ingalls, to
lay the bill on the table in order to test the sense
Of the senate uponit
Sen. Window having obtained temporary
withdrawal of Ingalls, motion. proceed to OPP
pose the bill as unnecessary, experimental, and
Likely to involve the government IN loss.
House.-The house resumed the consideration
of the report of the committee rules, increas-
ing the membership of the various committees.
Mr.. Bedford, having obtained five minutes time
from Mr.. Page, who was entitled to the floor,
rdiculed the pending proposition. He took
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to task for not being
satisfied with the ohairmanships they now hold on
various committees, and then proposed that every
member of a committee be allowed one clerk and
two boot blacks. This brought down the touae.
Mr.. Williams, of Wisconsin then took the floor
and replied to Mr.. B.
The house voted by yeas and nays on Joice's
motion to recommit the report, and the motion
was agreed to ey $50 ayes to 80 nays.
FRIDAY, JAN. 90.
Hous.-The house went into committee of the
whole on the private calendar The first bill was
one to relieve from the charge of descrtion, two
soldiers unjustly treated on that charge during
the war, convicted and imprisoned, and to restore
their ris hit to bounty, but not to pay.
Motion was made by Mr.. Holman to recommt
the bill with instructions to report general law
covering all similar cases; but it was ruled out Of
order.
Mr.. Randall expressed the hope that the CON-
mittee on military affairs would mature and re-
port bill giving to the war department the same
power to grant such cenency, and thus relieve
congress of that large class Of cases.
After an hours discussion, the bill was laid
aside to be reported to the house.
MONDAY, JAN. %.
Senate In the senate, Immediately after read
ing the Journal Sen. Anthony submitted resou
tons of respect for the memory of his late col
league Sen. Burnside. Eulogies delivered
by Sens. Anthony, Edmunds, Maxey, Hawley
Harrison, James Hale and Aldrich,
A resolution was adopted unasimously with a
word of respect for the memory Of the deceased
and the senate adjourned.
House.--Ihe following bills were introduced
and referred: To establish uniform paper cur.
rency to be issued and regulated directly by the
United States government; pensionng soldiers of
the late war confined in so-called confederate
prisons; also fixing at S57, 80 per month the pen
sons for such soldiers as have lost an arm or leg
or a,e otherwise totally disabled; granting gratu
ity to persons having served faithfully twenty
continuous years in the postal service of the
United States or who, after ten years OF faithful
service, shall become physically or mentally dis
abled; granting pensions to persons disabled in
the hye-saving service postal service of the