Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-11
crimintion by railroad companies and sub
jecting them to the control OF the states
under certain circumstances.
Also to create an agricultural commits

crlmInElOn by railroad companies 2no suo-
jecting them to the control OF the states
under certain circumstances.
Also to create an agricultural commits
sion.
Also to create postal telegraph.
Also to reduce postage on drop les-
tiers to one cent.
Also a resolution calling upon the sec
rotary of the intsrior for information
whether the Union Pacific has complied
with the provisions of the Thurman act.
By Mr.. Peters, for granting pensions to
the soldiers in the rebellion when they
reached fifty-6ve years.
By Mr.. Hanback,, to repeal the timber
culture and presumption laws.
B. Mr.. White. to lessen crime and hu-
man suffering from alcoholism by restrict
ing the use OF distilled spirits to scientific
and medical purposes.
Also, to permit soldiers and sailors TO
obtain in money the value OF the home
stead5 to which they are entitled.
Also, proposing p constitutional amend
ment by granting the right Of suffrage to
women.
Also, app. opriating $25,OO {, 600 e year,
for five years, to aid the common schools.
By Mr.. Turner, requiring the yeas and
nays TO be taken for the passage of any
bill appropriating more than $1,000
Also to put salt, trace chains and agri-
cultural implements on the free list.
By Mr. Willis, to authorize the with
drawal from the distilliug warehouse, with
out tax, spirits to be used in industrial
purposes.
Also to establish a bureau Of statistics,
labor and industry.
Mr.. Hewitt will offer the following reso-
luton: That this house bring to the Nc.
tice of the president the case of Patrick
O'Donnell, claiming to be a citizen of the
United States, now under sentence of death
in Great Britain, in the hope that the pres
ident may secure such reasonable delay in
the execution, of the sentence as will ena-
able the president to ascertain whether
O'Donnell is a citizen of the United States,
and if SO, whether he has been tried and
convicted in accordance with the
law of Great Britain and the requirements
of international law. Adopted.
By Mr.. King, to equalize the pay of the
male and female employees of the govern
ment.
By Mr. Dingley, to remov certain bur-
dens from the American merchants ma
rine. Also to constitute the bureau COM
mittee on navigation; also to encourage
American ship building.
By Mr.. Hoblizell, for the construction
of the Maryland and Delaware ship canal.
By Mr.. Blanchard to provide that when
the terms of a congressman shall begin
and end, and when congress shall meet.
The object of the bill is that congress will
meet Immediately after the election of
members for the new congress instead of
thirteen months after, and provide two
long sessions of each congress, instead of
n long and one short, as now.
By Mr.. Morse, for repeating the act for
the coinage of standard silver dollars.
By j. W. Whiting, to remove all taxes IN
the circulation of the National Bank as
ISOLATION; also to fix the amount of the
circulating notes to be issued by the Ma
tional Bank association upon deposit
bonds. 1t provides that the amount
of circulating notes of any National Bank
ing association, making deposit bonds,
shall lbe entitled to receive from the comp
troller OF currency 50 per cent. at the
lowest market value of said bonds
during the fiscal year next previous to
the deposit, provided such amount shall
not exceed So per cent. of the current
market value of such bonds, and at no
time shall the total amount of such notes
issued by any association exceed 95 per
cent. OF the amount at such time actually
paid in its capital stock.
By Mr.. Rice, declaring the policy of the
United States in regard to the oceanic
anal. 1t declares the construction of the
lnteroceanic canal by means of foreign
capital is hostile to the established policy
of the United States and in violation of
the spirit of the declaration of the Mon
roe doctrine; that the United States will
assert and maintain such central super
vision over such canal as is necessary to
protect national interests.
In the call of states to-day, Gen. Rose
Grams, California, introduced ffty-three
bills, or as he said, a full deck and joker.
Among the important bills was one pro-
hiding for the appropriation of 100000
for public buildings in San Francisco; al
so for the relief of the officers of the army
who have served twenty years. 1t provides
that if they be first and second lieutenants
for that period they shall be eutitled to
pay allowances for the next higher grade.
By Mr.. Budd: A bill to protect the
commercial interests of California and
improve the navigation of its rivers and
harbors, n provides for the a%ppropria-
ton of 100000 to improve the San Joa-
quin and its tributaries.
Be- Mr.. Glasscock: Granting to Cali
fornia 5 per cent. of the proceeds of the
sale Of public lands in that state. It is
asserted this the only public land state
which has not received any per cent. of
the net proceeds of the sales of public
lands.
By Mr.. HeaIy: For the relief of Cali
fornia, appropriating S31S,1SO, being Is
per cent. of the states quota of
direct tax as assessed on Aag. 5, 1861.
Adjourned until tomorrow, when the
call will be completed.