The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-12-14


time for filing claims for pensions; also 9
resolution requesting the president to com
municate to the house any correspondence
that has taken place between this govern
ment and Great Britain in reference to the
trial of Patrick O'Donne]l, a citizen of the
United States for the alleged murder oi
Informer Carey.
By Anderson, to prevent undue discrim
ination by railroad companies and subject
/ ing them to the control of states under GER
cultural commission; also to create a postal
telegraph; also to reduce postage on drol
letters to one cent; also resolution calling
upon the secretary of the interior for in
formation whether the Union Pacific has
complied with the provisions of the Thur
man act.
| BY Willis, to authorize the withdrawal
from distillery warehouses, without tax, o
spirits to be used In industrial pursuits; also
to establish bureau of statistics on labor
and industry.
By King; to equalize the pay of male and
female employees of the government.
By Dingle, to remove certain burden.
from the American merchant marine; also
to constitute bureau of commerce and
navigation; also to encourage American
shipbuilding.
By Blanchard, to provide when terms Of
congressman begin and end, and when con-
gress shall meet. Object of the bill tc
cause Congress to meet Immediately afteI
the election of members of new congress,
instead cf thirteen months after, and pro
vide two long sessions of each congress,
instead of one long and one short as now.
| By Morse, repeating the act for coinage
of standard silver dollars.
By Whiting, to remove all taxes on the
circulation of national banking associations
upon deposit of bonds. 1t provides that
the amount of circulating notes any ma
tional banking association making a deposit
of bonds shall be entitled to receive from
the comptroller of the currency, shall be g.
per cent.
| Senate Bills.
WASHINGTON, Dec lO.-Bills were in
troduced by Hill, providing for coinage and
branch mint at Denver.
By Ingalls,, to prevent unlawful enclo
sures of public lands.
News Notes.
| WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE issue %
silver dollars the week ended December
was $52l, $685. Same time last year 81 y lS9
500.
Amos Webster, chief clerk of the treasury
department., has rendered his resignation a:
adiutant general of the militia of the dis
trict of Columbia to the secretary of war.
| Representatives in congress from indiana
held conference tonight to agree upoI
the best means of presenting to the nation
al republican committee on Wednesday
the claims of Indianapolis as the place fo
holding the republican convention mex
year.
/ THE MOKELUMNE GRANT.
| WASHINGTON, Dec. lO.-With view t,
the settlement of serious troubles, attend
| GU Uy AuIdSL hhl obuCE CIluIcSs eAlSGlu}
between the Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany and settlers on Mokelumne grant, il
California, the SECRETARY of the interior ha
requested the attorney general to nrin;
suit to set aside the patents in order t.
determine the questions of titles.
| sHERMAN's BILL.
WASHINGTON, Dec. ll.-Sherman's bill
for the encouragement of commercial rela
tions with South American states provide
that the president be authorized and re
quested to invite the republic of Mexico
of Central America and of South America
and the empire of Brazil to send delegate
to convention at Washington during 1881
to consider the best mode of establlsh:r
and formulating the basis of peaceful, re
ciprocal and commercial relations, and t
adopt measures considered the most prae
tical to promote the construction of interns
tional railroads to connect the countrie
named with the United States. The bi
provides that $4,000 be appropriated t
defray the expenses of the convention
Il BILLS INTRODUCED BY SLATER.
WASHINGTON, Dec. ll.-Senator Slate
f of Oregon introduced in the senate yesterda
bill for the relief of the state, providin
that she be paid S257, 100 her quota direc
+ tax levied under the act of August 5, IS6
also bill for the relief of citizens ,
Oregon, Washington, Idaho AMI Montau
who served in the Nez Perces war. proyid
ing that soldiers get So per diem, an
that the injured or disabled receive
pension; also bill fixing the prices
n lands in Bitter Root Valley, Montau,
within the limits of the Union pacif
f grant, at 81 20 per acre; also bill r
a quiring the commissioner of the land ofic
to stste the account between the Unite
States and Oregon for five per cent.
the minimum price of public lands no
| included in the borders of all Indian rese
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