The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-03-04
TELEGRAPIIC
XLVII. CONGRESS-.
SECOND SESSION
sENATR

The unfinished business, the bill
to exclude public lands in Alabama
from the operation of laws relating
to mineral lands passed.
On motion of Bayard, the thanks
OF the Senate were rendered the re-
firing president. David Davis.
Tabor presented the credentials
OF his successor, as senator from
Colorado, Thomas NJ. Bowen.
Brown presented the credentials
of Alfred H. Colquitt, senator-elect
from Georgia.
Plumb called up the bill directing
the postmaster general to readjust
the salary of certainlpostmasters.
Passed.
At II o'clock, Davis, president pro
tenl-pOre of the Senate, in resign1ng
that Office pursuant to notice given.
some days since, delivered an adj
dress.
Davis thanked tbs Senate for the
honor conferred upon him which he
was about to retire from. He re-
ferred to his position as a man
without party. His aims had been
for the good of the country, and he
thanked God he was now in a uni
ted nation.
Anthony offered a resolution de-
claring George F. Edmunds, a Sena.
tor from the state of Vermont,
elected president pro TEN. of the
Senate.
Pendleton moved to amend, SO as
to make the resolution apply to
ThOs, F. Bayard, a Senator from
Delaware. The amendment was
lost. Edmunds was then elected.
The secretary having announced
the result, requested Anthol3 and
Bayard to conduct him to the chair,
and they did so.
Edmunds, standing by the clerks
desk, said:
Senator'S beg to thank the
Senate sincerely for the honor it mas
conferred upon me, and to say, l
shall endeavor to discharge the du-
ties imposed upon me with fidelity.
think that under the law l ought
to take the oath Of Office. l ask
the Senator from Rhode Island, the
oldest Senator present, to admins
ter the oath.
Anthony then administered the
oath and Edmunds then took the
chair.
Mcmillan, from the committe on
commerce, made a report on the
river and harbor bill, stating that
owing to the want Of time to exam.
inc and consider properly numerous
items in the bill, they did not feel JUS
tilted in recommending it's passage.
On the ether hand they view with
great Importance the national ap.
preparation for the improvement Of
water ways of the country, as pro-
lection against oppressive eXactiOns
Of railroad companies. The com
mittee did not feel justified in re-
tanning the bill in their possession
thus preventing action by the Sen
ate, and therefore report it back fol-
such action as the Senate might
deem proper.
ingalls, moved that the report be
printed and that it die on the table
until to morrow. Agreed to.
The bill for the relief of the Ger.
man National Bank of Louisville
passed.
The deficiency appropriation bill
was taken up.
| The House joint resolution pro
yidiDg for new mixed commission
in accordance with the treaty of 1861
between the United States and Ven
ezuela, passed without amendment
The House bills to establish Ger
tain post routes, were amended anC
passed.
On motion of Harrison, the Hous
bill to amend the law relating 4
the recovery of damages for in
fgingement Of PATENTS was taken W
amended and passed.
EVENING SESSION.
The House bill to modify tn
postal money order system and TO
other PURPOSES passed withou
amendment.
Allison reported that the confer
ence of the two houses on the sun
Cry civil appropriation bill ha
failed to agree. Although genera
disagreement was formally TepOrte
he stated the confereeS reached
/, substantial agreement as to certain
: items, the disagreement being o.
matters of legislation in the Origina
bill as 1t came from the house; tn
provision for the sale military re
servations, the provision for chang
ing the law as to the soldiers home
:. and the provision in relation to tn
ratification Of Sioux treaty and Othe
provisions.
Logan said he would rather sc
half a dozen extra sessions tina
submit to the action proposed i
the House bill in relation to the re
peal of the presumption laws or th
pensions Of poor inmates Of tn
soldiers homes. The Senate IL
sisted upon its action and new col
ferees were appointed.
When the shipping bill VIZ
I reached on the calendar, Coke oh
jected to its consideration on tn
ground that il was too important t
c be dealt with at the present TIM
Conger and Frye urged the consiC
Grafton of the bill, and upon agret
ing not to oppose certain change
in its provisions, Coke withdre'
his objection. The bill was take
M. discussed, and pending its col