Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-01-19

own telegraph lines for the use Of the
Government and the public. Adopted.
| The House then resumed consideration
of the Shipping bill, the pending question
| being on the committee substitute ss
amended for the eighteenth section.
SATURDAY, JAN. Is.
iSe1sdte-Ihe senate spent the day in
| discussing the bill to make the head Of
the agricultural bureau cabinet Office.
| Sen. Plumb sent up and had read
letter of the late Gambetta, transmitting
| a copy of the act establishing a ministry
| of agriculture in France and referring to
| the action on the same subject in Ger
many, Australia, Italy and the U nited
States; also dispatch from London on
| the 22d Of December last, announcing for
the arrangements for the creation of a
ministry Of agriculture in England were
almost completed, and Right Hon. Jos.
| Chamberlain would be the first to fill the
Office. A bill of this character, in in
terest of the greatest and most important
portion of the community, ought not to
be bushed aside in order to pass bill to
enable claimant 10 take half million
dollars out of the treasury, which if
paesed would be followed by thousand
other claims. Sen. Williams, as one of the
very practical farmers IN the senate, was
heartily in accord with Sen. Plumb in all
he had slid in regard to to the Importance
OF the agricultural bill, and he thanked
him on his own account and in behalf of
the farmers of his own country. When
the doors re-opened the senate adjourned.
House-Mr. Joyce called up the bill
providing that any person who, while in
naval or military service, shall have lost
the sight of one eye, shall be entitled to
receive pension of $12 per month, and
in cases in which the injury to one eve
manifestly affects injuriously the sight OF
the other eye, he shall be entitled to an
eq-itable increase In his pension not 10
exceed in whole the amount of $25 per
month; and all those who. under like cir
cumstances, have lost the sight of the
other, having been previously lost, shall
he entitled to a pension of $50 per month
and all those who were in the military or
naval service in the United States in line
of duty, by injury received or disease con-
tracted, or shall have lost hearing of both
ears, shall be entitled to $25 per month;
and for any loss of hearing less than total
deafness in one or both ears they shall
receive an equitable portion OF ive pen
sions.
The bill passe2-ayes 126. noes 55.
MONDAY, JAN, Is.
.Sendte-Mr. Pendleton presented a re-
monstrance from Cincinnati manufactur-
ers of iron roofing against the reduction of
duty on tin plate, The following also
were presented
BY Mr.. Voorhees,, petition signed by
eminent men in Indiana, favoring legis-
lation putting an end 10 the monopoly of
medical employment under the govern
ment by the regular school, and making
all qualified physicians equal before TIE
law in government service.
: By.Mr. Garland. a petition against in
reference with the tariff on cotton seed
oil.
By Mr.. Harrison against the passage
of the Bankrupt law,
A number of bills were then intro
duced and referred and at the close CT
the morning business the bill for the re-
lief of Ben Holiday was taken up.
House-Mr. Bragg endeav ored to haze
the Fitz John Porter bill considered, but
objections were raised by Messrs. Dawes
and Taylor, of Ohio.
Under the call of states number of
bills were Introduced and referred.
Mr.. White, of Kentucky, offered a reso-
luton reciting allegations hat a well-or
ganized lobby rushed the bonded extern
sion bill through the house April 3, 1882,
and calling on the secretary of the treas
ury for his views as to the effect the pass
age of the bill will have on the public
revenues.
Mr.. Gibson, of Louisiana, presented
bill to convene the forty-eighth congress
on the first Monday of March, 1888. Re
ferred
Mr.. Belmont, OF New York, presented
resolution directing the committee on
ways and means to report to the house
forthwith whether any class of indust ry
requires aid or support from the federal
government, either in the form of Gus
toms for duty levied on imported articles,
or in any other form Of bounty, subsidy,
charity, or donation, and, if so. what.