Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
FoRTY-sEvENTH CONGRESS.
Senate

TUESDAY January AFTER the presentment
of petitions and remOnstrances Garland from
the committee on judiciary, reported the
original bill as q substitute for the bills re-
ferred to that committee providing for the
forfeiture of certain railroad land grants. The
bill authorizes the attorney general to institute
suits in the name of the United States against
roads granted lands which have not patented
the same with view to obtaining Judgment
of forfeiture, and provides that if within one
year previous to the passage of the act the
roads in question shall have made substantial
progress III construction they shall be exempt
from judgment of forfeiture. Mcmillan intro
duced bill to establish post-road from Lake
Park New Ulm, Mimi. -. The Fitz John Porter
bill was then taken up and Logan occupied the
floor until adjournment.
WEDNESDAY. January Slogan oncluded
his argument against the Fitz John Porter
bill. Sewell replied. Hale moved that the
bill be indefinitely postponed. Lost-ayes 90,
noes %. Adjourned.
THURSDAY, January 4.-MorrilI from the
committee on finance, reported the house bill
to reduce internal revenue taxation, with an
amendment embracing an entire revision of the
tariff and of the machinery for its collection.
He gave notice that he would ask the senate
on Wednesday next to take up the bill and
consider it, to the exclusion of all other bust
ness, till it should be disposed of. =. The West
Point appropriation bill was taken up by unan-
.
whisky bill was then taken up and passed by
vote of 90 to 90. After an executive session
the senate adjourned.
FRIDAY, January 5.-A bill was passed MAX
ing an appropriation for a survey to ascertain
the prscticabihty of uniting the upper affluents
Of the Missouri aud Columbia Rivers by a
canal. The presidential succession bill was
taken up as unfinished business and a number
of amendments was presented. Without act
ing upon the amendments, the senate went
into executive session and soon afterwards adj
journed.
the house bill was passed permitting the ex-
portatOn Of tobacco, snuff and cigars III bond
free Of tax to adjacent foreign territories. -.
The presidential succession bill was then taken
up and Maxey addressed the senate thereon.
Debate followed, terminating with adjourn
ment.
EsoUe=.
~U1s.,----, IDLY Bills introduced; To
transfer the administration of the rev niue
maj inc service to the navy department. HOl
man, Ii hitting to two years the pe1Cd for the
presentation, from the time the same accrue,
Of claims against the quartermaster Of COM
naissary bureaus, and to one year from the pas
sage of the act the presentation of the claims
of states for moneys expended in suppresslng
Indian hostilities -. Bills passed: Relating to
the expectation of tobacco, snuff and cigars III
bond free of tax to adjacent territory (paces
JODncCO exported
Mexico on the same footing as tobacco export
ed IN Yessels); to empower pOstmasters to adj
minister oathS to importers of books; amend
ing the revised statutes SO as to allow draw
back on dlSt1Illng worms manufactured for eX-
port; authorizing United States commissioners
to take acknowledgements of the transfer of
United States bonds; the senate bill to permit
grain brought by Canadian farmers to be
ground in United States mills adjacent to Cana
dian territory, under such regulations as may
be prescribed by the treasury department.; pro-
viding that perique tobacco may be sold by
manufacturers or the producers, in the form of
carrottes, directly to legally qualified manufac-
turers of cigarettes and of smoking tobacco
without payment of tax.
WEDNESDAY. January 3.-The house went
into committee Of the whole on the army APP
rropriation bill The consideration of the
bill was practically concluded with the excep-
ton of the compensation allowed the Pacific
railroads for transpOrtatlOn) and the committee
| rose. .Adj ourned.
THURSDAY, January 4.-The house went iuto
committee Of the whole on the army apprO-
prIation bill. The consideration Of the bill be-
| ing concluded, excepting the reserved section
relative to the compensation of subsidized rai-
roads for army transportation, it was reported
to the house and passed. 1t contains pro-
vision for the gradual abolition of the pay corps
of the army. :. The Pendleton civil service bill
was then taken up and after debate passed by
a vote of 55 to A.. Adjourned.
FRIDAY, January 5.-The District of Column
| ba appropriation bill was taten up and passed.
1t appropriates So, 443, 847, being $81, 692 less
| than the estimated bill. Adjourned.
| SATURDAY, January 6.-The shipping bill
was taken up ard Cox delivered speech in
favor of the bill. Dingley and Hewitt spoke
in the same strain. Ellis and Morey gave no
! tice of amendment looking towards q subsidy
for American mail steamships. Reagan Sc
cured the floor, and the matter went over until
| Monday. Adjourned.