Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-01-10
F0RTY-sEvENTH CONGRESS.
Senala

TUESDAY January 2.-After the presentment
Of petitions and remonstrances Garland, from
the eemmittee on judiciary, reported the
ongina4 bill as substitute for the bills re-
ferreUto 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
| thesa.ne with view to obtaining Judgment
OF forfeiture, and provides that if within one
roads in question shall have made substantial
progress In construction they shall be exempt
from Judgment Of forfeiture. Mcmillan intro
duced q bill to establish post-road from Lake
Parkto New Ulm, MINI. The Etz John Porter
4lrwas then taken up and Logan occupied the
floor until adjournment.
"WEDNESDAY. January Slogan concluded
bill: Sewell replied. Hale moved that the
bill be indefinitely postponed. Lost-ayes 20,
noes 28. Adjourned.
THURSDAY, January 4.-Morrill 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 N Of the machinery for its collection.
on Wednesday next to take up the bill and
consider it, to the exclusion of all other busi-
ness, till it should be disposed Of. The West
Point appropriation bill was taken up, by unan-
lmous. consent, and passed The bonded
whieky bill was then taken up and passed by a
vote Of 23 to 20. After an executive session
the senate adjourned. B..
FRIDAY, January ga bill was passed max
ing an appropriation for a survey to- ascertain
the practicabihty Of uniting the upper ailments
OF the Missouri and Columbia Rivers by
canal: The presidential succession bill was
taken up as unfinished business and a number
Of amendments was presented. Without act
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into executive session and soon afterwards ad-
journed.
SATURDAY, January 6.-On motion of Beck
the house bill was passed permitting the ex-
portation of tobacco. snuff and cigars in 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
me't.
TUESDAY, January BILLS introduced: To
transfer the administration of the revenue
msrme service to the navy department.. Hol-
man, miting to two years the period for the
presentation, from the time the same accrue,
of claims against the quartermaster of COM
mi Ssary bureaus, and to one year from the pas
! sage Of the act the presentation of the claims
Of states for moneys expended in suppressing
Indian hostilities. Bills pessed: Relating to
the expectation of tobacco, snuff and cigars in
tobacco exported by rail into Canada and
Menco: on the same footing as tobacco export
ed IN ye6sels); to empower pOstmastcrs to ad-
minister oaths to importers Of books; amend
back on dlstllIing wOr1ns alne.Ae>-allnw q draw
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 periq9e 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 ap-
rropriation bill. The consideration of the
bill was practically concluded with the excep.
ton of the compensation allowed the Pacific
rose. Adjourned.
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 secticn
relative to the compensation of subsidized RAFT.
roads for army transportation, it WAS reported
! to the house and passed. It 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 1856 to AZ. Adjourned.
FRIDAY, January 5:--rhe District Of Colum.
bia appropriation bill was taten up and passed.
It appropriatss ss,44s, ,847, being $sl ,692 less
than the estimated bill. ..Adjourned.
! SATURDAY, January 6.-The shipping bill
was taken up and 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 a subsidy
for American mail steamships. Reagan &C.
cured the floor, and the matter went over unit
Monday. :. Adjourned. ~,