Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23
CONGREGATIONAL.

CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate the 9th, the bill to relieve
ships and other vessels from compulsory pilot
fees was reported favorably. Mr. Edmunds
4 reported favorably joint resolution provid-
ing for a termination of the fishery articles of
! the Washington treaty. Mr.. Hale reported the
naval bill. 1t appropriates $l5,7y, 49,. The
1 Senate committee added &51s, 900 to the aggre-
| gate of the bill as IL passed the House. and the
| total amount exceeds last years bill about
100000, the addition being due to items for the
| increase OF the navy. including the sum for the
| completion of monitors. The Tariff bill was
/ then taken up and debated until adjournment
In the House Mr.. Bedford, from the Com
mittee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, re-
ported resolutions declaring 1t mex pedent to
discontinue the coinage of silver under the ex-
listing law; The conference report on the Mil
1taTy Academy bill was submitted and agreed
TO. The House went into committee on the
Tariff bill.
In the Senate the 10th, after n brief execu-
tive session Mr.. Ingalls, presented the creden-
| tials OF Mr.. Plumb, reelected Senator from
| Kansas Mr. Plumb presented memorials of
| the Legislature of Kansas, one asking that
| lumber be placed on the free list and the other
| for Legislation TO prevent the spread of pleuro-
pneumonia Mr.. Sawyer presented a remon-
STRANGE of citizens of Wisconsin against pnt-
| ting lumber on the free list. Mr.. Dawes re-
| ported q bill to amend the law in relation to
| trespasses on Indian lands. The Pension Ap-
preparation bill was taken up and passed The
| Tariff bill was then taken up. The House
| devoted the day TO further discussing the
| Tariff. H----7 .
In the Senate the 18th, the credentials of Mr..
Kenna, Senator electfrom West Virginia. were
presented and filed. Mr.. Blair presented several
petitions of citizens of Virginia North Carolina
| and South Carolina for national aid to common
schools. After transacting other unimportant
| business the Senate took up the Tariff bill The
/ Senate after being in continuous session for
| eleven hours, adjourned In the House a
| large number of bills were introduced Mr..
1 INN inf
| the Secretary OF the Interior to issue no more
patents to lands to any land grant roads until
further action of Congress. A bill was report
/ ed granting $50 per month to the grand
| daughter of Thomas Jefferson. The House
| then resumed consideration of the Tariff hin
which was under. consideration until adjourn
ment. =
In the Senate the 18TH the Tariff bin was
! resumed, the sugar schedule being under con-
/ sideration. Mr.. Bayard's amendment making
| the duty on sugar testing seventy-flve degrees
| by the polariscope Sl.40 per 100 pounds, adding
/ four cents per LOU pounds for every additional
degree until No. IL of the Dutch standard is
| reached, which would be equivalent to about
| ~ per cent advaiorem, was adopted, As to Is.
| the duty on sugars above No. 10 and not above
/ No. 20, at three cents. After further debate
the book schedule was reached and the Senate
| adjourned LIN the House the Senate bill
passed granting the right of way to the St Louis
| and San Francisco Railroad company throu OH
the Fort Smith, Ark, Military Reservation.
| merce, reported the River and Harbor bill The
| appropriation recommended is 1885, 900. The
| Tariff bill was then taken up, duringthe Debate
| upon which an angry passage of words was in
| dulged in between Haskell, Of Kansas and
| Townsend, OF Illinois. The House finally dis
| posed of the metal schedule and adjourned.
| In the Senate the 18th, Mr.. Blair introduced
a bill TO prohibit the employment or perform.
ance of labor by convicts or persons restrained
OF their liberty upon works or property of the
4 United States, and the expenditure of any
| moneys of the United States on account OF
| such labor. Mr.. Van Wyck introduced a reso-
luton that the Secretary of the Treasury be di-
rected to furnish the Senate copies of vouchers
| and items audited by the First Auditor of the
| Treasury on account of expenses incurred by
the Department of Justice since January |,
| 1882, with the names of special attorneys EN-
ployed by the Department of Justice. and by
| what authority in law he audited the bills and
accounts of said special or assistant attorneys
The Senate resumed consideration of the Tariff
| bill..... After the reading of the Journal the
| House went into Committee of the Whole Oh
the Tariff bill, consideration of which was con
tnued until the completion of the wood sched
| ule without making any changes when the
| House took recess until evening, when the
Legislative appropriation bill was taken up.