Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-16
CONGRESSIONAL.

The Tariff bill was early taken up in the
Senate the I'd, and the schedule on starch con-
cluded when the Senate then passed to the
consideration of the cotton and cotton goods
schedule, which elected a long debate. Mr..
Chilcott presented the credentials OF Mr.. Tabor
elected from Colorado, and he was sworn in
and took his seat In the House. on motion
OF Mr.. Payson. Of Illinois, a resolution was
adopted calling on the Secretary of the Inte-
rior for information i'm relation to the Leayen-
worth, Pawnee and western Railroad. After
the appointment OF cOnferees on the Postofice
Appropriation bill the House went into Com
mittee of the Whole on the Tariff bin. After a
lengthy debate the Committee rose and Mr.
Cannon from the Committee on Appropriations
reported the Legislative, Executive and Judi
cial Appropriation hill.
In the Senate the Sd. Mr.. Cocl1rell presented
memorials OF Missouri Changers asking for the
passage Of bill TO create the Office of Secre-
tary of Agriculture. At the close of the morn
ing business the Senate wentinto Executive SEES
sion, and when the doors were reopened the
Tariff bill was taken up and the cotton schcCi-
ule discussed ut length. Before a vote could
be had the House resolutions in relation to the
death of Representative Lowe were received.
After appropriate addresses the Senate adj
tourned 49,. In the House the Tariff was also
discussed in Committee of the Whole, when
public business was suspended, and the House
proceeded to the consideration of appropriate
resolutions on the death of Hon. VIM. NJ Lowe,
OF Alabama, and then adjourned
In the Senate the 9Th, Mr.. Van Wyck offered
a resolution directing the Committee on Pen
sions to inquire whether claim agents in Wash.
ington are practicing extortiOn for their SER
vices in procuring various claims for soldiers,
widows or orphans. After the Executive SEES.
sion the Tariff bill was taken up and the jute
schedule discussed. The debate took a wide
range, embracing cotton and other similar ar
tices. "A motion to strike jute from the sched-
uie and put IT on the free list was finally
adopted, "A to -. After further debate on jute
goods the schedule was disposed of, and wooden
goods reached, when the Senate adjourned
In the House a motion was made to suspend
the rulesa and pass the bill establishing the Ter
r1tory OF North Dakota and providing a tenn
Porary Government therefore. The House re-
fused to suspend the rules. The Tariff debate
was resumed when the motion was seconded
that on the 18th day of February, or on any day
thereafter, the Committee of the Whole hav-
ing consideration Of the House Tariff bill, is
hereby empowered to order the bill and amend
ments thereto reported to the House for its ao-
uon, and on that dav a motion made imthe
committee OF the whole to rise and report the
bill 10 the House shall take precedence of a
motion to amend.
On the 9th the President laid before the
Senate a memorial Of the Wisconsin Leg1sa,
ture, stating that the piers of railway bridges
across the Mississippi are dangerous to nayi-
CATION and asking the construction of shear
booms as soon as possible. Resolutions were
agreed 10 instructing the Committee on Pen
sions to inquire whether any CLAIM agents in
Washington are guilty of extOrtion. An az
preparation bill but failed, and the Senate re-
sumed the Tariff bill, the wooden schedule be-
ing under consideration. After the trans
action of some unimportant business the House
went into Committee Of the Whole on the Tariff
bill. Pending consideration the Committee
rose, and public business being suspended
appropriate resolutions upon the life and pub
lie services of the late Representatives, Upder.
gran, of Ohio, and Hawk, of Illinois, were
adopted. and the House adjourned.
Consideration Of the Tariff bill was resumed
I'm the Senate the 9TH. and the subject was
further discussed by Morrill,, Davis, Beck, Al
drich and others. When the schedule books
paper, etc, was reached Mr.. Ingalls, said he
would move to put books on the free list
There was no reason for the 20 per cent duty
laid upon them here. It would be a direct tax
upon knowledge and means of education and
ought to be struck out, and motian to strike
out the paragraph, so as to let books PAM
phlets and other printed matter go upon the
THE House went into Committee of
the Whole on the Tariff bill. the pending
amendment being that offered by Mr. Kelley
increasing the duty on IRON ore, including
manganiferous iron ore, also dross or residum
from burnt pyriteS from 80 to 20 cents per ton
Mr.. Anderson, of Kansas, offered an amend
ment to come in after the headline of the
schedule consisting of the metal schedule as
agreed upon by the Senate. Hesubmitted that
II IL was intended to pass any Tariff bill this
session IL could only be done by meeting
medium views as expressed by the Senate
schedule. IL that were done the country could
get tariff legislation, IL not IL would get no
tariff legislation. This called forth an exciting
colloquy between Messrs. Anderson and Page
ofCalifornia. After a long debate the Tariff
Was left as at present.