Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-02-22
! PROCEEDINGS on CONGRESS-.
Mon dny, F'ey,a,,taa.y IL.

SENATE. Soon after the senate met this
morning, Pendleson Of Ohio arose to perform
the saddsst and one Of the most heroic acts OF
I his life, md that was TO present the credentials
Of his successor, Henry b. Payne, recently
elected to Mr. Pendleton's seat by the Ohio leg
islature He did it without hniching
:i Bills wore introduced for survey OF passes
between the affluents Of the upper Mississippi
and Columbia rivers to ascertain the distance
( between the navigable waters Of those rivers;
authorizing foot and carnage ca. or rMlr ,2a'
bridge across the river at st. Paul (Afr McMl-
Lam; authorizing the Mississippi river commits
sion to appropriate land and material required
for its work The bill passed securing to Amer
lean inventors the full term Of seventeen years
for their patents in cases where foreign patents
expire before that time. The senate voted TO
recede from it's amendment to the Greedy relief
expedition bill The resolution for the relief
of flood sufferers, mentioned in the house pro-
cesdings was adopted
III The bill reported in tho senate fixing the sal
aries Of judges Of district courts fixed the sal
aries Of Judges Of the districts OF Minnesota,
Kansas and Western Arkansas FROM July, !,
1881, at 81, 0O0 and the judges of the following
districts
T4e Senate confirmed; Henry D. Lyman,
& Ohio, second assistant postmaster general |;
William Christv Wilson, La, assayer of the
mint, New Orleans; Thomas B. Knapp, post
master, Iowa Falls, Iowa. .
Register of Land Oftices--Myron #. McCord,
I Wausau, Wis Henry Esperson, La Crosse,
Wis. b. N. Johnson Fergus Falls, Mimi
Henry W. Lord, Creelsburg, Oak.
Carrie g. Bell, receiver of public moneys, Bay
field, Wis
Nominations Henry NJ. Lawson, Texas,
agent Quapaw agency, Indian Territory; Dan
lel B. Dyer, Kan, agent Cheyenne band, Ara
pahoe agency, Indian Territory. James Fl.
Stewart postmaster, Charleton, Iowa
HOUSE Bills and resolutions were intro
dnced facilitating the settlement Of private
land claims: restoring those dropped from the
pension rolls for alsloyalty; providing for the
election oi president and abolishing tho electo.
raj colleges; encouraging Indian education il
Dakota; ,aboiishing the Office of assistant sur.
geon general Of the army; fol
t th construct1en Of bridges across
pealing the Import duty on books in foreign
languages (Nilo White; for tho preservation
Of forests at tho sources of navigable rivers
amending the Pacific railroad act 80 as to re-
quire u company Il, build a railroad and tele
graph line from Sioux City, Iowa, west to thu
Union Pacific via the Niobrara valley QAIilt
Whitol requiring the secretary of the treasury
to pay 500, 900 900 in 3 per cent bonds. The
military academy appropriation bill was re
600 for the relief of the food sufferers
After u long debate the resolution passed
:a.33 to H.
Mr. Washburn introduced i'll the house to
day n bill to authorize the construction of one
or more carriage or railroad bridges across thu
mississippi river at St Paul. 1t is substitute
for Similar bill Introduced by him some tim
ago.
A bill was introduced in the house to-day b.
Hon. d. b. Henderson Of Iowa to provide 70
the Issue of circulating notes to national banl
associations.