Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-05-22
CONGRESSIONAL.

CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate on May 9th the Indian APP
preparation bill was discussed at length, but
no action was taken. After an executive
session adjourned.
In the House on May 9th the bill grant
ing $1,000 to the widow of Gen. F. P. Blair
for organizing troops, and increasing her
pension to $50 per month, passed.
In Committee of the Whole, private bills
were considered.
The first two bills on the calendar were
| considered and discussed together, the first
appropriating $4,000 for the relief of Willis
| n. Arnold, of Henderson, Tennessee, was
reported favorably by the Committee on
War Claims. The second, for the relief of
| Hiram Johnson and forty-six other persons
of the same place. was reported adversely.
Both these claims have been pending in
Congress for many years and grew out of
the rebel raid on Henderson in
November 1862, when property to val
ue of $26,751 was destroyed of which
SIS, III belonged to loyal citizens, SIS, 800 to
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, $1,000 to
the United States. On account of these
depredations an assessment was made on
the dislOyal citizens of the place, and the
money was turned over to the Provost
Marshal. Nine thousand six hundred and
six dollars of the amount so assessed
was paid over to Aldridge and Patterson,
two of the sufferers from the raid, and
the remainder covered into the treasury.
Willis N. Arnold claims to have been
loyal citizen, and to have suffered a loss
of $4,000, while Hiram Johnson ct al were
dislOyal citizens on whom an assessment
was made, and who now claim that the
sum remaining in the Treasury should be
divided between them pro rata. The de-
bate consumed nearly the entire day. The
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Arnold bill and reported to the House. No
further action on it was taken.
The District of Columbia Appropriation
bill was reported.
The Speaker laid before the House a COM
municatiOn from the Secretary of War rec
Ommending an additional appropriation for
the relief of sufferers by floods in the lower
Mississippi river.
The evening session was devoted to pen
sion bills.
The House Committee on Expenditures
for the Department of Justice, have decided
to make no investigation of Senator Kel-
logs case, except so far as may be neces-
sary to prove the good faith of the Gov
eminent officials in procuring the indict-
ments.
Hewitt proposes to introduce a new tariff
bill.
In the Senate on May 10th resolution of
the Legislature of California was presented,
relative to the expenditure of certain money
appropriated to improve the Sacramento
river.
Pension bills were considered until the
hour for the unwilling of the statue of Chief
Justice Marshall, which ceremony was wit
messed by Congress in body. Upon reas-
sembling the Senate adjourned.
Representative Collins was directed to IA
vorably report on the joint resolution pro-
posing an amendment to Article 10 of the
Constitution. The amendment consists of
the insertion of the word nativity" and
makes the first section read as follows: "The
right of q citizen of the United States to
vote shall not be denied or abridged by any
State on account Of nativity, race, color or
previous condition of servitude."
In the Senate, on May 18th, petition
was presented from the American Medical
Association, that steps be taken to prevent
the spread of epidemic diseases.
Senator Mcmillan, from the Committee
on Judiciary, offered a resolution, which
was agreed to, authorizing the committee
to inquire into the facts forming the basis of
the bill recently introduced by Garland to
amend the Thurman bill relating to the
claims of the Government against the
Union and Central Pacific Railroads. The
committee was authorized to send for per
sons and papers.
Senator Plumb introduced a bill from the
Committee on Public Lands, granting q
cemetery site to the city Of Krwin, Kan.
A joint resolution was submitted, relative
to the registration Of marriages and deaths.
Van Wyck's resolution, directing the Sec