Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-16
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.


THURSDAY. April 3.-Bills reported favorably
and placed on the calendar: For the erection
of public building in Sacramento: for free
bridge over the Cumberland River at Nashville;
to authorize the construction of bridge over
the Missouri at White Cloud, Kas. Bills intro
duced and referred: To provide for the gov
ernment and control of the Sault st. Marie
canal; to provide for the establishment of a
slk-culture bureau. A resolution was agreed
to. instructing the committee on library to in
qulre into the exL Lediency of purchasing from
the Lewis family for the United States the
sword worn by Washington on the occasion of
his resigning his commission to Congress.
The Senate then took up the education bill,
and after debate adjourned. -.
referred making an appropriation of 100000
for the protection Of existing levees on the
lower Mississippi. After debate on the edu-
cation bill the Senate adjourned.
SATURDAY, April 5.-The Senate passed bill
making it felony for person falsely to assume
to be an officer of the United States; and an.
other to authorize the construction of q rail-
road bridge across the st. Croix River in the
states of Wisconsin and Minnesota. s-st
MONDAY, April AFTER the transaction Of
unimportant business the Senate took up the
education bill. An amendment was adopted
fixing the amount appropriated at $77, ,OoO, 900,
distributed over period of eight years. Hoar's
first amendment was then taken up providing
that the amount to be distributed the first year
be $7.000,O0O the second year 1000, ,O0O,
the third $1,000, ,ooe. and then diminish the
rate so, COO, GOO yearly until the expiration of
the eighth year when the appropriations shall
cease. The amendment was agreed to-38
yeas. - nays. Another amendment of
Mr.. Hoar's was agreed to-, providing that equal
opportunity in education be given to all chill
dren of state. The motion Of Mr.. Logan was
agreed to. striking out the section which per-
mltted states having less than per cent. ilit-
eracy to use money for normal schools or in
dustrial education. A number of amendments
offered by MIR. Harrison were agreed to. The
bill beng completed as in committee of the
whole, was reported to the Senate, read three
times and passed, after which the Senate ad-
journed.
TUESDAY, April S.-Bllls lintroduced:. For
the deposit in the treasury of the receipts of
the money-order system, and for the payment
of its expenses out Of the appropriations; to
provide for the establishment Of terms of
court in the district of Colorado. The follow
ing bills were passed: To authorize the con-
st1uction Of bridge over the Rio Grsnde be-
tween Eagle Pass, Tex, and Piedras Negras,
Mexico, and bridge over the same river be-
tween Laredo, Tex, and Nueva Laredo, Mex
leo. The Chair laid before the Senate bill to
throughout the United States. Adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, April 9.-The original bill to
establish postal telegraph system was favora-
bly, reported. The bill provides for contracts
with existing companies The balance of the
session was consumed in debate on the naval
appropriation bill, but without action the
Senate adjourned.
|, .s-a; ~ House.
THURSDAY, April 3.-George, of Oregon.
from the committee on Indian affairs, reported
back a resolution which was adopted, authoriz-
ing the Secretary Of the Interior to make an ex-
animation into the massacre Of DR.. Marcus
Whitmore and others in Oregon in 1847. A
resolution from the committee on accounts
authorizing the employment in the dOorkeeper's
department of the House of force of laborers
to fold speeches was adopted. The morning
hour was dispensed with, and the House went
into committee Of the whole, Mr.. Welborn in
the chair, on the Indian appropriation bill.
Adjourned. s.a j. a.+.S -. - -
FRIDAY, April 4.-The morning hour was dis
pensed with and the House went into COM
mittee of the whole on the Indian appropria-
tiOn bill, and when the committee rose the
House passed the bill. At the evening session
eighteen pension bills were adopted. -
SATURDAY. April 5.--The Speaker laid before
the House communication from the Attorney
General, submitting an estimate of deficiencies
in the appropriations for the United States
courts as follows: For fees of United States at
torneys, $50, 900; clerks of United States courts
500, 600; jurors, 100000; witnesses, $3.50, 600;
miscellaneous expenses, $S0, 1000, and fees Of
marshals, 1000, The House passed the ag-
by increasing by $25, 900 the appropriation For
the distribution of seeds, planta, ETC..
MONDAY Anril IA resolution WAS ad0nfad