Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-02-26

Ieaees, euA vhsthsp to Issssss haA sur
voyed the land
| A vote being taken on Vests amend
menf, II vas rejected By IA TO IS. Th,
question recurring on the bill a. modi
Ned BY the amendment of Morrill,. i
wAs passed by ~ yeas to IL NAYS. tn.
bill as passed Is 40 follows:
be 1t enacted. etc, That apon any de
post already or hereafter made of an,
United states bonds bearing interest In
the manner required BY law, any Ma
taonal BsnkinR Association making the
same shall be entitled to receive from
the Comptroller Of the Currency circu-
lation notes Of different denominations
la blank, registered and couniersigned
AZ PROVIDED by iav, not exceeding the
wnoie amount. paE value, Of the bonds
depoN ed that at no time shall the
total amount Of such notes issued to any
such association exceed the amount al
such time actually paid in of its capital
stick and all laws and psrts of laws
Inconsistent with the provisions of this
act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. That associations organized
Tor the purpose Of issning notes pay
Able undor the provisions # section
5lS5 Of the Revised Statutes Of the
United states, upon the deposit Of any
United States bonds bearing interest,
With the Treasurer of the United
States, shall be entitled to receive circu
laein3 notes to the amount and in the
manner prescribed in the act for other
national banking associations.
80. 3. That all laws and parts Of
laws inconsistent With the provisions Of
this act be and are hereby repealed.
The presiding officer then laid on the
table a i'll 70 authorize the cunstruc-
ton of additional steel vessels for the
navy.
After executive session the Senate
adjourned.
Ellis, rising to . question of privilege,
sent ~ the clerks desk and had read
from the New York Sun of saturday ex-
tracts from document said to be in the
possession Of the Post Office Depart
ment, stating that George F. Bratt gave
a fee of several hundred dollars to E.
John Ellis for services IN securing . star
route contract ON the Donaldson route
Ellis entered a solemn and uneqaivocal
denial Of the whole story, and said that
Bratt's denial of it was ON file in the
Post Office Department. but he could
not rest content with Bratt's denial and
his own assertions, and asked the house
to make An investigation.
Gibson introduced joint resolution
appropriating $4,000 for distribution
of seed among sufferers from the Ohio
floods. Ref rred.
Clements, from the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, reported resolution
requesting the President ~ transmit to
the House all communication between
the United States and Russia, especially
in relation to Hebrew citizens of the
United States. Adopted.
Under the call of the States the fol-
lowing bills weie introduced and re-
ferred:
By Oate-To prohibit aliens and for
eigners acquiring or owning land within
tbs United States.
BY ROseerans-To authorize the coin
age of silver dollars and fractions of
dollar, and double eagles and half
eagles also 10 establish q system of
coinage Of gold and silver and obtain
proximity of value between them.
BY BelfOrd-A resolution calling on
the secretary of State for information
touching the alleged subsection of
naturalized German American citizens
70 military duty while temporarily re
siding il Germany.
BY Finnerty-A joint resolution de-
clarinR that Congress laments the death
of Wendell Phillips a. a natl, nal be-
reaveDent.
By McComas-Proposin9 a constitu-
tiona amendment providing that no
State shall be precluded BY grant of
any charter to q corporation from tax
ing the capital stock of such corpora
ton.
BY Stsvens-To establish An inter
State railroad transportation bureau
for the regulation Of commerce with
foreign nations and among the States
and with the Indian tribes.
by q. d. Wise-FOr the completion o:
the monument to the mother Of Wash
iugton at Fredericksburg.
By Dunn-FOr an appropriation OF
$500, for the relief Of persons rem
dered destitute by the overlooking of
the Mississippi river and tributaries.
BY Irish, from the Committee on
Pacific kailways-A bill requiring the
Pacific railway companies to pay t1e
cost of surveying their lands. Calen-
DR..
By Willis, from Committee on Edu-
oation-A bill to aid and tems orarily
support common schools. Committee
of tie whole.
Evans, from tho Committee on Terri
tories, reported the bill providing
civil government for Alaska. Commit.
tee of the whole. Also requiring Gov
errors Of Territories to be residents of
such Territories for two years before
the date of appointment. Calendar.
The House went into Committee of
che whole, Blackburn in the chair, ON
the pleuro pneumonia bill.
Hatch, Of Missouri, supported the bill
He ridiculed the fear expressed by some
opponents of the bill that it would pro-
vide for q large number Of federal Of
ficials to work against the DOmoorati,
party, He was not afraid Of few
more Office holders that was not what
the Democratic party had to fear. What
the Democratic party wanted was funer-
ala, funerals in New York. funerals in
Indiana, and funerals in Ohio. Laugh
tori II wanted to bury some Of the
bArnacles and corpses hanging to it. II
had National Committee sit here .
few days ago, and a majority Of that
committee did not have even originality
or Independence enough to find place
in the United States wherein TO hold n
convention outside the place where the
Republican convention was TO be held.
He had travelled long enough in the
wake Of the old barnaoles in the Demo
cratic party following the Republican
+, arty. He wanted little new blood ia
is, little independence In it, little
originality in it. Before he would have
followed the Republican party to Chi
eaeo he would have Rons TO Les Angeles;
he would have gone where tho saer-
mometsr recorded 400 degrees below
Zero or 800 above the boiling point.
rather than have gone TO Chicago.
[LAughter.l He would have the Demo
cratic party possess Independence
enough - strike out for once on it, own
hook.
Tns bill vas then read by sections for
amandmcnt.
Hatch offered an amendment, provid-