St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-05-10
The House of REPRESENTATIVES,

WASHINGTON, May 9.-Mr. Willis presented q
remonstrance from the Louisville Board of
Trade against the enactment of the bankrupt
law. Referred.
The bill granting the additional pension to the
widow of General Frances P. Blair was passed.
1t grants her $1,000 for her husbands services
iu organizing troops, and increases her pension
to $50 month.
The house then went into committee
of the whole, Mr. Cox, of New
York, in the chair, on the private cal
endar The first two bills on the calendar were
considered and discus sed together. The first
appropriating 900 for the relief of Willis N.
Arnold of Henderson, Tenn, reported favora-
bly, by the committee on war claims;
the second for the relief of Hiram johnson and
forty other persensof the same place, reported
adversely Both these claims have been pending
in congress many years, and grew out of the
rebel raid on Henderson, in November 49, Prop
erty to the value of S26, Isl was destroyed, of
which s1s III belonged to loyal citizens, So, 500
to the Mobile & Ohio Railroad company. and
S., ,oso to the United States. On account of these
depredations an assessment was made on the
loyal citizens Of the place and the money turned
over to the provost marshal; S9,6O6 of the
amount was paid over to Aldridge and Patterson,
two Of the sufferers from the raid, and
the remainder covered into the treas
ury. Willis n. Arnold, claims to
have been loyal citizen, and to have suffered
the loss of $4,000, while Hiram johnson ct al
were the disloyal citizens, on whom the assess
ment was made, and who now claim that the sum
remaining in treasury should be divided among
them pro rata. The debate consumed nearly the
whole day, the supporter of the johnson bill as
sertng that Arnold did not suffer the loss which
he complains Of, that the disloyal citizens of
Henderson were in no way responsible for the
raid and that the government had no right to
| take the money f1om the pockets of one man to
| reimburse another. The committee finally sub
stituted the johnson bill for the Arnold BILL and
| reported its recommendation to the house. but
| no further action was taken.
Mr. FoIlett, from the committee on appropria-
| tions, reported back the District of Columbia
| appropriation bill. 10 the committee Of the
| whole.
! 1t was ordered that when the house adjourned
| to-day, 1t be to Monday, and the speaker re-
| quested the members to assemble in the house
| tomorrow in order to attend in body the un-
yelling of the statue of Chief Justice Marshall.
The speaker laid before the house commune
| cation from the secretary of war, recommending
| an additional appropriation Of 100000 for the
relief of sufferers by the floods in the lower Mis-
sissippi valley. Referred. The house took a
recess until O'Clock, the evening session to be
for the consideration Of the pension bills.
The house at the evening session passed
twenty. eight pension bills and adjourned until
| Monday.
The capitol was brilliantly lighted this evening
in honor Of the National Medical association. The
members Of the association, many of them ac-
companied by their ladies, were received in the
marble room OF the senate by Speaker Carlisle
and Senator Edmunds, assisted by Senator Nor
rill, and the guests were introduced by Dr. Gar
rett, of Washington. Later in the evening they
visited the army medical museum, where they
were received by Surgeon General Wales of the
U. S. N.
DURING his season at St. Louis the Boy Preach
er Harrison made some thirteen hundred con-
verts, and received a dollar per capita, or per-
haps per soul would be the better term The
old boy had quite a profitable engagement 81, 800
for three months.