Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-04-25
THURSDAY, APRIL II.

THURSDAY, APRIL II.
Selate-The senate went into eXecu-
tive session, and when the doors re open
ed Cockrell introduced bill to provide
for the appointment OF the Missouri
river commission, to carry into effect
the plans for the improvement Uf said
river from its mouth to its head water
The senate proceeding to the Considera.
tion of bills on the five minute calendar,
took up the bill 10 authorize the Secre-
tary of war to adiust and settle tue aC-
counts for arms betwCeH South Carolina
and the government of the United
States, and to balance the same by so re
ducing the overcharge made against the
state in 1869, IS that amount paid on ac-
count by South Carolina in the last ten
wears may be taken in full satisfaction of
the account. After some discussion the
bill passed: yeas 50. nays H. The senate
then passed the bill to authorize and
direct maHagers of homes for disabled
soldiers to locate a branch home at
some suitable point in either Arkansas.
Colorado, Kansas. Iowa, Minnesota,
Missouri, or Nebraska.
House The morning hour being dis
pensed with, the house went into COM
mittee of the whole, Springer in the
chair, on the pension appropriation bill.
After hours of general debate the bill
wasread by paragraphs for amendments.
A great many amendments We're made,
bat before the entire bill was Rad the
committee arose and the house adjourn
ed
SATURDAY, APRIL 10.
Sendte-T The senate was not in ses-
sion.
HouSe-The house passed bill for the
establishment of bureau of labor sta
tiStics, at an expense Of not over S25. 00O
per annum. The speaker presented a
message from the president recommend
ing an appropriation of S25, goo to defray
the expenses of the special embassy
from Siam.
MONDAY. APRIL 81.
Sendte-A bill was passed to provide
for the relief of the trustees of the
southern Illinois Normal university al
| Carbondale; also bill which authorizes
| the secretary of the war to cancel anv
Indebtedness the trustees Of the univer.
sity may owe to the United States by
reason of the destruction of arms and
accoutrements and property of the
| United States by fire which was con
sumed in the university building. The
senate then took up the bar BkruptCy bill
and after many amendments were made
passed the bill.
| HouSe-A large number of bills aS
| introduced and referred. Mr.. Dngiy
from the shipping committee. moved lC
suspend the rules and pass the bill ere
! ating a bureau of navigation in the
treasury department. The motion wa;
| agreed TO and the bill passed: 110 to Al
| Mr.. Warner. from the committee or
pensions. bounty and back pay, moved
10 suspend the rules and pass the bill
providing that every person specified IL
| the several classes enumerated in the
pension laws of the L. S., who served il
the fed in the military or naval service
in any war in which the Z. S. had beer
engaged, for a period of three month:
or more. and his honorabla discharges
and IS not receiving pension, or greater
| pension than that provided for herein
but who. by reason of any wound, in
Jury or disease which there is probabl,
cause to believe originated in said ser
vice in the lire of duty, and not as ;
result of their own misconduct o.
bad habits or other known saus,
occurring since such service, il
now disabled in whole or in part 70
procuring his subsistence by manua
labor, shall, upon making due proof o
the facts under such gulations.as ma,
be prescribed by the proper authorities
not inconsistent with the provisions o
this act, be placed upon the list of pen
sloners or the United States and ue en-
titled 10 receive a pension during tn
continuance of such disability, at rat
proportgonate to TIE degree thereof, hi
true physical condition TO be ascertaine'
and. certified and provided by law. upol
examination by a competent board o
surgeons duly appointed, such pension
to commence at the date of filing tn
application: therefore that in all appli
cations under the general pension law
included in this act where 1t appears b
record the evidence that the applican
was regularly enlisted and mustered in
to the service and served for thre
months or more that fact shall b
sufficient prima facie evidence that b
was then in good health and free froE
disease or cause of the disability fo
which he claims pension Tie mc
ton was agreed to and the bill passet
, yeas 165, nays 81