Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-06


Senator Allison asked for a location for a
home for volunteer and disabled soldiers
i'll the States of Arkansas, Colorado, Kan
sas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri or Ne
braska.
Senator Buffers resolution, offered yes
terday, was agreed to, directing the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to transmit to the
Senate the testimony taken last summer
relating to Supervising Architect Hill.
Senator Fair introduced a Joint resolu-
ton for the appropriation of sufficient
sum to remove the remains of soldiers
buried at Fort Churchill to the Soldiers
Cemetery at Carson City.
Senator Butler offered a bill asking
unanimous consent and immediate con-
sideratiOn OF a resolution requesting the
President, If not incompatible with public
interests, to communicate to the Senate the
record of proceedings and testimony and
findings of the court of inquiry relating to
the loss of the Proteus. Laid over till to-
morrow.
Senator Sherman called up bill re-
ported by him some days ago from the
Committee on Finance, suspending for
further period of five years the section Of
the Revised Statutes which prohibits the
taking of guano except for use for the
United States from the guano islands
under the protection Of the United States.
The bill passed.
Senator Bayard asked that bill recently
reported by him from the Committee on
Finance providing for the issue OF circu-
lating notes to national banking associa-
tons be made the special order for Wednes-
day, February 18th, at 3 o'clock. 1t was
unanimously agreed to.
The bill reported from the Committee
on Private Land Claims for settling in
anr,n1a+n tifla To lands Al,
United States from Mexico, was then re-
sumed. Extended debate ensued and it
was voted down without action.
Senator Hawley introduced a bill amend
ing the pension laws, and providing for
the protection Of pensioners against the
schemes of dishonest pension attorneys.
Senator Morrill, introduced a bill in
amendment to Senator McPherson's bill
TO provide for the issue of circulating notes
TO national banking associations, which is
really a substitute for that bill.
Hcuse.-Mr. Young, chairman of the
Committee on Expenditures in the In
ter or Department, reported resolution
authorizing a committee To fnvAsti=
gate the condition of the work at Hot
Springs creek, and to send a sub-commit-
tee of five members to Hot Springs to
pursue the Investigation, and appropriate
ing $1,000 for that purpose.
Mr.. White Ky opposed the resolution
on the ground that he merely looked on it
as a junketing expedition, statement en-
phatically denied bv Mr.. Young. The
resolution was rejected-l02 to l53.
Mr.. Dorshe,mAr; of the Committee on
Judiciary, reported in granting COPY
rights to citizens of foreign countries.
House calendar.
Mr.. Hanley, of the Committee on Pub
lie Lands, reported bill donating a part
of the abandoned Fort Smith military
reservation to the town of Fort Smith for
school purposes. Committee of the Whole.
Mr.. Perkins, of the Committee on In
dian Affairs, reported bill granting the
right of way through the Indian Territory
to the Southern Kansas railway.
Mr.. Payson, OF the Committee on Pub
lie Lands, reported back the Senate bill
repeating section l of the act granting
lands to aid the construction OF the Iron
Mountain railway from Pilot Knob to
Helena.
A bill for the erection of a public build
ing at Fort Smith, to cost S250,000, was re-
ferred to the Committee of the Whole.
Mr.. Browne lind. Introduced a bill to
prohibit lottery advertisements and the
sale of lottery tickets in the District oi
Columbia and the Territories. Referred.
The House went into Committee of the
Hole, with Mr.. CoDD Ind. IN the
chair, on bill establishing a bureau of
animal industry on the subject of pleuro-
pneumonia.
Mr.. Hatch Mo. ], chairman Of the Com
mittee of Agriculture, explained the pro-
visions of the bill to the committee. He
said he had met with difficulty IN har-
monizing the power which belonged to the
Federal government and the power which
belonged to the States over private prop
erty within their borders. There was
no doubt that under the constitu-
tional power to regulate commerce
Congress had the right to control the
OF diseased cattle from one
State TO another. Ii had also been diff
cult to devise measure by which the CO.
operators OF States could be secured and
stamp out pledro.pneumonia. The com
mittee believed the proposition submitted
was the best that could be framed. 1t di-
rected the Commissioner of Agriculture, by
proper investigation, to locate the disease,
and to notify the State authorities of the
fact that it exists, and to what extent, and
invite the cooperation of the State, and
request 1t to pay half the expense to
eradicate IL.