McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-03-27
HOUSE and SENATE.

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CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE,
MONDAY, March 15.-Mr. ALI
son presented joint resolution
lating that pleuro- is raging
there and urging the adoption Of means for
its extirpation.
Messrs. Mcmillan, Palmer and Mander-
son presented petitions from the citizens of
their respective states, praying that con-
hibiting the Acknowledgement of citizens on
account of sex.
Mr.. Van Wyck offered resolution, which
was agreed to, directing the committee on
public lands to inquire in what manner large
| quantities Of public lands had come into the
possession Of foreign corporations and syn
dicates, and report what legislation, II any,
was advisable in the premises.
Mr.. Plumb's joint resolution making an
appropriation for the suppression of foot
and mouth disease was taken up. He
| moved to increase the amount of appropri-
alton by resolution from So, 900 to $50, 600,
| which was agreed to. Mr.. Plumb also
|
adding provisO that no action of the COM
mittee OF agriculture, under the joint reso-
luton, should commit the government be-
yond the amount therein appropriated.
! The Joint resolution was then passed
yeas, 90; nays, IA. AS passed it appropri-
ates $50, 900 to be used by the commissioner
Of agriculture with the cooperation of the
authorities of states in which it may be used
for stamping out foot and mouth disease,
the government not to be committed beyond
the amount named.
| Bills were presented: BY Mr.. Hewitt, to
suspend for two years the coinage of silver
dollars, and making it unlawful for the Sec
rotary OF the treasury to print and issue
treasury notes of the denomination of ST.
and 81.
By Mr.. Robinson, authorizing the Sec
rotary of the treasury to pay $50, 900 to Mrs.
septemia Randolph Meikieham, grandchild
of Thomas Jefferson.
Mr.. Oates, from the committee on revis-
| ion OF laws, moved to suspend the rules
and pass the following amendment to Sec
lions and 8, revised statutes: ''And the
| United States in such cases Capital offenses)
in conformity with the practice in any state,
have the right in that state to stand jurors
and not show cause for disqualification or
| challenge until the venue shall be gone
| through.'' Lost, 1853 to 81.
| On motion of Randall the rules were
suspended and the special deficiency bill,
appropriating ST. SIC, 900, was passed.
TUESDAY, March 1S.-Mr. Hawley
introduced bill to authorize the secretary
of the navy to offer reward of $25, 900 for
rescuing or ascertaining the fate of the
Greedy arctic expedition. Mr.. Hawley said
such reward might induce ships crossing
in or about the arctic seas to keep look
casionally out OF their course in order to
gather information about it. The above is
the plan suggested by Geo. Kenna, the arc
tic traveller, when called before the Greedy
relief board to give his views concerning the
rescue of Greedy and his comrades.
The bill to aid the. establishment and
temporary support of common schools was
taken up. It appropriates, the first year,
$15, 0O0, 600, the second year, $14 600, 900;
| the third year, $13, OOO, 200, and so on for
each year, decreasing ST 1000, OC0 yearly, to
be expended on common school education,
the expenditure for each state to be on
basis of illiteracy.
Observation-Disclosures the con-
struction of bridges across the Missouri
river at Sibley and Leavenworth. Placed
on the house calendar.
Mr.. Perkins, for the sale of the Iowa In
dian reservation in Kansas and Nebraska.
Placed on the house calendar.
Mr.. Nelson, granting the right of way
through the Sioux Indian reservation
in Dakota to the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul, and the Dakota Central railroad
companies. Placed on the house calendar.
At expiration OF the morning hour, the
house went into committee of the whole on
the postofice appropriation.
Mr.. Reagan offered an amendment eX-
tending to the members of congress the
right to use penalty envelopes in the trans
action of official business.
After discussion the amendment was lost
81 to SO.
The amendments agreed to in committee
Of the whole were adopted, with the excep-
ton of that increasing, by $400, 200, the ap-
preparation for the letter carrier service,
which was rejected-123 to 1879. The bill
was then passed-16O to II.
WEDNESDAY, March 19.-Mr. Harri-
son reported it inexpedient to establish
military academy west of the Mississippi
for training Indian youths as soldiers.
Mr.. H0ar called up the bill introduced by
him and reported favorably from the COM
mittee on judiciary, fixing the salary of
United States district judges at S. 600. The
matter went over.
The chair laid before the senate as I'M
finished business the bill to aid in the
establishment and support Of common
schools.
Mi. Sherman said that of $15, ZOO, 900 ap-
propriated over $11 ,000, 200 would 60 to the
south and out of control of the national
government. He was unwilling to vote any
large amount of money into the hands of
those who, he feared, did not act justly in
the education Of the people for whom the
money was intended. He was unwilling to
vote to southern states money from the
public treasury for any purpose until we
had better evidence than had been given
within the last year that the money so
given would be expended for the advan-
tage of the United States.
A few amendments to the details were
made in the bill and the senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
Reports were submitted: From MIR.
Blair from the committee on coinage,