The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-02-21
PROCEEDINGS or CONGRESS-


SENATE-Soon after the senate met this
morning, Pendleton Of Ohio arose to perform
the saddest and one Of the most heroic acts OF
his life, and that was to present the credentials
elected to Mr. Pendleton's seat by the Ohio leg
islature He did it without finiching.
Bills were introduced for q survey of passes
q between the affiuents of the upper Mississippi
aud Columbia rivers to ascertain the distance
between the navigable waters of those rivers !;
authorizing a foot and carriage or railroad
bridge across the river at St Paul (Mr. McMil-
LAM; authorizing the Mississippi river commits
sion to appropriate land and material required
for its work. The bill passed securing to Amor
lean inventors the full term of seventeen years
for their patents in cases where foreign patents
expire before that time. The senate voted to
recede from its amendment to the Greedy relief
expedition bill The resolution for the relief
of Hood sufferers, mentioned in the house pro-
ceedlngs, was adopted
The bill reported in the senate fixing the sal
aries of judges of district courts fixed the sal
aries of judges of the districts of Minnesota
VI Kansas and Western Arkansas from July /,
1884, at $4,000 and the judges of the following
districts.
s The Senate confirmed; Henry d. Lyman,
Ohio, second assistant postmaster general;
William Christy Wilson, La, assayer of the
mint New Orleans; Thomas b. Knapp, post
! master, Iowa Falls, Iowa.
Register of Land ofices-Myron H. McCord,
Wausau, Wis; Henry Esperson, La Crosse,
Wis. b. n Johnson, Fergus Falls, Mimi );
Henry w. Lord, Creelsburg, Oak.
! Carrie g. Bell, receiver of public moneys, Bay
field, Wis
Nominations.-Henry NJ Lawson, Texas,
agent Quapaw agency Indian Territory; Dam
lei Is. Dyer, Kan, agent Cheyenne band, Ara
pshoe agency, Indian Territory, James IL.
aeswart, postmaster, Charleton, Iowa.
HoUsE-Bills and resolutions were intro
duced facilitating the settlement of private
land claims: restoring those dropped from the
pension rolls for disIoyalty; providing for the
election of president and aholishing the eiecto-
raj college; encouraging Indian education in
Dakota; abolishinS the office of assistant sur
geon general of the army; for
the construction of bridges across
the Mississippi tSt Paul (Mr Washburn); re-
pealing the import duty on books in foreign
languages milo Ehitel: for the preservation
of forests at the sources of nav;gable rivers;
amending the Pacific railroad act SO as to re-
qulre company to build a railroad and tele-
graph line from Sioux City, Iowa. west to the
Union Pacific via the Niobrara valley (Milo
Whltel requiring the secretary of the treasury
to pay S1oOQo0 100 in ) per cent. bonds. The
military academy appropriation bill was re-
ported, also q joint resolution appropriating
$500, eco for the relief of the flood sufferers.
After a long debata the resolution passed
s33 to IL
Mr.. Washburn introduced in the house to-
day bill to authorize the construction of one
or more carriage or railroad bridges across the
Mississippi river at St Paul 1t is a substitute
for similar bill introduced by him soma tim
Ago
/. A bill was introduced in the house to-day by
Hon. d. B. Henderson of Iowa TO provide for
the issue OF circulating notes to national bank
associations.