River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-05-29
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEED INGS

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answering Mr. Oliverss criticisms upon his
tHewittsl tariff bii The senate amendments
~ flie shipping bill were n-cOnCurfed in.
Mr. Ingalls, bill regarding tire judicial dis
tricts Of the United States, as amended and re-
ported hy the senate Judiciary committee.
changes the Eighth circuit so that j will COM
Prise Inc districts of Nebraska, Kansas m
katasas tnd Colorado, and the Ninth circuit 20
that It viii euptgiu the districts
If Minnesota, Iowa aud Missouri The Tenth
circuit is made the same as the present Ninth,
End the judge Of the Ninth Is made tic Judge
y IRE Tenth circuit II further provides thas
there shat ie appointed circuit indge for the
Ninth judicial circuit tneHf u the bill be-
comes law the Ninth circuit, ID Tlslch Mime
sofa is situated would be without judge. and
a new judge is thus provided for.
dr RaymOud's bin providing for two adti-
ffonai associate justices OF the supreme court
81 Dakota l,as reached the senate. and has beed
referred to Tie committee 90 judiciary
The house committees On military affairs IN
structed Representative sfOcuIn to report fav-
crabv his bill providing fhat llsTlcTably dis
charged soldiers or sailors he preferred for APP
poiutBent to civil offices when found to pos
sess the capacity necos sary for the proper
discharge Of the duiics ef s7ch Offices.
In the senate, the chair aprefutel Aessrs.
Sherman, Allison, Bayard and Lamar members,
on the part of the senate, of the committee to
supervise He dedication ceremonies III cOnnec-
tion with tlie Washington monument num-
Der of petitions were presented and referred,
trCtegting against any government assumption
of telegraph ser@ice
A bill passed the hotiss - Authorize the issue
of the congressional record ard statutes al
large TO public libraries. A bill passed auth
uriZing the construction Of bridge across tbs
Bississipui at Siblev Mo The Utah bill was
bid aside. and the bill establishing bureau
81 state statistics was taken up. Pending &C
ton tfnsriEnOus! consent was obtained 10 put the
following bffls upon their Passage, and they
passed: Bills permitting the erection of the
bridge across the Missouri at White Cloud
kans another across the satire Flvor at Rulo
kans; another across the same river between
its mouth and the mouth of the Dakota On
same river; another across the Mississippi tE
tween St Paul and Natchcz, and another
across the Illinois river between its mouth and
Peoria; also bill authorizing the Bellingham
Bay railroad and Navigation company TO btnid
bridges IN the Territory of Washington.
The commissioner Of pensions sent to the
senate a list of the widows Of army and navy
officers who are drawing pensigis Of more than
AJu a month Mrs Garfield receives 1000
year. the same that was given to Mrs. Lincoln,
gnd the widow of Admiral Earraght receives
5000 IN the army list the widows or sisters
If the following generals receive $50 per
tuorltl;
Hackleusn. Richardson, Wallace, Plummer,
Stevens Baker, WhIpplc, Sumiier, Bldwell,
Morris Berry, I0veii, Shields, Hentzloman,
Farley, Mitchell, Carey, hOsseau, Custer,
French, Ramsey. Warren and Mecham.
Jhe daughter Of President Zachary Taylor
also receives $50 per month. The house COM
mittcc on pensions has agreed to report Il lHlI
to give Mrs De Long, the Widow Of the Arctic
explorer a pension at $50 a month The bill
granting q pension Co Ainiira kaler Of Mceher
county MINI, favorab!y reported to the
house
After nearly three days Of wranSlinS thu
house decided the English-Peclle contest 10y
Gnscating Pcelie, Republican. and seating Eng
fish, Democ at by majority of three; more
than thirty Democrats voted against English
The sensation OF the day was the charge, made
in a very caustic speech by HorT of Michigan,
that English senior, father of the contestant,
has grossly abused the privilege of She floor,
as a former NJ. G. by Tesorting to obnoxious
and even Objectionable methods to secure
votes for his son.
A dozen democrats sprants to their feet TO
defend Mr.. English. and vehement speeches
we're made by Randall Cox and others. A res
0Iution was offered by Bayne of Pennsylvania
70 appoint committee of seven to Investigate
the charges in this connection against William
IT English. The resolution was adopted
The report of the senate committee on post
Offices and post roads ON the subject of postal
telegraph has been completed by Senator Hill.
1t gives a summary of the history, increase
debts. rental and capital stock OF the Western
Union telegraph company and value of its prop
ertv leased and otherwise, and says:
The pass e Of the postal telegraph bill will re-
duce the average charge per telegram IRON
and 10 twenty cents in five years, and secure
uniformity of charges, irrespective OF amount
Of business in different places for telegrams 10
newspapers and to commercial news asso-
Citations Under the present telegraphlc sys-
tenn the possibility of a species OF censorship
which is one of the most alarm
ing dangers which menace the coun-
try. arises IN two distinct ways.
first Is the power which telegraph companies
themselves have for manipulating news for
sinister purposes, and the second IS the same
association press and other similar associations
not themselves owning telegraph lines, but max
! spec al contracts for the transmission OF
kilograms over lines owned and managed by
others 1t will appear that the power of the tele-
graph company in this respect will be entirely
taken away by the pending bill, and that the pow
er1f the a associated press and similar assocIa-
tons will be greatly reduced The bill will effectu
ally take power away from tiU Western Union
OF any other private telegraph company by low
rates which il secures to everybody, and by tho
still lower rates which it secures commercial
news associations
On Friday in the senate Mr. Harrison re-
ported favorably. from the committee on terri
tories, the house bill i'll relation to the leglsla
tl1re of Dakota, which provides that that body
shall consist of twenty four members of the
council and forty-eight members of the house
and that they shall be elected at the nCXt gen
eTal election in the territory; two members OF
the council and four members of the senate
The pension appropriation and labor bureau
bills passed, the vote on the latter measure be
ing - to = The house bill providing for the
muster and pay of certain officers and men Of
the volunteer forces also passed. Adjourned
till Monday.
ON Friday, in the House, Mr.. Kellogg offered
a resolution instructing the committee on ex-
penditures of the department of Justice to in
quire into hist Kellogg slalleged connection Will
star route frauds After speech by Kellogg
and long discussion, the resolution was re-
ferred TO the committee ON Judiciary, to report
whether the house has legal right thus te
order an investigation of the acts of a member
before his term of service began. The bill fol-
the payment of quartermaster claims, known
Fourth of July 'ialns, and appropriately
s30O,000, passed The house at the evening
session passed forty six pension bills, luclud
ing one giving $50 per month to the wife OF
Gen. Ord
Mr. Springer took occasion to speak in strong
condemnation of the bill to retire Gen Grant
and to give him pension of $40, 125 year
simply because he had been unfortunate In
Nal street II was said that Gen. Grant had
not been aware of the dealings of his partners
but the fact remained that he had associated
himself with spectators who were involved IL
the most disrepuable practices which had ever
been heard of in this country, and were only
paralleled i'll other countries by the South Sea
bubble and John Laws Mississippi scheme.
This was not the time nor We're the circum-
stances sIch as called upon congress to go to
Grants relief
The senate has passed substitute for the
house bill establishing a labor bureau. 1t pro-
vides for a commissioner of labor TO be ap-
pointed by the president and confirmed by the
senate and who shall hold office for four years
at an annual salary of 5000. A chief clerk
at 1900 year, Is to be appointed by the sec
rotary of the interior The business of the
bureau shall be to collect information upon
the subject of labor its relations TO capital,
hours &C labor and earnings of laboring men
and women and means of promoting their ma
teTial, social, intellectual and moral prosperity,
at an annual expense of not moro than SIS, 900.
year.
In the senate, on Monday, the 18th, the judi
Cisry committee reported fsvofably tMr. Gar
land dissenting) the bill for two more Dakots
supreme court associate justices. The senate
in the face Of an adverse recommendation by
tho Judiciary committee, concUrred in tAt
house amendment 70 the bill extending for ont
year the duration of the court
Of Alabama claims The Utah bill
Of Georgia offered the following amendment
ThSt voluntary sexual intercourse of a married
person with one of the opposite sex not hus
band OF wife Of such married person, shall b.
cause and the only cause for absolute divorce
in the District of Columbia or in the territories
of the United States: but tile courts may. il
proper eases as at Conmonlaw, grant divorces
from he'd and board in said district the terri
taYtos or other places subject Ia the exclusive
jurisdiction OF the United States
Mr. White Of Minnesota introduced into the
house a bill granting pension 70 Charles
Brandt The pension claims of Brainard \,
Theclors Of Henderson, Mimi, and Ellen d
Woolsiv, of Bonnells Mills MINI. have been al
lowed There also has been an adverse decision
IN the IL Sc of William ; Grave Of Monteyideo
NiGn AIr Strai, viii appeal 90 the secretary