The Dickinson press., 1884-06-28
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

effect is to strike out of the bill the words. stto.
gether with all rights, titles and privileges, .
and to insert the words {" provided that said
Fitz John Porter shall receive no compensation
ment under this act, " instead of the following
words in the bill: "But this act shall not be
construed as authorizing pay, compensation OF
allowance prior to his appointment under it.
The conference report was agreed to-15S to
81.
Mr.. Cook introduced in the house q bill
changing the place of holding the courts in
the Northern district of Iowa and Fort Dodge
In Tie deficiency bill which passed the house
Browns Valley, Mimi, the balance due him as
salary and clerk hire, aud other expenses
amounting in the aggregate to $500 or $500.
In the Senate, Tuesday, the Brown-Ingalls
called the attention of the senate to the insult
ing and opprobrious Language used by the sen
| ator from Kansas (Ingalls) toward q member of
the senate who could not repel such insults
without violating the rules which all senators
were in honor bound to obey; He did not wish
senator from Kansas was that of classifying tho
record and committing forgery upon the re-
| cords of the senate. This language was deliber-
ately planned to insult, and uttered not
only in violation of the the rules Of the
senate but in defiance Of the authority
Of the presiding officer. ingalls, replied,
and took a suppositious senator from Alaska
for q target and described old Brown as the
"sniveling Pecksniff Of Politics." referring to
his habit Of rubbing his hands as if washing
them in invisible water with imperceptible
soap. There wasa good deal of suppressed
excitement during Ingalls, remarks, particular
ly when he notified the senator from Georgia
that he meant every word he said and that the
senator was at liberty to take it in any sense he
chose.
The house on the 10th passed a bill to pro-
hibit the importation and migration of foreign
ers and others under contract to perform labor
in the United States or territories and the dis
trict Of Columbia. Mr.. Foran, who was chair
man of the subcommittee who had charge of
the h bill, made a long g, speech in favor Of
it shall be unlawful for any person or cor
poration to contract with foreigners or aliens
to perform labor or service of any kind in the
United States, or to prepay transportation, or
assist in the importation of foreigners or aliens
shall be void and of no effect. For any. viola
ton of these provisions a fine of $1,000 is i'm
posed. The master of any vessel who shall
bring into this country any foreigner or alien
with whom IN agreement as indicated has pre-
viously been made, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and fined not less than $500, OF
imprisonment for o term not exceeding six
months.
In the senate, On Thursday, the 10Th, Mr..
Ingalls, submitted a modification of the arrears
of pension provision, the modification provid-
ing that so far as arrearages are concerned
there shall be no discrimination between the
rate allowed to a private soldiera and M officer.
After some preliminary discussion as to the
probable addition to the annual cost of the
pension list by the adoption and amendments
proposedt to the bill, MI. Beck said the commits
sioner of pensions had estimated the amount
at about $2s46, 00O, 600. 1t seemed to be lacking
on about sac, 000, 1000 to a bill that originally
called for $5,N0,NN He presumed the inten-
ton in making this addition was to kill
the bill. No vote was taken.
Patrick B. Sinnott, Oregon, agent of Indians at
Grand Rande agency; Theodore 4. Willsley,
California agent of Indians at Round Valley
agency; Gala. ; H. W. Rothert, Iowa, register Of
the land Office at Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Tho congressional business of Friday was
very light The senate discussed the Mexican
pension bill. In the house the following bills
were passed: Reducing from so and 25 10 10
cents clearance fees levied upon vessels en-
gagged in domestic commerce. The senate bill
authorizing the construction of bridges across
the river at st. Paul. Several amendments were
adopted which necessitate the return of the bill
to the senate. FORGETTING the unearned land
grant to the Sioux City T. st. Paul railroad.
Mr.. Cook, committee on elections, reported
a resolution declaring J. R. Chalmers elected
to congress from the Second Mississippi dis
trict. Laid over. The house resumed consid-
Grafton of the Campbcll-Morey contested Cleo
ton case. Tho majority resolution seating
Campbell was agreed to, and that gentleman
appeared at the bar of the house and took the
oath of Office.
In the senate the bill to amend the Thurman
or Pacific railroad act was referred to the
committee on judiciary, after a debate in
which Mr.. VanWyck fiercely assailed the rail
road companies, particularly the Union Pacific.
The army appropriation bill passed, and the
adopted.
The house refused TO consider the public
building, internal revenue OF land law amend
ment bills, and took up the electoral count
bills, which were debated at length A con-
sented and agreed to without a division. The
sundry civil bill was reported.
In the senate on Monday, the Esd, the pend
ing question was on the amendment of Ingalls,,
dating the pensions of Union soldiers from the
date of discharge or disability, and extending
applications for arrears. Mr.. Sherman very
much regretted to be obliged to oppose any
proposition favored by Union soldiers, but he
knew the soldiers themselves were divided
about this proposition. His heart and his
feelings were all with the soldiers. He appre-
ciated the value of their services to the coun-
try for generations yet unborn. The proposition
however, affected the interests of all the people
of the United States, not only soldiers, but
citizens. The committee on pensions had not
recommended it. The house Of representatives
had not recommended it. 1t was basedon the
motion of a single senator. The commissioner
of pensions had estimated that this proposition
would involve the payment of $246, 0O0, OOO.
He asked senators whether this was a time to
so greatly enlarge the demands upon the trea-
S11rxy Nhnr, tho not IF 1870 ,uoo :, ooo,J - rr,,
a time of great plenty, after specie payment
had been resumed, and when the surplus in the
treasury was fast accumulating, and the trea-
sury overaowing. That time was not this time.
/ Our revenues were now rapidly falling off.
Sherman put himself on the broad ground
that the doldier has for twenty years waived
his right to a pension, either because he did
not desire it or was too proud to claim it, had
no legal or even moral or equitable right now
to embarass his government. He believed the
barrassing thing for the people of tho United
States. 1t would break down restrictions on
all sorts OF claims. The amendment was ad-
vocated by Congor and Ingalls,, but was rejected
20 to 81. Aldrich of r. T., Edmunds of VT.
Hanley of Conn, Merrill of Vt, Sewell ofN. j..
ing with democrats.
On Monday the house considered and passed
the sundry civil appropriations bill.
which ordinarily occupies two or three days
The bill. which is often filled with jobs, is
apparently free from any schemes to rob the
government, and contains no features likely
TO provoke discussion. Only one Important
amendment was adopted, and that was in the
nature of a section making appropriations
for the United States courts. 1t was offered by
Mr.. Springer, and very carefully drawn. The
bill provides for the usual fees and balances tt
United States marshals and other persons con.
nected with the United States courts. The sub
stitute abolishes the fees system, 80 far as i
applies to United States marshals, and pay
them fixed salaries. Under the bill as amend
cd
The United States marshals shall receive an.