Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-04-10
CONGRESSIONAL,

CON GRESSIONAL.
In the Senate on March 18th, majority
report of the Committee on Woman Suffrage,
favoring the joint resolution proposing an
amendment to extend the right Of suffrage
to women, was presented. Cockrell said the
minority would present their views later.
Plumb'sresolution asking for information
as to what amount of the war tax of 1861 is
due and unpaid, from what States, or from
the citizens of what States it is due, and
whether any portion of said tax has been
paid by Withholding money due any State
from the General Government, and whether
the rule adopted in Withholding such money
has been applied alike to all the States, was
agreed to.
Van Wyck's bill for the relief OF settlers
on lands on the Denver & st. Joseph Rail
road in Kansas and Nebraska, after a short
discussion, passed. The bill pr Divides $780,
600 to reimburse settlers who paid $3.50 per
acre.
ing the fate of the Greedy expedition passed.
The Education bill was further discussed.
Adjourned to Monday.
The proposed Women Suffrage Amend
ment proposes that the several States be asked
to ratify the following article which is pro-
| posed as an amendment to the Constitution
of the United States to vote shall not be de-
MED or abridged by the United States, or by
any State, on account of sex.
| Sec. 2. Congress shall have power, by ap-
propriate legislation to enforce the prOvis-
ions of this article.
In the House on March 28th, Anderson
| introduced concurrent resolution tor final
adjournment at u M, June End.
The bill for the relief of McGarrahan was
tabled. Other private bills were disposed
of.
In Committee of the Whole: Two hours
were consumed in the discussion of the
bill for the elief of certain soldiers of the
late war from the charge of desertiOn. 1t
was finally laid over without action. The
Committee rose and the House passed sew
eral private bills.
At the evening session twenty-five pen
sion bills passed; among them one giving
a pension of fifty dollars per month to the
| widow of Major General James B. Steed-
man, and bill granting pension to Mrs
Sarah E. E. Zeely, who served as a soldier
for three years under the assumed name OF
Franklin Thompson, and when sick and
about to be sent to the hospital, deserted to
escape the detection Of her sex. Adjourned
to Monday.
/ The bill to permit citizens of the five civ
ilized Nations in the Indian Territory to or
Vorably; also the bill to yrevent the hiring
out ofthe labor of U. S. prisoners; also the
bill authorizing the settlement of claims Of
the States against the United States
for money borrowed for or expended 1Ol
the United States under the law Of
1861 if the claims are presented within one
year; also the bill authorizing the Post
master General to lease and pay rental fOI
United States premises for the first, second
and third class, and the branch pOstOfices
also bill which viii appropriate $3.50
to pay in full to the late mail contractors Of
the Southern States the amounts that shall
be due them under the contracts for 1858
1859, 1860 and 1861 and accruing before
these States engaged in war against the
United States; also the bill prohibiting the
expectation or importation Of adulterateC
food and drink. The clause in the Senate
bill proposing retaliation when unjust dis
examinations are made against any prOduc
of the United States by foreign powers wa!
disagreed to, and the section providing tina
: the Secretary of the Treasury may cause
careful inspection to be made, and substi
tuted section providing for the appoint
ment of six inspectors in each Custom
district.
In the Senate on March 31st bills wer
reported for the erection of public building
at Chattanooga, Tenn, Opelousa, La, anC
Portland, Oregon.
Among other bills reported favorablz
were: To provide forest reservation at tn
, head waters of the Missouri river and heat
: waters of Clark's Fork of the Columbia
river; also for the relief of the Citizens
5 Bank of Louisiana.
The resolution from the Kansas Legisla
ture urging compensation to citizens of tn
! State for property destroyed in the Cheyenn
raid of 1873 was presented.
l Malone introduced a bill to allow
drawback on imported materials used il
4 manufactured tobacco, snuff and cigars ex
ported from the United States.
Platt made an argument in favor of or
S I ganizing the Patent office into separate de
= partments.
E In Executive Session the appointment o
q Judge Brewer as Judge of the Eighth Ju
d dicial Circuit was confirmed.
: The Senate Committee on appropriation
added ST, 451 $50 to the Navy appropriation
e bill as it came from the House, and the BIZ
# as amended calls for so 786, 676 The est
Y mates submitted called for So, 655, 800.
In the House on March S1st, a resolution
4 calling for information relative TO the occU
4 pancy of the consular premises of Shanghai
China, was adopted.
i Beach, from the Committee on Publ
? ing an investigation of the question of adul
d terated food and drugs, saying he though
If that should be done by the States. Th
It resolution was Eecommitted.