McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-04-17

dOUSE.
Mr.. Converse's motion to suspend
the rules and pass the bill restoring the
duty on wool was lost-yeas 118, nays 126.
Lowering introduced a bill granting a
pension of eight dollars per month to all
soldiers and sailors who served sixty days
in the late war and were honorably dis
chorged.
Mr.. Fiddler introduced bill to enable
the attorney general to collect statistics in
relation to criminal and convict labor.
Randall, from the committee on rules.
reported resolution setting apart April
hth aud My 18th for the consideration Of
bills reported by the committee on terrific
ries-not to include bills for the creation of
new territories or admission of new states.
Adopted.
Converse moved to suspend the rules and
pass the bill restoring the duty of 1867 on
| wool. Lost, 119 to 126.
Thompson, of Kentucky, moved to sus-
pend the rules and adopt a resolution de-
claring it unwise and jneXpedient for the
present congress to alb ,lish or reduce the
tax on spirits distilled from grain.
The motion was agreed to and the resolu-
ton adopted-yeas 179, nays 80.
SENATE.
TUESDAY, April 8.-The chair laid
before the senate the bill to provide uni
form system of bankruptcy throughout the
United States.
The senate agreed to take up the naval
bill. Many amendments proposed by the
senate committee were agreed to. Some
ordnance was reached.
Mr.. Hall gave notice of an amendment to
be hereafter moved appropriating $3.50, 600
for the purchase and erection of plant for
the casting, forging, rough boring and tenn
pering guns up to 100 tons ready for deliv-
Co.. n1r - %l,n
process of liquid compression, if adopted.
Also, $500, 200 for plant for gun factory
for building guns from six.inch to sixteen
inch calibre.
The first bill taken up was the one
to authorize the appointment of COM
mission by the president to run and mark
the boundary lines between the Indian ter.
ritory and the state of Texas, in connec-
ton with similar commission to, be ap-
pointed by Texas 90 After debate the bill
The next bill passed was the one declar-
ing that the supreme court of every terri
tory shall consist of a chief justice and
three associate Justices, and providing that
every territory shall be divided into four
judicial districts, and district courts shall
be held in each by one justice OF the SUI
preme court.
The bill requiring the governors of terri
tories to be q resident Of the territory to
which he is appointed, for at least three
years preceding his appointment, was OPP
posed by Mr.. Kasson on the ground that 1t
changed the plan by which the United
States held control of territories.
Mr.. Hart moved to recommit the bill
with instructions to the committee on ter
ritories to except from its provisions the
territory of Utah. The motion was lost
yeas, p; nays, 128-and the bill was
passed.
WEDNESDAY, April 9.-Mr. Hill,
from the committee on postofices and post
roads, reported favorably the original bill
to establish a postal telegraph system. MIR.
Hill remarked that the committee was
unanimous as to the first ten sections OF the
bill, which relate to doing the work by
contracts with existing companies, but
that the minority of the committee was OPP
posed to the section relating to the c0nstruc
ton or purchase of lines by the govern
ment. The provision relating to the con-
tracing company for failure to cor
rectly and promptly transmit messages
has been amended BY limiting such liza.
paid for transmission. Two new
features have been added to the bill.
The first authorized the contracting COM
pany to employ the postmaster as its agent
and operator at any pOstal-telegraph office
where telegraphic receipts are insufficient
to pay the salary OF the operator, and to
pay him commission not exceeding 80 per
cent Of the charges on messages transmitted
from the office. The second requires the
postmaster-generalt to secure provisions In
the contract which shall protect postal-tel.
egrams against discrimination in the order
of transmission in favor of kilograms re-
ceived at such Of the company's offices as
are not operated under the provisions of the
bill.
The naval bill was considered without
definite action.
Mr.. Hopkins, (Pa.), offered the fol-
lowing preamble and resolution, which was
WHEREAS, 1t Is charged that the pres
ent system of transporting live stock by
railroad companies engaged In interstate
commerce Is barbarous and destructive, and
that 10 per cent. of the animals perish In
consequence of this treatment, and the flesh
of the remainder is unfit for human food;
and
WHEREAS, It Is charged that the flesh Of
animals so treated, including that of dead
and dying, Is sold to the people and cannot,
when dressed, be distinguished from sound
meats and is the source of many and vari-
GUS diseases, and
WHEREAS, 1t appears by report OF the
committee on agriculture to this house,
Jan. 81, 1875, that the loss by shrinhage
alone in the weight of animals caused by
this system of transportation, amounted to
the immense sum of Sc, 600 900 on the busl-
ness of 1870. and must now be nearly or
quite SIG. OO0,0 o per annum, and
WuRprAa II haQ hQon charOod that Ea10