Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1884-05-22
CONGRESS.

MAY 1S.-Senate-T The bill placing
General Grant on the Army retired lisi
with rank and pay of General passed
The shipping bill was further discussed
and the motion for a conference com+
mite prev allied. The Indian appropria
tion bill was again taken up, its prOvis
ions discussed at length and the bill
passed.
House-The bill providing a civil
government for Alaska passed. The bill
providing that hereafter no Territory
shall form a Constitution or apply fol
admission as State until it shall obtain
a permanent population equal to thai
required in Congressional district was
laid on the table-109 to Is. Bills were
passed extending the jurisdiction Of
justices of the peace in Wyoming and
providing that hereafter the Legislature
of Dakota shall consist of twenty foul
members of the Council and forty -eighl
members Of the House
MAY 14.-Senate-Mr Call introduced
q bill authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury to Oyerrule the decisions of in
ferior officers of the Treasury Depart.
nent in respect to all matters of &C
counts. The bill for the establishment
OF a Bureau of Labor Statistics was
taken up and, pending debate, the Sen
ate adjourned. Mr.. Vest, to correct d
report that had gone out, stated that be
voted against the bill retiring General
Grant, and Mr.. Cocrill stated that he
would have voted in the negative, had
he been present.
House-The Consular and Diplomatic
Appropriation bill was considered in
Committee of the Whole, but was moi
lcompleted when the committee rose
Several bills were reported from COM
mittees and the House adjourned.
MAY l5.-Senate-The bill passed tc
aid the Worlds Industrial and Cotton
Centennial Exposition at New Orleans
The invalid pensions bills was reported
to the Senate. A bill was introduced tc
limit stock gambling.
House-The Consular and Diplomatic
bill was considered further. Visitors te
West Point and Annapolis were appoint
ed. The House concurred in Senate
amendments TO the bill for the New
Orleans exhibition.
MAY 16.-Senate-Noti in session.
House-In committee, the Diplomatic
and the Army Appropriation bills were
considered and reported favOrably t
the House. At the evening session, pen
sion bills were considered.
MAY H. Senate-NOt in session.
HOuse-Petitions were presented from
about thousand G. A. R. posts, asking
| that pension be granted to all soldier:
who served sixty days in the late war Of
lSS per month. Senate amendments tt
the Indian Appropriation bill were non
Cured in. In committee the Alabama
Court of Claims bill was debated ant
amended by making the date to which
the Court is continued December 81
1885. The bill was reported to the House
and passed.
| MAY 19-Senate-Mr. Sherman re
ported concurrent resolution, which
was agreed to, accepting portrait il
mosaic of the late President Garfield, tht
work of Di Salviati, of Venice, Italy
The Chair laid before the Senate resolu
ton offered Thursday by Mr.. Morgan
directing the Committee on Finance t.
examine the cases of the recent failures
of National banks, and whether suci
failures we're due to violations and eva
sions of the law on the part of the off
GERS or directors of the banks. WithOu
taking action the Senate adjourned.
| House-The consular and diplomatic
bill, as also the army and District o
Columbia appropriation bills passed, anC
the bankrupt law bill was defeated by
vote of 1877 to 1l3-not two-thirds in tn,
affirmative.