Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-02-21

yiding for the election of the President
and Vice President by a majority of the
I votes of the people and the abolition of
+ the Electoral College, and regulating the
method of counting the votes by the two
+ houses Of Congress.
4 By Mr. adams, of Illinois-Authoriz-
I ing the increase Of the capital stock of
/ the Commercial National Bank of Chi
cage.
4 BY Mr. Calkins-To encourage Indian
education in Dakota.
/ BY Mr. Stockslager-A resolution re-
guessing the Secretary of the Treasury
I to transmit to the House the report of
the committee appointed by the Treas
Jury Department to investigate the
charges against the management of the
Office o' the Supervising Architect of the
/ Treasury under ]. G. Hill, together
with the charges and evidence and all
/ correspondence.
BY Mr. Maybury-F'or the erection of
/ public building at Detroit, the cost
not to exceed 81, 500, 600.
TUESDAY, FEB. 70.
/ Sendte-Blls introduced and refer
red:
/ Sen. Mcpherson, to suspend the
/ coinage Of the standard silver dollar.
1t provides that the coinage be sus-
/ pended until July LIST, 1886, and that
4 the trade dollar be received in sums of
/ five dollars or less for postage and rev.
enue.
4 Sen. Voorhees, introduced a bill to
! prohibit assessment for political purpos-
/ es by government officials and employ
| ees. voorhees, said that he was prepar-
ed to show that assessments are now be-
/ ing made on employees of the govern
ment for political purposes. The bill
! Furnishes the giver as well as the man
/ who makes the demand. Voorhees, ask
ed that the bill be referred to the judic-
iary committee.
| House - Mr.. Potter introduced bill
to fund the bonded debt of the United
States in % per cent. bonds. Referred to
the Committee on Ways and Means.
/ A resolution was adopted directing
/ the Committee on Expenditures in the
/ Department of Justice, in making an
/ investigation into the expenditures on
account of the prosecutions of persons
charged with fraud on the Government
and especially in the star-route mail ser
/ ice, to inquire into the manner in
which such prosecutions had been and
are being conducted, and into the CON
duct, efficiency and good faith of all
officers and persons in the pay of the
| Government in connection with such
prosecution, and whether the guilty
parties have been duly prosecuted.
! Mr.. Bland, raising a question of
privilege, moved that the Committee on
! Banking and Currency be discharged
/ from further consideration of the bill
providing for the retirement of the trade
dollar, and that the bill be referred to
the Committee on Coinage, Weights and
/ Measures.
Mr. Buckner opposed the motion, but
it was agreed to.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. -.
HOuSe-Mr. Warner offered resolu
/ ton directing the proper committee to
inquire why the resolution passed Mon
day for the relief of sufferers of the
! Ohio floods was not sent here for the
! signature of the presiding officer until
late yesterday afternoon. He desired to
know why so much valuable time was
lost
Mr. Cosgrove hoped the committee
would also inquire why the house debat-
cd the Joint resolution the entire day,
when it could have been passed in ten
minutes. The resolution was referred.
SeRate-Mr. Voorhees, offered reso-
! luton, which went over tin tomorrow,
directing the secretary of the interior to
withhold for tile present his approval Of
the patents or certificates for lands Sc
lected by the Northern Pacific Railroad
in lieu of others said to have been lost
to said company under the act of July,
1861. A prea mble to the resolution sets
forth that ia rights of settlers might be
injuriously affected by such approval.
The senate is discussing McPherson's
bill concerning national bank circula-
ton.
THURSDAY. FEB, Il. 1884.
lSenute-The chair laid before the SEN
ate the testimony taken by the commit
tee that Investigated the official con
duct of ex-Supervising Architect Hill.
/ Referred.
HouSe-Mr Mckinley presented a tel
egram from Cleveland, detailing the de-
stuction occasioned by the Ohio floods,
and recommending Congress to increase
/ to 81, 100000 the appropriation for the re,
/ left of the sufferers Referred.
1 The House resumed the consideration
/ of the contested election case of Chal-
mers against Manning, from Missis-
sippi.
FRIDAY, FEB. IS.
Senate-Mr Pendleton sent to the
desk and had read a telegraphic dispatch
from Richard Smith of Cincinnati, to
Representative Jordan, saying that the
Secretary of War had done grandly in
TIE matter of the relief of the sufferers
by the Ohio floods; that red tape, whose
interference had been feared,
had been all cut up and thrown
away; and that the cold weather, though
better than rain, had increased distress.
That neither pen nor imagination could
sufficiently describe the sufferings; that
congress should appropriate an addition
al million; it would have TO come and
the more promptly the better.
Mr.. Peudleton said there was no poll
/ tics in the matter Everybody was
working for it, as the cause of common
humanity.
Mr.. Voorhees, said he had similar tele-
grams. some of which he read He said
his people had not ON the occasion Of
/ last years flood asked the aid of Con-
gress, rs the Indiana Legislature was
4 then in session, but would do so now. as
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