Connecticut western news., 1884-01-30
UNITED STATES CONGRESS.
SENATE.

ShNAIEs
 A majority report in favor of the Fitz-John Porter Relief bill was presented from the Com mittee on Military Affairs by Mir. Sewel. Gen. Logan presented minority report aSinst tt. Mir Buffers resolution providing that each Senator, not a Chairman of a committee, shall have clerk. or secretary, at salary of 9l,UuO a year, to be paid out of the contingent fund of the Senate, was agreed to by Vote oi So to IS.
 MT. Merrill reintroduced his bill of the last Congress providing for the setting apart of the net proceeds of the sales of public lands, and n sum euual to half the amount paid into the Treasury yearly by the subsidized Pacific rail roads, as an educational fund to he apportioned among the States and Territories.
 The Senate passed the bill providing gov ernment for Alaska. The clause which pro hibits the importation, sale or manufacture of intoxicating liquors in Alaska, except for medic inal or scientific purposes-to which much op- position was made-was retained in the bill.
 MT. Bayard, from the Committee on Fi- nance reported favorably the bill providing for the issue of circulating notes to the national banks.
 MT. Beck called up his bil! prohibiting the Secretary of the Treasury from purchasing bonds of the United States at rates above their par value, and it was referred to the Committee on Finance.
 Mr. Hoars bill, providing for the perform ance of the duties of the President in case of the removal, death, resignation, CT inability of the President and Yice-President was passed.
 HOUSE.
 The House by a vote of 1S5 to Il voted to abolish the 'Ironclad oath. S. ,. Cox who presented and advocated the measure, ex- pressed astonishment that any man, twenty years after the war; should desire to perpetuate distinction between those who had been trai- ,1,y, l.,l pfYtaA nyyal Union.
 Mr. Holman asked the House to suspend the rules and declare that the forfeitnble grants of land for railroad purposes ought to be for feited and the lands restored to the public do- main. The resolutions were adopted by vote of 261 to IS.
 Mir Cook of Iowa introduced bill providing that pensions for total disability shall be s20 a month, without regard to rank ln the service.
 The Committee on Agriculture presented a report in favor of estabnshing Department of Agriculture.
 A bill appropriating s3, 900 for the pay ment of rebate of tax on tobacco was reported from the Committee on Appropriation.
 The House passed joint resolution giving the thanks of Congress to Capt. Eric Gabriel son, of the revenue steamer Dexter, and his officers and the men who manned the Gay Head lifeboat, for their brave conduct in res cuing the survivors of the wreck of the steamer City of Columbus, and especially to Lieut. Rhodes, who twice swan to the steamer and rescued men who were cinging to the rigging
 WASHINGTON NOTES.
 The Senate Committee on Education favor Senator Blair's Educational bill, which provides for approprIating money among the States
 Mir. Keller, of Ohio, called Fitz John Porter Q coward.
 The revelations before the Committee on Ac. counts reflect severely upon ex-Speaker Keller, and hs will be called on to testify under oath. A letter from Lieutenant Harber to Minister Hunt, at St. Petersburg, regarding the trans- portation of the remains of De Long and com Tades is made public. The bodies are expected to arrive in New York about the middle of February
 The statement of receipts of internal revenue for the six months anding January 1 shows S60, GOO, against SIS, ,000, 900 for the same period last year. This rate would cause a fall ing off for the entire year of 526 O00 0O0 Of this total for the six months S39, ,000, GOO WAS from spirits, 80, 250, 900 from beer and 51S,250, ,000 from tobacco.
 The plan for the relief of the American Arctic expedition under Lieutenant Greedy recom- mended by the Board of army and navy officers contemplates the dispatch of two steam ves- sels not later than May 1.
 The bill making an appropriation for the re- bate on tobacco was passed by the House.
 Fred Douglass was married to young white lady of Washington, with literary tendencies. The resignation of Assistant Secretary New is reported.
 General Grant has writ ten a letter to a Washington journal denying certain state ments regarding himself in connection with the Mexican treaty and giving his reasons for favOring it's ratification.
 A bill to amend the Pension laws was intro duced in the Senate by Senator Mitchell which largely increases the list of persons en titled to receive pensions It makes important changes in reference to the surviving relatives of de- ceased soldiers, and provides for the ayment of pensions to those disabled in the wars of the United States prior to 1881.
 Senator Sherman offered a resolution pro- ,iding for an investigation of alleged outrages in Danyille, Va., and Copiah county, Miss, during the last election.
 Counsel for the Ku Klux prisoners of Georgia, now confined in the Albany (N. Y.) Penitentiary, have applied to the supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus On the ground that the United States Court which tried them had no jurisdiction under the Con stitutlon.