St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-05
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Naval Appropriation Bill to be
Cut Down, and the Supernu-
meraries Cut Off.
The Newspaper Copyright Bill Introduced in
the Senate Not Satisfactory.
The Senate.


WASHINGTON, March Among the memorials
presented was one by Senator ingalls,, from the
Grand Army post, Kansas, against the pas
sage of the bill for reinstating Fitz John
Porter. The memorial embodies the resolutions
by the post, which declare that to reinstate Fitz
John Porter would be regarded as an insult to the
loyal soldiers who obeyed with alacritv their SUI
perior officers. In presenting the memorials
Senator ingalls, remarked that the resolutions
voiced the opinion Of nine-tenths of the surviving
soldiers of the rebellion, and in that opinion he
personally and cordially concurred
Senator Logan, for the committee on military
affairs, reported favorably the bill to relieve the
members and the judge advocate in the Fit
John Porter court martial, of the secresy imposed
by their oath as TO the vote of the court.
At the conclusion of the morning business the
military academy appropriation bill was placed
before the senate. Senator Logan said he was
authorized by the committee of appropriations
to offer an amendment providing
that hereafter any cadet dismissed
for hazing should not be eligible to reappoint-
ment. He had consulted many of the best Off.
GERS who have been in authority at the academy.
It was their and his opinion, that hazing could
not be stopped without such provision, and he
believed such provision would stop 1t. The
amendment was agreed to, and the bill as amend
ed passed.
Senator CockreI reported adversely the bill to
authorize the secretary of war to lend the tents
for the fifth annual reunion of the soldiers and
| sailors of the northwest at Chicago in August.
| In presenting this report, Cockrell remarked,
there were no tents that could be supplied for
! such purpose, and it would be an enormous
expense to the government to unde rtake TO pro-
| cure them.
| The following bills reported favorably,
| By Senator Morrill,, from the committee on
finance, bill to provide for the issue of dupli-
cate checks by the government officers in case Of
| rhal Oss Of he OriJi
| By Senator Cameron, Wis, bill to ratify the
| agreement with the confederate tribes of Black
heads and other Indians, for the sale of portion
| of their reservation in Montana, req Tired for
the use of the Northern Pacific railroad. Placed
| on the calendar,
| The following bills were introduced and re-
ferred.
BY Senator Vest to provide for the perma.
nent reservations for the Indians of northern
Montana.
Senator Sherman, bill granting copyright to
newspapers. Also bills to provide for the cree
ton of public buildings at Dayton, Springfield,
GAINESVILLE and Youngstown, Ohio.
Senator Sawyer offered O resolution, which
was agreed to, relating TO damages caused by
the erection of dams on the Fox and Wisconsin
rivers instructing the attorney general TO report
| to the senate the amounts of judgments or
awards, and in whose favor rendered against the
| government of the United States by the couri',
or by duly appointed commissioners from
which no appeal has been taken, and if he
knows any reason why such judgments should
not be paid.
The senate then took up and passed without
debate the bill reported by Garland from the
committee on judiciary, to punish counterfeiting
within the United States of notes, bonds or
other securities of foreign governments.
Senator Harrison introduced a bill for the
erection of a public buildings in Richmond,
| Indiana.
The senate took up bill to provide for the ex
ercise of jurisdiction conferred upon the United
States in places out of their territory and do
minion. This is the bill reported by Pendleton
from the committee on foreign relations, and pro-
vdes an elaborate plan for the government of
the action of ministers and consuls of the United
States in regard to legal rights and responsible
ties of citizens OF the United States residing in
China, Japan, Borneo, Egypt, Persia, Turkey and
other eastern countries. When the reading of
the bill was concluded, the senate went into ex-
executive session and soon adjourned.