Connecticut western news., 1884-03-26
UNITED STATES CONGRESS.
SENATE.

The majority of the House Committee on Shipping reported adversely on the bill to allow foreign built ships to be Americanized.
 Representative Caine claims that the Nor mons are unjustly treated.
 Some Pennsylvania workmen want Congress to appropriate $100 ,000 of the surplus in the Treasury for colonization scheme.
 West India sugar planters want reciprocal commercial relations with America, but the home government objects.
 MT. Hoar offered @ resolution calling on the Secretary of the Interior to report the names of parties who have had pension applications pending for more than two years. Mir. Hoar said there were many thousands of old soldiers or their heirs who were suffering dire priya- tions because the Government did not act on the pension cases. MT. Blair said that our system was one of prolonged murder inflicted by process of slow starvation. There were 250,000 of the cases indicated. Referred.
 Mir. Plumbs joint resolution appropriating S25,00O for the suppression of the foot and mouth disease was passed and the appropria- ton was increased to 450,O00.
 The bill appropriating $15,000, 900 for the first year, S14, ,000, 0G0 for the second year, and so on decreasing million year for ten years. to aid in the establishment and temporary sup port of common schools in the States and Ter ritories, was taken up. Mir. Blair made long statistical argument in favor of the bill.
 bill was introduced in the Senate on Wed nesday by MT. Lapham to provide for th3 sale of the Navy Yard and United States Hospital land on and near Walabout Bay, i'll the city of Brooklyn, N Y. This bill is identical with that introduced in the House by MT. Felix Camp Oell, and provides for the sale of about twenty i've acres of land not needed by the Govern ment
 The bill increasing the salaries of United States District Judges to $5, ,000, and Mir. Blairs bill to give Government aid to educa- tion, were again under consideration in the Senate, but no action was taken upon them, except to reject some proposed amendments to the former.
 The Deficiency Appropriation bill was passed
 A bill was introduced for the admission inte the Union of tine State of Tacoma, to be com posed of the present Territory of Washington and part of Idaho.
 HOUSE.
 The House suspended the rules and passed a special deficiency bill appropriating $1, ,679, 000
 Tine sum of $5, ,0O0 was appropriated from the contingent fund to enable the Committee on Naval Affairs to proceed with the Jeannette in- vestigation.
 Among the bills introduced were these: To suspend for two years the coinage of the silver dlar, and to make it unlawful for the Secretary of the Treasury to print and issue Treasury notes of the denomination of $1 md S2 IThis is the bill recommended by the New York Chamber of Commerce.l Prohibiting the importation and sale of opium except as aqueous extracts for medicinal use. To provi3e for the enr lment of everY able bodied male citizen between IS and 42 years oi age in the militia, the enlistment to be for al least three years. The bill provides for drilling and equipping the militia and for instruction in rife practice.