The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-03-07
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS-.
dan. February n.

SENATE Soon after the senate met this
morning, Pe=ale.c. CO ok:e arose te perform
the saddest and one of the most heroic acts OF
his life. and that was TO present the credentials
Of his successor, Henry b. Payne, recently
elected TO Mr.. pendletOn's seat by the ONO leg
islature. He did it without f1nichlng'
Bills were introduced for a survey OF passes
between the ~afluents of the upper Mississippi
and Columbia rivers to ascertain the distance
between the n~ayigable waters of those rivers;
authorizing a foot and carriage or railroad
bridge across the river at -. Paul (hr. McMl-
LAM: authorizing the Mississippi river commits,
sion TO appropriate land and material required
Tor it's work. The bill passed securing to Amer
ieap inventors the full term Of seventeen years
for their PATENTS in cases where foreign patents
expire before that time. The senate voted to
recede from it's amendment to the Greely reieI
expedition bill The resolution for the relieI
OF nood sufferers, mentioned in the house pro-
CeedinGs, was adopted.
The bill reported in the senate fixing the sal
aries OF iudges of district courts nXed the sal
aries OF Judges Of tho districts OF Minnesota,
Kansas and Western Arkansas from July /,
1884, at $4,000 and the judges Of the following
districts.
The Senate confirmed: Henry d. Lyman,
Ohio, second assistant postmaster general;
William Christy Wilson, La, assayer OF the
mint. New Orleans; Thomas b. Knapp, post
master, lows Falls, Iowa.
Register OF Lana OLuceS-m4I uu II "SSOA"'
Wausau, Wis. Henry EspersOn, La Crosse,
Wis. b. " Johnson, Fergus Falls, MINI, /;
Henry W. Lord. Creelsburg, OAK.
Carrie G. Bel, receiver OF public moneys, Bay
field, Wis.
Nomination Henry NJ Lawson, Texas,
agent Quapaw agency, Indian Territory; Dan
iel b. Dyer, Kan, agent Cheyenne band, Ara
pahoe agency, Indian Territory. James ID.
Stewart postmaster, Charleton, Iowa
uoYrcp -p;I1s and resolutions were intro
dnced facilitating the settlement Of private
land claims: restoring those dropped from the
pension rolls for dislCyalty; providing for the
election of president and abolishing the electo-
raj college; encouraging Indian education in
Dakota: abOlishing the Office of assistant sur
geon general of the army; for
the construction of bridges across
the Mississippi at st, Paul (MT, Washburnl; re-
paaling the import duty on books in foreign
languages milo White; for the preservation
Offorests at the sources Of navigable rivers;
amending the Pacific railroad act so as to re-
quire O company 10 build a railroad and tele-
graph line from Sioux City, Iowa, west TO TIE
Union Pacific via the Niobrara valley milo
White requiring the secretary Of the treasury
70 pay $4,000 600 in 3 per cent bonds. The
military academy appropriation bill was re-
ported, also a joint resolution appropriating
100000 for the relief of the food sufferers.
After a long debate the resolution passed.
23 TO II. ...
Mr.. Washburn introduced in the house to-
day a bill to authorize the construction Of one
or more carriage or railroad bridges across the
Mississippi river at St Pau. 1t is a substitute
FOR a similar bin introduced by him some tim
ago.
A bill was introduced in the house to-day by
Hon D. Il. Henderson of Iowa to provide for
the issue Of circulating notes to national bank
Associations