Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-02-12

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| SENATE.
WAsaIsoToN. Feb. u.-In the Senat.
MILLER q California, from the Commit
We % Naval Adsira reported favorabl,
= OIL fof the relief Of the survivors o
The Jeaan-tte expedition.
Soern,an read dispatch frou Rich
ara smith Of Cincinrnti. AymR tina
Congress should make IN immediate
appropriation OF fG0. 600 TO relieve tn,
sufferers Ut flooded tswns betxeer
PittsburR and Cairo. adding that Gin
canuati needs nothing, but other place.
are most helpless. VOORHEES, stated tha
be hiuseif aud mis- colleague had SINH
lar kilograms from other places. Sher
Dar said he would not ASK immedist4
aet,so on the snbjsct, deemins Il bestel
% await the acsi0o of Hoose OF Reure.
DELPHI presented a petition from thu
Board of Trade Of Portland. Ogn., r.p
resenting the helpless conditions OF ths
cities along the coast of the United
States, by reason of the inefiiciency OF
tie navy. and praying Congress to plae<
the navy in condition of strength com.
mensurate With the naval power Of 9th.
or natious and tae commanding position
Ut the United States.
Bills were reported and placed on the
sAlsada1:
BY Hoav, from the Committee on Ju-
dietary, liking the salaries of Judges of
District Courts of the United States,
This bill fixes the salaries Of Judge. of
the Districts Of Minnesota, X ,nsas and
Western Arkausa from Jaly, 1884, at
1900; and OF the judges of the follow
Nc districts from the sasme date at
5000: New Jersey, the Northern and
southern aud Eastern Districts OF New
York, the Southern District of Ohio,
the District of Oregon. the Eastern and
Western Districts of PENNSYLVANIA, and
the Western District of Tennessee.
Bills were introduced and referred:
BY BlAis-Io provide for the study Of
physiology and the effects OF intoxicat-
ing narcotics and poisonous substance
upon life and Lealth. III the public
schools Of the Territories and the Dis
trict of Columbia.
BY VooFhees-Making An appropria-
ton to repair the reserv stiun and for
tho completion Of certain public works
and resources.
Butler 0fferSd resolution, vhioh -
agreed %, directing tbs Coiomittee a
and Forestry to inaoire
into aud report upon the condition Of
the government tea farm in South Caro-
lisa, whether it hsuld DO abandoned by
the government and. if 80, by what au-
and whether the experi,sent of
tea culture had been fairly and fully
made. lie zE
Miller Of California offered reselu-
Hon, which was agreed to, requesting
that IT Is we're not incompatible with
the public intefest that the Senate be
Informed whae bottom, IL Any, b taken
in the Executive Department. relative
ID the demand Of Mexico for the extra
aition of Trouble. .tk ....g
Van Wyck offered a resolution, which
was agreed r.. disees,pa the Committee
On Post Offices and Post Roads 70 as
certain whether any owners ~ o630sns
,f the Baltimore d Ohio Telegraph
Company had made or received any
or entered into any agree
nent to consolidate With the Western
Dnion Telegraph Co@pAny within the
psss year. The resolution gives the
'ommittee rover to send for persons
md papera.
Tho Chair laid before the Senste a
'eeoluti0n offered some days ago BY
providing for a committee
X inquiry, composed Of three SenatOEs
md i've Representatives, TO examine
nto the question Of discharges and ap-
of subordinate officers in
10th Houses of Congress.
The hour q 2 O'Clock havinQ arrived,
be matter went over. and the Chair laid
,efore the Senate the resolution offered
ast week BY Van Wyok, directing the
Committee on Judiciary to examine and
spost what lssialatien, il any, we're
necessary to rsstsict the appointment Of
pedal assistant attorneys. The resO-
utiOn was agreed 70 without debate.
Proceeding to the list of unObjected |
aAoo upon she Calendar. the Seuate |
eek up, and with but slight dehaee,
Aased the bill reported BY Plat, from
be Committee on Patents, amending |
setjon 100f n - revised sGa4utassse-!
urinR American inventors for the full |
erm of n yeafS for their patents in |
asss whsre foreign patent expires be- |
ore that term.
A mooDaQe having besn read from the |
lOuss announcing the continued dis |
greement of that body to tho Senate |
to the Greedy bill, Hale |
moved that the Senate recede from its |
Tho men Who should be |
emit on the expedition, be said, would
70 men perfectly willing 20 60; they
vOuld not be taken from the navy rolls
q they now stand. but would be re-
and no difficulty k0uld be OK
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