Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-02-13
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.

bill was considered and finally passed--43 to IL.
AS passed by the senate the bill is substan-
TALLY as prepared by Senator Cullorn, and
goes back to the house as an amendment
to tho Reagan bill. The chances of an
agreement between the two houses are not
| by any means encouraging. The Reagan
| bill was passed by more than a two thirds vote
| bnt many members voted for it because they
preferred to take that to getting nothing. The
| principal point Of difference between the two
! measures is that tho senate bill provides for
nine commissioners, to whom is given full
power to regulate all matters provided for,
while the Reagan bill refers all contro-
poses heavy penalties for the violation of its
| provisions. Whether majority Of the house
! will insist upon this feature of the Reagan bill
is an open question; but there are reasons to
justify the belief that this feature will be in
sisted upon. The prospects, therefore, for m
aeing.
| The bill to retire trade dollars and suspend
| the coinage Of standard silver dollars was de-
bated
! HoUsE-There was an extended discussion
Of the river and harbor bill but no notes were
! taken.
Mr.. Van Wyck offered the following resolution,
| which was agreed to:
! Resolved. That the secretary of the interior
inf; rm the senate what amounts were due the
United States on Dec. 81, 1882 from the Union
| Pacific railroad, also what amounts have become
due from that date until Dec. 81. 1884, accord
ing to the rule laid down IN the decision lately
made between the United States and said road
settlement was made Feb. l, 1885. as provided
| in the Thurman act.
| Mr. Sherman offered the following resolution,
| which was agrocd to-:
Resolved That the committee on judiciary be
directed to inquire and report TO- the senate as to
whether LEGISLATION Is reanired, and if 80. in
VII regard 10 the appointment of courts mar
| ialand the regulation, proceedings and prac-
tice Ia trials before such courts In time Of peace,
| and whether under existing laws an officer may
| be trisd before court mart ial appon ted by the
| president in cases where the commander OF the
| accused officer to be tried IL not he accuser.
me 6l passed al, aa'hGzg t1e cS Ms
| The senate then took up the bill to quite the
title OF settlers ON Des MONIES river lands hut
| a. o'clock it was displaced by the bill fDf the
! standard dollar Coinage.
Mr. Bayard strongly opposed the redemption
OF Vic TRADE dollar at its face value. Indeed, he
| objected to the word redemption" in connection
with it. Trade dollars were in the same category
a. silver bars. It was to him a paradox how
lnen could ask, In the name OF justice, to re-
Of the country was at stake This so-caled
redemption" would be departure from the
landmarks OF government, passing from the
real and tested to the unreal and imaginary.
/ The great question was, can congress create
valnes? Which OF you. by taking thought, can
| add cubit to his stature? Which Ut you, which
doomsday, can create valued Could we create
! values by conversational fiat? Gould congress
S,y Let value be, and value would be? Con-
yress had already tried 1t. With 1000, 900 men
| their value stamped upon them, vet it had been
unable to keep those notes at half their face
value This was
NOT PARTY QUESTION
/ he advocated the suspension of the silver
cninage act. The laws Of business shouM be
reeoanized. Those who would suffer most by
silver nOno-meualsm were labOrers, tht Sc who
| could not bide their timo. An apprehension ex-
! is ed in the business community Of evils stated
! by Secretary McCulloch as likely to follow any
! approach to lnono-1net alsm the basis Of sill
YER. There were laws of commerce that could
not be set aside at tie behest Of legislators 70
i be sure, the supreme court had said congress
ressed in lawful money Of the United States
Mr.. Bayard did not wish to comment fur5her
nlou thst most remarkable and startling decis-
ion, but there was one thing congress and the
supreme court and all the armies that could be
raised could not do, and that was to create or
maintain a value against the belief of the person
to whom rendered. Bayard believed that all
currency necessary for the United States at the
present time was here.
: The house made very little headway;to-da
with the enormous mas Of business that is
being crowded into it's last days. An hour
was spent in wrangling oyer the rules Iii re-
corded that the house actually passed three
bills The latter part Of the session was &C.
cupied in discussing the interninable river
and harbor bill. The war1nest personal tilt
in the history of this congress- took place to-
day between Reed Of Maine and Hiscock Of
New York on the one side, and Breckenridge
OF Arkansas and Hunt of Louisiana on the
other.
In the House the 9Th the legislative, execu-
tive and judicial appropriation bill reported to
the house to-day recommends an appropriation
Of $21 ,213, 7Ol, which is $l,OSS,46s less than
the estimates and 1922, 9O2 less than the appro-
priation for the present fiscal year. The bill re-
! the pension bureau, provided for at the last
sion, from 81 500 to 81 400 annually, on recon-
| mendattOn OF the Interior department. 1t also
provides that the president shall discontinue
the appointment and services of officers at ports
Of entry where for two successive years last past
| the revenues collected were less than the sal
aries and expenses of the office. The president
may, however, appoint deputy collectors for
such ports, who shall be oompens ated by fees
not exceeding 81, 500. The Office OF superintend
ent of foreign mails ls abolished and super
vision at the foreign mail service is placed with
! the second assistant postmaster general The
compensation special agents in the internal
revenue service IL limited to SIS day, except the
ch1es, Xh2 Is e zaeeiys IS day. sndEes Of the
similar to that In the United s ates circuit
courts, and shall enforce their collections against
Of II
lied, in conjunction with the presiding officers
OF the ast legislature, to reapportion the terri
tory. first Monday in September, l3e. 5or within
! ten days thereafter
| sESArE-Aftsr considerable timeepent in un~
important business, Mr. Palmer spoke IN favor
of the proposed woman suffrage amendment to
the constitution. The bill to regulate the fees Of
i pension agents and attorneys passed. The bill
IaQ. M fn,c fl,ovpc oh oil ho M
oeived by pension claim agents, except that,
under spacial circumstance, subject to revision
| by the commissioner of pension, q contract IN
W .taug may % made between applicants snd
cltl1n agents for a fee rot exceeding SS5 The
bill contains clause specially forbidding tho
collection by claim agents of more than so on
claims fled between June "a, 1878, and July I,
| 1854, and prohibiting government pension
agents from paying claim agents more than
$40 ON such claims, even in cases of new con-
tracts.
In executive session, the following appoint-
monts were confirmed: Joshua 4 Smith,
Mis@issippi, United States consul at Asuncion,
Paraguay; Robert Woodbridge, Ohio, agent
for the Indians at Lemhi ageacy, Idaho. Post
Inasters-Hatsis Dennison, Vancouver, Wash
ingt,n; John 7. Yoe, Dillon, Mont Miss Elite
L Peet Upton, Iowa; Daniel B. Johns, Groton,
Oak; c. K Ingham, Alton, Iowa; Sylvester
W. Osborne, Darlington, Wis. Charles A.
Spencer, Sheboygan Falls, Wis.
Nomina.ions-Jsmes A. Mcknight, Utah,
consul OF the United States at St. Helena; Ed
ward H Thompson Massachusetts, consul OF
| the United States a. Merida Postmasters-
Newton ", Simmons, Boone, Iowa. "
HousE.-The river and harbor bill was dis
| cussed at great length without result The
honso evening session passed tweuty-six pen
son bills, including one granting pension of
| $40 each to the minor children OF the late
Lieut. klsllngbury and one increasing to $50