The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06

the articles of war relating TO courts mar,;.fr-
as to permit such courts to regulate the hcrso
of their sess ons, and the other strikes ont ~
paragraph reported by the arsh s.s
military academy to be attached 10 any e oeaS
of the army for which they are recommends
by the academic board as additional $500
lieutenants until vacancies happen. This nar
agraph was inserted to guard against the a. n
charge of cadets who will graduate in 1Sss
the class OF that year being unusually iarpe
Mcmillan of Tennessee and Warner of Ohio ~ ~
the opposition TO this paragraph, which wss
knocked out on a point of order. 80
SENATE. Messages from the president uor.
laid before the senate, transmitting inform.
ton heretofore called for regarding the laca
ing of foreign cables in the United Stafee. u.
awards Of the Venezuelan mixed comm;ss,; y
and the status of the Oklahoma lands Whit
lands, the president maintains. cannot NJ
DER existing treaties, be opened for st-
business, she senate went into Az V ysus
session on the Nicaragua treaty Nm
ator Vance made q speech arouinu ~.
the Clayton Bulwer treaty was still an ohs.s
Gle to the ratification of the treaty and offerea
a motion that further action be postponed M
III alter March T. This notion was the ARK.
ject of a long debate. Senator's Bavard 49,
Salisbury and others upon the Democrat
side spoke in favor Of the motion. and Senate
Morgan, Lapham, Conger and Miller az Cali
fornia opposed it.
Tn following nominations were sent by The
president TO the senate:
Nicholas IL Owings, secretary of Washington
Territory. Registers of land ~ofices-Georca
A, Mckenzie, Stockton, Cal, Charles r. JohS'
son, Los Angeles, Cal Mark Blunt. pnehIo
Col. Henry II. Griffiths, receiver OF mIliss
moneys at Des Moines, Iowa; Robert Waaa
bridge, Ohio, indian agent Of the Iemba
agency, Idaho. Postmasters-George p. Dais
avan, Greene, Iowa; H. III Mcclellan, Mar
ion, Iowa; Henry F. Steward, Ketchum, Iowa.
HoUsE-Mr. Clay, from the committee on
presidential laws, reported a concurrent reso.
luton providing:
The two houses shall assemble in the hall ~
the house at noon on the IL Of February. lSS5
pursuant TO the requirements of the nonsfi,
futon and law relating to the president ana
vice president of he United States. and tba
president of the senate shall be the presiding
officer: that one per son shall be appointed tell.
er IN the part of the senate and two as tellers
on the part Of the house, to make a list Of fha
votes as they shall be declared. That result
shall be delivered to the president of the SEN
ate, who shall announce the state vote and the
persons elected 10 the two houses assembled
as al aforesaid, which shall be deemed the dec
( ldIdlOn Oh the persons erected as president
and vice president Referred.
j. w. Reed, Democrat, took his seat ss thu
successor TO MI. Scales, fifth district of North
Carolina. Mr.. Hewitt was again defeated in al
tempt to have the Mexican treaty bill taken m
for consideration. The house voted to consid-
er railway land grant ~forfiture bills, but was
prevented from doing so by flibustering.
SENATE-The senate went into executive
session and the suspended vote upon Sena-
tor Yance's motion topostpone action upon the
Nicaragua treaty was continued, resulting
in the defeat of the motion-22 to Is. Sem
ator Sherman's amendment, looking to the
| ~abrogation or modification OF the Clayton
Bulwer treaty, was then discussed some
hours, and coming to a vote in committee OF
the whole, was defeated-27 to y. The Sec
ond Sherman amendment, relating to dis
elimination in tolls, was defeated without
division. The treaty was then reported to the
senate, and a vote upon Sherman's amend
ment relating to the Clayton-Bnlwer treaty was
again taken, resulting in its adoption-SOtol9
A vote was then taken upon the treaty itseli,
and 30 senators voted for its ratification, While
% Voted against it. The affirmative vote be-
ing less than two-thirds of the whole number
voting, the treaty was not ratified The nays
were all democratic, with the exception
Of Riddleberger. The following democrats
voted for the treaty: Jonas, La, Jones, Flor,
Maxey. Morgan, Pendleton and Rugh.
Mr.. Mcmillan has presented IN the senate
a memorial from the Minnesota legislature
urging the purchase of thePortage and LaEe
Superior ship canals by the government ies
the purpsse OF making it a free waterway.
HOUSE After miscellaneous business q no
great importance, the river and harbor appro-
priation bill was discussed until Adjournment
SENATE. To-day Senator Beck presented .