The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-01-14
CONGRESSIONAL
SENATE.


WASHINGTON, Jan. ID. - Hale,
from the comLlittee on %approp:ia-
lions reported back the last naval ap-
preparation bill sent over by the
house amended by striking out all
provisions for q change In existing
laws. Hale said he would call 1t up
tomorrow.
DoIph. from the committee on pub
Tic lands reported favorably on the
house bill repeating the presumption,
timber culture aud desert land ACT
and modif, Jog the homestead act.
Edmunds Introduced . bill author
izing the president to alpint aDo
place on the retired list OF the army
one person from among those VINO
had been Generals commanding
armies Of the United States or Gen.
in Chief of said army Edmuuds
+xpre .sed the hope that unanimous
consent would be given for the inl-
mediate consideration of the bill.
Every senator he said would see the
OBJECT, purpose, and application OF
the bill. 1t would authorize the pres
ident to appoint Gen. Grant to Inc
retired lit. In its form it obviated
the difficulty observed in the Fitz
John Porter case.
Cockre)l asked that it should lie
over till tomorrow.
HOUSE. p
Stockslager rising to q question
of personal privilege sent to the
clerks desk and had read an artl-
Gle in yesterdays New York Sun
charging the committee on public
buildings with legislating to pass
bills for the erection of public build
ings in value ST., 0o0,0 900 and giving
Randall great credit for fighting and
exposing the joo. The statements in
the article, said Stockslager, were
reckless but considering that
statements almost as reckless have
been made On the floor and in inter-
views especially by the gentlemen
from Ohio, (Warner) it was not
strange a newspaper should repeat
them. The amounts involved III the
bills was not ST. y 900 but $6,227,-
OCO. The assertion that there was
any combination, any binding TO-
gether of these bills so far as it refer
red to him or his co umittee was
wholly gratuitous, entirely uncalled
for and utterly false. He defended
the order under which. the publl3
building measures were to be cOnsld-
cred.
Randall said he had never known
of the article ii the Sun until it was
shown him yesterday. The material
point in the controversy between the
gentleman from Indiana and himself
wa (and he proposed to take the
bull by the hOrns) whether there
was a combination. He did not now
and never had charged that the gen.
til man Was framing an improper
combination but he did say in effect
that the resolution lis combination
necessarily 40, naturally so. Since
he had presented his objections to
the consideration of these bills he
had been appealed to on all sides to
withdraw that opposition.
He had stated thai if the committee
on pnbllc buildings would select IL
or Is meritorious bills which SHOULD
be passed, the house could proceed
understanding . The answer was
thai the moment q dozen or fifteen
bills we're picked out gentlemen in-
terested III bulls not selected,wOuld,Op-
pose the proposition. He was willing
the country should judge whether
there was a combination or not.
When the house met at 2 p. m. he
refused to entertain the motion from
the Democrats tn proceed to u perIna-
nent organization. Haines de ivered
a long address to prove that he Was a
stitutiOnal office which could only
be vacated by his voluntary resigna-
ton or Impeachment. Chaos was
threatened for some time, but in de
course the house adjourned til! 10
O'Clock tomorrow, aud in the mean
time the situation will be canvassed
in the caucus.
The following bills passed creating
a United States judicial district in
Southern California, limiting the
time for the pres .ntatiOn of bounty
and back pay claims to three year,
from tie passage of this act and of all
otb.r claims, except pensions, to six
years, and providing that all claims
hereinafter arising must be presented
within elk years from the time they
originated; authorizing service of
civil aud criminal processes Issued
by territorial courts within military
and Indian reser vations and Yellow.
stone Park.
A bill repeating section $40 of the
revised statutes which provides that
clerks of circuit and district courts in
Cali ornia, Oregon and Nevaas, may
charge extra fees.
Amending section 1889, so as to
prohibit territorial legislatures from
granting private charters.
Regulating appesls from the su-
preme court of the District of Co.
lumbia and supreme courts of the
territories. tit provides that no appeal
or writ Of error shall hereafter be
allowed from any judgment or decree
in any suit ut law or in equity in the
supreme court of the District of
Columbia or In the supreme court in
any territory Of the United States
unless the ma ter in dispute exclusive
of costs shall exceed $5.OOO.)
To extend the laws of the United
States over certain unorgan'zed terri
tories south. of the state of Kansas.
Repeating so much of section 1918
revised statutes as prohibits the pro-
motion to positions of commissioned
or noncOmmissloned officers in the
RI OCULAR army or any private soldier
VIC served two years since Sep. 1866.
To regulate and effect judgments
ana DEGREES in United States courts in
any State by providing they shall
AXE effect by way Of lien O. other
wise to thesanle extent and in Ike
manner as judgment and DEGREES of
courts in such States.
Browne (lnd..) rising said 81
perform the sad duty of announcing
70 the house the death of Schuyler
Colfax, at one time speaker of this
house and late vice-prt sident of the
aited States. A telegram was read
through the Associated Press this
AffprnnOn ahOnf IN " onuo,noir-