Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-02-04
ooNG gEssIoNAL SUMMARY.

JAN Observation-Disclosures commemora-
tive of the death of Vice President Hendricks
we're made by Senators Voorhees,, Sherman,
Hampton, Salisbury, Evarts, Ransom, SpooRer,
Vest and Harrison, whereupOn the senate ad-
joHrned.
House-Bills introduced: To establish life
saving stations; limiting jurisdiction of Union
States courts in patent cases; proposing con-
stitutional amendment providing that the Pres
ident and Vice President be elected by ma
jo1ty of the people; for the relief of railroad
mail clerks: amending the immigration laws;
to enforce the eight hour law; relative to pay
ment of postal rates; fixing the maximum limit
of capital stock of national banking associa-
tions.
Bills reported: Pensioning survivors of the
Mexican war; provididg for the erection OF
congressional library
JAN. Observation-Disclosures from the Kan
sas legislature presented and referred.
Resolutions offered Calling for Information
relating to military bands, agreed to; for sup
plying vacant inches in senate chamber with
busts, agreed to; to investigate former admin
istration Of pension Office, agreed to.
Debate on the bills to divide the Sioux res
ervation in Dakota, and to admit Dakota.
Executive session. Adjourned.
House-Senate Hendricks memorial resolu-
tion laid on the table.
Discussion on the Boutelle resolution, the
author having risen to a question of privilege
in regard to certain remarks imputed to him.
Bills reported Concerning The Pacific rail-
roads; for the erection of Grant monument;
granting certain right of way to st. Louis &
San Francisco railway company.
Discussion of bill for the voluntary retire
ment of certain naval officers.
Debate of bill declaring forfeited certain
land grants for construction of railroads in
Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Amend
ed by maing lands thus restored to the public
dom lin subject TO entry and settlement under
provisions of homestead law only, and passed.
Adjourned.
JAN. 2S-Senate-Bills introduced: To dis
continue the coinage of the silver dollar.
Petition presented: From Frederick Douglass
and others, complaining of discrimination
against them at tAeaters and other places of
public entertainment.
Debate on Dekota bill. Adjourned.
HOuse-Bill introduced: To organize the
territory of Oklahoma.
Several department communications received
and referred.
Appropriate resolutions upon the death of
Hon. Reuben Ellwood, Of Illinois. Adjourned.
JAN. 29-Senate-Mr. j. S. Georges Gre
dentials as senator from Mississippi read.
Bill passed: To relieve George S. Storrs, of
Texas, of political disabilities.
Bill introduced: Authorizing secretary of
treasury to pay claim OF the state of Elriada
on account of expenditures made in suppresing
Indian hostilities.
Resolutions offered: To consider executive
mn mai in far n
ings and report of recent survey of the Nicar-
aqua canal route, agreed to; calling for infor-
nation as TO what instructions had been issued
to assistant treasurer at New Orleans as to the
amount of silver dollars to be received, agreed
to.
Communication from the secretary of the
treasury in reference to Mr.. Morrills resolu-
ton, reminding senate that the circular space
on the capitol grounds, referred to in that cir
cular, had been set aside for a statute of ex-
President Garfield.
Discussion of the Dakota Sioux reservation
bill and the Dakota admission bill. Adjoured.
HOuse-COmmittee of the whole, private
calender; to pay 'Fourth of July claims" TO
sdjuicate cotton claims of representatives of c.
W. Briggs, deceased, two amenments being
adopted.
Evening session Consideration of pension
bills.
FEB. 1.-Senate-Several communications
were presented and appropriately referred.
Resolutions offered ExemptiKg Union SOL
d;ers from civil service examination; relative
to the alleged defalcation OF Alfred B. Meecham,
late superintendent of Indian affairs for
Oregon.
The electoral count bill was taken up and
without action.
House Resolution adopted: Providing that
the committee on expenditures in the depart
ment of justice he empowered to make full in
quiry into anv expenditure on the part of the
government relative to the rights of the Bell
and Pan Electric Telephone companies.
Resolution offered: Calling on the secretary
Of treasury for information as to whether any
was effected by the treasury de-
with the clearing house committee of
New York to prevent the circulation OF silver,
and, if so, by what authority of law that depart
nent assumes to virtually suspend the coinage