Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-01-21
CONGRESSIONAL.
TUESDAY. Jan. 10.

| prefer to postpone till Thursday next
| the delivery of his remarks on the sill
| yer question, and Sen. Maxey stated
| that he too would address the senate on
the same subject. After going into ex
| ecutive session the senate adjourned.
| House The speaker announced the
appointement OF Messrs. Singleton,
Wilson and Phelps members of the
board Of regents Of the Smithsonian in
stitute. Mr.. Coldwell, of Tenn, from
| the committee on laws regulating the
election of president and vice president
reported back without amendment the
Hoar presidential succession bill, and it
| was placed on the house calendar. The
house then went into the committee of
| the whole with Blount, of Georgia. in
the chair, for the consideration of the
present financial question. Speeches
were made by Reagan, Bland and Symes
after which the house adjourned.
SUB.COMMITTEES APPOINTED.
The appropriations committee was
| called together to-day by Randall. and
arrenged to meet Wednesdays. Sub
committees were formed as follows.
On sundry civil appropriation bilIs-Randall,
Ferney, Barnes, Ryan and Long.
Legislative, executive and judicial bllls-Hsl-
worth.
Deficiency bill-Burns, Adams, LeFevre McCo-
mas and Cannon.
Fortif cation bill-Forney Randall, Holman,
Butterworth and Ryan:
Pension bill-Townshend, Campbell, Wilson,
Long and Henderson.
The committee on military affairs
appointed the following sub commit
tees:
Ganaro1 orr,r on,rorr;a+;o,, 1,;u r1bo oho;~
man (Gen. Bragg) Viee and Steele.
Military academy bill-Whes Ter, Ermentrout
and Negley.
WEDNESDAY. Jan. Is.
.Seaate-Sen. Hawley presided over
the senate to-day in the absence of
Sherman. Sen. Ingalls, offered the fol-
lowing resolution which at his request
was laid over for the present:
Resolved, That in the opinion of the senate the
compulsory coinage of silver dollars directed by
the law of February %, 1873, should not be sus-
pended until the aggregate reaches five millions
of dollars.
Sen. Platt offered resolution which
was agreed to, authorizing the commit
tee on patents to take testimony rela-
tive to the subject of ihterna tional
copyrights. Sen. Coke addressed the
house at some length on the question OF
suspension of silver coinage. A reso-
luton offered by Sen. Edmunds was
agreed 10, antorizing the secretary of
the senate to pay the bills incurred in
the attendance of the senators at the
funeral of the late Vice President Hen
bricks. The executive session adjourn
ed.
ROuSe-Mr. Curtin, Penn, asked to
be and was excused from serving as
chairman of the committee on banking
and currency. This devolves the chair.
nnanship upon MIR. Miller. Mr.. Hill.
Ohio, on behalf OF the committee on ter
ritories, called up and the house passed
the senate bill to legalize the territorial
legislative assembly of Wyoming. On
behalf Of the committee on presidential
laws Mr.. Caldwell called up for action
the Hoar presidential succession bill,
but on the statement of Mr.. Cooper
that the minority report had not been
printed, the discussion of the subject
was postponed until tomorrow. On
motion of Mr.. Morrison the house adj
journed.
THURSDAY, JAN. IA.
Senate Sen. PIatt presented a petit
ton from the commercial travellers
praying for legislation to relieve them
from burdensome taxation. Sen. Brown
called up Sen. Beck's silver resolution.
| In the course of an elaborate address
| favori11g the resolution, Sen. Brown
said the officers of the treasury should
| treat all public creditors alike; if they
| paid bondholders in gold alone, they
| should pay the laborer IN gold alone.
| Though the bondholders had expressly
| agreed to take payment in either gold
or silver, they were being paid in gold
alone, while every body else was paid
ia silver. This was neither fair dealing
nor common honesty. Sen. Marcy fol-
| lowed on the same subj4c The silver
| advocates, he contended, repelIed the
| imputation that they wanted to take
| any advantage Of their creditors by pay
| ing dollar debt with an so cent dollar.
| A fouler lie had never been uttered
| against brave and industrious people.
| The people knew that the fall OF silver
was result of the conspiracy OF COM
| bined capital to destroy silver as a
money metal, and gamblers were but
reaping the fruits of their own folly
| The judicial salary bill was then laid
| before the senate. One of the sections
of tke bill provides that no person re-
| lated within the degree Of first cousin
| to Judge of the United States shall be
appointed by such judge to any posit-
ion in his court, and persons SO related
who now hold such offices shall not con-
tinue ia Office after six months from
the passage of the act. Sen. Edmunds
moved to strike out the clause that
would affiict a person at present in the
| Office, and in the course of the remarks
ia support of the motion said: even
| in this reform of the administration the
picture of purity and grace and OF
every thing that is lovely has sent to the
senate the nomination of father and
son to go to the same place, and to ex.
! ercise the functions of two offces-one
under the other" After the debate Sen.
| Edmunds' amendment was agreed to.
Adjourned until Monday.
Houston behalf Of the committee
on presidential laws, Mr.. Caldwell call
ed up MIR. Hoar's presidential success
sion bill. The debate continued at con.
siderable length. Mr.. Cooper, of Ohio
Mr.. Peters, of Kansas, Mr.. Adams, OF
| Illinois. and Mr.. Rowell, of Illinois, at
lacking the bill as unconstitutional and
in its tendency dangerous. They as
serted that the bill permitted those in
power to perpetuate that power for an
Indefinite number of years and present