Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1886-12-23
CONGRESS.

| Dec, 14-Senate-Bills introduced /:
Increasing pensions in certain cases; for
presentation of medals to officers and
men who volunteered for three months
unedr call April Is, 1871; amending the
oleomargarine law.
| House amendments to electoral count
bill were non concurred in and confer
rees appointed.
Messers. Edmunds aud Hoar address
ed the senate on bill repeating the ten
ure-of-ofice act.-
House-Resolutions adopted: Asking
Interpretation of certain sections Of the
of the tariff laws; requesting Of the sec
retary of the treasury copies of state-
ments of duties collected each year since
1865.
The House went into committee of
the whole on sundry civil appropriation
bill.
DEC, 15.-Senate-Bil introduced A:
Repeating chapter 27 of acts relating to
civil service.
Bills reported: To amend postal mon-
ey-order system; to extend free delivery
system.
Resolutions adopted: Calling on sec>
retary of war as to apportionment of
certain money appropriated for improve
ment of Missouri river Omaha; asking
same official for information relative to
construction of bridge across the Ar
thur Kill
The resolution of Mr.. Platt providing
for consideration of executive nominal
tions in open session was laid on table
yeas 33. nays 2l.
Honse-Bill passed: Bringing certain
cities named under specified provisions
of national bank act.
| Conferrees on electoral connt bill
we're selected.
House went into committee of the
whole on sundry civil appropriation bill
and some progress WAS made.
| DEC, I6. -Senate-A bill was intro
duced to increase she salaries of the
Commissioners of Education and Labor
to $4,000. Mr.. Van Wyck introduced a
resolution to amend the constitution SC
| as to require the election of U. ). seDa.
| tors by the people of the states, instead
of by the Legislatures. A resolution
was adopted instructing the Finance
| Committee to inquire into the propriety
Of reporting bill providing rebate on
all Imported materials incorporated
with domestic materials and exported
| for sale. The calendar was taken ur
and a bill passed permitting the owners
of American vessels and their cargoes
to sue the government for losses caused
by collision with o. 8. vessels. Mr.
Biddlebergers open session resolution
| went over on objection. The bill to ret
peal the tenure of Office act was taken
up and discussed without action.
In the House, u bill was passed maxi
ing Hartford. CT, port of entry; also
q bill to pension persons who served in
the navy as yeoman engineers, apothe
carries and master alarms. The sundry
civil bill was discussed and passed in
committee of the whole and reported to
the House, which then adjourned.
| Dec, H. Senate-Bills passed: For
recoinage Of the trade dollar; to extend
free delivery system; authorizing EN-
ployment of mail messengers in postal
service; repeating the tenure-of-office
act.
Bills introduced: To regulate fees of
district attorneys in New Mexico and
Arizona: for reduction of interest on
bonded debt of United States.
House-Bills passed: Making appro
priations for public buildings at Balti'
more and Rochester; increasing the
pension Of Gen. B F Kelly, Of West
Virginia.
Bills introduced: Appointing a cons
mission to investigate losses of Ameri+
can citizens engaged in fisheries, on
northeast coast of North America.
The Senate was not in session on
Saturday.
The House ordered a conference on
the bill authorizing the employment Of
mail messengers. The bill was passed
providing an additional associate jus
tice of the supreme court of New Mex
leo. Mr.. Morrison moved to 60 into
committee of the whole to take up his
tariff bill Lost-149 to 154, Speaker
Carlisle voting in the affirmative.