The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-03-26
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.

several amendments, the bin passed as 1t
came from the house. 1t now needs only
the presidents signature to become n law.
1t increases the pensions OF widows and de-
pendent relatives from IS to Sl2 a month.
Nj. Cockrell, from the committee on mill
tarv affairs. reported favorably the bill to
amend article 1o3 OF the rules and articles
of war, so as to provide:
No person shall be tried or punished by
- court martial for desertion in time OF
peace committed more han two years be-
fore his arraignment, unless ne may mean
wnlle have absented himself from the Cnlr-
ed States, in which case the time OF his abb
sence shall be excluded in computing the
period of limitation.
The pension bill reported to the senate by
Mr.. Blair provides:
Every person specified under the several
clauses enumerated under section 4,693 OF
the Revised Statutes who served six
months in the military or naval service
during the war of the rebellion, and who
was honorably discharged, who is or shall
become disabled from any cause not the
result of his own gross carelessness, shall,
upon making known the facts, be placed
upon the pension roll, and receive a pen
sion during the continuance OF such dis
ability at a rate proportional to the de-
gree OF disability, such pension to com
mence at the date OF filing OF the applica-
ton. This highest rate OF pension granted
under this section is fixed at $24 for total
~incapacity to perform manual labor.
Mr.. CullOm spoke in support OF the SEN
ate's claim TO official papers on file in the
departments, and Mr.. maXey addressed the
senate on the other side. Mr. DoIph criti-
cised the president for the removal OF ex-
Union soldiers from office.
HOUSEHOLDS were introduced to estab
Itch ,,natnl q a uipu hanES. fn n1pish dis.
elimination by telegraph companies in the
transmission OF messages, and forbidding
those companies to sell new dispatches; a
resolution for a constitutional
prohibiting polygamy. The bill to close up
the business of the court OF Alabama claims
passed. By a vote OF 179 to 81, the rules
were suspended and a resolution adopted
fixing certain days for the discussion OF q
free silver coinage bill.
Mr.. Browne OF Indiana, risingto a priYil-
eyed question in the house, offered a reso-
luton proposing an investigation Of charges
against Luther +. Warder, assistant door
keeper OF the house OF representatives, and
o. o. Steeley, clerk to Speaker Carlisle,
both OF Indiana, to the effect that the
former secured from citizens of Jefferson
vile. during the last congress, sums OF
money aggregating S1,25O for alleged SER
vices in securing an appropriation OF $780,
uOO during INC IdSI COlSECSS III lulpEON-
ing the levee OF J~effersonville. The reso-
luton was adopted without debate and re-
ierred to the committee on reform in the
civil service.
SENATE.-Mr. Van Wyck offered the fol
lowing resolution which was adopted:
Resolved, That the committee on public
lands be directed to examine the nature
and extent of the alleged use and destruc-
ton of timber on the public lands adjoining
the line OF the Northern Pacific railroad,
particularly by the Montana Improvement
company, and what, if any additional leg
islation is necessary to protect timber on
the public domain, and that the commit.
tee rave power to send for persons and
papers.
| electoral count bill, and Mr.. Hoar address
ed the senate on the bill. al the conclusion
OF Mr.. Hoar's remarks the bill was passed
without a division.
The unfinished business being the Ed
munds resolution, reported from the Judi
eiary committee, was then laid before the
senate, and Mr.. Dolph resumed the floor
and continued his remarks in favor OF the
majority report of the committee.
Just before the senate wentinto executive
session there was q lively tilt between Sem
ators Beck and Edmunds, which was very
much enjoyed by the spectators in the
galleries. Mr.. Edmunds having objected to
Mr..,Beck's reierring.to what had been in
executive session in the Duskin case, some
sharp passages occurred between them, dur
ing which the acts OF the senatein executive
session were SO strongly limited at by
Beck as to alarm the other senator's and to
prevent further exposure, the senate order
ed the galleries cleared and the doors
closed, and went into executive session.
The controversy was not resumed. lnthe
executive session Mr.. Conger moved to re-
consider the vote by which r. f. Dement,
was recently confirmed to be surveyor
general OF Utah. The motion to reconsider
suspends the action Of the senate in the
case, and Dement'S nomination will be
hung up until the motion to reconsider is
/ disuosed o..
HousE.-After numerous reports on vari-
Gus bills, the Indian appropriation bill
was discussed, and Mr.. Wellborn OF Texas
made a strong speech in favor OF the civil
ixation oil the Indians.
SESATE.-The following bills passed: A
bill providing for a commission OF five per.
sons to investigate the alcoholic liquor
traffic, its relation to revenue and taxa.
ton. and its general, economic. criminal
moral, and scientific aspects; providing fol
the study in the schools OF the territories
and the District OF Columbia OF the nature
OF alcoholic ~stimulants and narcotics; to
remove the charge OF dcsertion from the
records OF the adjutsnt general OF the army
against soldiers who re-enlisted in the late
war without having received n discharge
from their first. regiment, providing the sec.
rotary Of war shall be satisfied that the I've
enlistment was not to secure q bounty.
The debate on the resolutions censuring
the attorney general was resumed, and Mr.
Spooner spoke In support OF them. At ths
j close OF the speech Messrs. Edmunds
| Evarts, Hoar and others gathered arounc
the young Wisconsin senator, and paid the
! highest sort OF compliments. Mr.. Evarts
said afterward that Mr.. Spooner's argu
ment on the distinction between the power
10 suspend and the power to remove Of
ficials. and his exposition Of the constitu
~tioualty Of the tenure OF Office a~ctexhaust
ed the whole subject OF debate, and HI