Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-02-25
CONGRESSIONAL.
MONDAY, Feb, Is,

ors, providing that miROr children shall
receive So per month when one parent
is deceased and $40 when both parents
are deceased; that the pensaonable age
be extended to Is years, and that fathers
and mothers only, be required to prove
dependence at the time of application
for pension. Sen. Conger, from the
committee on p9stoffices and post roads
! reported favorably the bill granting to
Mrs. Julia d. Grant the ranking priviI-
eye. Passed. Morgan then took the
| floor and resumed his argument against
the constitutionality OF the pending
education bill. At the conclusion of
Morgan's remarks Jackson obtained the
| floor, but yielded to the executive
session, after which the senate ad-
| journed.
Householder the call of the states
| the following bills. etc., were
| Introduce and referred d: Mr.. Morris, tt
reduce the tarraff taxes. Mr.. Hanback,
a resolution calling for the appointment
of a special committee consisting of
| eleven members of the house to make
inquiry into any expenditure on the
| part of the government incurred relative
| to the Bell ana Pan Electric telephone
companies to priority of patents, the
said inquiry to include all organizations
| or companies that have sprung out of the
! Pan Electric telephone company, and
for any other purpose, and also to make
| full inquiry into the resource OF the
stock known as the Pan Electric tel
ephone stock or to any stock Of any
other company. A bill was also intro
duced granting a pension OF $1,000 q
year to the widow of the late General
| Hancock. The house then went into
committee of the whole springer in the
chair on the Fitz Johu Porter bill, and
Wolford resumed his speech in favor of
the bill. Negley spoke against the bill,
as did Fuller, The committee then
rose and the house adjourned.
TUESDAY, Feb. 16.
! tSe7late-A memorial was presented
by Sen. Plumb from the legislature of
| Kansas, praying congress to provide
for the right Of way for railroads through
Indian Territory. At two o'clock Sena-
tor jackson took the floor on the edu.
cational bill He said that inasmuch
as the design of the measure was not to
establish national schools, but give tenn
porary aid to states for the purposes of
education, he would support it. He
dwelt briefly on the question: of stuff
rage in the south and the indispensable
l
everywhere in order that suffrage NAV
not be corrupted. The credentials of
the reelection of Senator A. P. German
were presented by Sen. Wilson, and
were read and filed. The senate then
adjourned.
! House.-In the houe to-day James,
| from the committee on coinage, weights
| and measures, reported adversely the
Bland bill for the free coinage of silver.
and it was placed on the calendar.
Bland obtained leave to file a minority
report, and stated that the house would
| be asked to consider the bill at the earli-
est opportunity. The house WEI into
! committee of the whole springer Ia the
chair on the Fitz John Porter bill.
After debate the committee rose and
| the house took a recess until 7 O'Clock
| the evening session to be for the further
consideration of the Fitz John Porter
bill. At the evening session Of the
house, the Fitz John Porter bill, was
then taken up. Brown, Rowell, Perkins
and Peters opposed the bill. The com
mittee then rose and the house adjourn
| ed.
WEDNESDAY, Feb. II.
/! Senate. the bills introduced
in the senate TO-DAY was one by Nor
rili, i'll aid of education in the United
States. Morrill, said that he intended
at an early opportunity to address the
senate on the bill, and at his request it
was laid on the table for the present
Sen. Hoar introduced a bill providing
for the erection of a suitable monument
at Washington to General Grant. The
bill appropriaSes $15O,OOO for the pur-
pose indicated and provides for q COM
1 of nd fhrmn
members of the house of representa-
| tives to contract for such monument.
The bill providing for the allotment of
lands in severalty to Indians, was taken
up but at two o'clock it went over, and
the consideration of the educational
bill was resumed, and without much
debate the senate agreed to the
amendment proposed by the edu-
cational committee striking out the
approximation for school buildings.
Sen. Butler read section requiring
that the schools of the states taking
money under the bill, sh teach the
art of reading, writing, and 20 speak
the English language, and enumerated
the different branches of study and in
quired where congress got the authority
to commend what should be taught in
the schools of Alaska. Congress had
no such right and Sen. Butler moved to
strike out the section. Sen. Buffers
motion was rejected Yeas 7; nays ~.
Sea. Malone expressed himself in fav-
or of the bill, but thought that the
secretary of the interior would not be
able to decide whether any discrimina-
ton had been shown in the application
of money unless he had definite infor-
nation. He therefore moved an amend
naent requiring the governor of the
state to furnish the secretary of the in
terror each year the particulars as to
the population, white and colored, of
each school district, the number of
white and colored children Of a school
age in each of such districts, the nuna-
Der attending school, etc.
Pending action on this amendment
the senate went into executive session
and soon adjourned.
House-Mr. Jones, from the commit
tee on postof6ce andspost roads, re-
ported a bill granting the ranking
privilege to Julia A. Grant. Placed on
the house calendar. Mr.. Murphy,
from the committee on railways and
canals, reported bill for providing for
the acceptance by the United States of
l Tho rrOpocod GRO pf Of the Illinois and