Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-03-25
PR0oEEDINCS OF CONGRESS

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SENATE. The senate agreed to resolu.
ton to appoint Rev. j. g. Butler j. H.,
| OF Washington chaplain. Among petitions
| presented and referred 10 comEaittees were
a number Irom local asisefnblies of kBi thts
| of Labor throughout the country fayoiias
/ the building OF the Hennepin canal.
Mr.. Ingalls, submitted joint resolution
proposing constitutions amendment
! providing that April 80 shall be the day
for the beginning Of the successive admin.
istrations OF the government, instead ol
| March 4.
A message from the house notified the
senate OF the death OF Representative
| Hahn OF Louisiana. On motion of Mr..
| Enstis, cut OF respect to the memory OF
/ the deceased, the senate adjourned. I'm
! metiately after reading the journal the
! house adjourned out OF respect To the
| memory OF Mr.. Hahn.
SEvkTE-On motion of Mr.. Van Wyek,
| the house bin increasing the pensions of
\ soldiers widows, etc, was taken up. Aft.
| er considerable debate aud the rejection OF
several amendments, the bill passed as it
| came from the house. il now needs only
the presidents signature to become law.
| II increases the pensions OF widows and de-
\ pendent relistiyes from IS to S12 a month.
| Mr.. Cockrell, from the committee on mill.
| tary affairs, reported fayorably the bill to
amend article 1o3 of the rules and articles
OF war, so as to provide:
Noperson shall be tried or punished by
,t court martial for desertion in time OF
peace committed more than two years be-
| fore his arrangement, unless he may mean
while have absented himself from the Unit
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 thesenate by
Mr.. Blair provides:
Every person specified under the several
| clauses enumerated under section 4, 693 oil
| 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 pen
sion during the continuance OF such dis
ability at a rate proportional to the de-
| gree OF disability. such pension to com,
mence ut the date of filing of the applica-
ton. The highest rate oil pension granted
under this section is fixed at S24 for total
ineapacity to perform manual labor. 49,.
Mr.. Culiom spoke in support OF the SEN
| ate claim to official papers on file in the
departments, and Mr.. Maxey addressed the
senate on the other side. Mr.. Dolph eriti-
cised the president for the removal OF eX-
Union soldiers from Office.
HousE.-Bills were introduced to estab
| lish postal saving banks; to punish dis.
elimination by telegraph companies in the
transmission OF messages, and iorbidding
those companies to sell new dispatches n
resolution for u constitutional amendment
prohibiting polygamy. The bill toclose up
The business OF the &C urt of Alabama claims
| passed BY a vote Of l79 to 81, the rules
were suspended and resolution adopted
| fixing certain days for the discussi on 81 a
free silver coinage bill.
Mr. Browne of Indiana, rising to privil-
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 oil
money aggregating s $50 for alleged ser.
| vices in securing an appropriation OF SO.
| 600 during the last congress for improv-
| ing the levea OF Jeffersonville. The reso-
luton was adopted without debate and re.
ferred to the committee on reform in the
| civil service.
SENArE.-Mr. Van Wyck offered the fol-
| lowing resolution which was adopted:
|
| 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, il any additional leg
islation is necessary to protect timber on
| the public domain, and that the commit
| tee have power to send for persons and
| papers. .E 10.
The chair laid before the senate the new
electoral count bill, and Mr.. Hoar address
| ed the senate on the bill 1.-THE conclusion
| OF Mr.. Hoar's remarks the bin was passed
| without a division.
The unfinished business being the Ed,
| munGs resolution, reported from the Judi
| ciary 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 went into executive
session there was a lively tilt between Sen
ators Beck and Edmunds, which was very
much enjoyed by the spectators in the
| galleries Mr.. Edmunds having objected to
| Mr.,.Beck 8 referring..to what had been donein
executive session in the Duskin case, some
sharp passages occurred between them, dur
| ing which the acts OF the senate in executive
session were SO strongly limited at by
\ Beck as to alarm the other senators and to
| ed the galleries cleared and tie doors
| closed, and went into executive session.
| The controversy was not resumed. In the
| executive session Mr.. Conger moved to re-
consider the vote by which X. Il. Dement,
was recently confirmed to be surveyor
| general of Utah. The motion to reconsider
| suspends the action Of tho senate in the
| case, and Dement'S nomination will be
| hung up until the motion to reconsider is
disposed OF.
| HOUsE.-Aiter numerous reports on vari-
| Gus bills, che Indian appropriation bill
was discussed, and Mr.. Weliborn Of Texas
| made a strong speech in favor OF the civil
| ization oil the Indians.
| SENATE.-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 it's general, economic, criminal,
| moral, and scientific aspects; providing Tor
| the study in the schools CT the territories
| and the District OF Columbia Of the nature
| OF alcoholic stimulants and narcotics; to
| remove the charge of desertion from the
| records of the adiutant 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 re-
| enlistment wns not to secure a bounty.
The debate on the resolutions censuring
| the attorney general was resumed, and Mr..
/ Spooner spoke in support OF them. At the
! close OF the speech Messrs. Edmunds,
| Evarts, Hoar and Others gathered around
| 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
| to suspend and the power to remove of.
| ficials. and his exposition OF the constitu.
| tionalty OF the tenure OF Office actexhaust-
| ed the whole subject of debate, and he
| should not speak.
| In executive session the Senate confirmed
! John Woessner, Texas, consul at Saltllo;
V. o. King, Texas, secretary OF the legation
| and consul general at Bogota; Brig. Gen.
| Alfred III. Terry, major general; Eid u.
| Bannister, Indiana, Indian Inspector.
HoUsE.-After various bills had been re-
| ported from committees, the bill authoriz.
| ing the court OF claims to investigate other
I than war claims was discussed, as was also
| the Indian appropriation bill. The banking
| and currency committee of the house had
| conference with Treasurer Jordan at his
| residence. The principal subject OF discus
| sion was, MS to the best means of keeping
| silver in circulation as long as possible.
| Treasurer Jordan favored making the
| banks the circulating agency, instead 6i the
| treasury. lie thought this would secure
the longest and cheapest circulation.
SENATE-The national live stock highway
bill passed, as did all the private pension
| bills on the calendar. Excitement was
caused by the clerk reading q portion OF a
communication from the secretary of the
| treasury which was an executive document
! but not being so marked had been handed
| TO the clerk by the president pro tempore.
| The reading stopped short when the CLERK
| realized the nature of the document Mr..
| Spooner concluded his speech in support OF
the resolutions ceDsHring the attorney gen.
| erai. Mr.. Salisbury spoke in defense of the