Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-05-06
CONGRESSIONAL.
MONDAY, April 26.

I'LL the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Senator Jackson, of Tenn, presented
his credentials and was sworn in to-day.
Sen. Morrill, from the committee on
finances, reported, with amendment, the
house bill relating TO the bonds of brewers.
The senate committee had amended the
bill so as to require that at least once in
four years bonds shall in any event be re-
newed, whether the collector requests it
or not After debate the senate amend
ment was agreed to and the bill as amend
ed was passed. Senator Plumb from the
Appropriation committee reported the
post Office appropriation bill with the
amendments. It was placed on the calen-
dar. The question of detail involved in
Camdens' pending amendment to the in
ter-state commerce bill as to the long and
short haul were then taken up and dis
cussed by Messrs Camden, Harris, Platt,
Brown, Wilson of Iowa, and Mr.. Cullom,
after which the senate adjourned.
House Messrs. Wilkins and Grosvenor,
of Ohio introduced resolutions for the
reservations of the wood tariff of 1867.
Mr.. Springer for the admission of the
whole of Dakota into states; also to estab-
lish board for the arbitration of con-
troversies between labor and capital. The
house went into committee of the whole,
Mr.. WellbOrn in the chair, on the river
and harbor appropriation bill. Fair pro-
gress was made with the bill until the
clause authorizing the secretary of war to
negOtiOte for the purchase of the works
of Green and Barron River Navigation
Company, IN Kentucky. presented an Op-
portunity for the fight over the Monon-
gahela Navigation Company to break out
afresh. Mr.. BOyne offered an amendment
authorizing the secretary of war to nego-
tate for the purchase of the works of the
Monongahela Navigation Company. The
amendment was agreed to by 80 to "a.
After considerable debate on the mainte-
nance, etc., of the New York state canals
the committee rose, and the house ad
iourned.
TUESDAY, April 81.
Senate-The report of the committee of
the Ohio legislature, regarding the investi-
cation of Senator Payne's election was
submitted to the senate, and Payne made
short speech charging the majority of
the committee with UNANIMOUSLY refusing
to notify him of testimony prejudical to
him, and emitting to call on him for his
private papers, he having notified the
chairman of the committee in advance,
that he would be prepared to test every
charge made against him. The bill pro-
viding for an extension of the executive
mansion was passed It appropriates
100000 for the purpose. The following
bills authorizing the construction of
bridges, reported favorably from the COM
mlttee on commerce, were passed: Rail
road bridges across the Missouri at or
near Kansas City, Mo-, Council Bluffs,
Iowa, an the line of the railroad between
either Clay or Jackson county, Missouri,
and the county of Wyandotte, Kansas,
near AtchisOn, Kansas, at or near Salina
City, Mo-, near ST. Charles, Mo-, and at or
near st. Joseph, Mo. Also railroad
bridge across st. Croix river or lake be-
tween Prescott, Wis, and Saltwater, MINI.
The Interstate commerce bill was then
taken up. The pending question was on
Camden's proposed amendment to strike
out the words, From the same point of
departure" from the long and short haul
clause of the bill. After executive session
the senate adjourned.
HOuSe-The senate bill passed extend
ing for two months, from April 80, 1886
the duties of the clerk of the late court of
commissioners of Alabama claims. Mr.
Bennett Is. CO. from the committee on
judiciary, reported adversely the bill to
owing lands within the United States
House calendar. The house then went
into committee of the whole Mr.. Wellborn,
of Texas, in the chair, on the river and
harbor bill. The paragraph accepting
from the state of Ohio the Muskegum
river improvement gave rise to much
opposition, and Mr.. Regain of Texas,
moved to strike it from the bill. Mr..
Hewitt, of New York, supports the motion
and Mr.. HENDERSON, of Illinois, opposed
the motion to strike it out. Hr. Hepburn,
of Iowa, thought the appropriations in
the pending bill would have little effect
in bringing distress on relief to the cOun-
try. The motion to strike out was lost,
and the committee rose, and the house
adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, April %.
Sendte-On motion of Senator Mcmillan
the bills were passed authorizing the con-
struction of bridges as follows: Across
the Mississippi river at or near Keiths-
burg, ILL.,, and at WinOna, Mimi, and at
Red Wing, Minn,; across the Missouri
river, at Pierre, OAK; across Miners river
at or near LancOn, ILL.,, and the Des Moines
river in Iowa at or near such a point as
may be selected by the New York d COun
Gil Bluffs railway company. The post
Office appropriation bill was then taken
up. Some debate arose on the amendment
proposed by the senate committee appro-
priating 100000 for carrying the South
and Central American and the Chinese
and Australian mails, and authorizing
the postmaster general to make, after
due advertisement, contracts for five years
with American steamships, at a rate not
to exceed for each outward trip one dol
lar per nautical mile of distance by the
most direct and feasible course between
the terminal points. A long debate was
INDUCED in by Senators Plumb Frye and
Beck. After executive session the senate
adjourned.
House-Mr. Harbor from the committee
on agriculture, reported a bill, defining
butter and imposing tax upon and reg
ulating the manufacture, sale, expectation
and importation of Oleomargarine. Re
ferred to committee of the whole. At the
conclusion of the morning hour
the house went into committee
of the whole (Willborn in the chair
On the river and harbor appropriation
bill, Mr.. Hepburn of Iowa offered an