The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-01-14
NEWS CONDENSED.
Concise Record OF the Week,
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.

CoNaREss reassembled after the holiday adj
journment ON Tuesday, Jan. 8, and ut once
orened business in lively fashion Numerous
bills were introduced in both houses. In the
Senate the credentials of John w. Daniel, OF
Virginia, were presented. A bill was passed TO
legalize the Ninth Territorial Assembly of wy
oming Bills were introduced TO substitute sill
yer dollars for gold coin and currency in re-
serve funds Of the Treasury 10 increase PEN
sions for total helplessness 20 facilitate promo
tons In the army to adjust accounts of lnborers
under the eight-hour law, 70 provide for tho
erection of monuments i'm Washington 10 Abra-
ham Lincoln and u. 5. Grant, mt cost OF II, OOO-
600 each 90 establish national university in
the District 81 Columbia by grant OF So 0oc, 900,
bearing per cent interest; to provide for the
allotment of lands to Indians in severaltys res
olution was adopted accepting from the State OF
Ohio n marble statue sof ex-President GARFIELD.
Mr.. Hoar introduced a resolution requesting the
President TO take measures for including cases OF
onbezzement in extradition treaties. Mr. Will
son, of Iowa called up the resolution heretofore
offered by him calling ON tho Secretary OF tho
Interior for copy of each report made by the
Government Directors OF the Union Pacific Rail-
road from the first appointment OF such direct
30 the present time. In support OF his resolu-
ton Mr.. Wilson reviewed at considerable length
the action of the Government Directors. OF
whom he had himself been one. with n view to
showing that, had the Government paid attention
10 the information conveyed and the recon-
mendations made by the directors, the relations
of sthe Government to the roads would to-day DO
better. The bills introduced in the House
of Representatives numbered 100 The more
notable were: To remove restrictions ON the
coinage Of the standard silver dollar; 20 abolish
internal revenue taxation TO appropriate $780,
QUO for a monument TO General ofaht Ii New
York; TO prevent the authorization OF
food and drugs; TO provide for TIE
construction of tho Delaware and Maryland
ship canal 10 reform the civil service TO repeal
the duty sugar; to prevent fraudulepS entries
on the public domain; to repeal the tobacco tax;
to create an Interstate commerce. commission;
TO tax the manufacture and sale of olemarga-
rine to give honorably discharged soldiers and
sailors preference in public appointments; to
authorize the President To call out two volun-
teer regiments of cavalry in New Mexico and
Arizona for the suppression OF Indian hostil-
tiles, and Co deprive polygalnist SITS Of the
right of suffrago:-Tho President sent
the following nominations TO the Senate
John j. Higgins, TO be Collector of Gus
toms in the District Of Natchez, Miss James
Cunan. of Maryland, TO be Supervising mspec-
tor of Steam Vessels in the Third District; Wiley
j. Tim, TO be Surveyor of Customs for San Fran
cisco; William n. McArgle, of Mississippi, TO be
Consul OF the United States ut San Juan del
Norte; Willis H. Patch, of Maine, to be Consul
of the United States mt St stephen, New Bruins
wick; II. NJ. Jewett, Of Massachusetts,, to be
Consul at Sivas; Orlando V. Powers, of Mchi-
gan, TO be Associate Justice Of the Supreme
Court of Utah.
Mr. HoAR introduced in the Senate. on the 9th
inst, bill for longer sessions of Congress- max
ing proceedings commence alternately in octo-
Der aud November Tho silver question was
raised in the senate on discussion of the Beck
resolution. Mr. Gray commended that persistence
in compulsory coinage would bring the coun-
clared That in the opinion Il the best author
tiles in the world, point had been reached
beyond which it would DO dangerous TO
GO and produced advertisements by jay
Cooke that tho bonds would be paid in gold
The Chair laid before the Senate letter from
the Postmaster General, complying with tho
call of recent Senate resolution in respect to
the appointment of Postmasters in Maine, al
legged t. have been procured through the infu-
ence of S. S. Brown. Chairman OF the Demo-
cratic committee Of that State. Mr. Hale OF
Maine, said the Postmaster General had turned
these matters Of appointment over TO his assist
ant, who relied upon Mr.. Brown, but the Post
master General had not made complete
answer 10 the resolution Of the Senate. In
reply Senator'S Voorhees, and Vest defended
the civil-service policy OF President Cleveland.
Bills were introduced in the uso OF Repre-
sent ltives for the free coinage If the silver dol
lar, TO limit il, ard suspend It T. force national
banks TO keep n larger reserve of sil1 o.; TO re-
tire the trate dollar, and t. direct the calling in
Of S5O,0OOt0) in per cent bonds payment to
be made in coin OF standard value.--The
President sent the for1 owing minntis ns TO the
Senats: Jamos Shields OF NJ mana 20 be Col
lector OF Internal Revenue for the District Of
Montana Postmasters-ThomasR Ryan, at Snult
Ste. Marie, Mich. Charles Holiday, ut -. Louis,
Mi IN. j. {. Morgan, ut kcamey Neb.
RESOLUTION originally introduced by Mr..
Harrison calling for an Investigation OF the Pen
sion Commissioners Office adopted by the
Senate on the 7th inst, after tho incorporation
of amendments offered by Messrs voorhees,
and Logan AS it now stands the resolution pro-
vides for inquiry u the truth Of Mr..
Blacks statement that under his predccos sors
party tests applied to pension claimants
and as 10 the present incumb snt's management
of his trust. There was n long debate the
Utah bill, and Molmoas came in Tor share II
bitter donunciation 40 tho hands OF Senators
Morgan and Cullon Mr.. Tole opposed sevcTo
repro ssvc mcns lraa, nul act ld rs the 0pOlogist
of the Saints. TIE House Of RepreIantai tes
listeno1 inn n inntly t. the intIo lnctipn of bills
for the INA ssiOl 81 Dakota ard w shingtOn
Territories. TO lto postal tclel tph 10 re-
Ical the tobacco tax for n commission on the
- FHTNH "A r.fF.HrH
Southwest, W thirteen plblc build ngs, for the
Hennepin Canal project an unlimited slvor
dollar, and fora hundred or two other things
speaker CARLISLE announ oil his committees,
with Morrison rs Chairman OF WAYS and
Means, Randall OF Appropriations, Bland OF
CoinGg'. and Belmont of Foreign Affairs
SENATOR EDNUNDs Utah bill passed the Sem
ate on the sth inst It is substantially tho same
as first reported, with the addition OF a section
providing that ma rase between persons of the
fourth degree II cous inguiInty but not includ-
ing that, shall be contrary TO law. Mr. Eusti5
offered concurrent resolution with
Of Congress of 1873 declared the silver
dollar legal tender for all debts, pub
lie and private that by the act of 1859 the faith
OF the United states was soomnly pledged TO
the payment in coin its equivalent of all
public obligations not bearing interest, etc.
that by the refunding act OF July, 1870 tho prin-
eipal and interest OF the debt were made re-
deemable in coin OF the then standard value;
that since the enactment Of those laws it has
ury to pay the bonds and interest in gold
coin, and that the Secretary OF tho Treasury
has Issued call for SI0OO0.OO0 OF bonds,
payable ON tho lss OF February. 1886 therefore,
be II resolved etc, that In the opinion of Con-
gress said bonds of SiO,OOO,000, payable on Feb
i. 1866. should be paid IN silver dollars, such
payment being IN compliance with existing
law and i'm aid OF the financial policy es-
tabished by tho Legislation of Congress"
Mr.. Eustis desired the resolution referred to
the Committee en- Finance, and expressed the
hope that the COMMITTEES would report on il at
m early day, in order that it may be determined
whether or not tho practice Of paying the Unit
ed States bonds and the interest on them oxclu-
sfvely in gold coin was approved by Congress.
Bills were introduced To appropriate 81 80 90
for improvements at the mouth Of the Columbia
River, 70 create a pubic park near Santa Fe TO
pay the Delaware Indians $50 800 for certain
lands in KANSAS, to increase e. SIS per month the
pensions of soldiers or sailors who lost one eve,
aud 70 prohibit the letting OF Government con-
tracts to persons employing convict labor. The
House was not in session.
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