The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-03-25
NATIONAL LAWMAKERS.


favorine the building OF the Hennepin Canal,
were presented In the Senate ON March IL. Also
memorials OF the Knights OF Labor protesting
against the denial OF the extra pay which had
been provided for by law for workingmen In the
Government service who worked more than eight
hours per day. In presentin2 one OF these memo
rails. Mr.. Ingalls, said tho complaint was just
one and the nation had been disgraced by the vi
olation OF the law complained OF In the memorial.
Mr.. Ingalls, presented Joint resolution pro
posing n constitutional amendment providing
that the 3Oth OF April shall be the day for the
beginning OF the successive Administrations Of
the Government hereafter instead of the 4th OF
March The Senate adopted, by vote OF 70 70
offered by Senator Van Wyck. providing thae
tho pensions of children who are idiotic
or insane shall continue during , rne sx-
THE bill TO increase the pensions Of soldiers'
widows and dependent relatives from ss TO sl2 q
month passed the Senate on the 10th inst. Just
as it came from the House. Senators Morrill,.
Cullom, Maxey, and Dolph addressed the Sem
ate on the Duskin resolutions. Senator morrill,
supported the resolutions in a very brief speech
Senator Cullom made long argument in sup
port OF the resolutions. The refusal OF the At
torney General to furnish tho papers called for
by the senate, he said, was denial OF the right
public office. Senator Maxey opposed the res
Olutions Hcweve. much the issue might be
disguised, b said th. real object was 20 ascer-
tain the Pre- sidey.t's reasons for suspensions or
removals -. csicers. Complaint. he said, was
made in ha. majority report that 643 suspen-
sions had zee n made under this administration.
The complaint made by the people. Mr.. Maxey
said was that there had not been ten times 643
removals. Bills or resolutions were introduced
ricks the salary OF the Vice President for ono
year, to establish postofiice savings banks. to
provide for a conference of American nations on
n common standard silver coin and for COM
mission to investigate the war claims OF loyal
citizens of the border States The House passed,
under suspension of the rules, q bill for the
~ Mn Intr
Court; also the Senate bill authorizing the
Comptroller of the Currency TO permit the re-
ceiver OF national bank 70 use the trust funds
for the purchase OF property upon which the
bank holds a mortgage or other evidence Of In
debtedness.
Mr.. VAN WICK offered the following resolu-
ton i'm the senate March II -Resolved. That the
Committee on Public Lands be directed to exc
anime the nature and extent of the alleged use
and destruction Of timber ON the public lands
adjoining the line Of the Southern Pacific Rail-
road, particularly by the Montlna Improvement
Company, and report what, IL any, additional
legislation Unnecessary 70 protect tiInDer Oh tne
public domain, and that the committee have
power TO send for persons and papers. Tho
resolution agreed to The Chair laid before
the Senate the new electoral count bill Mr..
Hoar adore ssed the Senate the bill, and at the
conclusion of his remarks the bal was passed
without division Mr. Dolph addressed the
Senate in support Of tho Edmunds resolution.
Mr.. Coke and Mr. Wilson, OF Maryland, spoke
upon the resolution, and then Mr.. Beck took the
floor in opposition and he and Mr.. Edmunds
had quite Il wrangle upon question Of order.
during which Mr.. Edmunds moved an executive
session. In secret session a motion was entered
to reconsider the vote by which X s. Dement,
was confirmed Surveyor General of Utah. In
the House Mr.. Burnes, OF Missouri. reported
back the urgent deficiency appropriation bill.
with Senate amendments. Concurrence was
recommended in some amendments, and non
concurrence in others. The report was agreed to.
Mr. Dorgan, of South Carolina, from the Com
mittee on Military Affairs, reported n bill to re-
10 wfltanr al IN
militia of States and Territories. Mr.. Peel, OF
Arkansas. from the Committe on Indian Affairs,
reported back Senate bill granting tho right OF
through the Choctaw and Chickasaw lands
TO the st. Louis and San Francisco Railroad
Company.
WHEN the Duskin resolutions came up in the
Senate ON the 18th Of March. Mr.. Van Wyck
moved that these words be added to them And
In all such cases OF removal the matter Of confir
nation shall be considered In open session Of
the Senate" Mr.. Brown. OF Georgia, opposed
the resolutions and made long argument to
show that the power Of removals is vested by
the Constitution in the President alone. Mr..
Spooner, of Wisconsin. followed Senator Brown
with long argument i'm support OF the
resolut ons. The power claimed by the Presi-
dent would enable him, at his WILL to shut out
the sunlight Of investigation from the public
Offices He a. not think that because papers
were written by private citizens they were
therefore private papers. Their contents deter
mined their character The Sona.e passed with
out debate the bill providing for q commission
of five persons t. investigate the al
coholic- liquor traffic. its relations to
revenue and taxation. and its general,
economic criminal, moral. and scientific
poets also the hill providing for the study in
the schools of the Territories and the District
of Columbia Of the nature of alcoholic stmu-
lants and narcotics. In the House, the Conn
mittoe on Ways and Means made favorable
report ON II bill e. authorize the establishments
of factories for the manufacture Of tobacco ex-
clusively for expectation.
BILLS to establish national livestock high
way, for the relief OF heirs OF cavalry recruits
killed by guerrillas at Lawrence, Kansas and
TO authorize the retirement Of Lieutenant WILL
lam l.. Randall. of tho navy, as a lieutenant
commander passed the Senate March ID. bill
introduced to increase TO $685. 900 the appro-
priation for postoffce at Minneapolis. Mr..
Spooner OF Wisconsin, continued his speech In
support of the Duskn resolution ms the Senate.
He inaintamed that the tenure-of Office act is I'M
constitutional. In discussing the civil-service
views of the President he declared that honest
craftsmanship is honest citizenship" Every man
suspended from Office, he said, had right to
know why he was suspended. Senator Spooner
did not suppose the Pr sident meant TO submit
his fellow cit ems TO serious Injustice but the
ensions inevitably tended 10 cast shade
the honor Of nest men. Senator
salisbury Dell opposed the resolutions
The President had suspended, mp to the time
Congress met only CAS- out Of 1000 officials
subet TO bis control. Notwithstanding this
magnannity, Pre- sdent Clevelands nomina-
tiCns had been allowed to slumber for Cow three
months without action. because the Republican
side of the chamber had set 10 work deliberately
to devise some scht me to prevent the removal
of their partisan friends from office Senator
SausbUr, said the Republican, al converted
themselves int, an obstruction party, hindering
the due exercise Of executive power. The
House OF Rerrest natives passed bill directing
the Score Any OF War To grant mn eonorable dis
charge to Francis II. Shaw, who was captain
in the Fifty-hifth Illinois Infantry, and was
sunlinarily dismissed 10y General Howard for
inisbehav or before the enemy. The bill to
pension the widow q the lnte General Hancock
came mp in the House, and was strongly OPP
posed by Mr.. Price of Wisconsin. On the ques-
ton Of passing the bill the vote stood . TO T.
Messs Price, Zach Tay or. Jt hnson of Indiana
and Winans voting may. Mr.. Price then raised
tile question Of no quorum, but the previous
question was ordered ON the bill and 1t wena
over.
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