Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-05-07
CONGRESSIONAL.



Missouri. and the county of Wyandotte
Kansas, near Atchison, Kansas, at or near
Salina City, Mo-, near ST. Charles. Mo-.
and at or near $. Joseph, Mo. Also a
railroad bridge across the st. Croix river
or lake between Prescott, Wis, and Still
water, MINI. The interstate commerce
bill was then taken up. The pending
| question was OIL 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 ad-
journed.
HOuSe-The senate bill passed extending
for two months, from April 80, 1886, the
duties of the clerk of the late court of com
mlssioners of Alabama claims. Mr.. Ben
nett Is. O. from the committee on
judiciary, reported adversely the bill
to prohibit aliens from acquiring title or
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..
Regan, of Texas, moved to strike it from
the bill Mr.. Hewitt, of New York, sup
! ports the motion, and Mr.. Henderson, of
Illinois, opposed the motion to strike it
| out. Mr.. Hepburn, of Iowa, thought the
appropriations in the pendingbill would
have little effect in bringing distress or
relief to the country. The motion to
strike out was lost, and the committee
rose, and the house adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, April %.
Senate-On motion of Senator Nc
| MILAN the bills were passed author
izing the construction of bridges as
follows: Across the Mississippi river at
or near Keithburg, H., and at Winona,
Mimi, and Red Wing, Mimi. across
the Missouri river, at Pierre, Oak: across
Miners river at or near Lacon, ILL.,, and
| the Des Moines river in Iowa at such
| point as may be selected by the New
| York Council Bluffs railway company.
The postotfice appropriation bill was
then taken up. Some debate arose on
the amendment proposed by the senate
committee appropriating 100000 for
carrying the South and Central American
and the Chinese and Australian mails
| and authorizing the postmaster general
! to make, after due advertisement, con
| tracts for five years with American steam
! ships, at rate not to exceed for each
outward trip one dollar per nautical mile
of'distance by the most direct and feasible
course between the terminal points. A
long debate was indulged in by Senators
Plumb, Frye and Beck. After executive
session the senate adjourned.
HOuSe-Mr. Haber from the com
mittee on agriculture, reported a bill,
defining butter and imposing tax
upon and regulating the manufacture,
sale, expectation aud importation of Oleo-
margarine. Referred to committee of
the whole. At the conclusion of the
morning hour the house went into com
mittee of the whOle( WellbOrn in the chair
On the river and harbor appropriation
bill, Mr.. Hepburn of Iowa offered an
| amendment providing for the expenditure
of an appropriation for the Missouri river
from the month to Sioux City by the Sec
retary of War without the intervention of
the Missouri river commission. Consid-
cradle discussion ensued and pending a
vote on the amendment the committee
rose and the house adjourned.
THURSDAY, April 30.
Senate-The Fourth of July claims
bill, after some debate, was passed
'AiS pO'toiaiSS "PPlOPlItitAOI Dlli HtlS
then taken up, Sen. Beck having the
floor. A long debate ensued, in which
| Sens. Beck and Plumb joined. Sen. Beck
occupied the floor, though with consider
able Interruptions, three hours and half.
| Sen. Hale then addressed the senate in
| favor of the amendment appropriating
| eight hundred thousand dollars to pay for
| carrying the mails to Central and South
! America, Australia. China and Japan, but
! before he concluded the senate went into
| executive session, and when the doors were
reopened, adjourned.
HOuSe-In the house Hall gave notice
that he would call up the Campbell
! Weaver election case Tuesday next.
! The committee on coinage, weights and
measures reported the bill for the retire
! ment and recoinage of trade dollars.
! Placed on house calendar. 1t provides
| that for six months after its passage trade
| dollars shall be received at their face value
| for the payment of all dues to the United
! States, and shall not be again paid out or
| issued in any other manner. The holders
of trade dollars on presentation of the
same may receive in exchange an equa,
amount of standard silver dollars. The
| trade dollars so received shall be
recoined into standard silver dollars.
| Inc mouse IneH went INTO committee OF
the whole, Mr.. Wellborn in the chair. on
the river and harbor appropriation bill.
| The pending amendment, being one pro-
viding for an appropriation for the Mis-
souri, river, to be expended under the
direction of the secretary of war without
the intervention of the Missouri river
commission, was rejected, but it was
| agreed that a vote should be allowed on it
in the house. The paragraph making an
| appropriation of s2,25O,00O for the i'm
provement Of the lower Mississippi hav-
ing been reached, the committee rose.
Mr.. Van Eaton, from the committee on
public lands, reported the bill to grant
a right of way through public lands to
any canal or ditch company formed for
the purpose of irrigation. The house
adjourned.
FRIDAY. April 80.