Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-01-10


seventy five members in attendance when
Speaker Carlisle called the house to order
at noon to day. A bill was passed grant
| ing an annual leave of thirty days TO the
employees of the bureau of engraving and
| printing, instead of fifteen days, which
| they now have In consideration of the
morning nour, Mr.. Matson, of Ind, called
up the oil prohibiting any agent from
receiving a fee for securing an increase
of pension on account of increase of Gisa-
bility, or securing a spe cial act of con-
grsss. Mr.. Peters OF Kansas, offered an
amendment providing hat the applicant
for a pension may contract with any
person ia the state in which the applicant
lives, TO pay not exceeding IS for the
service rendered should the increase be
allowed, which amendment was adopted
and the bill passed. Mr.. Springer, of
l linois, introduced a resolution for the
admission OF Arizona and Idaho. Re
ferred. Mr.. Sayers, of Kansas, from the
committee on appropriations, reported
the Notifications appropriation bill and
il was placed on the calendar. The
house then went into committee of the
whole on the river and harbor appropri
alton bill
THURSDAY, Jan. 3.
sEsArE.-A petition was presented
to-day By Mr.. Stanford from the
chamber of commerce OF San Fran
/ cisco calling the attention of congress
10 the urgent need Of permanent
relief station in the Arctic ocean.
Mr.. Stewart introduced a bill auihoTlz
ing the secretary of the treasury o re-
fand all the income taxes which, @pon
! principles subsequently settled by de-
cisiOns of the supreme court, are shown
70 have been Illegally and uuconstitution-
ally collected and ahich have not hereto
fore been refunded. The money is TO be
pad ont by the commissioner of internal
revenue The bill provides that appica-
tioA for the refund is TO be made within
two years from the passage of the act.
resolution heretofore offered by Sen.
Voorhees,, calling on the secretary of the
interior for list of all homestead, all
timber culture and pre-em ption entries
to public lands Cancelled after the is
suance of the final receipt aud oertii
cate therefor during the present admit
istration, for causes osber than voluntary
REIMBURSEMENT, was taken up ana agreed
to. 1 he senate then resumed consider
alton of the tariff bill.
HousE.-Mr. Reed, of Maine, from
the committee on rules, reported a
resolution today, providing that during
the remainder of the present SEES
sion of congress there shall be no call
of states and territories on the hrst and
third Mondays OF each month. These
Mondays are what are known as sus-
pension days, and the object of the reso-
L. a. ...,.f- Of
the Union Pacitic funding measure and
the Oklahoma bill from fiibustering
against the attempt TO pass these
measures under suspension OF the
rules, introducing voluminous bills under
the call of states and consuming the day
by demand for their reading in full
Mr.. Reed demanded the previous question
on the adoption OF the resolution, which
called out vigorous protest from Mr.
Anderson (Kan), who had been tho
chief antagonist of the Union Pacific
bill. Mr.. Anderson demanded the yeas
ana nays on ordering the previous
question, when no quorum voted.
call of the house was then ordered.
The call showed the presence of III
members being eight more than quor
unl, but the margin was too narrog
one and the proceedings under the call
were not suspended. The sergeant at
arms was dispatched TO hunt up and ar
rest the absentees, and the house drowsiy
waited for him to make a report, Is
this was not forthcoming by three
O'Clock the house adjourned.
FRIDAY, Jan. 4.
SENArE.--Sen. Sherman, from the COM
mittee on foreign relations, reported
resolution, which was agreed to, call
ing upon the president for the cor
respondence and information touch
ing the recent occurrences in the island
of Hayti, both as relatee TO the state of
the government there of the seizure and
delivery of the American vessel Haytien
Republic. Sen, Sherman also, from the
same committee reported back favor
ably Eimun5s' joint resolution as to
the Panama canal opposing the con
nectlou of foreign countries with the
construction or control of that canal.
The resolution was placed on the cal
endar, and Sen. Sherman gave notice
that he wo1ld, romorrow, ask for ito con
sideration. The seante, at 22;25, resumed
consideration of the tariff bill.
HoUsE.-A memorial of the Philadelphia
oOatu OF tfaue h7kluk tnhb al hpplNpI4'
alton be made for the establishment of a
house of refuge at Point Barrow and East
Cape, Siberia, waspres@nted and referred.
Mr.. Dunn then called up the Nicaragua
canal bill with the amendments agreed
to in the com mittee of the whole, upon
which the previous question was ordered
before the holiday recess. The fast
amendment upon which yea and nay
vote was demanded, was that offered
by Mr. Holman, of Indiana, providing
that nothing in the act shall be construed
to commit The Uuited States TO any lia-
bility on account of the Nicaragua com
pany, and requiring this provision to be
printed on every bond, certificate of
stock or other obi cation issued by
the company. The amendment was
agreed to-yeas, 145; nays 35. The
amendment offered by Mr.. Wilson,
OF MINI, providing that no certificate
shall be issued until at least 10 per cent.
shall be paid for IN money, that the stock
shall not be assignable until the whole OF
the same shall be paid in; that 20 bonds
in excess OF the amount of capital shall
be issued until such paid capital shall
amount to $4,000 COO, was agreed to-
yeas, 1902; nays, 70. The amendment
offered by Mr.. Bland reseryiug 70 con