Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1882 — DOINGS OF CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

No business was transacted in the Senate on Jan. 23, the time of that body being occupied in the delivery of eulogies upon the late Senator Burnside. The speakers were Senators Edmunds, Anthony, Maxey, Hawley, Harrison, Jones, Hale, Aldrich, Hampton and Ransom. In the House, after the transaction of some business, eulogies were delivered by Messrs. Chase, Spooner (R. L), Browne (Ind.), Rice (Mass.) and Henderson (HL). Mr. Pacheco, of California, introduced a bill to repeal the land grant of the Atlantic and Pacific road. Mr. Willis introduced an act to regulate Chinese immigration, and Mr. King one to stop three crevasses in the Mississippi levee. Mr. Bliss handed in a bill to pension soldiers of the late war confined in Confederate prisons. Mr. Warner introduced an act to reduce the salaries of the President and heads of departments. No less than 355 bills were presented during the day. The bill giving Mrs. Lincoln $15,000 arrears of pension and increasing her allowance to $5,000 was passed by the Senate Jan. 24. Mr. Beck introduced a bill for the punishment of national-bauk officers who illegally issue certi" tied checks, stating that the practice is going on at the rate of $100,000,000 per day. Mr. Plumb proposed an amendment to the constitution prohibiting the manufacture, importation, cr sale of liquors -as a beverage. Mr. Teller submitted a joint resolution forfeiting land grants to twenty-two railroads. Mr Voorhees introduced a bill to compel railroads to heat mail cars by steam from tho locomotive. The President transmitted drafts of bills to increase the salary of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and create tho office of Assistant Commissioner ; also to make the same changes in the office of the Indian Commissioner. James W. McDdl, of Iswa, was sworn in for the unexpired term. In the House, Mr. Reed asked the immediate consideration of the Senate bill to retire Associate Justice Hunt, but Mr. Holman objected. A. bill was passed to remit the duties on some clothing sent from Europe to colored settlers in Kansas. A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of War for a statement of the accounts of Capt. H. W. Howgate. The fortification appropriation of $375,000 was passed, x Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, submitted resolutions in the Senate, on Jan. 25, in memory of the late Matthew H. Carpenter. Tributes of respect were paid by several Senators, after which an adjournment was voted without the transaction of any business. In the House the most of the day was also devoted to the delivery of eulogies upon the dead Senator. After considerable opposition, the Senate bill to retire Justice Hunt was passed, the vote standing 137 to 89. A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury asked an appropriation of •■£23.159,690 to complete the service of the fiscal year in the various departments. Mr. Allison introduced a bill in tho Senate, Jan. 26, to provide a reserve fund for the redemption of United States bonds, one provision being for the retention in the treasury vault 8 of $20,000,000 in coin to take up legal tenders. Mr. Sherman closed the debate on his 3 per cent, funding bill, claiming that the large surplus of revenue was a constant temptation to jobbers, and that the tariff should be so revised that the charge of robbery could not be attached to it. A motion to table the bill was lost, by 23 to 45. In the House, Mr. Updegraff presented tbe petition of 4,000 citizens of Ohio for the creation of a liquor commission. Mr. Cox offered a resolution calling for the correspondence in regard to the expulsion of American Israelites from Russia. The bill appropriating $1,000,000 for the reclamation of the Potomac marshes was referred to the committee of the whole. The House adopted Mr. . Browne’s resolution of inquiry as to the amounts tequired for pensions for the next twenty-five years. Mr. Springer called up the Senate bill granting an additional pension to Mrs. Lincoln, which was passed. President Arthur nominated Frederick A. Trifle, of Nevada, to be Governor of Arizona, and Edwin H. Webster to be Collector of Customs at Baltimore. 8. A. Whitfield was named for Postmaster at Cincinnati, W. H. Taft for Internal Revenue Collector, and Leopold Markbret for Assistant Treasurer. The President transmitted to .Congress the diplomatic correspondence concerning Chili, Peru and Bolivia. Included mit was a letter of instructions from Secretary Blaine to Special Envoy Trescott. The arrest of President Calderon is called an intentional and unwarranted offense. Mr. Trescott is charged not to make to the Chilian Government any explanation of the conduct of Minister Hurlbut. Mr. Garland presented a petition in the Senate, Jan. 27, from Hot Springs, Ark., for an appropriation of $500,000 to improve the reservation and the streets. Mr. Logan introduced a bill for the distribution of pure vaccine virus to the people by the National Board of Health at eost price. Mr. Edmunds printed a measure to prevent the counterfeiting v>f the securities of foreign Governments. Mr. Morrill reported favorably on the act to apply a portion of the proceeds of public lands to general education. When the 3 per cent, funding bill came up, the Davis amendment to make the bonds payable at the option of the Government was carried by 38 to 26, and an amendment by Mr. Sherman tomake their duration three years was lost by 25 to 36. Mr. Ferry introduced a bill for pensions to inmates of Confederate prisoners. The Senate adjourned to Monday, the 30th inst The President nominated John Campbell for Surveyor of Customs at Omaha’ William D. Lewis for Postmaster at Vincennes’ Ind., and Theodore D. Wilson, of New York, to be Chief Constructor of the Navy. In the House, Mr. Townsend called on the Secretary of the Interior for any information at command in regard to Indian outrages in Arizona incited by the Mormons. Several private bills were passed, but the bill for ’.he relief of the children of Gen. James H. Carleton was lost The President transmitted a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, giving information in regard to the Chiriqui grant. An adjournment to Monday was taken.