Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Telegraphic Summary. CALENDAR FOR 1884.

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Among the measures introduced in the Senate on the 4th inst. was one of Mr. Ingalls*- to remove certain limitations In the arrears of pensions act. Mr. Beck presented a bill for the removal of all disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment, and Mr. Edmunds one to provide for the further protection of colored citizens. Mr. Sherman introduced a bill to. give national banks a circulation equal to 90 per. cent, of the market valpe of their bond deposits. Mr. Edmunds presented an act for the construction of four trunk' lines of postal telegraph radiating from Washington. Mr. Blair offered a bill for a bureau of labor statistics and to make eight hours a day’s work. Mr. Lozan handed in an act to • appropriate $50,000,000 for the education of children, and another to provide pensions for Union prisoners in the late war. Mr. Van Wyck introduced a bill to force railroad corporations to pay within sixty days the cost of surveying lands to which they are entitled, and Mr. Slater another to repeal the Northern Pacific land grants. Mr. Sewell reintroduced the bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter. The President's message was read. The Republican Senators held a caucus, after adjournment, and decided to await the arrival of Senator Anthony, who has been on a sick-bed, before electing a new set of officers. '»ln the House of Representatives the delegates . from the Territories were sworn in. A resolution was adopted that the Committee on Elections report whether Manning or Chalmers is entitled to be sworn as a member from Mississippi. Some debate took place on the contest between Mavo and Garrison, from the First district of Virginia. The President’s message was delivered and read to the House. Mr. Butler Introduced a bill in the Senate, at its session on the Sth inst., tJ repeal the internal revenue laws and abolish the system. Mr. Hoar presented a joint resolution of the Legislature of Massachusetts in opposition to convict labor on public works. Mr. Cullom presented a measure to place the legislative power of Utah in the hands of the Governor and a Legislative Council appointed by the President. Mr. Walker introduced a bill to indemnify Arkansas for swamp lands sold by the United States since 1857. Mr. Logan handed in a bounty land bill affecting everv honorably-discharged soldier or sailor of the late war. Mr. Blair introduced a joint resolution for a constitutional amendment to prohibit the manufacture or sale bf liquors. Mr. Morgan offered a resolution for a military academy west of the Mississippi, to educate Indians for Ihe army. Mr. Hoar introduced a bill providing for the use of a patented ballot-box and counting device. In the House of Representatives Mr. Randall raised objections to a deficiency appropriation of $20,000 for printing the Supreme Court records. The death of Thomas H. Herndon, of Alabama, was announced, and an adjournment was taken. The Senate was in session less than two hours on the 6th inst., and accomplished very little in the way of legislation. Petitions were presented from the Legislature of Nebraska to so amend the law as to force railroads to take out patents on their land grants, and from the Astoria Chamber of Commerce to forfeit landa granted to the Oregon Central railroad. Mr. Garland Introduced a bill to release the Memphis and Little Rock road from conditions which unjustly affected it, and to adjust differences on account of customs duties on iron. Mr. Cameron presented a measure to restore to the market certain lands in Minnesota and Wisconsin reserved for dams and reservoirs. Mr. Groome handed in an act to construct the Maryland and Delaware free ship canal as a means of defense. Mr. Lapham proposed an amendment to the Const*ution giving women the right of suffrage. The House was in session but a few minutes, and accomplished nothing. Both houses adjourned over to the 10th.

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.