Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1885 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. THE WORK OF CONGRESS. Mr. Teller introduced a bill in the Senate, on the 10th inst., to provide for the free and unlimited coinage of the silver dollar. Mr. Sawyer pre-ented a measure for the purchase of the Sturgeon Bay Canal. Mr. Butler offered a resolution directing the Coinuiitteo on Territories to report by what authority a Legislature has bedh organized in the Territory of Dakota. A message from the President was received, asking authority to use certain funds for the relief of the Cheyenne Indians. When Mr. Hoar's Presidential succession bill came up, Messrs. Maxey, Beck, Edmunds, and Morgan voiced their views. The House passed the Senate bill removing the political disabilities of Alexander R. Lawton, of Georgia, and devoted the remainder of the day to discussion of the proposed rules. Mu. Hoar's Presidential succession bill passed the Senate on the 17tli after an able argument in its favor by Mr. TXarts. In a debate on the resolution regarding the unauthorized organization of a State government for Dakota, Mr. Butler declared that no question of politics was involved, and asked if Mr. Harrison would sustain similar action by the Territory of Utah. John Hippie Mitchell, of Oregon, was sworn in. Bills were introduced for tho sale of the Cherokee reservation in Arkansas, to encourage the erection of monuments on Revolutionary battle fields ; to locate a branch soldiers’ home, costing $25),000, in the Northwest; to provide for the issuo of silver certificates; for tho warehousing of fruit brandy, tad to bridge tho Missouri at Piorre. The House of Representatives was principally occupied in the discussion of the revision of tho rules. All amendments to tho committee’s report were voted down by a decided majority, but without taking final action tho House adjourned. A bill making it unlawful for a Senator or Representative in Congress to recommend or solicit appointments to office, was introduced in the Senate by Mr. Hampton, of South Carolina, on the intli inst. A bill was passed to pension Mrs. Grant at tho rate of $5,000 per year. Mr. Beck offered a resolution specifying the use to be made of coin received for customs duties. Mr. Sherman introduced a bill to pay royalties to the widow of Admiral Dahlgren for the uso of artillery patents. Mr. Beck offered a resolution to allow the widow of Minister Phelps a year’s salary for services in Peru. Mr. Ingalls introduced a measure to prevent the illegal inclosuro of public lands. The House of Representatives ainendod the rules in substantial accordance with tho report of the committee, thus distributing the appropriation bills among seven committees. Tho Senate bill to give Mrs. Grant a pension of $5,000 per annum was passed.

In the House of Representatives, at its session on the 19th, Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, from the Committee on Rules, reported a resolution for tho creation of the following solect committees: On the election of President and Vice President of the United States, on reform in the civil service, on ship building and ship owning interests, on alcoholic liquor traffic, and on ventilation and acoustics of the House. The resolution was adopted. Representative Lovering presented a petition by Col. David P. Hussey, Third Massachusetts Cavalry, and sixty others, survivors of the storming column known as the “Forlorn Hope,” organized for assault upon Port Hudson, La., June 15,1863, praying Congress to grant them medals, as promised in the general order of Gen. Banks. The Senate was not in sessijn.