Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1886 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Congress reassembled after the holiday adjournment, on Tuesday, Jan. 5, nn"d at once opened business in a lively fashion. Numerous bills were introduced in both houses. In tho Senate the credentials of John W. Daniel, of Virginia, were presented. A bill was passed to legalize the Ninth Territorial Assembly of Xvyoming. Bills were Introduced to substitute silver dollars for gold coin and currency in reserve funds of the Treasury to increase pensionsfortotal helplessness ; to facilitate promotions in the army ; to adjust accounts of laborers under the eight-hour law, to provide for the erection of monuments in Washington to Abraham Lincoln and U. 8. Grant, at a cost of $1,000,000 each ; to establish a national university in the District of Columbia by a grant of 85,000,000, bearing 5 per cent interest; to provide for the allotment of lands to Indians in severalty. A resolution was adopted accepting from the State of Ohio a marble statue of ex-l’reHident Garfield. Mr. Hoar introduced a resolution requesting tho President to take measures for including cases of embezzlement in extradition treaties. Mr. Wilson, of lowa, called up the resolution heretofore offered by him calling on the Secretary of the Interior for a copy of each report made by the Government Directors of tho Union Pacific Railroad from the first appointment of such directors to the present time. In support of his resolution Mr. Wilson reviewed at considerable length the action of the Government Directors, of whom he hod himself been one. with a view to showing that,bod the Government paid attention to tho information convoyed and tho recommendations made by the directors, the relations of the Government to tho roads would to-day be better. The bills introduced in tho House of Representatives numbered 790. Tho more notable wore: To remove restrictions on the coinage of the standard silver dollar; to abolish internal revenue taxation; to appropriate $200,000 for a monument to General Grant in Now York; to provent the adulteration of food and drugs; to provide for the construction of tho Delaware and Maryland ship canal; to reform the civil service ; to repeal the duty on sugar; to prevent fraudulent entries on the public domain ; to repeal the tobacco tax ; to create an interstate commerce commission; to tax the manufacture and sale of olemargarine; to givo honorably discharged soldiers and sailorß preference in public appointments; to authorize the President to call out two volunteer regiments of cavalry in New Mexico nnd Arizona for the suppression of Indian hostilities, and to deprive polygamists of the right of suffrage.—The President sent the following nominations to the Senate; John J. Higgins, to bo Collector of Customs in the District of Natchez, Miss.; James Curran, of Maryland, to be Supervising Inspector of Steam Vessels in the Third District; Wiley J. Tinn; to be Surveyor of Customs for San Francisco; William H. MoArgle, of Mississippi, to be Consul of the United States at San Juan del Norte; Willis 11. Patch, of Maine, to bo Consul of the United States at St. Stephen, Now Brunswick; H. M. Jewett, of Massachusetts, to bo Consul at Sivas ; Orlando V. Powers, of Michigan, to bo Associate Justice of tho Supreme Court of Utah. Mu. Hoar introduced in the Senate, cn tho Gth inst., a bill for longor sossious of Congress, making i rooeedings commence alternately in October and November. Tho silver question was raised jn the S nitj on a dironssion of the Reck resi lotion. Mr. Gray cent iuric<l that persist n ;o in compulsory coinage would bring tho country to a s Ivor standard. Mr. McPherson (loci ar. ft that in tho op'nion of the best authorities in tho world, a point had been Touched beyond which it would be dangerous to go, uml produced advirt'semeiits by Jay Cooko tbnt the bonds would be paid in gold. Tho Chair laid before the Senate a letter from the Postmaster General, complying with the call of a recent Senate resolution in respect to tho appointment of Postmasters in Mains, alleged t > have been procured through the influence of S. S. Brown. Chairman of the Democratic committee cf that State. Mr. Hale, of Maine, said the Postmaster General had turned these matters of appointment over to his assistant, who relied upon Mr. Brown, hut tho Postmastor General lmd not mado a complete answer to tho resolution of the Seriate. In reply Senators • Voorlieos and Vest def >nded the civil-service policy of Tros dont Clev dand. Bills wi re intn dticed in tho H mso of Peproseut it,i vea for the fieo c oinage i f the silv. r dollar, to limit it, ard suspend it; to for o national banks to k ep a larger reserve of sib or; to retire the trade dollar, and t > direct tbo calling in of 859,000,10) in 3 percent, binds, payment to be made in coin o f standard value. The President sent the foil nving n minatii nr to the Semite: James Shields of M n;ai a, to lie Collector of Internal Revet.us for the District of Montana. Postmasters—Thomas Ryan, at fault Bt<\ Mario, M'ch.; Charles Holiday, at St. Louis, Midi.; J. C. Morgan, at Ream >y. Neb. A resolution originally introduced by Mr. Harrison calling for an Investigation of tho Pension Commissioner’s ofllco was adoptsd by the Senate on tho 7tli inst., aftor the incorporation of amendments offered by Messrs. Voorhoes anil Logau. As it now stands the resolution provides ft r an inquiry as to the truth of Mr. Block's statement that undir his prodocesrors party tests were applied to pension claimants and as to tho prosent incumbent's management of lv's trust. There ivas a long debate on the Utah bill, and Mormons came in for a share of bitter denunciation at tho hands of Senators Morgan an 1 Cullom. Mr. TeMer opposed severe repressive measures, and act id as the apologist of the Hointi. The House of R3plelolltui.es listens i iinfaMontly to the intro luct ; m of bills for the a'm ssion of Dakota ar.d W ishington Territories, to ere ite a postal telegraph, to rape vi the tobacco tax, for a commission eu the 11 ,uor traffic, for volunteer regiments in the Bon ,hwest, f >r thirteen public builddigs, for the Hennepin Canal project, an unlimitel silver dollar, and for a hundred or two other tilings. Speaker C irlisle announ od his comm Mies, with Morrison as Chairman of Wavs and Meins, lira 1 all of Appropriations, Bland of Coiling-', and Belmont of Foreign Affairs.

Senator Edmunds’ Utah’bill Dassed the Senate on the Bth inst. It is substantially the same as first reported, with the addition of a section providing that marriage betweon persons of tho fourth degree of consanguinity, but not including that, shall be contrary to law. Mr. E-ostia offered a concurrent resolution with a preamble as follows: “Whereas. The act of Congress of 1878 declavcd the silver dollar a legal tender for all debts, public aud private ; that by the act of 1869 the faitli of tho United States was solemnly pledged to tho payment in coin or its equivalent of all public obligations' not bearing interest, etc.; that by the refunding act of July, 1870, tho principal and interest of the debt were made redeemable in coin es the then standard value; that s nee the enactment of those laws it has been tho practice of the Secretary of tho Treasury to pay the bonds and interest in gold .coin, and that tho Secretary of the Treasury haß issued a call for $10,000,000 of bonds v payable on tbe Isi of February, 1880; therefore, he it resolved, etc., that in the opinion of Congress said b mils of $10,000,000, payable on Feb. 1, 1800, should bo paid in silver dollars, such payment being in compliance with existing law aud in aid of the fc-nancial policy established bv the legislation ()f Congress.” Mr. Eustis desired the resolution referred to the Committee c-n Finance, and expressed the hope that the committee would report on it at an, early .(Jay, in order that, it-may be, determined whether or not the practice of paying the United States bondß and the interest on them exclusively in gold coin was approved by Congress. Bills were introduced to appropriate $1,330,000 ■for improvements at the month of the Columbia River, to create a public park near Santa Fe, to pay the Delaware Indians $30,800 for certain lands In Kansas, to increase to $25 per month the tensions of soldiers or sailors who lost one eye, and to prohibit the letting of Government con-1

tracts to persons employing ccmviot abor. The House was not in session.