Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1882 — CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.

Monday, Jan., lflth. Senate.-A Mil was Introduced by Mr. Logan, to pay Mrs. Abraham Lincoln £16,000 as arrearages ot her pension, and referred to the committee on pensions. The resolution against the repeal of the arrearages of pensions act was discussed by Mr. Becx favoring the resolution and Messrs Voorhees and*lngalls opposing. House.— A large number of bills were Introduced. Amotion to suspend the rules and take up the bill authorizing the Incorporation of the Garfield Memorial hospital, failed for lack of a two-thirds vote.

Tuesday, Jan.. 17th. Senate.— A number of bills were introduced. The Sherman finding bill was discussed by several Senators. House.—A number of resolutions were offered and referred. The report of the Committee on Rules iu favor of increasing the membership of the various committees of the House, was taken; up and discussed. A motion to lay the report on the table failed, by a vote of 97 ayes to 140 nays. Pending the debate, the House adjourned. Wednesday, Jan., 18th. Senate.— The bill to retire Justice Hunt was reported favorably. A number of bills were introduced. The currency and Sherman funding bills werp discussed. House— A bill far the sale or the lands of the Miami Indians; In Kansas, w&a reported favorably. The resolution of the Committee on rules, proposing an increase of committee membership was discussed, without conclusion.

Thursday, Jan. 19tli. Senate.— The bill retiring Justice Hunt was discussed and passed. The Sherman funding bill debate was continued. An executive session was held. HousE.-Tlie debate on the question of increasing the committee membership of the House was continued. The resolution was finally recommitted—yeas, 159; nays, 90—to the Committee on Rules with instructions to report a rule whereby the Committees would be organized as nearly as proportion to the political parties in the House, and that ttfe minority should have the right to designate the minority members of Committees. Resolutions and messages were received and referred. ; Friday Jan., 20 The Senate was not In session. House.— Private bills were considered in Committee of the whole. Six bills were ordered to be reported to the House, Ad journed until Monday. Monday, Jan. ,23. Senate.— Eulogies on late Senator Burnside were delivered by Senator Harrison and others House.—A bill was passed; with reference to the management of the Lincoln Monument Association. A number of bills were introduced. Mr. Orth’s resolution with reference to American citizens under arrest in Great Britain, was discussed and laid over. Eulogies on late Senator Burnside were delivered by Hon. Thomas M. Browne and others. Tuesday, Jan., 54th. Senate.— The bill for the relief of Mary Lincoln was passed. It gives her £15,0X1 and a pension of $5,000 a year. Several bills were introduced. The Shermau funding bill was. further discussed. House.— Several resolutions ot inquiry were adopted. The bill to admit clothing for colored people In Kansas, free of duty, was passed; also the fortifications appropriation bill. It appropriates $375,000.