Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1882 — CONGRESSIONAL. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESSIONAL.

SENATE. Washington, D. C., March 31. A bill was passed reimbuning Mr. Ingalls for the expenses incurred in defending his title to a seat. Mr. McMillan reported from the district committee the bill to incorporate the Garfield memorial hospital. .. • Consideration of the Indian appropriation bill was proceeded with. The bill was reported from committee of the whole and passed. After an executive session the senate adjouned till Monday. house. Mr. Randall offered a resolution granting the use of the rotunda and adjacent rooms to the ladies' national aid association for the Garfield memorial hospital for the first Saturday in May lor the purpose of holding a reception, the object being to raise funds for the association. Adopted. A joint resolution was passed approEriating SIOO,OOO to enable the secreiry of war to issue rations to persons rendered destitute by the overflow of the Mississippi river. house. Washington, April I.—Senate bill was passed to facilitate the payment of dividends to the creditors of the Freedman's savings and trust company. A bill was passed making St. Vincent, Minnesota, a port of entry. The amendments to the house bill to promote the efficiency of the lifecaving service were non-concurred in. A bill was reported making an appropriation of $150,000 to continue work on the Washington monument the next fiscal year. Ordered printed and recommitted.

SENATE. Washington, April 3.—The joint resolution was passed appropriating sl< ,000 fora monument over the grave of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, VaA bill was reported byMr.Garland to secure the safe keeping of money paid into any court of the United States. The bill for conversion or redemption of $lO refunding certificates was passed. It authorizes the secretary of the treasury, ill his decretion, to redeem at market price the balance of the certificates (about $500,000) which are redeemable with other coupon or registered bonds but have-not been E resented, to be put into outstanding onds. A fter an executive session the senate adjourned. ,

HOUSE. Bills were introduced: Appropriating $15,000 for a statistical report on the destruction of property in the Mississippi valley by the flood of 1882. By Mr. Mills—A resolution so to amend the rules as to exclude from the privileges of the floor ex-mem-bers of congress. Mr. Knott, of Kentucky, moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill authorizing the postmaster general to readjust tho salaries of postmasters of 3rd, 4th and sth classes, where the salaries have not heretofore been readjusted under the terms of section 8, of the act of June 12th, 1866. Agreed to—yeas, 149; nays, 43. . Mr. Dunnell, of Minnesota, moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill to amend the laws relating to internal revenue. Agreed to. SENATE.

Washington, April 4.—Mr. Miller, from the committee on foreign affairs, reported favorably with amendments the bill to incorporate the Maritime canal company of Nicaraugua. Immediately after the receipt of the president’s message vetoing the antiChinese bill, the president pro tern, suspended the operation of business to lay the communication before the senate, and directed it to be heard. HOUSE. Mr. Chalmers introduced a bill amendatory of the apportionment bill, providing that no congressional district in a state shall contain 10,000 more population than another in the same state, unless such excess is necessary to prevent a sub-division of the county, but in no case shall the difference in population exceed 20,000, and until the states shall comply with this law representatives to the forty-eighth and subsequent congresses shall be elected from the same districts which elected them to the forty-seventh congress. Referred. The bouse then went into committee of the wholG on the army appropriation bill. Pending action on the appeals the committee rose. The speaker laid before the house a message from the president transmitting a communication from the secretary of state with regard to American prisoners in Ireland. Adjourned. SENATE. Washington, April s.—Mr. Saunders, from * the committee on territories, reported without amendment the bill lecently recommitted to that committee for the admission of Dakota into the Union. Placed on the calendar. The presidential count bill coding up as unfinished business, Mr. Farley moved to lay it aside and proceed with the consideration of the vetoed anti-Chinese bill. The Chinese bill was then taken up Without opposition. On tlffe question, “Shall the bill pass, notwithstanding the objections of the president?” the vote was ayes, 29; noes, 21. So the bill failed, two-thirds not having voted in the affirmative. HOUSE. The house went into committee of the whole on the army appropriation bill. A long discussion ensued touching W* merits of the court of plaims and

the quartermaster-general's department as the tribunal in wnicn claims should be adjudicated. It was enlivened by a brief speech by Mr. Bragg, of Wisconsin, who alluded to “rebel claims" as a bantling reared and fattened in a Republican tent until * the Republican party lost control of tne house. Then it had driven the bantling to a seat at the door of the Democratic tent, and said, we will cry "mad dog,” ana when we come back to power we will feed vou again. He intimated that the result of transferring claims to the court of claims would be to admit disloyal claims. The committee then rose and re ported the bill. .The bill then passed end the house adjourned.

Columbus, April 6 —Senate—Petitions received: For the Brigham bill; for the Smith Sunday bill. Bills passed: House bill allowing teachers’ certificates to be issued for two, three and five years without re-examina tion; house bill for an additional judge in Toledo; senate bill requiring unincorporated banks to return full lists of their securities. The bill passed yesterday to prevent grain and stock gambling was reconsidered. The Brigham bill, to prevent discrimination in freight and passenger rates, was lost, 13 to 18. House—Bills introduced: House bill increasing the pay of supreme court judges from $3,000 to $5,000; house bill authorizing the sale of certain land belonging to the blind asylum and the purchase of another tract; house bill providing for the proper accountability of fges, costs, debts, damages, etc., by clerks of courts and probate judges; house bill prohibiting mutual insurance companies from borrowing money or creating a debt; house bill allowing cemetery associations to appropriate six feet on either side of any public road for a sidewalk. The senate resolution was passed providing for adjournment on the 17th. The committee investigating the alleged bribery of members has finished taking evidence and will probably report to the house to-mor-row.

HOUSE. Washington April 7.—A resolution was adopted directing the committee on expenditures in the war department to inquire what, if any, abuses exist or have existed in the adjudication of claims in the quartermaster general’s or the commissarv general’s departments, and the third auditor’s office. Mr. Washburn, of Minnesota, submitted the conference report on the bill to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri river within five miles of St. Charles, Missouri. Agfeed to. The house then went into committee of the whole (Mr. Robinson in the cha : r) on the tariff commission bill. Mr. Haskell, of Kansas, advocated the passage of tho bill, and when he had concluded his speech, the house took a recess. The night session is lor the consideration of pension bills.