Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1882 — CONGRESSIONAL. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESSIONAL.

SENATE. Washington, April 21—Mr. Blair, from the committee on education and labor, reported back the bill to aid in the establishment and temporary support of common schools. Discussion of the Mississippi river improvement bill was resumed, and Mr. McPherson advocated an increased appropriation of $15,000,000. The bin was then laid over as unfinished business The resolution for the appointment of three senators to investigate charges and complaints against internal revenue officials in the Sixth collection district of North Corolina, with power to compel the attendance of witnesses, &c., was adopted. After an executive session the senate adjourned until Monday. house. Washington. April 21.—The bill was passed fixing the second Tuesday in October as the time for the election of congressmen in West Virginia. At the evening session twenty pension bills were passed; also, bills giving condemned cannon for monumental purposes, including thirty cannon for a monument to General John Fulton Reynolds, twelve for a monument in Indianapolis to Oliver P. Morton and eight cannon captured from General Burgoyne to the Saratoga monument association. Adjourned till to-morrow. HOUSE. Washington, April 22.—A bill was passed authorizing the erection of a light on the tower of the Chicago water works crib. SENATE. Washington, April 24.—8i11s were passed: To provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of states and territories over the Indians and for other purposes, as amended on the motion of Mr. Dawes, by substituting for the clause exempting lands acquired by Indians from taxation for twenty-five years. The provision declaring the lands allotted for that period shall be held by the United States in trust for the benefit of the allottees or their heirs. The senate, after an executive session, adjourned. HOUSE. Washington, April 24.—Mr. Rboinson desired immediate consideration of the resolution concerning imprisoned American citizens, but the matter went over until to-morrow. A bill Was passed appropriating $ r 0,000 to be expended under the direction of the secretary of war and to be immediately available for the removal of obstructions from Hell Gate, New York. Under the call States many bills .were introduced and referred. The house then proceeded to the consideration of business relating to the District ol Columbia. On motion of Mr. Steel, of (Indiana, a bill was passed for the muster ana pay of certain officers of the volunteer service. Adjourned.

SENATE. Washington, April 27.—Mr. Sherman introduced a bill to regulate the coinage of standard silver dollars. It repeals so much of the act of February 28,1878, abthorizing the coinage of standard silver dollars and restoring the legal tender character, and directs the purchase and coinage into standard silver dollars not less than 200,000,000 in silver bullion per month. The law directs the purchase of bullion from time to time and its coinage only when in the opinion of the secretary of the treasury the further coinage of such dollars is demanded for public use and convenience. Referred. The conference report on the postoffice bill was submitted and adopted. The disputed item concerning special mail facilities on trunk lines fixes the appropriation at S6OO 000, and provides that said facilities are to be extended as far as practicable to the principal cities of the United States.

HOUSE. Washington, April 27.—Mr. Townsend, of Ohio, submitted the conference report on the bill to promote the efficiency of the life-saving service. The speaker laid before the house a message from the president respecting the troubles in Arizona. After a brief speech by Mr. Springer relative to the importance of immediate action, the message was referred to the committee on military affairs, with leave to report at any time. Ifyouarea frequenter or a resident of a miasmatic dietriot. Barricade your system against the scouge of all new countries—ague, bilious and intermittent fevers —by the use of Hop Bitters. » LUDINGTON, Mich., Feb. 2, 1880. I have sold Hop Bitters for four years and there is no medicine that surpasses them for bilious attacks, kidney complaints and many diincident to this jnalarial climate. H. T. ALEXANDER. The late Dr. Edward L. Beadle, of Poughkeepsie, made several public bequests. His will provides that $25,000, after the death of certain persons, shall be distributed among several New York hospitals lamed in the document, and that a second $25,000 shall be distributed among other religious and beneficial organizations. Twelve other bequests, giving from $2,000 to $6,003 each to charities in Poughkeepsie and elsewhere, are provided for. Zerroondaki, consul at Montreal for Greece, has been arrested for an assault on a girl ten years of age. The gross earnings of railroads in Missouri for the year 1881 amount to $25,000,000. A clock made of paper is the latest acquisition to the field of mechanical ingenuity.