Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1885 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Miu Tki-ler Introduced a bill in the Senate, an the Uth Inst, to provide for the free end unlimited coinage of the sliver dollar. Mr. Sawyer presented a measure for the purchase of the Sturgeon Bay Canal. Mr. Butler offered a resolution directing the Committee on Territories to report by what authority a Legislature has been 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 oame 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 (he remainder of the day to discussion of the proposed rules. Mr. Hoar’s Presidential succession bill passed the Senate on the 17th after an able argument in its favor by Mr. Evarts. In a debate on the resolution regarding the unauthorized organization of a State government for Dakota, Mr. Butler /declared that no duestion of politics f Was involved, and asked if Mr. Harrison; 1 would sustain similar action by the Territory of Utah. John Hippie Mitchell, of Oregon, was sworn in. Bills were introduced for the sale of the Cherokee reservation in Arkansas, to encourage the erection of monuments on Revolutionary battle fields; to locate a branch soldiers’ home, costing $253,000, in the Northwest; to provide for the issue of silver certificates; for the warehousing of >. fruit brandy, and to bridge the Missouri at Pierre. The House of Representatives was principally occupied in the discussion of the revision of the rales. All amendments to the committee’s report were voted down by a decided majority, but Without taking final action the House adjourned. A Bum 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 18th inst. A bill was passed to pension Mrs. Grant at the rate of 85,000 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 use 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 measuro to prevent the illegal inclosure of public lands. The "House of Representatives amended the rules in substantial accordance with the report of the committee, thus distributing the appropriation bills among seven committees. The Benate bill to give Mrs. Grant a pension of $5,000 per annum was passed. In the Honse of Representatives, at its session on the 19th, Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, from the Committee on Rules, reported a resolution for the 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 ou 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. Bonks. The Senate was not in sessiju.