Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

FORTY-NINTH CONORESS. reassembled after the holiday adjournment, on Tuesday, Jan. 5, and at once onened business in a lively fashion. Numerous bills were introduced in both houses. In the Senate the credentials of John W. Daniel, of Virginia, were presented. A.bill was passed to legalize the Ninth Territorial Assembly of Wyoming. Bills were introduced to substitute silver dollars for gold coin and currency in reeervo funds of the Treasury; to increase pensions for total helplessness; to facilitate promotions in the army; to adjust accounts of laborers under the eight-hour law, to provide lor 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 $5,000,000, 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-President Garfield. Mr. Hoar introduced a resolution requesting the 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 the 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 had himself been one, with a view to showing that,had the Government paid attention to the information conveyed and the recommendations made by the directors, the relations of the Government to tho roads would to-day be better. The bills introduced in the House of Representatives numbered 790 J The more notable were: 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 New York; to prevent the adulteration of fcod ')■ and drugs; to provide for the construction of the Delaware aud Maryland ship canal; to reform tho civil service ;to repeal tho duty on sugar; to prevent fraudulent entries on the public domain ; to repeal the tobacco tax; to create an inte~s‘a’e commerce commission; to tax the mauutactrre and sale of olemargarine; to give honorably discharged soldiers and sailors preference in public appointments; to authorize the President to call out two volunteer regiments of cavalry in New Mexico and 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. McArgle, of Mississippi, to be Consul of the United States at San Juan del Norte ; Willis H. Patch, of Maine, to be Consul Of the United States at St. Stephen. New Bruns. wick; H. M. Jewett, of Massachusetts, to be Consul at Sivas; Orlando V. Powers, of Michigan, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah.

Mb. Hoar introduced in the Senate, on the 6tli inst., a bill for longer sessions of Congress, making proceedings commence alternately in October and November. The silver question Was raised in the Senate on a discussion of the Beck resolution. Mr. Gray contended that persistence In compulsory coinage would bring tho country to a silver standard. Mr. McPherson declared that in the opiuion of the best authorities in the world, a point had been reached beyond which—it would be dangerous to go, and produced advertisements by .Tav Cooke that the bonds would be paid in gold. The Chair laid before the Senate a letter from the Postmaster General, complying with the call of a recent Senate resolution in respect to the appointment of Postmasters in Maine, alleged to have been procured through the influence of S. S. Brown. Chairman of the Democratic committee of 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, but the Postmaster General had not made a complete answer to the resolution of the Senate. In reply Senators Voorhees and Vest defended the civil-service policy of President Cleveland. Bills were introduced iu the House of Representatives for the free coinage of the silver dollar, to limit it, and suspend it; to force national banks to keep a larger reserve of silver; to retire the trade dollar, and to direct the calling in of $50,000,000 in 3 per cent, bonds, payment to be made in coin of standard value. The President Bent the following nominations to the Senate: James Shields, of Montana, to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of Montana. Postmasters—Thomas Ryan, at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich,; Charles Holiday, at St. Louis, Mich.; J. C. Morgan, at Kearney, Neb.

A resolution originally introduced by Mr. Harrison calling for an investigation of the Pension Commissioner’s office -was adopted by the Senate on the 7th inst., after the incorporation ©f amendments offered by Messrs. Voorhees and Logan. As it now stands the resolution provides for an inquiry as to the truth of Mr. Black's statement that under his predecessors party tests were applied to pension claimants and as to the present incumbent’s management n> bin trust. TVißrft n.-ioi M.lrmp (lehxte oti the Utah bill, and Mormons came in for a share of bitter denunciation at the hands of Senators Morgan and Cullom. Mr. Teller opposed severo repressive measures, and acted as the apologist at the Saints. The House of Representatives listened impatiently to the introduction of bills for the admission of Dakota and Washington Territories, to create a postal telegraph, to repeal the tobacco tax, for a commission on tho liquor traffic, for volunteer regiments in the Southwest, for thirteen public buildings, for tho Hennepin Canal project, an unlimited silver dollar, and for a hundred or two other things. Speaker Carlisle announced his committees, •with Morrison as Chairman of Ways and Means, Randall of Appropriations, Bland of Coinage, and Belmont of Foreign Affairs. Benator Edmunds' Utah bill passed the Senate on the Bth inst. It is substantially tho same as first reported, with the addition of a section providing that marriage between persons of the fourth degree of consanguinity, but not including that, shall be contrary to law. Mr. Eustis ‘ offered a concurrent resolution with a preamble as follows: “Whereas, The act of Congress of 1878 declared the silver dollar a legal tender for all debts, public and private; that by the act of 1889 the faith of the United States was solemnly pledged to the payment in coin or its equivalent of all public obligations not bearing interest," etc.; that by the refunding act of July, 1870, the principal and interest of the debt were made redeemable in coin of the then standard val ue; that since the enactment of those laws it has been the practice of the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the bonds and interest in gold coin, and that the Secretary of the Treasury has issued a call for 810,000,000 of bonds, payable on the Ist of February, 1886; therefore, be it resolved, etc., that in the opinion of Conmess said bonds of 810.000,000, payable on Feb. 1, 1866, should be paid in silver dollars, such payment being in compliance with existing law and in aid of the financial policy established by the legislation of Congress.” Mr. Eustis desired the resolution referred to the Committee en Finance, and expressed the hdpe that the committee wouls report on it at an early day, in order that it may be determined whether or not the practice of paying the United States bonds anwthe interest cn them exclusively in gold coin was approved by Congress. Bills were introduced to appropriate 81,330.000 for improvements at the mouth of-the Columbia Itiver, to create a public park near Santa Fe, to pay the Delaware Indians $36,800 for certain lands in Kansas, to increase to 8’25 per month the pensions of soldiers or sailors wlio lost one eye, and to prohibit the letting of Government contracts to persons employing convict labor. The House was not in session.