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Show FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. The Senate. Washington, January 5. The following bills were introduced and referred this afternoon: after-noon: .By Call To retire judgea of circuit- or district courts. It provides that when any judge of a circuit or district court shall be- . come disabled through the excessive or habitual use of intoxicants or n-nv nfhnr cause, he shall be retired with an annual salary of 2,000 a year, unless he shall be thereafter tried and impeached. This disability dis-ability is to be determined by the judge of the circuit adjacent to that in which the judge " to be tried has jurisdiction. The Attorney-General 13 authorized to institute proceedings against such judge on the complaint com-plaint of Senators or Representatives. By Teller To provide for the compulsory education of Indian children. It authorizes the Seoretary of the Interior to take any Indian children between the ages of 8 and 18, who belong to the tribes receiving annuities annu-ities from the United States, and place them in Government schools for the education of Indians, to be kept there for five years. This is not to apply, however, to the five civilized tribes, nor to the Osage Indians of the Indian Territory. The Secretary is authorized author-ized to withhold annuities and rations from parents who refuse to comply with these provisions. pro-visions. All such schools are to be manual I labor schools, and to include the teaching of agriculture and stock-raising to boys, and housework to girls. By Harrison To set apart a certain tract of land near the junction of the Little Colo rado River with the Colorado River of the West, in Arizona, as a publio park. . By Ingalls To establish a national university uni-versity in the District of Columbia; $5,000,-000 $5,000,-000 is granted to a Board of Regents, in a Eerpetual registered certificate of the United tates, to be unassignable,- and bearing five per cent, interest, the interest to be paid quarterly. So much of the interest as is needed for the sites, buildings, etc., may be used. The bill introduced by Senator Blair to provide for the erection of monuments in this city to President Lincoln and General Grant, provides that they shall be similar to the Washington monument and cost $1,000,-000 $1,000,-000 each. None but American citizens are to be employed upon this work. A message was received from the President transmitting a draft of -the bill to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to the Indians. It was read and referred. Wilson, of Iowa, called up the resolution heretofore offered by him, calling on the Seoretary Seo-retary of the Interior for a copy of each report made by the Government directors of the Union Un-ion Pacific Railroad, from the first appoint ment of such directors to the present time. Wilson reviewed at length the action of the Government directors, of whom he had himself him-self been one, with a view to showing that had the Government paid attentionto the information infor-mation conveyed and the recommendations made by the directors, the relations of the Government to the roads would to-day be a better one. Wilson favored the bill reported from the judiciary committee of the Senate of tho Forty-eighth Congress, because under such a law there would be a possibility of government gov-ernment ownership of the entire Pacifio system. sys-tem. Not that he hoped the Government ownership own-ership would be necessary, for he did not take kindly to the measures looking to the Govern ment assumption of the business that might be undertaken by the citizens; but with, the contingency of Government ownership confronting con-fronting them, all the companies included in the Pacific system would set themselves about devising means to avoid any impending impend-ing possession of their roads by the Government. Govern-ment. Indeed, every road in the United States would take a lively interest in preventing pre-venting the Government's ownership of the Pacific roads, for their managers .well know that with those roads in the hands of the Government, the problem" of regulating inter-State commerce would be speedily and perfectly solved. In Wilson's opinion, we had the case in our own hands and should not consent. He for one would not consent to any settlement of the Pacific roads question ques-tion that did not. embrace the feature of a possible redemption by the Government of the present paramount liens on the Pacifio roads so the . Government might protect itself it-self against defaults of the companies. Upon the conclusion of Wilson's remarks the judicial salary bill was, on motion of Hoar, placed before the Senate. Without further action, however, the Senate went into executive session, and when the doors opened adjourned. I Souse. Washington, January 5. A joint resolution resolu-tion was introduced by Laird, of Nebraska, authorizing the President to call out two volunteer regiments of cavalry in New Mexico Mex-ico and Arizona, to be enlisted and officered from the citizens of said Territories, for the suppression of the Indian hostilities therein. Also, a joint resolution instructing the Commissioner Com-missioner of the General Land Office to pass to patent all pending homestead and preemption pre-emption claims against which a specifio charge of fraud is not pending or proved, and also calling on such officer for a statement state-ment in detail of the reason for issuing the order of April 3d, suspending the issuance of patents. Also, a bill declaring forfeited lands granted to railroads on which the cost of surveying and conveying has not been made. ByHewett, of New York To carry into fvffent the- convention between tho United States and Mexico, signed January 20, 1883. Also authorizing the purchase of foreign built ships by citizens of the United States, for use in the foreign carrying trade. By Dowdney, of New York For the ereo-tion ereo-tion of a monument to General Grant in New York City. (It appropriates $2C0,CC0, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, by a commission to be appointed ap-pointed by the President, provided that none of the money shall be expended until an additional ad-ditional sum of $250,000 has been raised by private subscription.) . By Phelps, of New Jersey A resolution of the Legislature of New Jersey asking for Congressional inquiry into the fitness of Alaska for the purposes of a penal colony and the advisability of establishing there a place of confinement for long-term convicts. Washington, January 6. It is learned that the House Committees will not be announced an-nounced until after the call of States shall have been completed, probably late this afternoon. - " The Speaker laid before the House and Senate a joint resolution tendering thanks to Congress, to the Government and people of the State of Ohio for the statute of James ! A. Garfield, and accepting the same. On motion of E. B. Taylor, of Ohio, the resolution was laid on the table for the present. pres-ent. - i |