Show DOINGS IN CONGRESS Pensions for the Widows o f hogan and Blair > > TIJINS AND MESIORFALS The Mnmoiinl of the Society or Friends Akt e for an International Interna-tional Arbitration Tribunal S SENATE WASHINGTON January 26mong tliepetitiona and memorials presented and referred were 4 Of the Chicago Sord of Trade asking retaliatory legislation against France and Germany for excludiri American meat Several petitions from Pennsylvania against the admission of Utah as u k State with polygamy fI The Senate took from the calendar and passed the bill increasing the pen swn for total deafness to 30 a month from 13 and allowing a proportionate rating for partial deafness The entire increased expense to the Treasury under the bill will not exceed 100000 a year S The calendar was taken up and the bills thereon taken up in their regular order those being objected to being laid aside without action The following follow-ing were passed I Senate bill to extend the limits to the port of Portland Oregon as a port of entry Senate bill to amend the act of the 10th of June 1830 as to The immediate transportation ofdutiable goods extending ex-tending thaact to Seattle and Tacoma WT To create a port of delivery at Port Angeles in the District of Puget Sound WT Granting to the State of California 5 per cent of the net proceeds of the cash sales of public lands in that StateS State-S Afterdebate the bill giving pension of 2000a year tothe widow of General Logan was passed by a vote of 55 to 7 The bill giving a like pension to the widow of General Frank P Blair also passed after the Senate resumed consideration of the Blair educational k bill billBerry opposed the bill on the ground that it was wrong in principle He objected ob-jected to it in the interest of the widows wid-ows of other officers and private soldiers sol-diers I Stewart advocated the bill He said GeneralLogan had been the idol of the volunteer soldiery On all occasions he had fought their battles in the Senate and else whore He believed that the I widows of all private soldiers would rejoice re-joice in the passage of the bill It was c necessary for the country to have some conspicuous examples something for young men hereafter to emulate JJI Senators Hoar and Dawes spoke iu favor of the bill Reagan stated his reason for voting against the bill The founders of the Government had prohibited Congress PS andthe States from conferring patents of nobility proceeding on the idea that there was to be no privileged cIa s in the United States For three quarters of acentary that went but within the last quarter of a century these principles had been disregarded and Federal judges and military and naval officers had been retire re-tire with pensions All this tended in the direction of a privileged class to be supported by taxes levied on other people S S Oail said that he would vote for the bill with great pleasure There never had been and neverwould be a government gov-ernment in which merit was not rewarded re-warded Berry called for the yeas and nays on the passage of the bill yeas 5 nays 7 The negatie votes were given by I Messrs Berry Joke Colquit Harris Reagan Saulsbury and Vance The name was corrected so as to read Mary S Logan not Mary A1 on the motion of Vest A like bill increasing to 2000 a ytar the pension of the widow of General I Gen-eral FrankjP Blairwas passed by a voteS vote-S of 54 to 6 M r Saulsbury voting In executive session the nomination of Martin V Montgomery to be Associate Asso-ciate Justice of the Supreme Court D C and J B Hoge district attorney for the same place were confirmed Adjourned S HOUSE Brown of Indiana presented a memorial mem-orial of the Society of Friends of the United States England Canada and Ireland asking the establishment of an internationalarbitration tribunal Referred Re-ferred 5 Bland from the committee on coin ageweights and measures reported a bill to discontinue the coinage of the a nonh nipnfi House calendar In the morning hour the House resumed re-sumed the considsratipn of the bill for the sale of certain Indian lands in Kin sas sasThe committee on foreignaffairs willS discharged at its own request from further consideration of the bill incorporating incor-porating the Maritime Company of Nicaragua and the same was referred to the committee on commerce Consideration of unfinished business busi-ness I the Wilkins banking bill wftB 1f postppned account of the absence of Mr Wilkins who is ill The House then proceeded to the consideratiuEMhe mil amending the laws relating to navigation The bill Wa passed da motionjpf WASef qj Virginia the bill was paSseti fegulaang practice incase I in-case remoyed from the state to federal courts I1ftfvide6 that the plaintiff shall rioUbltfteqnirSa f toteiye jseonnty for the costs of the suitjif he be a citizen citi-zen of the state in which the suit wa broug t Belraont ofNW Yoirkrom the I S xiinmitt o qngq eighfaflairs ported OCcommitteb s 1i ti n accepting the j inVi If 4J tation I fhIiiJrle iA1 ep h t < tai part in the international exhibition to o t be held 1nIri in 1889 and appro 5 Dtiatiua 2QOdJ1W iiiblbtbk4JnitP states to par ic P a t e TM House at I journed j que aMA JJVri v W |