Show 00 CONGRESS 1 bill terri admission mIssIon Ld bill by western Add to tui A WA INGTON dec 13 11 31 orrill pre pro dented tented the credentials of senator edmunds for the fall full term commencing ine march 4 1887 placed on file among athe the numerous bill introduced and r referred ef erred were iho the following by If cullom fullom to amend the revised fit autee in relation to national banka banks the senate resumed consideration orrille resolution declaring that tl tho promise of making a proper re vision of the tariff at the present session was obviously bo hopeless and impracticable and daves dawes proceeded to add addred rests the senate on that subject at the conclusion of dawes speech morrill moved the reference of the resolution to the committee on finance mr beck opposed such a reference and suggested that the senators on i both aides sides should urge on their friends in the house to pass some tariff measure me aure eo so as to bring the question senate in some practicable manner andt andtius and thus lius open the doors fully to debate morrill said sald he would be the lest last man to cut senator from kentucky from the he opportunity of mak ing lore asp a speech e echo on the tariff he ile therefore would not the motion to refer the r resolution i eso lution w was then laid over and anel hoar moved to take up the bill repealing the tenure of offida act platt protesting that the special order ae as to epen executive sessions of t the senate should should take tike precedence pending consi aeration de ration of hoars bill a messa coc esage i from the house was presented on the subject of the death of representative Dow dowdney duey of new now york A resolution was adopted for the appoint of a committee to attend the finneral fia senators ena tora miller ransom and voorhees rhee were appointed euch such committee as a mark of respect for the deceased the senate ad journea jour j burned ned WASHING washington TOx dec 14 among the memorials memoria la presented resented p a was one by spooner from fro m the german aid society of wisconsin expressing an there waa was no further necessity sity for stimulating immigration in this country and that no satis satisfactory factor y reason can be assigned for allowing foreigners foreign erg to vote and hold offices after one oua beare and before they are naturalized and suggesting su g g e a aln the enactment of laws making maki n g naturalization n at and suffrage to conform to a uniform standard morrill fram the committee on finance reported back favorably a b bill i 11 for the retirement and reco sc aige inaze ava trea tra 40 1 ai calendar on motion m of hoar the house amendment to the electoral count bill was non concurred in and a conference was asked rover rom dec 13 U under rider the call of states tle the following bills and resolutions were introduced in the house and ind referred by oates ala to prohibit the appointment ipp ointment of ri gressi na committees c to attend funerals fun erale and to prohibit the draping of public bublic buildings in mou mourning jiing eia except aptt by y order of the president ident by lawler A 1 resolution stating that the me rapidly accumulating 9 surplus in the treasury Tre aburY is in excess of the needs of the government for its gnp support and the discharge of its bonded debt that the coast defense defenses are inadequate to td protect the lake and coast cities and that nearly men are unemployed and declaring it I 1 to be the enee sense 0 of f the house t that a large proportion of the purples in the treasury Trea aury should be expended through liberal appropriations for repairing re and properly equipping the coast defense aad and for the construction of ships following is the text of we bill in ins produced trod by hewitt 1 that out of the moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated the th secreta secretary alry of the treasury ie Is authorized and empowered ered to anticipate the payment of so much interest on the interest bearing bonds of the united states as shall be in excess of the rato rate of 3 per pent gent per annum by the payment in gross of buch such sum in each caso case as shall be 0 11 equal ual to the aggregate present worth of ouch excess of interest thereon and bind for the purpose of ascertaining euch suell worth interest upon tho the amount paid by the united states in anthel anticipation tion of euch such excess of inter ast stall be computed coin paled at the rate of 3 per cent per annum re In Tested quarterly ao 50 as to secure to the united states the benefit of the compound interest thereon sac 2 that when such payment of interest in anticipation of the maturity shall have been accepted by any holder bolder of the bonded indebtedness of the united states the bonds shall be distinctly stamped and properly nilore sd in au h a manner as tho tile secretary Sec retry of the th treasury may pret pres erite crite so 0 o as to the red redtop tod rate of I 1 attest thereafter to 0 o he 11 pad t there oni anu the fop oo 00 polls if 11 any shall bo be cut off and canceled and for the coupon 0 o canceled there hau dball be substituted new coupons bearing a reduced rate of interest and the bond bonds so 0 o stamped ball shall be receivable by PT the comptroller of he the security for the th issue of circulating note notes ol 01 any guy national banking association to tb the full extent of the pacT lue of aid said bonds instead of 90 per cent as now required red by law reaul zoa that it ehll shall be b lawful for the secretary of the treasury Trea eury to deposit 8 it from time tims to tine time with any ny national banking association any portion of the money la in the thel treasury not otherwise appropriated upon the security of an equal amount of I 1 the sniped bonded ended or of tb the a united states provided Provid td the whole amounts of th the e deposits depo eite thus thu made hall shall not at any time excised and all i euch deposits de shall be a object to cl call kal upon o 0 notice is aa t the he secretary 0 of f the tre treasury ury aso fit to prescribe cribe by white of pennsylvania penney I 1 vana the free coinage ot of silver by grant of vermont to enable the people to name their masters wa by cox of new york fixing the asla salary ryot ot the civil service commis ion at bodo by springer of 0 illinois for the admission into the union of dakota montana washington territory and ana new now mexico by py throckmorton of texas rr providing 0 viding for the leasing of unoccupied indian lande lands the speaker laid before the house a supplemental report fr from OM the E secretary ac ot the treasury Trea aury relative rela tiye to the collection of customs stoina ca duties referred the house then adjourned I 1 washington D C december Dece moer 14 senator morrison Morri aon has given notice in the house that on saturday next ho he will move that the house go into a committee committie of the to consider the revenue bille bills the speaker laid before the house a letter from the secretary of the treasury submitting the book of estimates for the fiscal year 1888 also a letter from the secretary of war transmitting a report rep of the cost of iron and steel re referred ferrid belmont N Y from the committee on foreign affairs afiafi reported back a resolution calling on secretary manning for information as to what interpretation terp is given by the treasury department to the tariff law of 1883 which in one section declared declai ed that fish fresh for immediate consumption shall be free of tax on an arrival at our iea sea and lake porta ports and in another section declares that foreign caught fish imported freih shall be taxed at the rate of 50 cents per pounds also requesting him to transmit copies of all the official cofre correspondence on the subject together wilha with a statement tat ement of the th a duties collected each year since on of fish caught on the lakes or canadian trib thereof or in the northal alantic lantic adopted |