Washington Letter on Congress in Session Six Weeks
Henry Republican dispatch describes six weeks of session with 4760 House bills and 1400 Senate bills, a 33 percent rise from the prior Congress. It contrasts House and Senate oratory, notes committee duties, rivalries, and disputes, and mentions Mills and Hatch in leadership tensions.
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Senate
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Roscoe Conkling
House of Representatives
House Committee On Elections
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Thobe C Arlisle
Public Lands
Kansas
United States
Mills
Texas
Hatch
Missouri
Habel
Carlisle
Local notes from Hennepin county and vicinity
The county page records deaths of J H Greenough a miller from Lacon aged 61 on Jan 12 in Ilsga Kansas cancer deaths of Ezekiel Phelps from Bonnington township on Jan 8 stomach cancer Anna McEntee of Lacon died Jan 4 in Minonk aged 80. Robert B Fort congressman still in Paris. Herman Shilte and wife celebrate 15th anniversary Jan 16. Mrs Nancy Dever of Lacon turns 90 on Jan 12 with guests. Croft of Varna comments on horse stock. William H Barto of Milo dies Jan 24 after inflammatory rheumatism. canal and railroads discussed. G A R post officers elected in Lacon. Croft divorce settled. plans for Stanton County ranch noted.
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Ezekiel Phelps
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Anna McEntee
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Robert B. nFort
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Paris
Hérman Shilte
Nancy Dever
G.O. Barnes
D. E. Thomas
Brookmont
Samuel Croft
William H. Barto
Milo
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Burlington-so
Aim
Mie
Stanton County
Nebraska
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