New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-08
YLIYM CONGRESS-2d SESSION.


REGULAR REPORT or PROCEEDINGS.
THE HOUSE ONLY IN MISUNDERSTANDING DESERT
LANDs-DEDArE or THE CONSULAR AID DIPLo-
MATic APPROPRIATION BILLS.
WASHINGTON. Jan. T. 1877.
Only the lower House was in session yester-
3r DOUGLAS Dem, Ya) Chairman OF the Freed
man. Bank Committee, reported blIl authorizing inc
Freedmans Bank Commissioners 10 BUY ~ thc properly
sold under foreclosure the debts OF the Dan6
and sell the same at public or private Se WHchtVf
II is for tho Of the bank To do 50 ana also rally
ing their former action in doing He explained that
the commissioners, In winding ny Inc aHiHs 81 ie Dana
it, debts had oecn peilc, in order 10 prevent sac
rifce OF the property to buy IN large proportion 81 u
had been questioned, and this bill reported in order
the dOuDs IN The matter ana 10 pre- ~nt eA-
pcnsivc LITIGATION. The hill was passed
Sir. GOODIN Dem, Kan.l. from the Conn ''. cH
Public Lands reported bill authorizing tb' y -
Western Railroad in Iowa 10 lnteisect me u" ''hl
SouX Ctr - the Minnesota State line outse 3" vet
OF O'i}ricB County, with pIoyisO that the Zant Oi -dd
and ion rights shall not be affected After pE-
nation b, Mr. SAMPSON OF Iowa tue bill was pass,
rcnorIrd BIZ for he sale II desert lands Cali rna,
OREGON Nevada, and The Tcrrt0I1"s II rovGcs for the
fling of declaration with che Register and Receiver 81
land district which desert lands are 81 uaied tddt the
person intends reclaim tract VI desert land not eX-
within the yerOd OF three years thereafter, ana uHon
subsequent proof OF such reclamation ana the payment
of II - an acre for such tract, patent therefor sl
Ike issued. All lands nn raj AMI timber ands c&clnde
that viii not without irrigation produce soiuc a%lcA-
tura crop are to BE- deemed desert laas' Inc " was
MIR GOODIN also reported a bin auihorzo the cry
Cheyenne to enter and purchase certain phDc tdds
within It's limits. Passed.
MI RIA dem MOI, from the Committee on ACr!cu-
turr rpored bill granting lands 10 The Ste OF Colo
rldo for tn .ndowment Of a., an q! eurai cor re
The House then. 1t 1870 went into Committee o.
the Whole, 3Ir. Hooker Dcnl hi,' III the cuf On IN.
Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill, the MS
paragraphs being uiOsc making appropriations ior saa-
Mr. HOIMAN D.m md offered amendment. fix
int
Britain France, Germany, and Russia, $1,000 UoW
SITJOi; spain, Austria, Italy, Brazi, McXlco JAPAN
sui lin. $4,000 GOw $4,000; Chill ana Peru as AZ
WAY 1urAry. Ven. ZGCl1, IiaWalan Islands, ana the
Argentine Republic $1,000 (n0w SEJoo; 6u9tcihd.d
Costa Hca. Ncart2lt Honduras ana s',Ea IVA,
mission 5000 OOW Fl00OU); Minister ana .lHs.-
General "a flayti and Liberia, eaeh $1,000 600" @'1oO
am "r tO%oEE Rep M!cA.) made the point u order
that tr amendment changed Tie eAasth- lt"' '"n Wa
therefore ont Of order.
The CHAIRMAN az first aimed the point Of order,
Int af.er argument by r HOLMAN uc reversed Ills uc
t.-i,n tud Oyeirulcd the point Oh order.
5r MONROE (i;rp, On!0) opposed ihc Amendment ~
one o. red lu tue Tx aud without t'SVhs o. i' H.
sfr HOLMAN adVO ,itet the auc s1eu,, ai Al fsJ
"a iitil OF Mr. Mouroe'5, inentlcn ii tle fact ht
Air b. uCOit nlci tie SssiOn To Benin i"t year ar H.
lg iGy and Nj. Camcft he mission 20 - fee.abLi
l 80 400 mile now : 900 colSG REL 100 small
The !th WAS lac sl'd that the wnoie ~ arin O-i 10 ~
lUo +, Ell and hr believed thai il would d>ai par ia
view snort time III cry 81 the chSit ma nations
al The world. whatever pcrialnct I" ul'.pha'! Was
NOV transacted bet wccn capita! and another even
uuimUorialt TREATIES WVrt now - mace thc ""ri" '"
rru n..u-ht closer To- ether ~ Tie GeNClJpeLt7 Cd.
relic of the feudai ages entirely zone by. me "'
OF ministers ana embas sadOrs wcte now mere st'cGt
Al mi, poLt discussion Sc cnnibltt-c rose d'd
the House, = O'clock proceeded rs 'tt-i O,uy! ~
the consideration 81 bu'lHvsS lcpOtlc' ~ ~ N'''''0'
iUr The District Oi Columbia:
Several bills were reported aud p'--'L