The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-05-21
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amendments as follows:
Increasing the appropriation for trans
portation on railroad routes from So
490, 600 to s., $780, 900; by steamboat
routes, from $S50,000 to 100000; for
mail messengers, 100000 to $725, 900;
for mail locks and tags, from $25 coo to
100000 and distributing out the pro-
vision that all star routes shall be re-let
after 30 days advertisement, as now pro-
vided by law, on the first of October,
1880, on which the pay for the expedi-
tion of the schedule ordered during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1879, or June
30, 1880 shall exceed fifty per centum of
the contract price before such expedi-
ton. provided that this provision shall
not prevail when the present contractor
desires to renew the contract as reduced.
After debate, the committees amend
ment, striking out the house provision,
was agreed to.
The other committee amendments were
agreed to, and the bill passed.
The presiding officer Ferry laid be.
fore the senate IL messabe from the presi-
dent, transmitting the report of the sec
rotary of state upon the Fortune Bay
fisheries. The report was ordered print
ed.
After an executive session, the s-nate
adjourned.
HOUsE-The speaker laid before the
house a message from the president,
transmitting, in compliance with Il reso-
luton of the house of representatives,
copies of the correspondence with the
government eff Great Britain In relation
To the alleged outrage on American citi-
Zens at Fortune Bay, New Foundland,
together with the report from the secre-
tary of state on the subject
In the message the president says in
transmitting this correspondence and
report: Il respectfully ask the imme
diate and careful attention of congress
10 the failure of accord between the tWo
governments as to the Interpretation and
execution of the fishery article of the
treaty Of Washington, as disclosed in
this correspondence. and elucidated by
the exposition of the secretary of state
| conceive in opinion, the report as to
the proper steps 10 be taken by this gov
eminent in maintenance of the rights
accorded our fishermen by the British
commissioners in treaty, and in procur-
ing suitable action toward securing i'm
munity for injuries which this interest
has already suffered; accordingly l
recommend to congress the adoption of
these measures with such attendant de-
tails of legislation as in the wisdom of
congress may seem cXigent.
Signed RUTHERFORD b. HAYES.
Executive Mansion, May II, 1880.
The message and accompanying docu-
ments were ordered printed, and referred
to the committee on foreign affairs.
Adjourned.
Washington Notes
WASHINGTON, May 15.-In the house
after protracted debate on the adjourn.
ment resolution, the concurrent resolu.
ton for adjournment on the 31st inst
was agreed to; yeas, 121; nays, 80.
The president has nominated y. G.
Ordway, of New Hampshire, as Cover
nor of Dakota Territory
At a cabinet meeting to day, secretary
Sherman laid before the cabinet Il state
ment showing the daily receipts of the
government for the present month had
averaged one million dollars. He al
luded to the difficulty with which his
department had to contend IN circulating
the standard silver dollars.
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
The Crow Indians agreed to sell tho
government 1000. 900 acres of their reser
vation in Montana for $4,000 per yeal
| for twenty-five years, and the ShOshoneZ
| hammock Indians, of the Fort Hail, Ida
no, reservation, signed an agreement dis
| posing of 100000 acres of their reserva
| ton for $4,000 per year for twenty
| years. The Indians will remain upon
certain portions of their reservation.
The senate committee on Indian af
! fairs devoted long special session to the
! perfecting of the detail of bill to pro
vide for the allotment of lands in sever
atty to Indians on the various reserva
tiOns throughout the country, and tC
extend over them the laws of the re
| spective territories within which they
are now located. II is the intention OF
the committee to complete the bill in
| time to report it before congress ad
| jOurns, with view to bringing it for
| ward for passage early next session.
Secretary Schurz was before the senate
committee on the removal of the Chey
ennes and Poncas, for an hour and a
half to-day, and a general discussion
took place relative to the policy of re
| moving the Indians from Indian Terri
tory. The secretary admitted that injus
| tice had been done the Poncas by re
moving them from their reservation in
Dakotah, but believe they would have
been satisfied to change if left undis.
| turbed by outside influences exerted by
parties who seemed disposed to keep up
a spirit of discomfort among them.
The secretary also set forth his cOnvlc.
| ton that an encrOachment of white men
on their territory could but be disastrous
to all the Indians thereon.
WASHINGTON, d. c., May 1.-THE
senate judiciary committee voted to rec.
Ommend the passage with few reli-
able amendments, of Bayard's bill 10
regulate the pay and appointment of
deputy marshals for service in reference
to Federal elections.
A caucus of democratic representa-
tives was held this evening for the pur-
pose of interchanging views upon the
adjournment question. Mr. Steele pre-
sided. Upon the motion of Mr.. Springer.
il was resolved that in the opinion of
those present, the vote by which the
House to-day decided in favor of adj
jOurnment on the 31st of May, should
be reconsidered; that the question of
adjournment should be postponed till
important legislation now pending, and
the necessary business of Congress has
been disposed of.
4 letter has been sent to Senator Don
Cameron, chairman of the national re-
publican committee, signed by 11S re-
publicans of the senate and House, ask.
asking that seats be provided at Chi
cago for seventy-siX women, delegates to
the state and national women's suffrage
associations. A similar letter to the
| national democrat committee is in circu.
latIon on the democratic side of the
House. 1t has been signed among 9th.
ers by ]. Proctor Knott, Frank Hart and
| o. Singleton.
WASHINGTON, May 1S.-Pools on the
boat race have bean sold at 100 to 90 on
Hanlan. The race will take place al
four O'Clock Wednesday afternoon.
The house adjournment resolution
reached the senate this afternoon but has
not been laid before that body. Errors
in the phraseology have been discovered
which may make il necessary for its re-
| turn to the house and thus reopen the
whole question. This resolution is in
the form of a joint resolution instead OF
| a concurrent resolution. The former re
quires approval by the president.
At the cabinent meeting to-day the
president announced that he had decided
to appoint Horace Maynard, United
States Minister to Constantinople, to sue
coed Judge Key as postmaster gen.
efal
1t was decided to release several Texas
herders who were arrested in the Indian
Territory by government troops, who
suspected them 10 be invaders.
A communication regarding the In
dams of Canada crossing the border and
destroying all game on the American
side, was read, but no means as to what
measure TO prevent recurrence was
taken.
In the senate, Senator Plumb from the
committee on military affairs, reported
favorably on the bill creating an add
tional land department in Kansas, which
passed.
In the House, Mr. McLain, from the
committee on appropriations, reported
back pension deficiency appropriation
bill, similar to the one reported last week
which was passed without amendment
EIr. Chalmers. of the house offered a
measure, constructing the pension act of
March 8, 1873, and the act To place the
cnlored persons who enlisted in the army
ON the same footing as other soldiers. as