The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-04-13
INTELLIGENCE.
Foriy.sovenih Congress.
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ton bin.
Mr.. Garland, Tor Mr.. Lamar, who was alb
sent, presented q memorial Fl om the Mis-
sssiPpi legislature, asking for revival o
land grants OF 1856 to aid the Gulf & ShiT
Island railroad.
Mr.. Jones presented memorial from the
Commercial Exchange of New Orleans IN
favor OF n leyee bill and liberal appropria,
ton to carry out The plans ofthe Mississippi
river commission.
Mr.. Bayard, from the judiciary commit
tee, reported bill amending the an ,i-poly-
gamy law and fixing the salaries ofconmis-
sioners under that law at $4,000 per annum
in accordance with The recent recommends
ton of the president. Passed.
A bill was int, oduced by Mr.. Morgan, by
REQUEST granting right-of-way over public
land in Alabama and Florida, to the ST..
Louis, Montgomery & Florida railroad and
immigration company, and to allow the
company to purchase public. lands in said
states.
Mr. Lamar, upon application of Mr.. Gar
land, was granted two weeks leave OF abb
sence.
Mr.. Hawley presented memorial of the
Cherokee, Creek and Seminole Indians,
petitioning for a maintenance Of their
Indian Territory railway bill.
Senate bill authorizing the secretary of
war to adjust and settle accounts tor arms
between the state of South Carolina and
the United State was passed.
On motion of Mr.. Davis, of West Virginia,
senate bill reported by him to repeal, ex-
cept as stated, all laws providing for perma-
nent or indefinite appropriations was
passed. The exceptions are laws for the
payment of principal and interest on the
public debt of the District of Columbia
and Pacific railroad guaranteed bonds; for
the support of marine hospitals,
Smithsonian Institute and Soldiers
Home; for the payment of interest on
the Indian trust and navy pension funds;
for the repayment to importers excess Of de-
posts and for the payment of deben-
lures or drawbacks, bounties, etc., under
the customs or revenue laws. The bill also
provides that all appropriations hereafter
to be made shall remain available for two
years for the payment of expenditures
properly incurred within the time for which
they are appropriated, except as TO appro-
priations for the construction of pubic
buildings, rivers and harbors, light
houses and forts, which shall remain
available for like purpose for four years,
at the expiration of which periods all bal
ances for said periods shall be carried to the
surplus fund.
MIR. Saunders introduced bill for the re-
lief of the Wichita, Caddo and affiliated
bands of Indians. 1t appropriates 100000,
the same to be invested in United States Sc
curities, and held in trust for the Indians
named, the trust TO be paid 10 them semi
relinc uishment by the Wichitas of
their right to about 100000 acres OF land
comprised in the tract within the Indian
territory and Kansas, and conceded to have
been their original home. Referred to the
committee on Indian ada rs.
Upon the announcement of The death of
Representative Allen, and the appointment
of II committee 10 escort the remains, the
senate, at 2:05, as further mark of respect
for the deceased, adjourned.
HOCSE.
Thompson, OF Iowa, submitted the ma
iority report OF the committee on elections
in the contested election case of Mackey
VS.. OConnOr from the second congressional
district of South Carolina accompanied by
a resolution declaring that contestant Mac
key is entitled TO The seat. Printed ana
turned over for future action.
Under the call of states, bills were intro
duced and referred by McLane, Of Maryland,
for the abrogation Of the 9Th and 9Th arti-
cles Of the Burlingame treaty with China,
Richardson, of New York introduced a
concurrent resolution directing the senate
and house committees on public buildings
10 inquire into the adyisability and cost OF
purchasing a suitable site for the residence
of the president of the United States. Re-
ferred.
The house went into committee of the
whole on bill appro,riating 81 100000 for
the reclamation of the Potomac flats at
Washington; but, witho 1T action, the COM
miitee rose and the house soon after
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-The senate took
up the calendar and passed a number Of
private bills.
The Indian territory railroad bill, grant
ing right-of-way to the St. Louis d San
Francisco railway, coming up as unin-
ished business, Mr. Hawley denounced it in
the amended form in which it came from
the railway committee, as an attempt 20 Yo-
late the treaty rights of Indians under the
pretcXt of ratifying an act of the Choctaw
counsel. He said the bill proposed to seize
theirlands without providing any system
for adjusting the rae o" CONDENSATION;
therefore he could not conceive of treaty
in which the United States
would have the right, in the proper,
legal sense of the term to pass
legislation in contravention of the treaty,
but that duty required the government to
exhaust all other remedies before going TO
that extremity. lie decided that remedies
had been exhausted in this instance, and
asserted that in setting apart the Indian
country for railway purposes the govern
ment was overriding its uniform practice
heretofore. "My chief concern, he added,
us not because / see the Indians wronged,
but that my government, with 1000 to 3d.
600 Indians, will do that which il would not
dare 10 do under a treaty with Great
Britain. want Uncle Sam to be gentle
man."
Discussion then turned on the pending
amendment Of Mr.. ingalls,, requiring the
consent of Cherokees and Chickesaws 20
the act to be obtained before the act shall
take effect.
Mr.. Jonas, Of Louisiana, opposed
the amendment as virtual
defeat of the Ill, as the Chickasaws had an
nounccd they would never grant the right
Of way, being opposed to the road. He
the validity Of the assent al-
legged TO have been already given by the
Choctaws. That tribe had declared in
favor of the proposed road by electing pub
lie officers friendly to the grant. The
! ights Of Chickasaws we're not affected as the
road would not reach their lands.
The bill finally went over without ac-
ton.
A bin was introduced by Mr.. Vest TO au-
thorize the construction Of bridges across
the Missouri river betwecl its mouth and
mouth Of the Dakota river, across the Miss
issiDDi river betw-3l st. Paul and
Natcnez, Mississippi, and &C. Oss the Illinois
river between the mouth and Peoria, Hi
nois. The bill was drafted last month By
the 81. Louis Merchants Exchange, under
the general bridge law, and Is intended 10
give reasonable protection - navigation
aud 10 authorize erection at suitable points
on the Mississippi and Illinois
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legislation. These conditions are
specified IN he bill, which
further fequiles that all designs and plans
for contemplated structures shall be sub
mitted 70 and approve By the secretary Of
war prior 10 the beginning Of the work Of
construction.
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