The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-04-19
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
XLVII CONGRESS-.
REGULAR SESSION.
SENATE
MONDAYS PRoCEEDINas.

MONDAYS PROCEEDINGS. -
Washington, 1.-THE credentials
of ChilcOtt, of Colorado, were filed
and he took his seat. R
ingalls,, from the Judiciary COM
mittee, reported with amendment
the bill introduced by Plumb in
December last to declare certain
lands granted to the Pacific rail
roads subject to taxation.
The bill as amended provides that
all lands granted by the act of
1st of July, 1862, to aid in the con-
struction of railroad and telegraph
lines from the Missouri River to
the Pacific Ocean, ETC., AID the
lands granted by the amendatory
act of July I'd, 1864. to several rail
road companies therein named,
which have been selected and certi-
fed, and on which said companies
respectively became entitled to re-
ceiVe patents upon the payment of
the cost of surveying and selecting
the same as provided by section 81
of said amendatory act of July I'd,
1864, Notwithstanding such COM
panleS have not made such pay
ment, shall be subject to all legal
taxes imposed under the authority
of any state or territory in which
such lands are located, to the same
extent as they would have been had
such cost been paid, and lands con-
Veyed to said railroad companies.
The bill is not to apply to lands al
ready forfeited, nor to operate to re-
lieVe any company from any for
fixture heretofore incurred. It is
also provided that prior to the pay
ments of the cost of surveying by
said railroad companies no taxes
shall be imposed except in organ
lied communities. The committee
add new section as follows:
That in any sale of such lands for
taxes the moneys due or to become
due the United States under said
acts, for such costs, fees, ETC., shall
be and remain first lien on such
lands, and shall be paid for by the
purchaser at such tax sale, who
shall thereupon (his title under the
tax sale being completely receive a
patent for the land so purchased by
him, which patent shall operate only
as a release of the interest of the
United States in the land described
in the same. Calendar.
A bill was introduced by McDill
to establish a board of railway COM
missioners to regulate interstate
commerce and for other purposes.
Tabled temporarily. o
Allison and Beck were excused
from service as cOnfreres on the In
dian appropriation bill.
The remainder of the session was
spent in consideration of the bill for
the improvement of the Mississippi
and Missouri Rivers, reported by
Kellogg from the commerce COM
mittee. 1t appropriates $5,0OO,OOO
for the former and 100000 for the
latter, the latter sum to be used in
the construction or repair of levees.
Jones, of Louisiana, proposed to
use a portion of the appropriations
in Immediate repairs and the con-
Struetion of leYees.
Garland proposed an amendment
making the appropriation S13,000,-
900 for the Mississippi and $4,000
600 for the Missouri, to be expended
to facilitate navigation.
The agriculture and postal service
bill went over without action.
Adjourned.
TUESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
Washington, 1S.-JohnstOn of
fered resolution calling for the
correspondence which
passed early in 1876 between the
United States minister at Madrid
and the Spanish secretary Of STATE,
concerning the United States citi-
zens condemned to death in Cuba
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