Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-28
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

| UuAMU1tlI VI UU1HN11llUus
The Presumption Bill--Farmers' Weather
Bulletin--The Rights of the Street Rail
! way--Misc ellaheOus Matters.
The board of directors of the chamber
of commerce held its usual Monday morn
| ing meeting yesterday.
THE PRE- EMPTION BILL.
! At the last meeting of the board Mr.. w.
| D. Washburn sent in communication
| that he would furnish the board with a
copy of the presumption repeal bill. Yes
terday it was received as follows, and re-
ferred to the committee on legislation:
| Be it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States of
America in congress assembled, That the
presumption laws of the United States, re-
lating to the public lands, are hereby re-
pealed; provided, however, such repeal
shall not be construed to embrace special
statutes relating to specific reservations or
tracts of land which, to discharge treaty
| stipulations, or for other purposes sepa-
rate and distinct from the general law, are
required to be sold for cash to actual set
|
allowing pre-emption of the public lands
Sec. =. That all duly qualified persons,
VIII o. prior to the date of this act, have in
good faith and in compliance with existing
laws made presumption settlement on the
public lands subject thereto, shall be en-
titled to perfect their entries and receive
patents under said laws.
Sec 5. That no person who has made
| Or "a harQa ma Cp homestead nfru
on the public lands shall be entitled to
avail! himself of the provisions of section
1901 of the Revised Statutes of the United
States, until he shall have resided upon
the land embraced in such entry for the
full period OF eighteen months; provided,
however, that in case of the death of the
| party who has made homestead entry, it
shall be competent for his successor in in
terest, under the law, to make entry under
said section at any time thereafter"
THE SIGNAL SERVICE.
The following report made by Capt.
Blakeley from the committee on transpor-
tation, was read by him and adopted:
ST. PAUL, Nov. "a.
! Mr.. President: Your committee, to
whom was referred the letter of Gen. w.
B. Hazen, chief signal officer United States
army, respectfully report that this is the
point or proper station at which the daily
observations of the several stations in the
Northwest should be received, collated and
printed, and we would earnestly request
that such preparation be made as will be
found necessary to have daily reports
made to this station from the following
stations and others embraced with
in this circuit, viz: Chica-
go, ILL.,, st. Louis, No., Leaven.
worth, Kan, Omaha. Neb., Denver, Col,
Deadwosd, D. T., Forts Keogh, Custer,
Ellis, and Helena, Montana, Buford, Bis
marck, Pembina, Winnipeg and Duluth,
and that the Farmers Bulletin be printed
and distributed to all points conveniently
reached from this point, and copies fur
nished the press of the city, so that the
useful and desirable information con-
tanned in said Bulletin may be generally
distributed to all. We recommend that the
| thanks of the chamber be returned to
Gen. Hazen for his pol1teness in calling
our attention to this very important mat
} ter. R. BLAKELEY, Chairman.
| THE STREET RAILWAY.
| Mr.. McClung called attention to the
criticisms that had been made on the man
agement of the street railway business and
| offered the following:
Reso!red, That the committee On
| streets and the city attorney are respect
| fully requested to examine and report
| what are the rights of the Street Railway
| company and what are the rights of the
city and people, and whether said rail-
! way company are so using their own
rights as not to infringe upon the rights of
| others, or whether the people are
unjustly complaining of said company.
| In Offering the above Mr.. McClung
stated that he wanted to have it under
stood that he did so in no spirit of fault
| finding. Criticisms had been made by
parties, and he thought the road ought to
have an opportunity to show that there
| were no grounds for complaint. DR.. Day,
Mr.. William Lee. and Mr.. Murray made a
few remarks, all of friendly character to
| the Street Railway company when the
resolution was adopted.
MISCELLANEOUS.
City Engineer Rundlett reported that
the old Mendoza road in West St.
Paul was in good condition except
| in regard to one particular spot and he
had arranged for that to be fixed.
On motion of Mr.. McClung, the com
mittee on manufactures was given further
time in witch to report on the matter of
the establishment of cordage factory in
| st. Paul.
Mayor Rice said he had seen Mr.. Prior
in regard to placing depot station at
Eagle and Fort streets and that the matteso
would be attended to in due time.
The board determined to request the
council to have the elevators of the city
examined.
| Mr.. Ingersou wanted the board to look
into the project of having the passenger
trains enter the second story of the union
depot building so as to leave the lower
part of the building for freight and emil
grants. Referred to the committee on
| transportation.
Cremation.