Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-07
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Senate.


WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-Memorials and
petit were presented BY Senator Man
derson from the legislature of Nebraska
asking that railroads when the govern
ment has granted lands, be either COM
pelled to take out patents so that they may
be taxed, or that the lands shall revert to
the people.
Also, that the duty be removed from
oarbed wires.
Also, urging the improvement of the
Missouri river.
By Senator Slater from the chamber of
commerce of Astoria, Oregon, praying that
the lands granted the Oregon Central rail-
road by the act of May 4th 1870, be for,
feited and thrown open TO settlement.
The following bills were intoduced.
BY Senator Garland-A bill to release
the Memphis, Little Rock & Fort Scott
railroad from the conditions of the acts
of congress which uojustIy affect the cor
poration.
Also, to authorize the secretary of the
treasury to settle and adjust the accounts
between the United States and the same
company, on account Of custom duties on
iron imported by that company.
By Senator Cameron, Wis A bill to re-
store to market certain lands in Minnesota
and Wisconsin. and authorize their sale
subject to the rights Of fowage. (These
are the lands Withdrawn from sale in 1880
and 1881, with the idea that they might be
required for use in the construction and
maintenance Of dams, reservoirs, ETC.,
which were proposed to he erected in i'm
provement of the Mississippi river. They
are by this bill subject to private entry
and sale at $1.25 per aore).
By Senator Groome-A b.H which
provides for the construction of the
Maryland and Delaware free ship
defense and commercial purposes. The
canal is to connect the waters of the Ches-
apeake and Delaware bays, and to be one
hundred feet wide at the bottom and
twenty six feet below mean low water,
| vide at low water level, with locks six
hundred feet by sixty in the chamber, and
sufficiently deep to allow the passage of
vessels drawing twenty three feet. That
| the secretary of war be authorized to make
the necessary surveys and negotiate with
the owners of property along the course of
the canal and if satisfactory terms cannot
be reached, then to condemn the land.
for the purpose OF the bill.
The following Joint resolutions were
offered by Senator Batter to provide an
amendment to the fifteenth amendment of
She Constitution, by inserting the word
''nativity,'' SO as to make the article read:
'Bigb5 of citizers of the United states to
vote snail not be denied or abridged by
the United States Or any state On account
of the nativity, race, color, or previous con-
dition of servitude."
By Senator Lapham, proposing an
amendment to the constitution by giving
women the right of suffrage.
Also, proposing an amendment to the
constitution by giving the president the
right to veto separate items of the appro4
priation bill. while approving the remain
der. The items objected to, however, may
become law by the affirmative two-thirds
vote of each house.
| By Senator Morgan, proposing an
amendment to the constitution by which
the president has the power to dlsap-
prove of any item of the appropriation for
river and harbor, while approving of other
items.
By Senator Hill, who presented a resolu-
tion calling upon the secretary of the in
of papers on file IN the interior depart
ment relating to the transfer of the land
grant of the the New Orleans, Baton Rouge
& Vicksburg Railroad company to the
New Orleans & Pacific Railway company.
This is known as the Backbone railroad
grant"
The resolution was laid over and order
ed to be printed.
A rasolution xyas offarad hv Copator CoIJ
and was ordered to be referred 20 the com
mittee on foreign relations when appoint
ed, and requests the president to demand
from the Spanish government repayment
to the citizens of the United States money
paid by them on shipments of cattle from
the United States to Cuba.
A bill was introduced to-day by Senator
ingalls, to amend the homestead law,which
provides that section $50 Of the revised
statutes be amended TO read as follows:
Nothing in this chapter shall be SO con-
strued as to prevent any person who has
availed himself of the benefits of section
2.269 from paying minimum prices for
granting land SO entered, any time after
Two years from the date of entry and be-
fore the expiration of five years, and OBJ
tanning patent therefore as in other cases
on making due proof in compliance with
the Homestead laws up to the
time of making proof, that the
notice of intention to make final
proof under the homestead and pre-emp-
tion laws required by the act of March 3,
1879, shall not be given, nor shall the final
proof under seid laws be made until after
twelve months from the time when the en-
try or filing was recorded in the local land