The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-12-15
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES.


morning simply fixed up the committees,
and adjourned TO Thursday to consider the
subject of electing officers. Arson b. Me
Cook, of New York, and Mr.. Mcpherson,
Clerk of the last House, are candidates for
Secretary, the former especially having
quite a number of warm advocates. Cana
dy, of North Carolina, is gaining ground
on Colonel Geo. w. Hooker, under the lead
ership of Sherman, Logan and Conger.
In the construction of the committees,
Miller, of California, takes WINDOWS place
as Chairman of Foreign Affairs, displacing
Edmunds, who was next in order for the
position, but he preferred to retain the Ju.
dietary. The only new Senator on this
committee is Wilson, of Iowa. The only
change in the Committee on Finance was tc
add Miller, of New York, Mr.. Morrill, re.
naming Chairman. The Committee on
Appropriation remains the same. Mr.. ALI.
son at its head, with the addition OF Call, of
florida, in place of Davis, of West Nir-
ginia. Several of the new Senators have
places on the Committee on Manufactures,
Riddleberger, of Virginia, being Chairman.
SabIH, Dolph and Colquitt being among his
colleagues. Miller, of New York, supplants
Maho,e as Chairman of the Committee on
Agriculture. the only change i'll the Com
mIttee on Military Affairs, of which Logan
Grover, Cameron, of Pennsylvania, was
left at the head of the Committee on Naval
Affairs with Anthony second. Mr.. Hale,
the third on the Committee, will be de facto.
Chairman Hill, of Colorado, takes the head
of the Post-oftice and Post Roads Com
mittee, Senator Ferry's old place. To
this committee Palmer and Wilson, the
new Senators from Michigan and Iowa. are
added. Plumb continues at the head of the
Committee on Public Lands, Henderson, of
Nebraska. iS nlarp1 the Commit
Private Land Claims, Territories and
Transportation Routes to the Seaboard.
Dawes keeps Indian Affairs, and Mitchell
gets Pensions, on which are Cullom and
Sabin. Mcmillan is on Revolutionary
Claims, and is Chairman of the Committee
on Commerce, Cameron, of Wisconsin, is
Chairman of the Committee on Claims, and
ingalls, is Chairman of the Committee on
| the District of Columbia, with Palmer and
Riddleberger among his colleagues. Platt
| has Patents and Harrison Territories. Saw
| yer is Chairman of the Committee on Rail
roads, on which are Cullom and Sabin.
| Wilson is Chairman of the Committee on
| Mines and Mining, and Conger on the Re-
| vision of the Laws. Blair keeps Education
and Labor, and Hawley Civil Service and
| Retrenchment Van Wyck is Chairman of
| the Committee on the Improvement of the
| Mississippi River, and Aldrich succeeds
| Harrison NJ the head of Transportation
| Routes to the Seaboard Cullom is Chair
| man of the committee to examine several
! branches Of the civil service. The Demo-
| Gratis are given the Chairmanships of the
| Committees on Private Land Claims, Rev
dictionary Claims, Engrossed Bills, Epi-
demic Diseases, Claims Against Nicaragua,
| Potomac Flats and Library. Malone has
the Craftsmanship of Public Buildings and
Grounds, very important place. OF the
new Republican Senators, Sabin, Palmer,
Henderson, Bowen and Pike were not given
| chairmanshipS.
The Democratic caucus made the follow
ing assignments: Private Land Claims,
! Bayard: Engrossed Bills, salisbury; Epi-
demic Diseases, Harris; Revolutionary
Claims, Jones of Florida; Nicaragua
! Claims, Maxey; Library, Voorhees,. Jonas
replaces Barrow on Elections. Vance and
Brown succeed Johnston and Call on For
| gein Affairs. Call replaces Davis of West
| Virginia on finance.
! The bill of Mr.. Washburne, of Minnesota,
to be introduced in the House tomorrow, is
| important to would"be settlers on public
! land, and will no doubt receive great deal
of attention in Congress, the text of it is as
follows:
SECTION !. That the presumption laws,
| together with all laws authorizing the filing
of declaratory statements for entering pub
lie lands by agent or attorney, be, and the
same are hereby, repealed; provided, how
ever, that this repeal shall not affect the
| disposal of the lands under treaty stipuls
ton with Indian tribes, nor he deemed 10
| impair any legal rights hereto. ore acquired
| uIltltI laws uSISDy lOpCdiCu, buI an tAiSk-
ing settlements, entries or filings may he
perfected upon proper proof of lawful and
| bona tide character of said claims, and OF
| due compliance with the provisions and
requirements of the laws under which such
settlement or filings were made; provided,
further, that any person VINO has not here
totore had the benefit of the presumption
laws, and who failed from any cause to
perfect ii lie to a tract of land heretofore
entered by him under the homestead laws,
! mn IA n fan ltlsU in
lieu of prescription privilege hereby re-
pealed.
SEC. .. That no person who has made or
hereafter shall make a homestead entry OF
public lands shall be entitled to avail him
self of the provisions of section 2,30l of the
Revised Statutes of the United States until
he shall have resided upon, cultivated and
made actual Improvement on the land en-
braced in such entry for the full period OF
thirty months, and IL shall be the duty OF
the General Land Office to require evidence
of actual compliance with the requirements
of the law i'll respect TO settlement, resi-
dence, improvement and cultivation in all
cases in which title now is or may hereaf-
ter be claimed under homestead or other
settlement or improvement laws of the
United States.
Sec. 3. That any person applying for the
benefits of timber-culture laws shall make
his entry in person at the proper local land
office, and shall make afiidavit that he is an
actual esident of the State or Territory in
which the land is situated, and that he has
entered into no contract or agreement to
relinquish the entry he may make, and that
he has no present or prospective purpose
to make such REIMBURSEMENT; and the of
fering for sale a matter OF I attic, specu-
lation or REIMBURSEMENT of public land en-
tries shall be deemed prima iacle evidence
that such entries were made for specula-
tive purposes and not in good faith as re-
quired by law, aud such entries shall there
upon be repealed and cancelled by the
Commissioner of the General Land Office,
and the land covered thereby shall be
deemed subject to entry by the first legal