The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-04
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gagged IN domestic commerce. The senate hi
authorizing the construction of bridges acrns.
a a1e river At 81 Paul. Several amendments were
auoPted which necessitate the return of tho bill
70 the senate. Forfeiting the unearned land
grant to tho Sioux City g. St Paul railroad
MT. COOK, committee on elections. reno,-ted
resolution declaring J. r.. Chalmers elected
70 % congress from the Second Mississippi dis.
eiatlon of the Campbell-M orey contested cleo.
zen case. The majority resolution seating
oamppell was agreed to-, and that gentleman
appeared at the bar of the house and tool, tbo
oath of Office. ~ 'ooA 'n'
In the senate the bill to amend the Thurman
or Pacific railroad act was referred to the
c9mmlttee on Judiciary, after a debate in
road companies, particularly the Union Pacific.
The army appropriation bill passed, and the
conference report on the shipping bill was
adopted. -
The house refused to consider the public
building, internal revenue or land law amend
ment bills, and took up the electoral count
bills, which were debated at length. A con-
ference report on the shipping bill was pre-
sented and agreed to without a division. The
sundry civil bill was reported.
In the senate on Monday, the Esd, the pend
ms. question was on the amendment of Ingalls,,
dating tho pensions of Union soldiers from the
date of discharge or disability, and extending
to October l, 1854, the limitation of time to file
applications for arrears. Mr.. sherman very
much regretted to be obliged to oppose any
proposition favored by Union soldiers, but lie
knew the soldiers themselves were divided
about this proposition. His heart and his
feelings were all with the soldiers. He appre-
GATED the value of their services to the COM
try for generations yetunborn. The proposition
however, affected the interests of all the people
of the United States. not ouiy soldiers, but
citizens. The committee on pensions had not
recommended it The house Of representatives
mad not recommended it 1t was basedon the
MOTION OF u single senator. The commissioner
OF pensions had estimated that this proposition
would involve the payment of $2246.0Oo,GW
He asked senators whether this was a time TO
SO greatly enlarge the demands upon the trea-
sury. When the act of 1879 was bassedit was
a Tune oil great plenty, after specie payment
had been resumed, and when the surplus in the
treasury was fast accommodating, and the trca-
su-y oyertiowing. That time was not this time.
Our revenues were now rapidly falling off.
sherman put himself on the broad ground
that The doldier has for twenty years waived
his right to a pension, either because he did
not desire it or was too proud to claim it, had
no legal or even moral or equitable right now
to enbarass his governments He believed the
adoption of this amendment would be an en-
barrassing thing for the people of the United
States. 1t would break down restrictions on
ali sorts of claims. The amend ment was adj
yocated by Congor and ingalls,, bu was rejected
- to ~. Aldrich OF R: l., Edmunds of Vt,
Aa"hiSy VI SoALl, uicIIll Ol VI, SeWel OF N, d.,
Sherman of o., and Rlddleburger of Va, vot-
ing with democrats.
On Monday the house considered and passed
the sundry civil appropriations bill,
Which ordinarily occupies two or three days.
The bill, which is often filled with Jobs. is
apparently free from any schemes to rob the
government, and contains no features likely
10 provoke discussion. Only one Important
amendment was adopted. and that was in the
nature of a section making appropriations
for. tho I1nifal Sfo taS ", ,r VIC : r xra.-l -
Mr.; Springer, and very carefully drawn. Tho
bill provides for the usual fees and balances to
United States marshals and other persons con-
nected with the United States courts. The sub
sttllte abolishes the fees system, so far as it
applies to United States marshals, and paws
them fixed salaries. Under the bill as amend-
cd
The United States marshals shall receive an
nually for their services the following salaries,
payable monthly: Southern district of New
York, $1,000; Northern New York, Massachu
sette.s, II nsylvania, District OF Columbia,
Southern Ohio and California IS, GOO each:
Maryland, Eastern Missouri kentucky, North,
ern ONO, Northern and Southern Illinois East
er 7 Louisiana, Kansas and Eastern Texas, s4,-
600 each; New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode
Island, Delaware, Nevada, Southern Florida,
Connecticut, Northern Mississippi, 81, 600 each,
and all other marshals shall be paid a salary
of $1,000 a year.
In the appropriation bill that passed the
House on Monday Mr.. Randall then offered an
amendment directing the secretary of war to
sell at public auction the following arsenals.
Allegheny, arsenal, Pa, Augusta arsenal, Ga.
indianapolis arsenal, Ind. Kennebec arsenal,
Name, and Watertown arsenal, Mass. Adopt
ed. Also, granting a months extra pay to
house employees. Adopted. Also, to strike out
the provision that no speech shall be printed in
the Record which has not been delivered upon
the floor of congress. Adopted-l62 to II.
The Senate has passed the house bill to au-
thonze the president to appoint two additional
justices OF the supreme court Of Dakota and
one additional justice of the supreme court of
the Territory of Washington. with the Cullom
bill pensioning invalid three months volunteers
IN the war of the rebellion, with their widows
and dependent parents, as an amendment.
The house on Tuesday passed the bill to re-
peal the pre-emption and timber culture laws
and to amend the homestead law. With refer
that:
under existing laws, who before the law have
IN good faith filed their claims, or, who having
the legal right to pre-empt, have located on any
Of the surveyed public lands with the intention
OF entering the sam when surveyed shall have
the right to complete their entries and receive
a patent as though the repeal had not passed.
1t also provides that the repeal of the timber
culture law shall not prejudice the rights of
those who have IN good taith made entries
under the law and complied with the require
HSit' III scCOuu, lLl1rQ ana 1OUfGN
sections of the bill provide for amendments
10 the homestead law. The first
amendment applies to cases
where a person has entered upon land in good
1aith, intending to homestead and perfect his
title thereto, but is prevented from doing so by
a grant previously made by the government, or
by the shifting of the channel or bed of any
river whereby his lands may be lost, or from
any cause over which he has no control, with
out fault on his part, he may, by making salts
ncfprv N1nnf of tho FAINT o~t, 49, l-a
stead upon any of the public lands of the United
States subject to homestead. The third section
provides that every homesteader shall make
final proof by two credible witnesses that he
resided upon, cultivated and permanently I'M
proved his or her homestead for four consec-
utlye years next succeeding such entry. The
proof is to be made in duplicate, and one set is
required to be filed in the local land office and
one in tho general land Office for one year, and
II no contest IS filed or notice given charging
and specifying fraud in the entry or proof be-
fore the expiration of that time, then the patent
shall issue.
This, it will be seen, gives the time between
the filing of the proof and the issuing of The
patent to detect fraud. it any on the part of
applicant The law as it now stands only re-
CURES notice to be published in newspaper of
intention to make this proof. Section 4 Of the
substitute amends section 2,30l, to require
thirty calendar months to expire after the
party files his presumption claim before he is
entitled to his patent. It also requires the
proof of settlement and cultivation to be filed
At least SIX months. This amendment, it is be-
lieved will tend largely 10 prevent fraud:
The house on Tuesday, after a protracted dis /.
%cnssion, passed the Eaton substitute for tho
senate bill fixing the day for the meeting of the
electors Of president and vice president, and to,
provide for and regulate the counting of The
votes for president and vice president and the
decision Of questions arising thereon. The
senate bill provided that the electors of each
state shall meet and give their votes on the
second Monday in January next following their
appointment, at such place In each state as the
legislature thereof shall direct. The house
bill fixes the second Monday in December. It
ls not expected that it will pass the Senate.
On Tuesday the senate concluded its consid-
Grafton of the Mexican pension bill, and it
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