Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-04-03
CONGRESSIONAL.

In the Senate on March 21st the bill in
creasing the salaries of United States District
Court Judges to 5000 year was considered,
and MOrgans amendment, making 1t apply
only to those appointed hereafter was re-
jected.
amount $4,000. Without action the matter
went oyer.
Among the bills introduced were The fol-
lowing: Permitting the establishment of a
horse-railroad on the island of Rock Island;
For the admission of the State of Tacoma;
Granting pension of $50 per month to the
widow of Gen. Ord; Providing for an in
Yestigation of the issue of fraudulent war
rants and to protectsoldiers and sailors from
loss thereon.
The deficiency appropriation bill was
passed with the amendments reported by
the Committee.
The bill in aid ofSouthernschoolsw was con-
sidered, and Sherman offered an amendment
providing that the money shall be distribu-
ted without distinction as to race or colo,
and prOportionately Adjourned to Monday.
In the House, on March 22d, resolution
was adopted declaring that the charges
against Representative Ellis in connection
with the Star Route cases are untrue.
E. H. Funston, of Kansas, was sworn in
as Representative from the. Second District,
to succeed the late D. @. Haskell.
In Committee of the Whole, most of the
day was spent in discussion of the bill for
the retirement of VIM. w. AveriIl, with the
rank and pay of Colonel, which was favor
ably reported and passed.
The Committee on Commerce will recon-
mend the passage of the bill giving the Pres
ident power to use retalitOTy measures to-
nd hi
American meats, and that he be not limited
to any production.
The House Committee on Military Affairs
has adopted resolution asking the Secreta-
ry of War for all the information he has re-
garding the investigation into the removal
of Payne from the Oklahoma lands.
In the House on March 22d, among bills
reported were: To establish an assay Office
at Deadwood; adversely to limit the life
time Of patent to five years.
In Committee of the Whole the bonded
extension bill was debated at length and
the Committee rose without action.
A resolution was adopted asking for in
formation as to whether the terms of the
leases of the Yellowstone Park had been
strictly complied with.
The Pension appropriation bill, which
appropriates 500 684 400 has been reported
to the Committee of the Whole House. The
bill prohibits attorneys fees of greater
amount than ten dollars for any service in
securing a pension. After July 1st, 1884,
agents shall receive only five dollars for the
payment of each one hundred vouchers,
and after that date the number of agents for
the payment of pensions shall be reduced
to twelve.
In the Senate on March oath, Senator
Sherman presided in the absence of the
Vice President, being the first to serve I'M
der the new rule.
On Harrison's motion, the bill admitting
Dakota into the Union as State was made
the special order for April Sd.
The bill to increase the salary of United
States District Court Judges was taken up,
and motion made to make it a penal Of
Tense for Judge to appoint a relative to
office in his court. HOar moved an amend
ment to exclude from appointments all rel
etives with the degree of first cousin. Pend
ing action, the bill went over, and the edu-
cation bill was token up and discussed bv
Vance and Ingalls, after which the Senate
adjourned.
Among the combinations were: F.
CharlesWorth, BelOit, consul at Funchal,
Brewster Cameron OF Beloit, Receiver of
Public Moneys at Tucson, Case Broderick of
Holton, Associate Justice Of the Supreme
Court of Idaho.
In the House on March oath Ellis intro
duced joint resolution for the appropria-
ton of $500, 600 to be used in preventing the
overflow of the Mississippi river from de-
stroying New Orleans. The resolution was
rejected but re-introduced and referred to
the Committee on Appropriations.
The Conference Committee on the resolu-
ton increasing the contingent fund of the
Senate reported the House receding from
its amendment which confined the apprO-
priation to Investigations already ordered
and the report was agreed to.
Among the bills introduced were th7 fol-
| lowing; By Herbert providing that Reg
| listers of the Land office shall not be al
lowed fees for correcting their own errors ;
| by Perkins, granting right of way through
| the Indian Territory to the Southern Kan
sas railroad; by Morrill,, providing a uni
/ form grade of rating for invalid pensions,
and abohshing all distinction on account OF
rank in pensions hereafter granted; by
Mooney, to secure cheaper correspond den &c
| by telegraph; by Hardy, to prevent fraud
ulent use of empty cigar boxes, also making
/ hOnOrably discharged soldiers eligible to
| certain government appointments without
passing civil service examinations by Gull
/ berSOn, of Texas, for the repeal of the re-
striction on the coinage of silver dollars /;
| by Van Eaton, a resolution calling on the
Secretary of the Treasury for information
in regard to any contract entered into by
the government in which the Territory OF
Alaska and the industries Connec,e there
with are concerned.
MONEYS telegraph bill provides for a
contract with the postal telegraph company
to do business east of the Mississippi and
Missouri rivers and south of Omaha and
Minneapolis within FIVE years, and to extend
it to the Pacific coast in seven years. Rates
are to be twenty-five cents for twenty words
and sixteen cents for each additional ten
words and fifteen cents for night service
When the Pacific division is established the
rate to be fifty cents for twenty words from