Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-02-21

to provide for holding terms of court in the
proposed southern district at TT. Scott and
Wichita.
The House Committee on Commerce has
voted on several propositions looking
toward the regulation of interstate Com
merce, and by a vote of nine to six, de-
clared that there ought to be remedial leg
islation of some kind. Upon the PROPOSE
ton to extend such legislation to water
ways, the vote was yeas 2; nays 1s-
In the Senate on Feb. 18th PendIeton in
troduced bill granting condemned cannon
to be used in the construction Of q statue to
the memory of Gen. VIM. 81. Lyttle, of
Ohio. The Senate then took up the special
order of the day, Senator McPherson's bill,
reported from the Committee on Finance.
It provides for the issuance of circulating
notes to the National Banking Associations.
Senator Sherman offered an amendment
providing if any bonds deposited should
bear a rate of annual interest higher than
three per cent, additional circulating notes
should be issued to equal in amount one
halt of the interest accruing on such bonds
before maturity in excess of three per cent.
per annum, such amount to be ascertalned
and stated by the Comptroller of the Cur
rency on the 1st of July. Pending action
the Senate adjourned.
The report of the Proteus inquiry has
been made to the Senate. Lieut.. Darlington
receives mostly praise for his course and
Gen. Hazen is lightly censured.
In the House, on Feb. 18th, VOORHEES, Of
fered a resolution which went over until to-
morrow, directing the Secretary of the In
terror to withhold for the present. his ap-
proval of the patents or certificates for the
lands selected by the Northern Pacific Rail
WaV in lieu of others said to have been lost
by said company under the act OF July 1864:
The House then took up the Mississippi
contested election case of Chalmers VS.
Manning, and after debate, the matter Went
over Mr.. Harmer presented petitions IN
favor of pensiOning Union soldiers VINO
suffered in Andersonville, Libby, Belle Isle,
or other Confederate prisons. The Speak
er laid before the House letter from the
Secretary of the Navy, transmitting the
amounts claimed by the contractors for
the care of double-turreted monitors. They
aggregate $278, 645. Adiofrned.
Commissioner of the General Land Office
Mcfarland has sent to the House, IN reply
to a request. the information that the lands
included in the list of 189. 1884 acres certified
to Kansas for the Atchison, Topeka q Santa
Fe. R. r. Co. on October 6, 1888, are within
ten miles of the line of the railway. They
were granted to the State, the right of
which thereto became complete when the
Governor certified to the completion of the
road beside the same. They were tree from
conflicting claims and passed to the State
by the terms OF the grant itself; no APPROX
al or certificatiOn was needed to vest IN the
State, the right of which approval or certi-
fication is but evidence. The office has new
er considered the failure of the Leaven-
worth, Lawrence & Ft. Gibson Railway
Company to complete it's road, as authOriz-
ing it to withhold from the Atchison, To
peka, & Santa Fe Company the land earned
by said company through the construction
of its railroads.
In the Senate. on Feb. 14th the bill max
ing public roads and highways pOst-roads,
was slightly amended, and passed. Nc
Pherson's bill relative to national bank cir
culatiOn was discussed and Morrill, offered
an amendment providing for the issue OF
notes in amount equal to ITO per cent. OF
the par value of bonds deposited as secun-
ty prior to Jan. 1st, 1890, and decreasing IN
amount one per cent. each year thereafter
so that when the bonds are redeemed the
notes will equal their par value. Vest Of
fered an amendment providing for the Is
sue of treasury notes, eXchangeable for u
S. bonds subject to redemption, which shall
be redeemable in silver or gold. Morgan
offered an amendment providing that when
q. S. bonds deposited to secure circulation
are called and paid by the Government
State bonds may be SUBSTITUTED for U. >
bonds. Pending action, the Senate ad
iorned.
Among the bills introduced were: By Lo
gan. providing that persons honorably dis
Charged from the military or naval service
OF the United States shall be preferred fol
appointments to civil offices, provided they
possess the necessary business capacity; BY
Beck, to provide for the organization of Su
preme Courts in Territories.
In the House on February 14th, the Chal
mers-M Manning contest case was considered
but no ACTON taken.