Morris tribune., 1884-02-27
HOUSE AND SENATE.
Plans, Projects and Propositions OF
Our National Solons at Wash.
ington City,

| WASHINGTON CITY, Feb. 19.-In the senate,
the chair offered joint resolution of the
| Ohio legislature ON the exclusion Of Ameri-
can pork by foreign countries. Resolutions
by the Minneapolis board of trade and St
Paul chamber Of commerce, opposing the
| forfeiture of the Northern Pacific land grant,
were presented A favorable report was
made on the bill to erect public building
at Winona, and an adverse report
was handed in on the act for the irrigation Of
lands in the arid region of the United States.
Bills were introduced to admit Dakota as q
state and to provide for improving rivers and
harbors by contract Bills were passed to fix
the terms of federal courts in Texas, to
authorize the sale of timber on the Menomi-
nee reservation in Wisconsin, and to provide
for the removal of the Southern Utes to
| Utah.
In the house of representatives, bills were
introduced-to grant 800 acres of public land
to each survivor of the Mountain meadow
massacre; to make freight pools unlawful on
| roads aided by government bonds; to
appropriate $4,000 for additional sig-
nal stations, and to amend the
sinking fund act A resolution was offered
directing the secretary Of state to furnish in
formation as to the action of Bismarck on
the resolutions in regard to the death of Herr
Lasker. The house refuses to fix a day for
the consideration of the copyright bill, but
| agreed to take action ON the trade-dollar
question March II. Bills were passed to
relieve certain soldiers from the charge Of
desertion and to make the rate of postage
on second-claSs matter l cent for three
ounces, except to publishers. The bill to re-
fStore to the Mexican pension-rolls the names
of Confederate soldiers stricken off for dis
loyalty soon left the house without
quorum.
WASHINGTON CITY, Feb. 20.-In the senate
bill was reported providing that trespassers
on Indian lands may be imprisoned for one
year and fined $500. An adverse report was
made on a bill authorizing the payment Of
customs duties in legal-tender notes. The
bill to provide for the issue of circulation to
national banks was debated until the hour Of
adjournment.
In the house the deadlock was broken at
Sis q. m., when the Democrats mustered
quorum and passed resolution making the
21st inst. The house then adjourned until
Wednesday.
WASHINGTON CITY, Feb. 21-The senate
passed bill appropriating 100000 per
annum for arms and equipments for the
militia Plumb reported bill to raise. the
agricultural bureau to department with a
secretary. A resolution was passed directing
the secretary of the interior to report the
amount of lands patented to railroads in
Iowa. A bill was passed to fix the time for
holding federal courts in Iowa. Some pro-
gress was made on the bill to provide circu-
lation for national banks.
The house of representatives passed a reso-
luton calling on the postmaster general to
transmit certain unpublished reports by
special agents in the star-route investig cations.
A joint resolution was passed appropriating
$3.50, 900 to be expended for educating Indians.
A bill was reported to forfeit the Oregon
Central land grant, and resolution request
ing the president not to deliver Senor Carlos
Aguero to the Spanish authorities until an
investigation is made by the attorney
general
WASHINGTON CITY, Feb. 22,-The Senate
passed bill to provide for the punishment
of persons falsely personating officers and
employees of the United States. Bills were
introduced to authorize the erection of pub
lie building at Detroit, and to improve the
navigation of the Mississippi river by
strengthening the Sny levee An adjourn
ment to Monday was taken.
The house passed the military academy and
post-route bills. A message was received
from the president announcing that the
British government had contributed the
steamship Alert for the GreelysIelief expedi-
tion. 1t was resolved that the committee on
foreign affairs prepare formal recognition
of the generosity of Great Britain in present
ing the vessel. The house adjourned over
Washington's birthday.
WASHINGTON CITY, Feb. 23-The ways
| and means committee has practically agreed
| to report favorably a bill extending for two
years the bonded period for whisky.