Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-07-03

of order being raised that the part rec
commended for Insertion was new legls-
lation, and therefore obnoxious to the
rule forbidding such legislation in APP
bills, the chair sustained
the point of order and the new clause
was not adopted. The
recommendation to strike
out the house clause was, however,
agreed to.
The house bill passed extending to
water transportation routes the provis-
ions of the statutes hitherto applied to
land routes only, regarding the immed-
late transportation of dutiable goods.
Mr.. Mcmillan, from the committee
on commerce, reported the river and
harbor bill, with request that it be
printed and recommitted to the commit
tee. Agreed to.
The senate then took up the bill to
forfeit the unearned land grant of the
Atlantic and Pacific r. r. Company,
and the senate west into executive ses-
sion, and soon adjourned.
House-The Senate bill passed author
izing the construction of a bridge across
the Missouri River at White Cloud, Kan.
Mr.. Bingham, from the Committee en-
Postoffice and Postroads reported a bill
fixing at cents per ounce, or fraction
thereof, the rate of postage on mail mat
ter of first class. Placed on the House
calendar. Dir. Stockslager, from the
Committee on Pensions. reported a bill
granting pensions to the surviving Of
ficers apd men Of the Tippecanoe cam
paign. Referred to the committee Of
the whole Mr.. Garrison asked unani-
nous consent to take up the bill for the
completion of the Eonument TO Mary,
the mother of Washington, but Mr.
Weller objected Mr. Henley, from
the Committee on Public Lands, report
ed a bill providing for the disposal Of
the Cherokee reservation IN Arkansas.
Placed on the calendar. Mr.. Brown, of
Indiana, endeavored to have the House
proceed to the consideration of the
Mexican pension BILL with the Senate
amendments. but the House determined,
by yeas 1856 nay9 So, to consider TIE I'M
finished business, being the bill to for
felt the land grant of the Backbone"
Railroad in Louisiana. The vote on the
passage of the bill resulted yeas, n;
nays, 12l. Before the announcement
of the vote Mr.. Lewis, who had voted
affirmatively, changed his vote to the
negative and moved a reconsideration.
Mr.. Ellis moved to table that motion,
and pending this Mr. Lewis moved to
adjourn. Lewis and White, of Ken
lucky, resorted to flibustering tactics
and finally secured adjournment.
THOUGH nautical annals abound in
marvellous fish stories, the account
published of an immense school OF
whales encountered in the Ctul.
Stream, near Cape Hatteras, by the
schooner Millen, seems entirely cred
ible. AS the captain of the vessel sur
misses, these monsters, numbering sew
eral hundred were probably sperm
whales, which luxuriate in equatorial
waters, but occasionally penetrate
polar seas. A few of this species
were met with by Sir James Ross
among the Antarctic icebergs in 65
deg. 20 min. south latitude. and with
in the seventy southern parallel
but IN the intratropical oceans, espe-
cially the Pacific, they have often
been reliably reported as moving IN
great nerds Of five or SIX hundred.
Though the geographical range OF
! those graceful bat dangerous monsters
is from 70 degrees south to at least sc
| degrees north, their partlallty for the
equiv octial seas IS 50 decided that a
migration of such a troop as were met
| by the Miilen last week north of Cape
Hatteras suggests the possibility OF
some unusual nOrthward movement OF
| the waters in which they delight.
There is some foundation for this Sug.
gestion in the fact that during June
tho equatorial current, as Captain
| Toynbee has shown, SIS generally
strong its rate being given "as six
| ty-three miles (per diem) north OF
Trinidad while the velocity of the
Gulf Stream up to Hatteras is about
eight or ten miles a day greater thar
during May. The Atlantic surface
temperature observations also show
| that during the last half of June the
ocean becomes very congenial to the
sperm whale dts temperature rising
to eighty degrees almost as far nortl
as the spot at which the MIllen passed
the big school. Il have offer
thought writes an old whaleman
that currents had much to do witt
/ the movements of sperm whales, anC
as they are almost always found head
ing it where it is strong, ! have
thought it was to meet the bait brough
down by the current No doubt thei
| object in perambulating the ocean il
to lind their choice f0od-cuttle fist
or squjd Can any naturalist explain
why on this account the school met by
the Millen should have been so neal
! Hatteras2
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