The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-05-23
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

Yankton Indians for the cessinn of PORTIONS or !
Ftheir reservations to the United States. The
house committee on Indian affairs have inform
,lly agreed to the Sioux reservation bill. The
amendments to the senate bill are moi
material. and will be no obstruction to
it's passage. The friends of the measure say
they are willing to accept the amendments, and
ARC confident TIE bill viii go through the house
and become a law this session. The bill will
be considered in the house on the 3lst, when
bills from the Indian affairs committee vii be
the special order. III
Senator Vest, on Wednesday, the 14th, de-
sired tomake a personal explanation 4 state
ment has gone to the press he said, that the
vote upon the bill to place Gen. Grant upon
the retired list had been unanimous. He.
however had voted against the bill. He had
not called for the ayes aud noes, nor made
my factious opposition, because twoy years
ago. when a similar bill was before the senate,
he had spoken and voted against the bill, and
given reasons for his opposition. He had no
| personal opposition to Gen. Grant, but was OPP
posed TO the principal of the bill.
The pension appropriation bill, as reported
to the senate, reduces the amount of unexpend-
cd balance of the appropriation for the current
fiscal year, to be reapproDriated, from SS4, OOO,-
600 to $66, 600, 600, strikes out the provision
fixing compensation to pension agents at $40 per
100 vouchers paid in excess of 1000, and re-
ducing the number of pension agents to twelve,
and the section providing that the fee OF pen
i sion ATTORNEYS III all pension arrears, pension
or bounty land claims shall be SIC, except in
cases where a special written contract is tiled
with the commissioner of pensions, when the
fee may amount to not more than So.
The senate has confirmed the following nom-
nations: Peter W. Stollberg, receiver Of pub
lie moneys, Taylor's Falls, Mimi. JOIN II.
Bowman, Gunnison, Colo, agent for Indians of
the Navajo agency, New Mexico; William a.
Pirie, Rhode Island, Indian Inspector; T.aMeF.
Patton, Salem, Ore, consul of the United
States at Osaka and Hiogo; Rudolph w. Wolff
sohn, Buffalo, n. Y, consul of the United States
at Mannheim.
In the senate on Thursday a resolution was
offered directing the finance committee TO in
v~estigate and learn whether the late New York
! bank failures were due to violations of the ma
tional banking laws. A bill was introduced to
prevent officials of national banking associa-
lions from specializing. The bill to loan ST.
000,OO in aid of the New Orleans exposition
passed with some amendments. Adjourned
till Monday.
The House on Tuesday, had an animated
debate on the diplomatic and consular appopu-
lation bill and all amendments proposing to
increase on maintain salaries reduced by the
bill were voted down. The senate amendments
to the New Orleans exposition bill were con-
Cured in.
Following is the text of the bill introduced
by Senator Cullom, to prohibit speculation by
officers of national banking associations:
Be it enacted, etc, That 1t shall be unlawful
for the president, cashier, teller, or other chief
executive officer of any national banking asso-
~ciatien, having a capital stock amounting to
100000 or more, to deal, trade or otherwise
engage in speculation in stocks, bonds or other
securities, or in grain, provisions, produce or
oil, on margins on his own individual account
or for his own personal profit, either directly
or Indirectly, or to have any partnership on
other financial interest in the operations of any
private banking of brokerage firm, or business.
4 pxr a,,rb nAi oar xubo violafnS fha aNrayiGinpg nf
this act, or any person who aids or abets such
officer in violation the provisions of this act,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdameanor, and
shall be imprisoned, not less than one year, OF
more than five years, or fined more than
$4,000
A report has been submitted to accompany
the bill reported from the house committee on
public lands, providing for the repeal of the
pre-emption and timber culture laws anC
amendment of the homestead law. The com.
mittee say:
We believe it should be the policy of the gov
eminent 10 give those of our citizens who are
without homes such amount of the public do
main as will make them comfortable home.
4 steads, where they enter upon il IN good faith,
intending to make it their homes and cultivate
and live upon it for a fixed period OF time, anC
we believe 160 acres should be tie maximum
Under the presumption, homestead and timber
culture laws as they now stand, one person MAJ
become the owner of4S0 acres of the public do
main-160 acres under each. This is to large
an amount of land, in our opinion, for any ont
person TO acquired in this manner. We think the
policy of the government should be to furnish al
many 81 It's citizens with comfortable homes al
long in the future as possible, and 100 acres
is sufficient for this purpose. By giving them
this amount, il will not be many years until all
our public domain will be taken up. The pre-
3mptson law was Passedin ls4l the homestead
law in 1862 and the timber culture act in 1873.
When the homestead law was enacted, the pre-
emption law should have been repealed. The
timber culture law should never have been
passed We have, therefore, in a substitute,
provided for the repeal of the prescription and
timber culture acts and amendment of the
Bills were introduced in the senate on Mon
day for the forfeiture of q portion Of the North
ern Pacific land grant in Washington Territor,
and Oregon, and Of the Atlantic 4 Pacific rail-
Il road land grant. Al bill to divide the Eight
judicial circuit and place Minnesota, Iowa an,
Missouri IN the Ninth circuit, was reported fav
orably. A bill was introduced providing
tenth judicial circuit to consist Of California
Oregon and Nevada. After a long discussion
on the late failures In New York, the res
olntion offered Friday, directing the financ
committee to investigate national banks in Ne,
York, to- learn whether the failures were dn
to violations or ~evasions of law, was referee
TO the committee in question The bill b
create a bureau of labor statistics was consid
cred
The house refused to fix a day for the con
alteration of the bankruptcy bill. The meas
ure being so far along on the calendar. ii vii
be impossible % reach it in the regular orde,
90 That the vote may be regarded as q practice
defeat OF the bill for this session and probabl,
for this congress. This vote IL a fair test OF III
sense or the house on the question Of the pas
sage of Q bankruptcy bill. 1t shows that q ma
ljority is against IL A member voted to fix
day who would have voted against the bill. ant
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