Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-06

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the allotment in severalty of the Umatilla /
Reservation lands in Oregon to the Indians, 1
was reported.
Among bills introduced were: By Maxey, |
to improve the channel between Galveston |
and the Gulf of Mexico, providing for a |
system of Eads' jetties, to cost 81, $50 600; /
by Blair, extending the time for the COM
DIetion of railroads west of the Mississippi
liver where the roads are prosecuting the !
work. without forfeiture of land grants !
by I.aDham, TO incorporate and aid the
building of the Yellowstone Park Railroad.
Van Wick offered a resolution providing
for an immediate investigation of whether
The Western Union and Baltimore & Ohio
telegraph companies had attempted to con-
solidate. It was referred, though an effort
was made to have it voted upon at once.
A resolution was agreed to asking whether
any part ofthe Crow reservation in Montana
has been leased.
The Senate then resumed consideration of
the bill to provide new cruisers for the navy
and debate ensued in which john Roach,
the ship builder, and the Navy Department
were criticized by the Democrats.
The bill repeating the test oath has pass
ed the Senate with an amendment .prOvid-
ing that no person who held a comEA43ssion
in the United States army or navy before
military, naval or civil service under the so
called Confederate States, shall be appointed
to any position In the army or navy of the
United States.
In the House on February 9th, a resolu-
ton was reported bv the Committee on Ways
and Means, directing the Secretary of the
Treasury to inform the House how much
money there is in the Treasury, ETC., and
how much can be applied at this time to the
payment of the public debt.
LeFevre introduced resolution directing
the Committee on the Judiciary to prepare
| bill to prohibit gambling in the produce
Market also, bill authorizing such gov
ornamental interference as will give stability
to the prices OF such commodities
The bill to prohibit the use of the mails
for advertising noxious medicines, food and
compounds was reported adversely.
The House then went into Committee of
| the Whole on the pleuro-pneumOnia bill.
| A motion to amend so as to prohibit the
| transportation of cattle from quarantined
State into any other State, Territory or for
| eign country was agreed to. Also that no
State shall be declared in quarantine if the
/ Governor of the same shall notify the Pres
| ident that he is satisfied from a thorough
| investigation that no disease dangerous to
the animal industry Of the Nation exists
| therein. Also an amendment combining
the operations of the bill to the disease of
pleurO-pnenmonia, only. The Committee
at length arose and reported the bill to the
| House, when it was moved to strike out the
section authorizing the President to Quaran-
tine States in which Contagious diseases ex-
list, etc, and pending action, the House ad-
journed.
The Postoffice appropriation bill as re-
ported by the subcommittee appropriates
| $45, OH, 400; estimated revenues for the next
fiscal year, $47, 104, 900 amount asked for
by the department, $5OO62, 189: appropria-
ton for the current fiscal year, $44, 489, $40
Gen. Longstreet testified before Springer's
committee that he was not defaulter to the
Government but that a proper footing Of
his accounts as Marshal of Georgia would
show the Government indebted to him 81 4,
200.
Anderson was present at the meeting o.
the Committee on Public Lands and cas-
the deciding vote, FORGETTING the land grants
to the Backbone roads.
The Committee on Railways and Canals
ordered favorable reports appropriatine
81 600, 600 for the construction of the Mary
land and Delaware ship canal 1,0O0,0Ot
annually for ten years for the Erie canal
and the bill for an appropriation for the
construction of canal from Union Lake
Washington Territory, to Puget Sound.
the bill to repay the Citizens NatiOna
Bank of New Orleans $3.50, 600 taken by Gen
Butler.
in the O'Ferral-Paul contest case from the
Seventh District of Virginia that the for
mer was entitled to his seat.
The House Committee on Indian Affair
has agreed to report favorabiy Mr.. Morrill,
t bill for the sale, with the consent OF the
} KickapOO Indians, of their diminished res
ervatiOn in Kansas and the removal of the
tribe to the Indian Territory, The presen
reservation contains 10000 acres, and 1t Il
proposed to allot lands in severalty to such
Indians as choose to remain, the remainde
of the reservation to be sold to settlers at no
less than So per acre and the proceeds to b.
used tor the benefit of the tribe.
In the Senate on Feb. 28th, Ingalls, intro
duced bill to remove the INDUCTION of Sc
} cresy from the court martial that tried Gen
; FitZ John Porter, in order that a membe
of it may give the details to the public anC
testify to them in case he is called upon tt
do so.
The consideration of the bill to authoriz
the construction of steel vessels was re
sumed and an amendment was adopted, pro
? viding that the cruisers shall be built sub
8 ject to the Naval Appropriation acts of 1873.
and 1888. Pending motion to have tn
CONSTRUCTION OF GilS vessels appOrGIOn0t
among the different Navy yards, the Senat
z adjourned.
D In the House on Feb. 2Sth Deuster pre-
|, scented the resolutions passed by the Union
J, League of Germany, expressing its appre
: citation of the resolutions passed by Con
r gress on the death of DR.. Edouard Laske1
and said the League represented German
f sentiment, and Bismarck reflected his owl
S ideas.
The House resumed consideration of tn
pleuro-pneumOnia bill and the fourth sec
: tlon was striker out and the bill passed
: I55 to 127. The bill as passed provides tina
the Commissioner of Agriculture shall OF
. ganize a Bureau of Animal Industry t
: | report upon the number, value and condi
= | ton of the domestic animals of the Unite
:, States, and also upon the causes ofcontagioU
: and communicable diseases among then