The Dickinson press., 1884-04-26
ESsIoNAL PROCEEDINGS.

ENNlvNAL PkVCEEDINGN.
[se committee on coinage, weights and
b unanimously instructed representa- |
Ecey to report favorably his dill to pro-
he issue Of treasury notes of less than So,
rovide for the issue of 81, So and S. sill
certificates.
nator Sabin has introduced q bill to revive
rank Of General of the army, which OK
Nbmmittee on military affair has reported
ayersely on such q bill, andt = little pros
pect of its becoming o law.
The bill introduced by MI. Ouray to provide
for additional members of the legislatures of
the several territories. and an increase of pay
to the members and off cers thereof was report
ed BY the committee on territories. Itprovides
that the legislatures of the territories shall con-
sist Of thirteen members of the counc and
twenty-five members of the house of represen-
tatives, the member to receive SO peraay and
mileage during the session; that the additional
members shall be elected by the territory I'M
til otherwise provided by tho said several
and the speaker of the house of representatives
shall receive $40 a day for the same time and
that the officers of the legislatures shall receive
% per day.
Mr.. Slater of Oregon requested and obtained
the unanimous consent Of the senate Friday
to make o few remarks relative to the North
ern Pacific landgrant forfeiture His remarks
related to the division in Washington Territory
and Oregon. He was in favor of the forfeit
Sre Of the lands, but thought the people, who
lowed to retain their titles, paying 81. IS or not
more than S $50 per acre for them. His col
league, Mr.. Dolph, asked that the bill be laid
on the table for o few days, as he wished to
speak on the subject
Representative Beach was instructed by the
house committee on public health to report the
resolution authorizing the committee to inquire
into the extent and character of adulterated
food and drugs imported into the United States
or exported therefrom. The resolution pro-
vides that the committee sit during the summer
recess.
The bill to relieve certain soldiers from the
charge of desertion, which is now being con-
sidered by the house, removes the charge of
d~esertion from the record of soldiers who served
in the volunteer service in all cases where it
shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of
the secretary of war that such soldiers served
faithfully until the expiration of their terms
of enlistment or until May !, 1855, but by rea-
time the same was mustered out, failed to re-
ceive an honorable discharge. 1t also applies
to cases in which it appears a soldier charged
with desertion subsequently enlisted in another
regiment and was honorably discharged.
The house committee on territories, by o vote
of ! to 5, adopted a substitute offered by Alex
ander to Cassidy's bill providing for the ap-
pointment by the president of a commission to
rriages requires that they be solemniizcd by a
minister, Judge or justice of the peace, and
the person SO officiating shall file q certificate
of marriage before the county recorder of lands
within thirty days after the ceremony. Failure
to file or records punishable by a fine of $500.
The substitute makes tho so1emenization of
marriages, when either party to be married has
a husband or wife living, a m~isdemeanor pun
ishable by imprisonment in Jail not less than
six months nor more than twelve.
Tho hO11Sa noppD,iffaa on r1Jh1io fan1a in
structed Representative Payson to favoraby re-
port his bill to prevent tho unlawful occupancy
of public lands. The measure provides that
All Enclosures Of public land in any state or
I lands shall be unlawful. 1t shall be lawful for
any person to demolish any such enclosure
when it includes more than 640 acres of land or
any agricultural land.
At a meeting of the house committee on pub
lie lands, a subcommittee was appointed to
draft a bill repeating the timber culture act
and revising the homestead laws. The bill, it
is said, will be tackled on to all appropriation
bill and pass readily.
The speaker laid before the house the follow
ing message from the president, which was APP
propriate'y referred:
Transmitting q report of the secretary of
state in regard to the final awards made by the
against the United States for $625 $50 for the
payment of claims of French citizens against
the United States. The president recommends
the appropriation of the sum to enable the gov
ernment to fulfil its obligation and of the treaty
of Jan. Is, 1850.
Transmitting a communication from the sec
rotary of state relative to the approaching visit
+. of the special embassy of Siam. The presi-
dent recommends an appropriation of $4,000
to defray the expenses of the embassy while in
this country.
Transmitting a communication from the sec
rotary of state respecting the approaching in
y ternational conference ut Washington for the
| purpose of fixing the meridian proper to b9
employed as a common zero of longitude and
\ standard of reckoning throughout the globe.
The president recommends an appropriation of
$4,000 to defray the expenses Of the same.
2. The house after several hours discussion on
Saturday, the 18th, passed a bill to establish and
maintain a bureau of labor statistics, whose
provisions are:
The bureau is to be under the charge of a
commissioner of labor statistics to be appoint
and consent of the senate. He shall b. appoint.
ed for four years and receive 81, COCOA year.
His duties shall be to acquire all useful infor-
nation on the subject oflabor, its relation to
capital and the means of promoting the mate
rial, social, intellectual and religious prosper
ity of the laboring men and women.
The house passed Monday, the alst, a very
aAions. 1t was the bill of Mr.. A. j. Warner, re.
ported from the select committee on the pay
ment Of pensions, bounty and back pay and il
as follows:
Every person specified in the several classes
enumeratedin the pension laws of the United
States, who served in the field in the military
or naval service in any war in which the United
States has been engaged for a period of three
months or more, and has an honorable dis
charge, and is not receiving. a pension, oil
greater pension than that provided for herein
but who, by reason of any wound, injury OF
disease which there is probable cause to be-
lieve originated in said service in the
line of duty and is not the result
J of his own misconduct or bad habits, or other
known cause occurring since such service, and
is now disabled in whole or in past for procur.
ing his subsistence by manuel labor, shall up
on making the proof of facts under such regn.
lations as may be described by the proper all.
thority, not inconsistent with the provisions
of this act, be placed upon the bill of pension.
ers of the United States and be entitled to he
ceive pension during the continuance of sucl
disability at a rate proportionate to tin
degree thereof, the true physical con
Anprovided by law upon examination BY
pmpetent board of surgeons duly appoint
uch pensions to at the date O
the application therefor; that in all APP
plications under the general pension laws in
cluded in this act, where it appears by the rec
ord of evidence that the applicant was regular
" enlisted and mustered into service ant
served for three months or more, that fac
laahall be sufficient prima facie evidence that Ii,
was then in good health and free fronss disease