McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-07-03

determined by the board of managers Of the
The Chalmers Manning contested election
case was taken up, and the majority sreso-
luton adopted. Chalmers appeared at the
bar Of the house aud took the oath OF Office.
SENATE.
Thursday, June decentralization
of the legislative bill was proceeded with,
and the amendment proposed by the senate
appropriation committee, to strike out the
clause permitting distilleries MASKING ten
bushels or less OF grain per day, to be run
without storekeepers, was adopted.
An amendment was adopted providing
that reports In the Congressional Record
shall be accurate transcript proceedings and
debates of the two houses Of congress.
Two amendments offered by Beck were
defeated, and the bill then passed.
The bill to forfeit the unearned land grant
Of the Atlantic Pacific railroad company
was taken up, when the senate went into
executive session and adjourned.
HOUSE.
The senate bill passed authorizing the
construction of a bridge across the Missouri
at White Cloud, Kans.
The house determiued-yeas 135, nays So
to consider the unfinished business, being
the bill to forfeit the land grant OF the.
ckhoneD railroad of Louisiana.
Mr.. Payson maintained the grant W as not
forfeitable, either In law or equity, an that
for the government to attempt TO forfeit 1t
would be akin to absolute repud iation.
This land case is one upon which the judi
ciary committee of the house has sub mitted
an opinion, denying the legal power Of con-
gress 10 declare the forfeiture, and II enley,
in advancing the bill, refe rred to this Opin-
ion and criticised the committee for having
COMPOUNDED principles pertaining to private
with those pertaining to public grants and
for failing to make any distinction between
them.
The vote on the passage Of the bill re-
sulted-yeas II, nays III.
SENATE.
FRIDAY, June 27.-Mr. Hale, from
the committee on appropriations, reported
the general deficiency appropriation bill,
with amendments.
Unfinished business was then laid before
the senate, being the bill providing for the
forfeiture of the unearned lands granted to,
the Atlantic and Pacific railroad. A long
debate ensued. Finally a motion to go
into executive session prevailed Before the
doors were closed, however, Mr.. Hawley
called the attention Of the senate 10 the
statement in the Record that Senator Logan
owned so, 900 acres of land. This statement,
he said, was untrue. The gentleman re-
ferred to is only the owner of the land on
which his father died and to which he has
added little in his own state, Illinois.
Abiding to the same matter, Mr.. Logan
said: "The statement is utterly false. /
do not propose to give a schedule of my
property to anybody, but the property do
own is in the state of Illinois. l do own
some two or three tracts of land, but all Tut
together would not make hundredth part
of what they charge
HOUSE.
The house proceeded to the consideration
of private business, and bills were passed
to relieve certain soldiers of the late war
from the charge of desertiOn and for the re-
lief of MyIa Clark Gaines.
Mr.. Valentine, rising to a question of
privilege, said some days ago a gentleman
nom New York (McAdoo) had taken oc-
casion to print as part of his remarks a
very long dispatch from this city to New
York. 1t contained the names Of some OF
our native land monopolists, saying the full
list would fill every page of the paper. In
the list of names printed In the Record to-
day appeared the name of Senator Logan as
owning so, 900 acres of land. Mr.. Logan
had called his (Vaentine's) attention to-
this to-day, and had desired him to say to
the house that so far as related to him the
statement was absolutely false. The only
land he owned was a little homestead in
Illinois.
The house, at the evening session, dis
cussed the pension bill, but without action
adjourned.
SENATE.
SATURDAY, June 28.-The house bill
was reported favorabIy granting p ension.
to the widow Of General James b. Stead
man.
The general deficiency bill was then taken
up.
A proyiso that no part OF the money APP
propriated for district attorneys and their
assistants should be used to pay special
counsel fees was agreed to.
On motion of Mr.. Sherman an item Of
So, $50 was added to enable the secretary Of
The treasury 70 reimburse the amount paid
for the expenses of the commission ap-
pointed to go to Louisina in 1877.
An item was added authorizing the attor-
ney general to pay Chas. 81. Reed for SER
vices as counsel for the late Charles j. Gui-
teau such sum as he may deem just, not to
exceed s., 600.
Mr.. Horr, from the committee OF ap-
preparations, reported the Notifications ap-
preparation bill. Referred to the commit
tee of the whole.
Randall, on behalf the minority Of this
committee, submitted substitute thereof.
Referred.
The house then went into committee of
the whole, Springer in the chair, on the
business reported from the committee on
labor.
The first bill considered was one proyid-
ing for the adjustment of accounts Of gov
eminent laborers, workmen and mechanics
arising under the eight-hour law.
Mr.. Tlllman Is. c. opposed the bill and.
characterized it as claim agents. bill, and
declaring that it would permit another raid
OF $40, 0O0, 0U0 upon the treasury, and not
only permit raid but create an aristocracy
of labor.
The first section Of the bill was anne nded
so as to read as follows: ''That whoever, as.
a laborer, workman or mechanic, is here
after employed by or on behalf Of the gov
eminent of the United States, shall be paid
for each eight hours he has been employed
as for full days work. The second sec
rion was amended to correspond with the
first section, so as to apply merely to the
future.
No final action was had and the house ad-