River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-06-05
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY

CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY
In tbs senate, ON Monday, the 10Th, the judi
eiary committee reported favorably fMr. GAR
land dissenting} the bill for two more Dakota
supreme court associate justices. The senate,
IL the face of an adverse recommendation by
the Judiciary committee, concurred in the
house amendment to the bill extending for one
IF Alabama claims The Utah bill
was considered and Senator Brown
of Georgia offered the following amendment:
That voluntary sexual intercourse of married
person with one Of the opposite sex not hus
band or wife of such married person, shall be
cause and the only cause, for absolute divorce
in the District of Columbia or in the territories
of the United States; but the courts may, in
proper cases, as at common law, grant divorces
from bed and board in said district the terri
tories OF other places subject to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the United States.
Mr. White Of Minnesota introduced into the
house a bill granting a pension to Charles
Brandt The pension claims of Bralnard ~
Theeders Of Henderson, Mimi, and Ellen ID,
Woolsley of BOnnell's Mills MINI, have beena al
lowed There also has been an adverse decision
IN the case of William s Grave of MOnteyideo,
Mimi. Mr.. Strait viii appeal 10 the secretary
of the interior from the decision.
Bills were introduced into the house abolish
ing license taxes ON tobacco dealers; Furnishing
with fine and imprisonment bank officers OBJ
tanning loans from the banks with which they
are connected which result IN loss to those
banks: pensiOning all hon0rably discharged
soldiers Of the Rebellion who are forty five
years old
Senator Ingalls, has reported to the senate
from the committee on Judiciary SUBSTITUTE
for the joint resolution introduced by senator
Jackson propossae. an amendment 70 the con-
stitution in relation to the term OF Office OF
president and vice president. The Amendments
provided for in Lgalls' substitute Is as fol-
lows.
Article . Executive power shall be vested
in the president Of the United States Of Ameri-
ca The president and vice president hereaf-
ter elected shall hold their term of Office for
six years; but the president shall not be re-oli-
gible, nor shall the vice president be eligible
to the Office of president if he shall have exer
csed the same in case of a vacancy therein
Robinson of New York never misses bill
day without the introduction of some measure
to carry out the peculiar view he holds on our
foreign relations. His last proposition, which
was introduced Monday, is TO prohibit any SEN
ator or member of congress from receiving or
paving visits from or TO the ambassadors OF
foreign countries without the permission of the
house to which he belongs. This is supposed
to be aimed at Congressman Hewitt, who il on
terms of intimacy with the British minister
Dir. Cameron PA appeared in the senate
Tuesday morning, and the senators ccngrat-
ulated him on his safe return and improved
health.
The senate took up the bill to grant
the Cinnablr & Clarks Forks Railroad COM
pany the right of way through portion of the
Yellowstone Park. Mr.. Logan opposed the
bill. There was, he said, disposition to
gObble up everything in connection with the
park by the railroads and hotel companies.
He UOgan) had found herds of cattle
and horses in the park. A de-
partnent Of the United States government had
divided up into seven parts the ten acres which
the law allowed 10 be rented to one company,
and placed one company in possession of all
hotel privileges in the park and driven every
body else out, and now congress Unwisely asks
the tract to be made a football to be kicked
about by men outside of it for their personal
gain Mr. Vest gave some details of the park,
and said every word stated by Logan was true.
Although congress had absolutely forbidden
monopoly, it Ia been permitted, and the park
was under the control of private corporation.
In debate in the senate on the Utah bill
Mr. Brown of Georgia said 1t was shameful
violation of the constitution. He contrasted
what he termed polygamy in New England and
polygamy in Utah The picture he drew, he
said, was drawn "more in sorrow than IN
anger" There had been over b.
O ~ divorces granted in New England within
the last twenty years, destroying $1,000 fam
lilies and turning loose - 600 persons to marry
again, all illegally, except those who were di-
vlrced for adultery or fOrnicatOn III the other
party Mr. Hoar of Mass. replied that if he
by Mr. Brown, he could say some things, with
out even referring to statistics, which would be
sufficiently disagreeable With a desire to
credit the portion of the country from which
that senator came with as much prOpriety as he
could Hoar thought that the presences of
large number of mulattos remained to be
counted for in some way, but he would not en-
ter upon this sort of argument
In the Wallace Mckinley contested election
case the House on the 9th proceeded
tn
declaring Mckinley entitled to his seat
1t was lost-yeas, los nays 15S.
The following Democrats voted with the Re
publicans in affirmative: Blackburn, DOrshei-
iner, Hurd, Mills, Potter, Robertson tKy.), and
Thompson. White {Ky.) voted with the Demo-
Gratis. The majority resolution seating Wallace
was adopted without division, and that gentle
man appeared at the bar and took the oath of
office,
Senator Slater from the committee on public
lands, reported fayorably the bill to forfeit
the uneaIned lands granted to the Northern
Pacific road. The bill provides that
In all cases where persons have settled upon
any Of the lands affected by the grant and for
feited, or have made improvements ON them
with bona fide intention of purchasing the same
of the Northern Pacific company, and are emit
tied to enter them under the presumption or
honest cad laws, such persons proving the same
to the satisfaction of the commissioner of
the general land office, shall be entitled to enter
not more than 100 acres, including his settle
ment or Improvement at a specified rate per
acre Other persons, not embracedin this pro-
vision shall have time IN which to remove any
growing crop and all movable improvements
In all cases where the Northern Pacific has Sc
lected or shall hereafter select any lands in
place of lands within the limits of the grant but
excepted from the operation thereof, which were
or shall be occupied by bona tde settler at
the time of such selection such settler shall be
entitled to purchase 100 acres of land, to be by
him selected of the Northern Pacific, by paying
~ = 1gt.a
have twelve months in which to make payment
therefor, after notice of the selection of his
land by said company; the said 100 acres to in
clude the settlement and Improvement of the
settler claiming tile benefit of this section.
Matters were necessarily dull on Saturday
about the capitol The senate was not in SEES
sion, and the house consumed the time in bust
ness of no general interest Not more than
twenty members appeared in their seats On the
Republican side, and the Democratic side
showed many vacant desks, resolution was
adopted, authorizing the committee ON Indian
affairs TO investigate the disbursement of Cher
Okee funds and other matters in the Indian Ter
rItOTy including fencing of lands for stock
raising purposes, after which the time was con
sumed in discussing the right of way through
the Indian Territory to the gulf of the Colora-
do Il Santa Fe railroad
The bill was passed restoring the law of 1867
IN the matter of appeals from circuit courts to
the United States supreme court in habeas
ago, while the Nc Ardle case from Mississippi
was pending before the supreme court A res
OlutiOn was adopted authorizing the commit
tee on Indian lands TO investigate all matters
touching the leasing, subleasing and fencing of
lands in Indian Territory, and the disburse-
ments of 100000 appropriated for the Chero-
kee nation during the FOrty-seventh congress-
The bill granting the right of way through In
dian Territory TO the gulf, of the Colorado &
Sante Fee Railroad company, passed: also the
ri pb of uorl In
Territory to the Southern Kansas Railroad com
pany.
The bill was considered authorizing the sec
rotary of the interior to obtain from the Red
Lake Chippewa Indians the cession of por-
ton of the Red Lake reservation in Minne5o-
a, but without final action the house ad-
touTned
Wisconsin State Democratic Convention.
The Wisconsin democratic convention to pro-
pose delegates to the Chicago Presidential Con