Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-14
EPIT0ME OF The WEEK,
Interesting News Compilation.
CONGRESSIONAL.

BILLS were introduced in the Senate IN the
18th: By Mr.. Harrison, for the admission of
the State of Dakota into the Union on an
equal footing with the original States; by Mr..
Vest, to provide for carrying on Improvement
of rivers and harbors by contract. Bills were
passed to authorize the sale Of timber on the
Menomenee reservation in Wisconsin, and to
provide for the removal ofthe Southern utes
for National bank circulation was further
amended In the House bills were IN
t trof3c ID 1 BY np; Ni si6ea to to r ggvarSme ens
bonds, making freight pools and the discrim-
ination in freight rates unlawful; by Mr. Cobb,
providing for the paying OF the costs of sar-
and to subject the same to taxation; by Mr..
Peel,granting three hundred and twenty acres
Of publicl land to each survivor of the Mountain
s sia"SST e'Asss 100000 + for the SelissfI
in the lower Mis-: Mississippi, and nd also ls.2 for o the dis dis,
rules were suspended and q bill WAS passed
fixing at one cent for each four ounces the
rate t OF postage $ t on seconnd. class, mail ,1 matter
or newspaper agent. A resolution was adopt
edit to ,6-making the bill for the retire
Tesaae Of the the trade t1a% lido dollar nq M the special Mr order Ra5fo on
offered a resolution directing the Secretary
Of State to furnish information as to the ac-
to the death of Herr Lasker. An al-night
session was held, many Republican members
refraining from voting on a motion by Mr.,
resolution making the Mexican Pension bill
the special order for the 21st inst, thus leav-
ing the House without a quorum: A call Of
Arms ordered to take %absentees into custody
and bring them before the bar of the House.
A BILL was reported in the Senate on the
10th providing that trespassers on Indian
lands may be imprisoned for one year and
tined $500. The bill to provide for the issue of
circulation to National banks was debated
until the hour of adjournment....l the
House, after an all-night session, a quorum
was obtained in the morning. when the resolu-
ton was adopted to make the Mexican Pen
sion bill the special order for the 2lst, and an
adjournment was taken to that date.
A BILL was passed in the Senate on the goth
increasing the annual amount to provide
arms and equipments for the militia from
$4,000 to $5O,0o0. A resolution was agreed to
information as to when and how
many acres of indemnity lands were cert.
fed or patented to railroad corporations
in Iowa, to whom grants of public lands were
donated, and whether any such roads are o
claiming more indenity lands, and what guam
titles. Mr.. Sewell,s bill appropriating 5000: 600
Plumb reported a bill to raise the::Agricult-
urai Bureau to a department, with a sccre-
ftaTTy. Some progress was made on the
bsll TO- .. prfG1'de the s5rco'f Monac for N"t! joint
resolution was passed appropriating
and a resolution was reported requesting the
President not to deliver Senior Carlos Aguero
to the Spanish authorities until an investiga-
ton is made by the Acknowledgement. a re-
port was agreed tolls to l06-calling on the
General to transmit to the House
reports made by special agents Of the Post
Office Department having reference to the
star.route Investigations not heretofore made
public.
THE Senate passed a bill on the 2lst for the
punishment of persons falsely ~personating
officers and employees of the United States.
Debate on the NationalBank Circulation bill
was resumed Adjourned to the 25th ....In
Route bills were passed. A message was re.
ceived from the President announcing that
the British Government had contributed the
Steamship Alert for the Greedy relief e4pedi-
ton. Adjourned to the 23d.