The Dickinson press., 1884-05-31

EullcN, AhllSLCll, SlICN, IOSScuu, custer.
French, Ramsey. Warren and Mccham.
The daughter of President Zachary Taylor
also receives $50 per month. The house com
mttec on pensions has agreed to report a bill
to give Mrs. DE Long, the Widow of the Arctic
explorer, a pension of $50 a month. The bill
| granting Il pension to Almira ka,cr of Me.ker
county, Mimi, was favorablv reported to the
house.
house decided the English Peelle Contest by
nnseatlng Peelle, Republican, and seating Eng
l1sh, Democ: at, by a majority of three; more
than thlrey Democrats voted against English.
The sensation OF the day was the charge, made
in a very caustic speech by Horr of Michigan,
that English, senior, father of the contestant,
has grossly abused the privilege of the floor,
as a former NJ. Q. by r~esorting to obnoxious
and even Objectionable methods to secure
votes for his son.
A dozen democrats sprang to their feet to
defend Mr.. English, and vehement speeches
were made by Randall, Cox and others. Ares
olution was offered by Bayne of Pennsylvania
TO appoint o committee Of seven to investigate
the charges in this connection against William
II: English. The resolution was adopted.
The report of the senate committee on post
Offices and post roads on the subject of postal
telegraph has been completed by Senator Hill.
1eI gives ro a sn MN r, Of the history, increase,
Union telegraph company and value of its prop
erty, leased and otherwise, and says:
The passage of the postal telegraph bill will re-
duce the average charge per telegram from
thlIty-:llnc to twenty-five cents Immediately,
and to twenty cents in five years, and secure
uniformity of charges, Irrespective of amount
of business in different places, for kilograms to
newspapers and to commercial news asso-
Citations. Under the present telegraphic sys-
tenn, the possibility of a species of censorship,
ing dangers which menace the coun-
try, arises in two distinct ways.
first is the power which telegraph companies
themselves have for manipulating news for
sinister purposes, and tho second is the same
association press and other similar associations
n~otthemselves owning telegraph lines, but max
| & SPECIAL contracts for the transmission of
kilograms over lines owned and managed by
others. 1t Will appear that the power of the tele-
graph company in this respect will be entirely
taken away by the pending bill, and that the pow
or oftie associated press and similar associa-
tons will be greatlyreduced. The bill will effectu-
ally take power away from the Western Union
or any other private telegraph company by low
still lower rates which it secures commercial
news associations.
On Friday, in the senate Mr.. Harrison re-
ported favorably, from the committee on terri
tories, the house bill in relation t. the legisla-
ture of Dakota, which provides that that body
shall consist of twenty-four member of the
council and forty.eight members of the house,
/ 0Au SLAdV e4Cy pAh1l Oo clCCJcu dG tu0 uOXG Rcu-
eral election in the territory; two member of
the council and four members of the senate.
The pension appropriation and labor bureau
bills passed, the vote on the latter measure be-
ing 81 to 2. The house bill providing for the
muster and pay of certain officers and men Of
| till Monday,
On Friday, in the House, Mr.. Kellogg offered
q resolution instructing the committee on OK
penditures of the department of justice to in
/ n11ira info hiSfK a1lnruto 1aro1 oor,onf;n,, ,r;{I.
star route frauds. After a speech by Kellogg
and q long discussion, the resolution was re-
ferred to the committee on judiciary, to report
whether the house has a legal right thus to
order an Investigation of the acts Of a member
before his term of service began. The bill for
the payment of qu~arternaster claims, known
as Fourth of July claims, and appropriately
100000, passed. The house at the evening
session passed forty six pension bills, includ-
1ng one nsd giving sou per month to the wife of
Nh. Springer took occasion to speakin strong
condemnation of the bill to retire Gen. Grant
and to give him a pension of SOL 25 a year,
simply because he had been unfortunate in
not been aware of the dealings of his partners
but the fact remained that he had associated
himself with spectators who were involved in
the most disreputable practices which had ever
been heard of in this country, and were only
paralleled in other countries by the South Sea
bubble and John Laws Mississippi scheme.
This was not the time nor were the circum-
stances such as called upon Congress- to go to
Grants relief.
The senate has passed a substitute for the
house bill establishing a labor bureau. 1t pro-
vides for a commissioner of labor to be az.
pointed by the president and confirmed by the
senate, and who shall holl Office for four years
at an annual salary of $500. A chief uerk
rotary of the interior: The BUSINESS Of the
bureau shall be to collect information upon
the subject of labor, it's relations to capital,
hours If labor and earnings of laboring men
and women and means Of promoting their ma
terial, social, intellectual and moral prosperity,
at an annual expense of not more than 3la5, 0Ou
q year.
In the senate, On Monday, tho e6th, tho judi
ciary committee reported favorably (Mr. Gar
land dissenting) the bill for two more Dakota
supreme court associate justices. The senate,
IN the face of ON adverse recommendation by
house amendment to the bill extending for one
81 Alabama Claims. The Utah bill
was considered and Senator Brown
Of Georgia offered the following amendment:
That voluntary sexual intercourse Of a married
person with one of the opposite sex not hus-
band or wife of such married person, shall be
a 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
| pAOpCI CitoCh3 10 III COH1ukOu 1dWs SluuG ulNOICt6
from bed and board in said district, the terri
tories or other places subject to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the United States.
Dir. White of Minnesota introduced into the
house abill granting a pension to Charles
Brandt. The pension claims of Brainard n.
Theeders Of Henderson, Mimi, and Ellen D.
Woolsleyo of BonnelTs Mills MINI, have beenal-
lowed. There also has been an adverse decision
in the case of William S.. Grave of Montevideo,
Mimi Mr.. Strait will appeal to the secretary
of tho 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 honorably discharged
soldiers of the Rebellion who are forty-ive
years old.
Senator Ingalls, has reported to the senate
from the committee on judiciary a substitute
for the joint resolution introduced by Senator
Jackson proposing an amendment to the con-
%Gtitution in relation to the term of Office of
president and vice president. The amendment
provided for in Ingalls, substitute is as fol-
lows.
Article 2. Executive power shall be vested
in the president of the United States of Ameri-
CO. The president and vice president hereaf-