The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-07-03
FoRTY.EIaHTH coNGREsS-FlRST
SESSION.
SENATE,

House hlll passed authorizing lhr 'N-
tension of the Chesapeake Il ohio rail-
road company 10 point on the military
lands at Fortress Monroe.
Mr.. Hale, from the Committee on APP
preparations. reported the General
Deficiency Appropriation bill with
amendments. lie will call IL up to-
morrow,
The unfinished business was then laid
before the Senate, being the bill prov id
ing for the forfeiture of uncarned lands
granted the Atlantic n Pacific railroad
company.
Mr.. Morgan offered AN amendment To
take the place Of the provisions
restoring the land Ia the pub
lie domain, and resumption ny
authorizes and directs the Circuit court
of the United States, of the West
ern district or Missouri, Ia hear
and determine all questions arts
ing out of claims Ia lands
declared forfeited. IL directs the United
States Attorney of that District Ia pro-
coed in that court in the name of tho
any person or corporation riaim-
ing interest in lands referred To
so to bring the subject before the court;
gives either party To the proceeding, the
right to appeal To the supreme Court OF
the United States and directs that court
to advance the ease on its calender.
Long debate cnsucd, and finally the
motion to 20 into executive session pre-
vailed. Before the doors, closed,
however, Mr.. IIawlcy called the
attention of the Senate 10 the
statement in the Record that Senator
Logan owned S0,C10 acres of land. This
statement, he said, was untrue.
The gentleman referred 10 Is only
owner of the land on which his
father died and 10 which he has added a
little in his own State Ullinoisl.
Abiding to the SAME matter, Mr..
Logan said: "Thc statement
is utterly false: don't
propose to give schedule of my prop
erty to anyone, but tho property ! do
own is in the State Of Illinois. |
a Tracts % q" Iand .I b@t all rii
not make Il hundredtf part of what
they charge.
The Senate discharged committee on
Privileges and Elections from further
consideration of the House bill on the
electoral count and ordered committee
of Conference on ii.
After an executive session the Senate
adjourned.
WAsHINGToN, June Conference re-
ports on the Pension bill and the bill
giving right-Oi-way through the Indian
Territory to the Gulf, Colorado IL Santa
Fe railroad were agreed to.
The Senate bill for the relief of William
McGarrahan was reported adversely
from tho committee on private land
claims and placed on the calendar.
A joint resolution was passed provi-
ding for tho settlement of accounts with
the Mobile s. Ohio railroad.
Mitchell introduced II bill to incor-
porate the National Encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic. Referred.
Forney submitted Il conference report
on the Army Appropriation bill. The
report announces agreement upon all
items except upon the Senate amend
ment striking out that portion OF the
bill which regulates compensation to
subsidized railways for army transpor-
tation. Tho report was agreed to.
Disagreement to the amendment in
dictated waSinsisted upon and conferees
appointed.
nenly made an unsuccessful attempt
to secure consideration of the Northern
Pacific forfeiture bill, and the House
went into Committee Of the Whole on
the private calendar.
At O'Clock, the committee rose for the
purpose of permitting the House to d .Is
pose of the backbone" Forfeiture bill.
White, of kentucky, rising to ques-
ton of.privilege, sent to the clerks desk
and had letter published this morning,
written by Representative ELLIS, IN 1851.
to Captain George, in which he intimated
there had been improper means used 70
obtain the original grant. White Thought
a full investigation of the whole matter
should be made.
The Chairman decided the question
not one of privilege.
Ellis said the message had been ma
terially altered and garbled to suit the
purpose of the publisher and at the
proper time he would explain the false
hood and malignity of the unwarranted
inuendo directed against him inthe pub
LEGATION alluded to. 1t is, he said, the last
vindictive thrust of Il professional
blackmailer disappointed in his greed,
and his connection with him originated
in desire to do him kindness.
The Speaker announced the question
to be on a motion to table the motion to
reconsider the vote by which the House
Yesterday defeated the "Backbone' For
fixture bill. The motion to table was
agreed to-yeas, 124; nays, ia. So the
bill was lost.
The House then proceeded to the con-
sideration of private business, and the
following bills passed: To relieve GER
tain soldiers of the late war from the
charge of desertion; for the relief OF
MNrd tldIh pitllcS.
Valentine rising to question of PRIV
ilege said that some days ago a gentle
man fromNew Jersey (McAdoo) had tax
en- occasion to print as part of his report S
avery long dispatch sent from this city
to New York. 1t contained some
of our native land monopolists
saying the full list would fill
names as printed In the Record to-day
appeared the name of Senator John A
Logan as owning $4,000 acres of land: Sen
ator Logan has called his (Valentine's
attention to this to-day, and had desired
him to say to the House that so far as it
related to him the statement, was alb
solutely false. The only land he
Illinois. The gentleman from New Jer-
sew had taken occasion, while he was
landing soldiers, to stab one of the
brightest and most gallant Of those sol
diers QLogaW. Applause on the Repub.
lican sidel.
Cox, of New York, in order to show,
as he expressed s other now 'n side 'n at
tempted to strain at a gnat and
swallowed amenagerie ofcamels, quoted
from speech printed by Brewer, o.
New Jersey, upon the tariff, IN
which that gentleman made q very
lengthy extract from Blaine's twenty
Years in CGngressIhai v speech Pc Stra IN fac'
O'Neill, of Missouri, suggested the
title OF the book should be amended by
adding the words: "And tatOed at last"
McAdoo explained the. circumstances
which led to his obtaining leave
to print, and he desired to, say
he did not retract one word OF tha'
its entirety. He did not con,
slider, for one moment, he had
violated any rule of courtesy or rule
ofequity, or any rule of manliness in its