McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-05-29
The Senate Annual Pension Ap-
preparation Bill Passed by
the House.
The Labor Bureau Measure Taken
Up and Passed IN the Higher
Branch.
Another Attempt to Get q FoOthold In
Oklahoma iscellane0u Wash.
ington Matters.
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.


SENATE.
TUESDAY, May 2O.-The bill was
passed extending to August, 1885. the time
to commence laying the cable authorized by
the act Of August 8, 1882.
The agricultural appropriation bill was
proceeded with by sections. One Of the
amendments added to the bill by the sem
ate committee appropriates $40, 600 for con-
tinuing the location and sinking of artesian
wells on the plains with view to reclaim
ing the arid and waste public lands.
To this provision Mr.. Deck objected.
Mr.. Hale moved that the appropriation
be limited to two wells. Agreed to and
passed without division.
On motion of Mr.. Henderson the senate
passed the house bill authorizing the con-
struction of bridge across the Missouri
river in Douglas county, Nebraska.
HOUSE.
The Indiana contested election case
of English VS.. Peele was taken up. The
majority resolution declares English duly
elected. Mr.. Lowrey advocated the claims
of the contestant. He alluded to certain
language used by J. S. Wise (va.) when
the F'Farrel.Paul case was under consid-
Grafton, to the effect that Virginia bour-
bon was riding into congress on the back of
one of Barnum's Indiana mules. In view
of the spectacle which the gentleman from
Virginia presented on this floor, he appre-
hended that If Barnum had been tele-
graphing to Virginia for an animal of the
lower order he would have telegraphed for
one still more brutal in its instincts than a
mule.
Mr.. Wise, who had been in the cloak
room, came in and asked to be taken down.
The speaker said the proper time for the
request was passed. Mr.. Wise reserved
the privilege Of personal explanation
hereafter.
WEDNESDAY, May 21.-The follow.
public buildings: At Vicksburg, 500, 900;
at Chattanooga, 500, 900; at Opelousa, La,
$50, 900; at Portland, Oregon, $3.50, ZOO; at
Sacramento, 500, 200; at Dayton, Ohio,
$3.50, 200; at Springfield, Ohio, 500, 900.
The above sums include the cost of sites
and buildings.
The resolution calling upon the president
of commissioners to examine certain Sec
lions of the Northern Pacific railroad was
referred to the judiciary committee.
Unanimous consent was obtained and bills
passed permitting the erection of bridge
across the Missouri at White Cloud, Kas. :,
and another near Rulo. Neb.
HOUSE.
Consideration of the Indiana con-
tested election case was resumed.
Mr.. Hart offered as q substitute for the
majority resolution the resolution of the
minority confirming the right of Peele to
the seat. The vote was yeas 121, navs 1T.
Mr.. Springer Immediately moved recon-
sideration.
Mr.. Hart moved to lay that motion on the
table. Pending which Mr.. Converse moved
to adjourn. Carried-yeas 119, nays 11S-
amid applause on the democratic side.
SENATE.
THURSDAY, May 22.-The bills passed
authorizing the construction of bridges
across the Missouri at Rulo and Decatur,
Neb.
Mr.. Van Wyck submitted an amendment,
to be proposed ut the proper time, extend
ing the privileges Of the lottery bill so as to
prohibit the mailing of newspapers or other
publications containing advertisements or
notices of railroad, mining or other. stocks
of corporations by margins on puts and
calls, agency thereof, or any notice, report
or statement of any such sales.
The Utah bill was laid aside, and the sem
ate resumed consideration of the labor sta
tistics bill.
Mr.. Van Wyck proposed an amendment
to the labor bureau bill. which was read !,
providing that the chief of the bureau be
identified with the lab0ring classes, etc.
He said the communism of capital was more
dangerous than the communism of labor.
Six railroad kings could sit in a parlor in
New York and regulate everything in this
country.
The bill amending the Thurman sinking
fund act, the bill FORGETTING the Oregon
Central land grant, the congressional libra
ry bill and educational bill were pressed for
consideration.
The Oregon Central measure proved sue
cessful, the consideration of the sinking
100.
In the discussion following George as
serted that the Oregon Central, to which
the decision referred, was not the Oregon
Central to which the bill related, and init
mated that Cobb was misleading the house,
whereupon Cobb declared he had letter
showing George to be railroad attorney.
Pending debate the house adjourned.
SENATE.
FRIDAY, May Ex-senator Harrison
reported favorably to the senate from the
committee on territories the house bill in
relation to the legislature of Dakota, which
provided that that body shall consist of
twenty -four members Of the council and
forty eight members of the house, and that
there will be elected at the next general
| election in the territory two members OF
the council and four members of the house
in each legislative district.
The house bill to provide for the muster
and pay of certain officers and enlisted men
in the volunteer forces was passed.
The annual pension appropriation bill
was passed as reported by the senate COM
| mittee.
The labor bureau bill was taken up, and
Mr.. Blair withdrew a number of amend
ments, leaving the bill as it came from the
house.
Mr.. Aldrich moved a substitute, which
was agreed to and the bill passed-55 to 2.
HOUSE.
The house went into committee of the
whole on the private calendar. The bill
providing for the retirement Of Col. Henry
j. Hunt as major general gave rise to a
good deal Of discussion.
In opposing the measure, Mr.. Springer
spoke in strong condemnation of the bill to
retire General Grant and give him PEN
sion of $40, 125 year simply because he
had been unfortunate in Wall street.
The bill was laid aside with favorable
recommendations.
The house at the evening session passed
forty-six pension bills, including one for
$50 per month to the widow Of General
nrd