The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-06-06
CONGRESSIONAL MATTERS.

The senate took up the bill to grant
the Cinnabar & Clarks Forks Railroad com
panv the right of way through a portion of the
Yellowstone Park. Mr.. Logan opposed the
bill. There was, he said, a disposition to
gobble up everything IN connection with the
park by the railroads and hotel companies.
He Logan) had found herds of cattle
and horses in the park. A de-
partment of the United States government had
divided up into seven parts the ten acres which
the law allowed to be rented to one company,
and placed one company in possession of ell
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. MI. Vest gave some details OF the park,
and said every word stated by Logan was true.
Although congress had absolutely forbidden
monopoly, it had been permitted, and tue park
was under the control of a private corporation.
In a debate in the senate on the Utah bill
MI. Brown of Georgia said 1t was a shameful
violation of the constitution, He contrasted
polygamy in Utah. The picture he drew, he
said, was drawn 'more in sorrow than in
anger" There had been over a.
OJ0 divorces granted in New England within
the last twenty years, destroying $1,000 fam
lilies, and turning loose $4,000 persons to marry
again, all illegally, except those who were di-
virced for adultery or fornication in the other
party. Mr. Hoar of Mass. replied that if he
cared to follow the style of argument followed
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 proprlety as he
could, Hoar thought that the presences of q
large number of mullattos remained to be a c.
counted for in some way, but he would not en-
ter upon this sort of argument
In the Wallace Mckinley contested election
20 CO the Hprga on the nth proceeded
TO vote upon the minority resolution
declaring Mckinley entitled 10 his seat
1t was lost-yeas, los nays 15S.
The following Democrats voted with the Re-
publicans in Affirmative: Blackburn, Dorshe;
mer, Hurd, Mills, Potter, Robertson (Ky), and
Thompson. White (Ky.l 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 favorably the bill to forfeit
the unearned 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 tide intention of purchasing the same
of the Northern Pacific company, and are enti-
tied to enter them under the presumption or
homestead 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 embracedi In 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 O bona fide settler at
| the time of such selection such settler shall be
entitled to purchase 160 acres of land, to be by
him selected of the Northern Pacific, by paying
therefore the sum of SL.25 per acre, and shall
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 the benefit of this section.
Matters were necessarily duh on Saturday
about the capitol The senate was not in ses-
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. A resolution was
adopted, authorizing the committee on Indian
affairs to investigate the disbursement of Cher
okee funds and other matters in the Indian Ter
rltory, 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 q Santa Fe railroad.
Tbs hil was passed restoring the law of 1867
IN the matter OF appeals from circuit courts to
the United States supreme court in habeas
corpus cases. This law was repealed a few years
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 disbnrse-
ments OF $300,OOO 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 Re Railroad company, passed: also the
bill granting the rightof way through Indian
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 a por-
Ion of the Red Lake reservation in Minneso-
q, but without final action the house adj
tourned
On Monday, the I'd, IN the senate, a large
number OF members being absent, the calendar
Of cases ~unobjected to was proceeded with
and bills were read a third time. and passed as
follows: House bill r~efunding rate postage on
mail matter of the second class when sent by
persons ether than publishers or news agents.
THE bill was passed in the shape it came from
the house, except that the newspaper limit OF
weight for one-cent postage was extended To
four ounces); the bill for the relief of the
Protestant orphan asylum OF Natchez, Miss.
DILL Introduced Dy Miaef OF CalfOfnia, pr0v1d-
ing for the execution of articleI Of supplemen-
tai commercial treaty of Nov. IL, 1880, between
/ the United States and China for repression of
the opium trade; bill to establish forest reser-
walton of the head waters of the Missouri river
and head waters of Clark's Forks Of the Col
gmbia river; bill, introduced by Mr.. Slater, to
grant the Astoria and Winnemucca
railway company right of way through
1 public lands, and the right TO construct bridges
over navigable watercourses; bill for the relief
0fthe Nez Perces Indians in Idaho, and OF al
lied tribes residing upon the Granderonde In
dian reservation bill authorizing the construc-
ton Of bridges across the Minnesota river IN
Minnesota and Wisconsin by the Chicago, st
Paul 81 ST. Louis railroad company, one bridge
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