The Dickinson press., 1884-06-07
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS,

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Tuesday morning, and the senators cengrat-
health.
The senate took up the bill to grant
the Clnnabar & Clarks Forks Railroad com-
YELLOWSTONE Park. Mr.. Logan opposed the
BIZ, There was, he said, a disposition to
gobble up everything in connection with the
park by the railroads and hotel companies.
He Iogan) had found herds Of cattle
anu artms horses re- IS in the park. A de;
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 all
hotel privileges in the park and driven every
pody 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. Mr.. 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 the park
was under the control of q private corporation:
In = debate in the senate on the Utah bill
MIR; Brown Of Georgia said it was a shameful
violation of the constitution. He contrasted
what he termed polygamy in New England and
polygamy in Utah. The picture he drew, he
said, was drawn ''more in sorrow than in
du6Cir 4uCl udu Ueeu over ~I,-
OK divorces granted in New England within
the last twenty years, destroying $1,000 fam
lilies, and turning loose 81, 600 persons to marry
again, all illegally, except those who We're di-
yirced for adultery or fornication in the other
party. Mr. Hoar of Mass. replied that if lie
cared to follow the style of argument followed
by MIR. 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 propriety as he
could, Hoar thought that the prescnces of a
large number of mullattos remained to be c.
counted form some way, but he would not en-
ter upon this sort of argument.
In the Wallace Mckinley contested election
case the House on the 9th proceeded
declaring Mckinley entitled to his seat.
The following Democrats voted with the Re-
publicans in ALTERNATIVES: Blackburn, Dorshei-
mer, Hurd, Mills, Potter, Robertson (Ky.), and
Thompson. White (Ky.) voted with the Demo-
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 arc enti-
tied to enter them under tile pre-emption or
homesteadlaws, such persons proving the same
to the satisfaction OF the Commissioner of
the general land office, shall be entitled to enter
not moro than l6o acres, including his settle
ment or improvement at q specified rate per
acre. Other persons, not embracedin 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 &C.
lected OF 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 a bona tide settler at
the time of such selection such settler shall be
entitled to purchase 1GO acres of land, to be by
him selected of the Northern Pacific, by paying
the sum of $1.15 per acre, and Shall
have twelve months i'll which to make payment
therefor, after notice of the selection of his
clude the settlement and Improvement of tho
settler claiming the benefit of this section.
Matters were necessarily dull on Saturday
about the capitol. The senate was not in SEES
sion, and the house consumed the timo in bust
ness of no general interest. Not moro than
twenty members appeared in their seats on the
Republican side, and the Democratic side
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 tho Colora-
do g. Santa Fe railroad.
The bill 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 Il few years
ago, while the Nc Ardle case from Mississippi
was nGpGInp haforn t1a n ~,
olutlon was adopted authorizing the commit
tee on Indian lands to investigate ak matters
touching the leasing, subleasing and fencing of
lands in Indian Territory, and tho disburse-
ments OF 100000 appropriated for the Chcro-
kee nation during tile Forty-sevcnth congress.
The bill granting the right of way through In
dian Territory to the gulf, Of the Colorado e.
Sante Fe Railroad company, passed; also the
bill granting the right of 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-
tlon OF the Red Lake reservation in Minnoso-
a, but without final action the house ad-
tourned.
On Monday, the I'd, i'll the senate, a large
number of members being absent, the calendar
of cases unobjected to was proceeded with,
and bills were read q third time, and passed as
follows: House bill refunding rate postage on
mail matter of the second class when sent by
persons other than publishers or news agents.
(Ihe bill was passed in the shape it came from
the house, except that the newspaper limit Of
four o%unces); the bill for the relief of the
Protestant orphan asylum of Natchez, Miss.
bill introduced by Miller of California, provid-
ing for the execution of article | of supplement
tai commercial treaty of Nov. IL, 1880, between
the United States md China for repression of
tho Oni1m t1O1a. hill r., establish fny,act ,a,,u
yation of the head waters of the Missouri river
and head waters Of Clarll's Forks of the Col
nmbla river; bill, introduced by MI. Slater, to
grant the Astoria and Winnemucca
railway company right of way through
over navigable watercourses; bill for the relief
ofthe 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
Paul Il ST. Louis railroad company, one bridge
between Hastings and Red Wing and one be-
tween Hastings and st. Pau
In the house, on Monday, the I'd, Mr.. Buck
ner introduced q bill in the house to amend the
national bank act. 1t provides that no certifi-
cate of increase of stock shall be signed by the
controller Of currency till satisfied such in
crease is required by the business of the asso
cation, and that the increase is not made to
meet existing liabilities, or to avoid assessm ent
on the stockholders to make good on any i'm
pairment of the capital stock. The making of
loans or discount by officers of q banking as
ISOLATION without authority from the directors
is made a misdemeauor, punishable by i'm
plisonment for not less than three nor
more than ten years. In reporting their con
dition banks are required to state separately,
under the head of resources, the list of loans
and discounts considered good, those sus-
pended, overdue and doubtful, and those over
due and unpaid more than six months. The
bill also authorizes the controller to call for
special reports at any time upon written request
of stockholders Of one-tifth of the capital stock
Of anY national banking association