The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-06-12
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY

CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY
IN tho ssnate, on Monday, tho 26th. the judi
iand dissentneo the Bin. Tor Two more Dakota
supreme oourf associAteajushses. RThe;senate,
in tho face Of an adverse recommend kiou~ by
the judiciary committee, concurred& im thej
house amendment to the bill extending for one
year . the d1 os%a Sf thS court p,1
of Gcorga offered thef6Nowing amendment:
That voluntary sexual Intercourse Of a married
person with one Of the olposite sex not hns-
band orwife of such married person, shalf be
in the District of Columbia or ii the territories
Of the United States; but the courts may, ID
proper cases, as at common law, grantdivOrcee
from bed and board in said district, the terri
tories or other places subject to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the United States 10: 80 )
Mr.. White of Minnesota introduced into the
house abill granting a. pension to Charles
Brandt The pension claims Of Brainard N.
Iheeders of Henderson, MIMI, and Ellen D.
Woolsley of Bonnell's Mill 8 Mimi, have beenal-
lowed, There also has been an adverse decision
in, the case of William s. Grave Of Montevideo,
of the 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 five
wears old y e =, = NJ
Senator Ingalls, has reported to the senate
from the committee ON Judiciary substitute
for the joint resolution introduced by Senator
Jackson proposing an amendment to the con-
stitution 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
ca The president and vice president hereaf-
ter elected shall hold their term of Office for
six years ;ibut tho president shall not be ELI
gible,s nor shall the vice president be eligible
to tho Office of president if he shall have exer
cised the same in case of a vacancy therein.
! Robinson of New York never misses bill
day without the introduction of some measure
to carry out the peculiar view he holds on our
foreign relations. His last proposition, which
was, introduced Monday, is to prohibit any sen
ator or member Of congress from receiving or
paying visits from or to the ambassadors of
house to which no belongs. This is supposed
to be aimed at Congressman Hewitt, who il on
terms of intimacy with the British minister.
FIR. Cameron Pa) appeared in the senate
Tuesday morning, and the senators ccngrat-
ulated him on his safe return and improved
health.
The senate took up the bill to grant
the Cinnabar Il Clarks Forks Railroad COM
pany the right Of way through portion of the
Yellowstone Park. Mr.. Logan opposed the
bill There was, he said, a disposition to
gobble up everything in connection with thu
He NogaD had found herds Of cattle
ands- horses -s-ipr>srthes park,& A de-
parsment of thssUsitN States evernment 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 all
body else out, fand 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 a private corporation.
In debate in the senate on the Utah bill
Mr.: Brown: of Georgia said it was ashameful
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 H.
OoO divorces granted in New England within
the last twenty years, destroying $1,000 fam
lilies, and turning loose 81 900 persons to marry
virced for adultery or fornicationin:th 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 desire to
that senator came with as much propriety as he
could, Hoar thought that the presences of
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
to vote upon the minority resolution
declaring Mckinley entitled to his seat
It was lost-yeas, 1oS nays 1853.
The following Democrats voted with the Re-
mer, Hur1 Mills, Potter, Robertson (Ky), and
Thompson. White (Ky.) 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 fde intention of purchasing the same
of the Northern Pacific company, and are emit
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 160 acres, including his settle
ment or improvement at a specified rate per
acre. Other persons, not embraced in this pro-
vision, shall have time in which to remove any
growing crop and all movable improvements.
In all cases whore 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 a bona fide settler at
the time of such selection such settler shall be
entitled to purchase 100 acres of land, to be by
him selected of the Northern Pacific, by paying
therefore the sum of 81. Is 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 LOO acres to in
clude the settlement and improvement of the
settler claiming tho benefit of this section.
Matters were necessarily dull on Saturday
about the capitol The senate was not in ses-
Sion, and the house consumedthe 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
ritory, including fencing of lands for stock
raising purposes, after which the time was con-
sumed in discussing the right of way, through
the lnQlan lerfltOry to the gulf OF the COlOra-
do & 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 few Years
ago, while the Nc Ardle case from Mississippi
was pending before the supreme court A res
olutlon.was adopted authorizing the commit
tee on Indian lands 70. investigate all matters
touching the leasing, snbleasing and fencing of
lands in Indian Territory, and the disburse-
ments OF $500, 600 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 Fe Railroad company, passed; also the
Territory to the Southern Kansas Railroad com
The bill was considered authorizing the Sec
rotary Of the interior to obtain from the Red
Lake Chippewa Indians the cession of por-
ton of the Red Lake reservation in Minneso-
a, but without final action the house ad-
Minnesota State University.
The twelfth annual commencement Of the
State University took place on Thursday, the
3Oth. The exercises consisted as usual of read
ing papers by graduates. The following is a
list Of graduates. = -
!. College of Science, Literature and the Arts
For Bachelor of Arts, Nine-Elmer Ellsworth
Adams, Morrisville, Vt; Patrick Joseph But
Joseph Henry Capper Hutchinson, Hastings !;
Anthony Johnson, Newburg; Eli Larson, Brats-
Wlnifred Sewall, =: st. , Paul; Zenas
Newton Vaughn, Austin. For Bachelor
of Science Nine-Nathan Morton Baker,
St Pete PETER 4, Jeremiah 1gnatius Dono-
sOD st pau1. CeOrpa Hnraco K1onpor Abort