River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-04-03
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

tVAuhENNlUAAL PkUJEEDIANN.
Senator Cameron, from the committee on In
dian affairs, reported favorably the bill pro-
yiding for the allotment of lands in severalty to
the La Pointe band of Chippewa Indians IN Wis
consin. The bill provides that
The president of the United States may as
| sign to each head of a family, or single person
over twenty one years of age, belonging 70 that
| subdivision of the Chippcwas, of which Buff
falo was chief eighty acres within the lands re-
| served as addition to the Red Cliff Indian reser-
walton; provided that such person has not re-
ecived land under the provision of any article
of the treaty.
A bill has passed the senate increasing the
| compensation of United States district judges
| from $500 to 5000 year, but prohibits
| these officers from filing places under them
! with their relatives, During the debate the
| anti-nepotism clause, Senator Ingalls, "a re
| some of his colleagues a severe rap when ne
declared that it was highly improper and in
| delicate for government officials TO appoint
| their relatives to office Some senators have
| all of the available members of their families
/ on the government rolls.
| The President sent to the Senate on Tuesday
| the following nominations: David J. Brewer,
| Kansas, United States circuit judge of the
| Eight Judicial circuit; julius q Burrows,
| Michigan, solicitor of the treasury; Col DAVID
4 G. Stanley, Twenty-seeond infantry, brlgadief
/ general; Chauneey b. Sabin, district judge OF
| the Eastern district of Texas: Asa Il. Straiton,
| Jr, attorney of the United States Wyoming ;
William A. Saylor, collector Of customs, district
| of Paso del Norte; James Q. Luby, collector OF
| customs, district of Brazo de Santiago, Texas
A joint resolution giving the Mississippi riv-
| er flood sufferers 1926, 900 of the unexpended
balance Of the appropriation for the victims Of
the Ohio flood was adopted by both houses.
The following nominations were sent to the
| senate; Aaron Sergeant envoy ext raordin-
| airy and minister plenipotentiary to q ermany,
No. ,laraT
potentiary to Russia, vice William H. Hunt de-
/ ceased Robert T. Clayton, Georgia, consul to
The United States, Para
| The Senate in executive session made the
following conirmations Aaron 4. Sar gent,
/ envoy extraordinary and minister plenip Oten-
| tiary to Russia William NJ Bun, Philadelphia,
/ governor of Idaho; Summer Howard, Michigan,
| chief justice of the supreme court of Arizona
| William A Saylor, Texas, collector of customs
/ district of Ell Paso del Norte, Texas nd New
Mexico; Elliot s n Morgan, Cheyenn e, sec
rotary of Wyoming; Lieut. Col Thomas S.
1 Casey, colonel of the corps of enginee rs !;
Lieut.. Col. John G. Parke,
/ colonel of the corps of engineers, Sixth regi-
/ Jr., to be first lieutenant Reconsideration
| ry $. French, Northfield, Mimi. John w.
| Jones, Cheyenne Wyo.
The senate passed the bill aIlotting lands il
severalty to the Indians on va rious reservations
and extended the protection of state a nd terri.
torial laws over Indians
| A bill passed the senate paying ten claims
for depredations committed by Ute Indians;
among the claimants being Mrs Meeker and
| her daughter, the latter now deceased.
| The whisky bond bill was overwhelmingly de-
/ feated in the house by vote of 81 to 1S5 The
vote was surprise to every one. That the bill
would be defeated was a foregone conclusion,
| but no one imagined that the adverse majority
| would be hundred or more. Fully half the
| democrats voted against it, as did nearly all of
| the republicans.
| An analysis of the vote SHOWS that the North
| ern States that furnished the votes for the bill
/ were California, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan,
| Missouri, New York, Ohio and Wisconsin, with
| an occasional one from Pennsylvania, Massa-
| chusetts and Connecticut The only Southern
States that supported the bill with any strength
| were Louisiana and Kentucky The greatest
opposition, both in the discussion and the vote,
| it was very noticeable, came from the South,
except in the states named. This was largely
due to the fact that in most of the Southern
states there is a strong temperance sentiment
The $40, 900 of tax on the bonded whiskey has
got to be paid. Some of it has already matured,
and it is estimated that $4,000, coo moro will
become due between now and the LIST of june
| The large lobby here are very Respondent over
their defeat and are predicting financial disas-
| ter to many dealers and embarrassment to banks
which have lost money on immense stores of
whisky. Whether their fears will be realized
remains to be seen. 1t is in fact that large
NUMBER Oh ndh1ODdl Drinks were among tDG InOBt
| persistent in urging the passage of the bill
The joint resolution proposing amendmen
| to the constitution to extend the right of suf-
| frage to women reported fayoraby to the SEN
ate from the committee on woman suffrage by
Senator Palmer, provides that the legislatures
of the several states be asked to ratify the fol-
| lowing article, which it proposes as an amend
| ment to the constitution as article XVI;
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States to vote shall not be denied or abridged
| by the United States or by any sex on account
| of sex.
Sec. . Congress shall have power to appro-
| pirate legislation to enforce the provisions of
| this article.
Mr. Nelson presented to the house the reso-
| luton of the St Paul chamber of commerce
relative to the head of navigation of the Mimi
esota river. 1t declares that the Minnesota
river can be made navigable beyond the city OF
New Ulm and protests against any action on
the part Of the government which shall as
sumo the head of navigation of that river at
the place and IN any sense which shall hereaf-
ter prevent the improvement of this water way
In the senate a resolution was offered by Mr.
Van Wyck. and, after verbal amendment by
Mr.. Garland, agreed to, as follows Resolved,
That the SECRETARY of the interior be directed 10
furnish the senate copies OF the correspondence
between the departments of justice and the IN
terror as to the present efficacy of the statute of
March 81, 1907, empowering the president to
direct marshals and employ such military force
as may be necessary to remove certain persons
and distractions from the public domain
In the Senate debate on the education bill,
Senator George, of Mississippi said he had once
believed a state had right to secede from the
Union He believed now that the right then ex-
listed, but it had been irreyocably lost-lost
amid the clang of arms and the h. rrors of war
He had once denied that the federal govern
ment was judge of its own power; yet that had
been firmly established.
Those opinions, said Mr. George, Il have
surrendered, however, unwillingly. / will not
feed ON the dry husks and emasculated remains
of constitutional theories which, however res
pectable they may have been, now no longer
control or influence the government or destln-
les of this great nation. We live Ill the present
We are actors in the present. We must meet
the demands of the present The world moves,
and we must move with it willnot pass my
life in dreamy CONCENTRATIONS of the beauties
and excellence of absolute theories, now mere
distractions, and in picturing the benefits and
glories which might have come from their OBJ
servances 1t is enough to know that they are
no longer potent for the good or evil OF this
Union and while NAV shed q tear over their
tomb, will not spend my life in ministering at
affairs which have been erected to them.
The case of Minister Sargent brought
into the house by Congressman Finerty, who
introduced a resolution extending the thanks
of congress and the public to Minister Sargent
for the able manner in which he has represent
ed the interests of tie American people at
Berlin, and expressing regret at his retire
ment This is very unusual act, but CON
gress will pass the resolution, and
there will be debate upon it that will warm
the ears of Secretary Frelinghuysen. The res
oluton was referred to the committee on for
eign affairs, but before tbs acted upon congress
will undoubtedly call upon the secretary of
state for the correspondence between Sargent
and himself relative TO the transfer to st Pc
tersburg.
The President of the Senate has laid before
the senate a communication from the attorney
general stating that there had been neither
neglect nor refusal to furnish information con
corning the star route attorneys, but his force
was too small to supply promptly volumlnous
papers called for by the senate. He repeats
his former request for an increase of clerical
force A bill was reported favorably proyld-
ing for the erection of public buildings at
Portland, Or.
Senator Miller a. " reported favorably the
bill to provide for the establishment of forest
reservation at the headwaters OF the missouri
river and at the headwaters of Clarks Fork OF
the Columbia river.
Early in the session an effort was made by
Mr. Beach of New York. chairman of the COM
mittee on public health, to have the house or
der an investigation by his committee of the
subject of adulterated food The resolution
was an attack upon the oleomargarlne facto-
| ries in New York, and was vigorously opposed
| by s. s. Cox.
Mr. Cox thought the investigation was entire
" outside the province of congress, and that IL
| was inst as proper to investigate and ind out
| lust how much sand there was in the sugar we
| eat, which in fact, would more properly come
| within the jurisdiction OF the proposed inYes-