The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-06-06

tories, the house Dill III relation to the leglSla-
ture of Dakota, which provides that that body
shall consist Of twenty four mombers Of the
council and ~forty-eight members of the house,
and that they shall be elected At the next GEN
eral election III the territory two members Of
the council and four members of tho se,,..o.
The pension appropriation and iabof bureau
bills passed, the vote ON the latter measure be-
ing .! to Z. The house bill providing for the
muster and pay of certain officers and men of
the volunteer forces also passed. Adjourned
till Monday.
On Friday, in the House, Mr.. Kellogg offered
o resolution instructing the committee on OK
penditnres of the department of justice To in
quire into his(kelloegs sialleged connection with
and ~ long discussion, the resolution was re-
ferfea to the committee ON judiciary, to report
whether the house has a legal right thus to
order IN investigation Of the acts of n member
before his term OF service began. The bill for
the payment of quartemaster claims, known
as Fourth of July ,lains, and appropriately
S3ao,0oo, passed. The house at the evening
session passed forty six pension bills, includ-
ing one giving 900 per month to the wife of
Gen. Ord.
Mr.. Springer took occasion to speak in strong
condemnation Of the bill to retire Gen. Grant
and to give him a pension of Sl0,l25 u year,
simply because no had been unfortunate in
Wall street. 1t was said that Gen. Grant had
not been aware of the dealings of his partners
but tho fact remained that he had associated
himself with speculators who were involved in
the most disreputable practices which had ever
been heard of in this country, and were only
paralleled in other countries by the South Sea
bubble and John Laws Mississippi scheme.
This was not the time nor were the circum-
stances such as called upon congress to go to
Grants relief.
The senate has passed a substitute for the
house bill establishing a labor bureau. 1t pro-
vides for o commissioner Of labor to be az
pointed by the president and confirmed by the
senate, and who shall hold office for four years
oh an rHl,.1 n1,rr - Est0hN A A - II .1,
at $1,000 u year, is to be appointed by the sec
rotary of tho interior. The business of the
bureau shall be to collect information upon
the subject of labor, its relations to capital,
hours If labor and earnings of laboring mon
and women and means of promoting their Ma
terial, social, intellectual and moral prosperity,
At an annual expense OF not more than S 1000.
. year.
In tbs s~saate, on Monday, tho 18th, the judi
ciary committee reported favorably (Mr. Gar
land dissanting) tho bill for two more Dakota
supreme court associate justices. The senate,
IN the face OF an adverse recommendation by
tho judiciary committee, concurred in the
house amendment to the bill extending for one
S y Ala ta = da alai%g. T # t 9tsh court Iii
was considered and Senator Brown
of Georgia offered the following amendments:
That voluntary sexual intercourse of a married
person with one of the opposite sex not hus-
band or wife of such married person, shall be
accuse, and the only cause, for absolute divorce
in the District of Columbi or in the territories
of the United States; but the courts may, il
proper cases, as at commonlaw, grant divorces
from bed and board in said district, the terri
tories or other places subject to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the United States.
Mr. White of Minnesota introduced into the
house abill granting a pension to Charles
Brandt. Tho pension claims of Brainard N.
Theedeis of Henderson, Mimi, and Ellen D..
Woolsleyof Bonnelrs Mills MINI. have been al
lowed. There also has been an adverse decision
in the case of William S. Grave of Montevideo,
Mimi. Mr.. Strait will appeal to the secretary
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
banks; pensioning all honorably discharged
soldiers of the Rebellion who are forty-fve
| years old.
Senator Ingalls, has reported to the senate
from the committee on judiciary a 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 i'll Ingalls, substitute is as fol-
lows.
Article 9. Executive power shall be vested
in the president of the United States of Ameri-
ca. The president and vice president hereaf-
ter elected shall hold their torn of ofice for
six years but the president shallnot be re-eli-
gible, nor shall the vice president be eligible
to the Office of president if he shallaave exer-
cised the same in case of a vacancy therein.
Robinson vi New York never misses q 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 he belongs. This is supposed
to be aimed at Congressman Hewitt, who is on
terms of intimacy with the British minister.
Mr.. Cameron Pa.) appeared in the senate
Tuesday morning, and the senator's ccngrat-
ulated him on his safe return and improved
health.
TIL senate took up tho bill to grant
the Cinnabar & .1larks Forks Railroad COM
pany the right of way through a portion of the
Park. Mr.. Logan opposed the
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 all
hotel privileges in the park and driven every
bouy else out, and now congress unwisely asks
the tract to be made o football to be Kicked
about by men outside of it for their personal
gain. Nh. 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 8 private corporation.
In q debate in the senate on the Utah bill
MI; Brown Of Georgia said it was a shameful
violation OF the constitution. He contrnsted
polygamy in Utah. The picture he drew, he
said, was drawn more in sorrow than in
anger" There had been over 27,-
9 o divorces granted in New England within
lilies, and turning loose $1,000 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
outeven referring to statistics, which would be
sufficiently disagrecable. With a desire to
credit the portion OF the country from which
that senator came with as much propriety as no
could, Hoar thought that the presences Of q
large number of mullattos remained to be c.
counted forin some way, but he would not en-
ter upon this sort Of argument.
In tho Wallace Mckinley contested election
declaring Mckinley entitled to his seat.
l. was lost--yeas, 10s nays l5s.
The following Democrats voted with the Re-
mer, Hurd, Mills, Potter, ..Robertson lKy.), 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 nnearned 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 tho Northern Pacific company, and are emit
tied to enter them under tho presumption or
homestead laws, suchpersons proving the same
to tho satisfaction of the commissioner of
the general land Office, shall be entitled to enter
not mora than 100 acres, including his settle