The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-04-18
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY

CONGRESS1ONA Al SUMMARY
The Indian appropriation bill was passos
Aprh Thy the house early in the session. The
most important amendment to the bill was that
abolishing the office of Indian insnectn- and
authorizing the secretary of war to detail Of.
service. W
The house committee on postofices and most
roads voted 8 to 2 to adopt the following: Re-
solved, That it is the sense of this committe
that II IS mexpedlent for the government either
toconstruct d postal telegraph or purchase orv
existing line Of telegraph. Messrs. Bingham
and Pdele voted in the negative and Messrs
Money, Reese, Ward, Cosgrove, Riggs, Rogers
Jones OF Texas, and Wakefield in the affirma,
wv. me plii atthorlZing the postmaster
general to contract with the Postal Telegram
company, or other companies, will be consitd,
cred Oh Tuesday next
Senator Vest reported a bill favorably from
the committee on territories TO authorize the
to run and mark the boundary lines between
certain portions of the Indian Territory and
IeXas, III connection with q similar commission
to be appointed by the state of Texas.
NE COOK presented the house through the
petition box a paper signed by about fifty citi-
zens OF Avery, Iowa, which can hardly be-
termed a etition, sinceitopans witt, the words.
We, the undersigned sovereign citizens. hero
py command You, our servant, demanding the
passage of u bill to construct a double trac
steel railway from New York 10 San Francisco !"
and declaring that not another dollar should be
lent national banks or squanderediu canals
The president sent to the senate the follow.
ing nominations: Commodore Clark H Wells.
rear admiral; Thomas II, Reeves of Missouri.
agent of Indian at Quapaw agency. Indian Ter
rltory. Postmasters-E S. Minor. Necedah
Wis; Fred j. Bartels, Peshtigo, Wis. James
A Foote, Anoka, MINI. Warren Potter Aitl,in'
Mimi. Max Miller, Jackson, Or.
The seuate passed n bill making tia felony
for a person to falsely or fraudulcntly assume
or pretend to be al officer or employe acting
under the auth lty of the United States or any
department thereof. The bill has passed the
house.
The House has passed the agricultural ap-
preparation bnl. One item gives s25. One for
seeds, etc.
In the senate Nj. Cullom introduced a bill
to reimburse several states for interest paid on
war loans. Referred. The bill 10 sntht1ze
the construction of = railroad bridge across the
St CToiN rlvsr IN Wisconsin and Mimi esota
passed.
Mt, Strait haa presented to the house the res-
olntion of the st Paul chamber of mmcr
asking for a liberal approf ;iation for the post
office department, u order that they may cx-
tend aud tmp.oTe the postal service: also the
resolutions OF he board oftrade of Minnea po-
lis requesting the passage OF a national bank
rnpt act.
The proposition to raise thetariff on wool got
slaughtered in the House on Monday. Instead
of getting the two thirds majority necessary to
tako up the measure. the proposition was do
feated by a vote of 126 to lis, a
Tho affirmative Vote was composed mostly Of
Republicans, there being eighty Republicans
aud tliirty-eight Democrats. The Democrats
were US follows: Shelly and Goldsmith, Hewitt
of Alabama, G.asscork, Henley. Rosecrans and
Julie of Georgia: Nichols of Louisiana; Wei
Ter OF Iowa, Hunt of Maryland, FindIay of
Michigan, and Eldridge of New Jersey: Mr..
Wakefield of minnesota voted aye, but Strait,
White and Nelson voted no. MIR. Washburn
was absent
The Senate on Monday passed the educational
bill appropriutiug s77,uo, G3o, to be distributed
among the ~statesin proportion to illiteracy
on the basis of the census of 1880:
the payments of the money to extend
by MI. Hoar, providing that the
amount be distributed the first year be s7,0ov,-
Go, second year slo,o00.000, third year sl5,-
0oo,UW, and then diminish at the rate of 81
G0o,GW0 yearly, until the expiration of the eighth
year, when the appropriations shall cease.
The amendment was agreed to aSyeas, l2nays.
Another amendment of Mr.. Hoar's was agreed
to, providing that equal opportunity for cd.
ucation be given to all children i'll the states
Mr.. Nelson of Minnesota, on Tuesday, moved
n suspension of the rules in order to take III
his bill to open to settlement the Red Lake In.
dian reservation and made his maiden speech
in the house, Mr.. Washburn favored the bill.
He thought it was a step in the right direction.
~ Hb Ah'io'AuN'u II pll "ult NGlt lAINuCE
but the committee had chosen to report Mr.
Nelson's bill, and he thought it ought to pass
Mr.. Blount of Ga, violently attacked the bill
and the motion requiring n two-thirds majority
was lost-yeas 81, nays Il. The bill, however
is not defeated, but will be in better shap,
when it is taken up in the house in the regula,
way.
The senate has passed q bill to divide up the
reservations and give the lands to the Indians
in severalty, III 100 acre tracts, the residue t.
be sold by the government and the proceeds
used for educational and other purposes. TIL,
bill also makes the Indians subject to the civi
and criminal laws OF the community in which
they live, and makes them citizens except 81
far MS the right of suffrage is concerned. TIL,
passage of this bill will break up tribal rela-
tons and give the Indians a chance TO take
care of themselves without being entirely dc,
pendent upon the government. The adult.
will have to work for 4 living AZ white people
do, and the children will be given an education
in the rudimentary branches and theindustrial
arts.
Tho senate has passed a bill requiring that
governors of all tho territories, except the In
dan Territory, shall be residents of those ter.
ritorles for at least two years next preceding
the date Of their appointment, The bill wal
passed after a lively discussion.
The following executive business was trans
acted by the senate on Thursday. Nonina
tons: Thomas We're Fox, consul OF the United
States at plymouth, Eng WilliamW. Roskhill,
Maryland. second secretary of legation, China.
# Vim -. 'ti . ~ HuN 'iI
Combinations: Postmasters, L. S. Miner,
Necednh, Wis. James A. Footc, Anoka. MINI.
Warren Potter, Aitkin, MINI. i. ]. Bartels
Peshtigo, Wis. Henry Keerl, Mason City, Iowa:
Frank Z, Barber, Jr. Rock Rapids, Iowa.
The following bill III relation to courts and
judicial proceedings in the territories has
passed the senate. The act provides: Tn
supreme court of every territory shall consist
of Il chief justice and three associate justices
any threapf whom shall constitute a quorum
and they Shall hold their Office for four years
and until their successors are appointed ant
qualified, They shall hold n term annually q
the seat Of government OF the territory for Wlicl
they are respectively appointed; provided
however, thatn no justice shall actas u membeI
OF the supreme court in any action or proceed
ing brought to such court by writ of error,
bulls oe exceptions, or appeal from decision,
Judgement of decree rendered by hin az judge
of a district court. Every territory e}all bi
divided into -four judicial district, and n dis
trict conrt shall be held in each district of til,
territory by one of the justices of the supreme
2cur: Mt such time and place rs may be pre-
scIibed by law; and each Judge, after assign
ment, shall reside in the district 10 whsil 80 u
assigned.
Senator Hill, from the committee on post
Offices and post roads, reported favorably tn
original bin TO establish a postal telegraph sys
TEN. Mr.. Hill remarked that the omnitta
were unanimous az to the fiTst clauses of til
bill, which relate to doing the work by con
HuSt5 WIFI tne eAistLAlS cpnlldIilcs
THE contract system rcmails the most
prominent feature of the bill and is not widely
different from the scheme of the postal tcle
graph company, except that it empowers tht
postmaster general to receive bids from am
telegraph company for contracts. The provis
ions relating to the establishment of n govern.
ment system, pare and simple, in the event tina
no satisfactory c~ontiact with established COM
panies is secured are u combination of the
features of the Sill and Edmunds bill.
The long contest oyer the appointment o
Mccoy to the Aberdeen, Oak, land Office WA
finally settled by his confirmation By the son.