Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-12
CONGRESSIONAL.

In the Senate on June I'd, memorial
was presented from the Cincinnati Indus
trial Exposition, praying that the sum of
$25, 900 be appropriated to assist in the work
of the Exposition.
The following bills were then read third
time and passed: House Bill fixing the rate
of postage on mail matter of the second
class when sent by other than publishers or
news agents. The bill was passed in the
shape it came from the House, except that
the newspaper limit of weight for One-Cent
postage was extended to four ounces. A bill
making the cities of Tacoma and Seattle,
Washington Territory, ports Of delivery.
The following bills were then introduced:
One providing for the execution of article
2 of the supplemental commercial treaty of
November 18th, 1880, between the United
States and China, for the suppression of the
opium trade; bill to establish a forest
reservation at the head waters of the Mis-
souri, river, and at the headwaters and
for the relief of the Nez Perces Indians in
Idaho, and of the allied tribes residing upon
Grand Ronde, Indian reservation. 1t gives
the members of the tribes named lands in
seYeraltY, in lieu of the lands given by the
treaties of 1856 and 1868.
The Senate then adjourned.
In the House on June I'd a resolution was
introduced calling on the Secretary of the
Interior for the names of all persons with
whom contracts have been made for fur
nishing Indian supplies. Also a resolution
calling on the Secretary of War for similar
information relative to any such supplies.
Also another apprOpriating $25,0 to aid
the Southern Exposition in Louisville for
1884, and admitting free of duty articles in
tended for exhibition thereat. And one
fixing the 23d of June as the date of final
adjournment.
The Legislative Appropriation Bill was
then passed.
The House then adjourned.
In the Senate on June Sd the following
bills were read third time and passed: The
bill granting an annual leave of fifteen DAYS
absence, with pay, to letter-carrirrs. 1t
authorizes the Postmaster General to employ
number of substitute letter carriers, rem
dered necessary by the provisions of the
bill. The com pensation of each substitute
shall be at the rate of 5000 per year. The
bill granting the right of way through Fort
Selden military reservation to the Rio
Grande, Mexico and Pacific Railroad Com
pany. The bill giving a pension of $50 per
month to the widow of General Judson
Kirkpatrick. The bill authorizing the sale
of a portion of the Fort Hays military
reservation to the Ellis County Agri-
cultural Society of Kansas. The bill
apoo Diminished Reservation in Kan
sas. The House bill relating to the
Legislature of Dakota. It provides that the
Council of the Territory shall consist of
twenty-four members and House of Rep
Resentatives of forty-eight members, and
that at the next general election two mem
bers of the Council and four of the Lower
House shall be elected in each of the twelve
Legislative Districts of the Territory. The
bill to regulate the payment of bills of ex-
change due in foreign countries on persons,
firms and corporations in the United States
The bill fixing the cost of the site for pub
lie buildings at Leavenworth at not to ex-
coed $160,O The House bill authorizing
the construction of bridges across the Mis-
souri, river at Leavenworth, and near the
town Of Rulo, Richardson county, Nebras-
ka, passed.
At 3:25 the Senate, after passing sixty
bills adjourned until Friday.
In the House on June Sd, a bill passed