Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-06-06
SOW cnEgs1o 4, PROCEEDINGS.

CONGRESSIONAL FRO I:EDIHGs.
= u fhb snnasn On Monday, the 10Th, the judi
ciary committee reported favorably Mr. Gar
land dissenting the bill for two more Dakota
supreme court associate Justices, The senate,
in tho face of an adverse recomne ndation BY
house amendment to the bin extending for one
OF Alabama claims The Utah bill
vas /. considered and Senator Brown
Of Georgia offered the following amendment:
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
d cause, and the only cause for absolute divorce
in the District OF Columbia or III the territories
of the United States; but the courts may, in
proper cases, as at common law, 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 o pension to Charles
Brandt The pension claims Of Brainard N.
Theeders OF Henderson, Mimi, and Ellen D.
lowed. There also has been an adverse decision
in the case Of William S, Grave Of Montevideo,
MINI. Mr. Strait will app cal to the secretary
of the interior from & the decision.
Bills were introduced into the house abolish
ing license taxes on tobacco dealers; Furnishing
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-tive
years old '-'E
Senator Ingalls, has reported to the senate
from the committee on Judiciary o substitute
for the joint resolution introduced by Senator
Jackson proposing an amendment to the con-
stituton in relation to the term of Office of
president and vice president. The amendments
provided for in Ingalls, substitute is as fol-
lows
Article 2. 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 term of Office for
six years; but the president shallnot be re-eli-
to the Office of president if he shall have exer-
cised the same in case of a vacancy therein.
Robinson of New York never misses a 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 OF member of congress from receiving or
paying visits from or to the ambassadors Of
foreign countries without the permission of the
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 senators congrat-
ulated him on his safe return and improved
health.
The senate took up the bill to grant
the Cinnabar t. Clarks Forks Railroad com
pany the right Of way through portion OF the
bill. There was, he said, a disposition to
gobble up. everything in connection with the
park by the railroads and hotel companies.
He NogaD had found herds of cattle
and horses in the park. A de-
partment of the United States government ha d
Divided j,,to tom wi oh
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
body else out, and now congress unwisely asks
the tract to be made q football to be kicked
about by men outside Of it for their personal
gain DIR. 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 tue park
was under the control Of a private corporation
In o debate in the senate on the Utah bill
Mr.: Brown Of Georgia said it was shameful
violation of the constitution. He contrasted
what he termed polygamy in New England and
polygamy in Utah. The picture he drew, he
said, was drawn "more in SORROW than in
anger" There had been over H.
the last twenty years, destroying 81 900 fam
lies and turning loose 81, 900 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
by Mr.. Brown, he could say some things, with
outeyen referring to statistics. which would be
sufficiently disagreeable. With desire to
credit tho portion OF the country from which
| that senator came with as much propriety as he
could, Hoar thought that tho presences of g
| large number Of nlullattos remained to be q c.
counted for in some way, but he would not en-
ter upon this sort of argument
In the Wallace Mckinley contested election
| case the House on the 9th proceeded
to , vote gRGR the minority resolution 4
| # was lost-yeas, ios nays 15s:
| The following Democrats voted with the Re-
pub1icans in atirnlative Blackburn, Dorshei-
! mer, Hurd, Mills, Potter, Robertson lky.) and
| Thompson. White (Ky.) voted with the Demo
| 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 tide intention of purchasing the same
of the Northern Pacific company, and are onti-
| 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 100 acres, including his settle
ment or improvement at 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 where the Northern Pacific has se-
jlected 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 bona fide settler at
the time of such selection such settler shall be
entitled to purchase 100 acres of land. to be bv
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
land by said company; the said 100 acres to in
clude the settlement and Improvement Of the
settler claiming the benefit of this section.
Matters we're necessarily dull ON Saturday
about the capitol. The senate was not in ses-
sion, and the house consumed the 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.
raising purposes after which the time was con-
sumed in discussing the right of way, through
the Indian Territory to the gulf Of the Colora-
do 4 Santa Fe railroad. S s5: s@."stsr ~
The bill was passed restoring the law of 1857
in the matter OF appealG 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 res
olution was adopted authorizing the commit
tee on Indian lands to investigate all matters
touching the leasing, subleasing and fencing Of
lands in Indian Territory, and the disburse-
ments Of $500, 900 appropriated for the Chero-
kee nation during the Forty seventh congress-