Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-04-10


Court also appropriating 5000, 600 to build /
a Soldiers home at Chicago; to repeal the |
internal revenue tax on tobacco and the dis |
tilIatiOn of apples and peaches; also Joint |
resolution requesting the Sherman Commit |
tee of the Senate to Investigate the riot at
Cincinnati s to equalize the taxation of do |
nestle and foreign insurance companies |
apprOpriating 800, 900 for the relief of the |
sufferers from the Mississippi River floods
authorizing the appointment of a Missouri
River Commission.
The Trade Dollar bill was then taken up
and discussed but went over without &C
ton.
SmalIs, of S. Carolina, was sworn in to
succeed Mackey, deceased.
In the Senate. on April 1st, a bill for the
relief of the survivors of the jeanette ex-
petition passed.
The Education bill was discussed but laid
over without action.
In the House on April LIST, among the bills
reported favorably were the following: Pro
viding that child or grandchild of an alien
who enlisted in the army or navy of the
United States, and died in the service or was
honorably discharged, shall be admitted to
become citizen of the United States on
proof that he was under tWenty-one years of
his ancestor, and has resided in the United
States one year previous to his application
also a substitute for number of bills to de-
fine and supplement the act re-establishing
the Court of Commissioners on Alabama
Claims, and for the distribution of the Ge-
neva award; authorizing service of civil and
criminal process, issued by the Federal
courts, within Territorial and Indian reser-
vations and ia Yellowstone Park 1
a substitute for a number of bills
to provide for the inspection of stock, hog
products and dressed meats also, adverse
ly, to establish system of Interstate Com
merce; to pay employees of the Government
wages heretofore withheld in violation of
the eight hours law adversely to provide
for commission on the subject OF alchO-
hohc liquor traffic.
Consideration of the trade dollar bill was
resumed and the fourth section, which
provides that trade dollars recoined into
standard dollars shall be deducted from the
amount of bullion required to be coined by
the reconciliation act was stricken out.
The bill then passed-yeas 1913, nays SO.
The special committee to investigate the
charges against II. V. BOyntOn, submitted
report accompanied by the following res
OlutiOn:
Resolved, That the charges against H. V.
BOyntOn are not sustained by evidence,
anu GndG GuGT0 Is no SIOuuu LOT any 1uEGu6I
action by the House. Laid over for future
action.
The House Committee on Banking and
Currency reported favOrably the bill author
izing the purchase at current rates of United
States bonds, using money deposited by o.
S. banks to retire the circulation.
The bill providing for the establishment
OF a National bank in the Indian Territory
was taken up, and Buckner, from the sub
committee, reported that there were great
objections to the proposition, owing to the
fact that the United States has no jurisdic-
ton in the Indian Territory, and the sub
committee agreed to recommend to the
committee shat a bill be framed giving the
United States courts Jurisdiction over civil
as well as criminal cases in the Indian
Territory.
In the Senate on April I'd the credentials
of Payne, of Ohio, were presented.
A resolution was introduced having refer
ence to the justice of the awards by judicial
tribunals in accordance with the Spanish
treaty of 1919.
The following bills passed: Referring to
the court of claims the claim of VIM. G.
Ford, of Memphis, TOR the proceeds of fifty
bales of cotton seized by the United States
in Alabama in 1865; also bill directing the
| Secretary of the Treasury to refund to John
P. Walworth 81, $780, the proceeds for the
sale, by the order of Gen. Banks, of certain
! funds in the louisiana bank of New Orleans
! in 1868; also bill to increase the efficiency
| of the general land Office.
The education bill was then taken up and
| further discussed, but went over without
action.
In the House on April I'd, a memorial
from the bond holders of the Northern Pa
cific r. Il, Co., was received asking Congress
to protect their interests since the lands
were forfeited.
In Committee of the Whole the Indian
appropriation bill was taken up AMI
ThrOckmOrton offered an amendment strik-
ing out the clause apprOpnating $12, 500 foI
! the pay OF five Indian Inspectors and in
| serting prOvisO that the Secretary of War
shall detail five officers not under the grade
of captain in the army as Indian Inspec-
tors.
The committee rose, and Mr.. Randall
said: 1--WE have the honor of having with
US on the floor to-day, General Grant
| There are no words needed to Americans
in so far as he is concerned. think we
should do ourselves honor by taking a
recess of fifteen minutes to give the mem
bers an opportunity of shaking him by the
hand" (Applause)
Recess having been taken by unanimous
vote, Speaker Carlisle escorted Gen. Grant to
a space in front of the Clerks desk, where
leaning on one of his crutches, he received
the respects of the members, the Speaker
standing by his side and introducing to him
the representatives with whom he had not
been previously acquainted.
When the House reassembled, the Speak
ca laid before it a message from the Pres
ident, recommending an appropriation Of
$4,000 for the protection of the levees or
the lower Mississippi river,
In the Senate on April Sd Hoar presented
a petition of 5000 citizens of Western States
praying for a pension of at least $50 IL
money to be given to each honorably dis
charged soldier and sailor of the late war
A bill was reported favorably for the con
struction of bridge over the Missouri rive
at White Cloud, Kansas.
A bill providing for silk culture bureau