Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-27

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journed.
In the House on March 10th an adverse
report was made on the bill providing for
postal savings banks. Also on the bill pro-
hibiIing the transmission through the mails
OF newspapers containing lottery advertise
ments.
In Committee of the Whole the bill grant
ing pension of $500 year TO SeptemiDa
Randaep Meiklehem, the sole surviving
great-grand child of Thomas Jefferson, was
killed.
At the evening session twenty-five pen
sion bills were passed.
The subcommittee of the Foreign Rela-
tons Committee Of the House has submitted
a report, expressing the sentiment that the
House had right to adopt the Lasker reso-
HOuseto abuse Prince Bismarck for express
ing his views, and that the action of The
State Department is deserving of cOndemna
ton.
The House Committee on Commerce re-
port faVorably the bills for bridges across
the Missouri river near Kansas City and at
LeaVenWorth-
The House Committee on Indian Affairs
directed that favorable report be made on
the bill for the sale of 1noiGn reservations
in Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas, and The re-
moval of the tribes to the Indian Territory.
In the House on March 10Th in Commit
tee of the Whole, the question was on the
adoption of Harris motion TO strike out
the prOVisO Limiting compensation to land
grant roads, for carrying the mail. Holman
moved as a substitute including within the
fifty per cent limitation clause, the North
ern Pacific and Union Pacific systems,
which was adopted. After a stormy ses-
sion the Committee rose.
The Committee on Public Lands report
ed favorably the bill to forfeit certain LANDS
granted to build a road from the Central
Pacific in California TO Portland, Oregon.
In the Senate on March 18th several petit
tons were presented for the repeal OF the
law authorizing the coinage of silver
dollars; also for woman suffrage, the extir-
patton of pleurO-pneumOnia among cattle,
extension OF the bonded whisky period.
A resolution was introduced calling TN
the Secretary of the Interior to report the
names of applicants for pensions pending
more than two years.
A resolution was agreed to, directing in
quiry into the manner in which foreign
syndicates obtained possession of Govern
ment land, and the legislation necessary to
prevent it.
Among the bills reported favorably were:
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trict courts at s., 600; also the bill to COM
pei the prosecution of proceedings in bank
ruptcy to a final decree.
The bill providing two additional Asso-
ciate Justices of the Supreme Court was re-
ported adversely.
The Dakota biIf was indefinitely post
poned.
Plumb's Joint resolution, making an ap-
preparation for the extirpatiOn of the foot
and mouth disease, was amended by IN
creasing the amount to $4,000, and passed.
A bill passed extending the term of the
Court of the Alabama Claims until Deem
Der, 1884.
= In the House on March 18th among the
bills introduced were the following Re-
curing land grant or subsidy roads to fur
nikh the Secretary of the Treasury full-time
quartz Tly statements of their earnings and
Indebtedness; granting homesteads to SOL
diers OF the late war; authorizing the Com
missioner of Agriculture to investigate and
RI port the influence and extent of Specula-
tive transactions in cotton, corn and other
products and INDUSTRIES permitting the
citizens of the five civilized Nations of the
the Indian Territory to organize banks I'M
der the provisions Ofthe National Banking
act; to suspend for two years. coinage of
silver dollars and stop the issue of one and
two dollar bills; requiring Star Route con-
tractors to be residents Ofthe State in which
a route is located; to admit free of duty ar
tiCleS intended Tor the Cincinnati Industrial
Exposition; asking for further cOTrespOn-
dence between the Departments of Justice
and the POstofice, relating to Star Route
frauds.
An effort was made to suspend the rules
and pass a bill giving the United States the
right Of peIemptory challenge in the trial
OF capital Otlenses, but it failed.
a deficiency bill, appropriating 81, 679, 600
passed.
The bill providing for the construction
of building iOr the Senate Library was
made the special order for April Sd.
Ten thousand dollars was appropriated
to continue the investigation of the loss OF
the Jeanette.
In tie Senate on March 18th, petitions
were presented, from Denver, for the retire
ment of the small Treasury notes; from the
Wyoming Legi .lature for additional COM
pensation.
HaWley introduced bill to authorize the
offering of reward of $4,000 for rescuing
or ascertaining the fate of the Greedy expe-
ditiOn.
The bill to aid and temporarily support
| common schools, which apprOpriates fifteen
millions the first year, and decreases the
amount one million each year for ten years
to be expended in each state according to the
percentage of illiteraCy, was taken up and
discussed, but no action reached.
In the House, on March 10th, the report
| of the Committee on Elections, seating
| Peters, was made and laid over. Among
| o9her bills reported were: Attaching por.
! ton of the Northeastern Judicial District
of Texas to the Indian Territory; for bridg
| ing the Ri } Grande at Laredo and Eagle Pass
| for the constru :tiOn of a steam revenue yes
sci for use in Alaskan waters; for bridging
| the Missouri river at Sibley and Leaven.
worth: to prohibit the mailing of lottery
circulars or newspapers containing lottery
advertisements Qaid on the table,; for the
com penSatiOn of railroads for transporting
the mails; for the sale of the KiOwa Indian
reservations in Kansas and Nebraska, ant
granting right of way through Sioux IndiaT
lands in Dakota, to the Chicago, Milwaukee
u st. Paul road.