River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-04-17
CONVERSATIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

iian reservation and made his maiden speech
N the house Mr.. Washburn favored the bill.
| de thought II was step in the right direction.
| de had introduced bill which went farther
but the committee had chosen to report Mr..
| Nelson's bill, and he thought it ought 20 pass.
| Mr. Blount of Ga, violently attacked the bill,
| and the motion requiring two thirds majority,
was lost-yeas -, nays IL The blu, however.
| is not defeated, but will be in better shape
| when It is taken up in the house in tho regular
| way.
The senate has passed bill to divide up the
| reservations and give the lands to the Indians
in seyeralty, in 100 acre tracts, the residue to
| be sold by the government and the proceeds
used for educational and other purposes. The
bill also makes the Indians subject to the civil
| and criminal laws of the community in which
| they live, and makes them citizens except 80
| far as the right of SUFFRAGE is concerned. The
| passage of this bill will break up tribal rela-
| tons and give the Indians CHARGE to take
| care of themselves without being entirely de-
| pendent upon the government The adults
| viii have to work for living as white people
| do, and the children viii be given an education
| in the rudimentary branches and the Industrial
| arts.
| The senate has passed bill requiring that
governors of all the territories, except the In
| dian Territory, shall be residents of those ter
ritories for at least two wears next preceding
the date of their appointment The bill was
passed after lively discussion
The following executive business was trans
acted by the senate on Thursday. Nomna-
| tons: Thomas We're Fox, consul Of the United
! States atplymouth, Eng William w. Rockhill,
Maryland, second secretary of legation, China.
| Postmaster, John j. Burns, Sprague, Wash.
Combinations: Postmasters, T. S. Miner,
Necedah, Wis 4; James A Foote, Anoka, MINI. !;
Warren Potter, Aitkin, Mimi. i. J. Bartels,
Peshtigo Wis Henry Keerl Mason CITY, Iowa !;
Frank E. Barber, Jr Rock Rapids, Iowa
The following bill in relation to courts and
| judicial proceedings In the territories has
| passed the senate. The act provides The
supreme court of every territory shall consist
of a chief justice and three associate justices,
any three Of whom shall constitute quorum !;
and they shall hold their Office for four years.
and until their successors are appointed and
qualified They shall hold term annually at
the seat of government of the territory for which
| they are respectively appointed; provided
| however, that no justice shall actas a member
of the supreme court in any action or proceed
ing brought to such court by writ of error,
bills of exceptions, or appeal from decision,
judgement of decree rendered by him as Judge
of district court Every territory shall be
divided into four judicial district, and dis
trict court shall be held in each district of tho
territory by one of the justices of the supreme
court at such time and place as may be pre-
sclibed by law; and each judge, after assign
ment, shall reside in the district to which he is
assigned.
Senator Hill, from the committee on post
offices and post roads, reported fayorably the
original bill to establish postal telegraph sys-
tenn Mr.. Hill remarked that the committee
were unanimous as to the first clauses of the
BILL which relate to doing tho work by con-
tracts with the existing companies.
The contract system remains the most
prominent feature of the bill, and is not widely
different from the scheme of the postal tele-
graph company, except tnat it empowers the
postmaster general to receive bids from any
telegraph company for contracts. The provis-
ions relating to the establishment of govern
ment system, pure and simple, IN the event that
no satisfactory contract with established COM
! panies is secured are a combination of the
| features of the Hill and Edmunds bill.
The long contest over the appointment of
Mccoy to the Aberdeen, Oak, land Office was
finally settled by his confirmation by the SEN
ate on the 10th MIR. Mccoy, who is there, says
he has had this fight on his hand for three
years. and he is very glad 1t is over. He re-
CARDS the result as complete vindieation-
At the opening of the senate, Wednesday, the
9th, the chaplain prayed to just one senator be-
side the presiding officer, and that was Mr.. Harris
of Tennessee. Possibly he may have felt more
than his fellows the need of the ministrations of
their spiritual adviser but whether this be true
or not, it is fact that he was the only sena-
tor present Half dozen came IN during the
next five minutes, but it was some time before
a quorum was present.
In the House, Wednesday resolution was
introduced instructing the committee on COM
merce to Investigate alleged evils attending the
transportation of cattle After a long struggle
the house voted instead of considering the Ore
gon Central land grant BILL which was in the
order of unfinished business to so into conf
fnittee ON public building bills. The house
considered the bills for the erection OF bulld-
ings at Keokuk Iowa, and Waco, Tex, and a
bitter personal controversy was waged be-
tween Messrs Mills of Texas and Buckner of
Missouri, Democratic members. No final ac-
ton was taken, and the house took a recess
until this morning.
Bills have been reported to the senate as fol
lows: BY Mr.. Vest, from the committee on
commerce, favorably, bill to authorize the
construction of a bridge across the Mississippi
at st Louis BY Mr. Miller (CaL), foreign re-
lations, an original amendment to the consular
and diplomatic appropriation bill, to take the
place of the bill referred to that committee in
tended to provide for the ap-
pointmont of special commissioner
to visit the principal South American
countries for the purpose of collecting informa-
ton looking to the eXtention of our trade in
that direction BY Mr.. Wilson, postoffices and
post roads, an amendmen, to the postoffiee ap-
preparation bill referred to that committee, in
tended to provide for the settlement of post
masters salaries, under the act of March 8,
1883. Senate adjourned TO Monday
On Thursday the 10th, in the house the com
mittee on laws relating to the election of presi-
q
for tho senate bill bill amending the stat
utes regarding the immediate transportation of
dutiable goods was reported. The remainder
of the day was devoted to bills for the erection
of public buildings at various points, aud nu-
merOus controversies arose, causing much
confusion. The house adjourned having sat
all day i'll continuation of Wednesdays session
Mr. Raymond presented to the house April
10th the petition of many citizens of Dakota.
urging the passage of his bill in relation to the
homestead law
petition signed by about 200 members
of the Andersonville Survivors association
asking that the soldiers confined in rebel pris-
ons during the late war be pensioned, was re-
reived in the house recently. The autographs
were neatly bound in book form, and attracted
good deal of attention.
Joint resolution was introduced in the
house by Mr.. McCoid of Iowa to provide for
the appointment of q committee of seventys1x
to be composed of two persons for each state
of different political parties, for the purpose
of considering and proposing to the several
states the nropriety of the legislatures of two
thirds of the states calling convention to
meet on the 4th day of July, 1887, for proposing
amendments to the constitution of the United
States
Mr.. Mcmillan presented to the senate the
memorial of the st. Paul chamber of COM
merce, praying for an appropriation of $25,-
600 for the Improvement of the Mississippi
river at that city Mr.. Strait presented to the
house the petition of E. Z. Kennedy, asking
for q pension. Mr. Strait introduced bill for
the relief of Mary Mont, widow of late wagon
master in the United States army in the war
with Mexico
In the senate, Mr. Bayard moved and the SEN
ate adopted the following amendment to the
naval appropriation bill Requiring the sec
retaries of war and the navy, with the assis-
lance of the gun foundry board which the
amendment revives, to report on the begin
ing of the next session of congress for a plan
and estimate for the preparation and purchase
of a plat for gun factory to complete guns
from six inches calibre to sixteen inches cali
hre including buildings and shrinking pit, aud
to report a full and detailed estimate for the
cost aforesaid and whether the same can be
better and more economically performed iii es-
adjustments owned by the government or by
private contract, or by a combined system
whereby said work can be accomplished partly
by the government and partly by private con-
tract, and in what annual lnstallments said APP
preparation can most economically he made.
In the House Mr.. Reed of Maine offered
preamble and resolution reeiting that the foot
and mouth disease had been introduced in
Maine through the fault or oversight of United
States officials charged with the duty of inspect
ing and quarantning lmportations of cattle
and directing the committee on agriculture to
make an investigation of the matter, with
authority to report for consideration at any
time they deem proper bill to reimburse the
authorities of citizens of that state for expenses
which had been properly and judiciously in
CURED and may be incurred in the sup
preston of the disease. Adopted
1t is said that Mr.. A. HI, Swan Of
Cheyenne City is not only the cattle