The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-02-21
Monday, February H.

SENATE.-Soon after the senate met this
morning, Pendleton IF Ohio arose to perform
the saddest and one Of the most heroic acts Of
his life, and that was to present the credentials
Of his successor, Henry B, Payne, recently
elected to Mr.. Pendleton's seat by the Ohio leg
islature. He did it without flniching.
Bills were introduced for survey Of passes
between the afiluents Of the upper Mississippi
and Columbia rivers to ascertain the distance
between the navigable waters of those rivers
authorizing foot and carriage or railroad
bridge across the river at St Paul (Air. McAfil-
lan); authorizing the Mississippi river commits
sion to appropriate land and material required
for it's work. The bill passed securing to Amer
loan inventors the full term Of seventeen years
for their patents in cases where foreign patents
expire before that time. The senate voted to
recede from its amendment to the Greedy relief
expedition bill The resolution for the reliet
Of Hood sufferers, mentioned in tie house pro
ceedings, was adopted y ri -! IN go ~
The bill reported in the senate fixing the Sal
aries Of judges Of district courts fixed the sal
aries Of judges of the districts Of Minnesota,
Kansas and Western Arkansas from July L,
1854, at s., 900 and the judges Of the following
The Senate confirmed; Henry D. Lyman,
Ohio, second assistant postmaster general
William Christy Wilson. La, assayer of the
mint, New Orleans; Thomas B. Knapp, post
master, Iowa Falls, Iowa. - s It:N
Register Of Land Offices -Myron q. McCord,
WWs We Wis Henry EspeTaon f. Crosse
Henry ". Lord, Creelsburg, Oak. I'm !,
Carrie g. Bell, receiver of public moneys, Bay
field, Wis - {8ssSS Il III 1' vi
Nominations. Henry NJ Lawson, Texas,
agent Quapaw agency, Indian Territory; DAN
lel 3. Dyer, Kan, agent Cheyenne band, Ara
pahoe agency, Indian Territory. James a
Stewart postmaster, 'Charleton, Iowa 5.
HOUSE. Bills and resolutions were intro
dnced facilitating the settlement Of private
land claims; restoring those dropped from the
pension rolls for dialoyalty providing for .ha
raj, college; encouraging Indian education in
Dakota; abolishing the Office of assistant sur
geon general of s.; ! the army; foi
the construction Of bridges across
the Mississippi at St Paul tdr Washburn); re-
Languages (Milo White; for the preservation
Of forests at the sources Of 5navigable rivers;
amending the Pacific railroad act go OBJ to ne.
quire a company to build railroad and tele-
graph line from Sioux City, Iowa, west to the
Union Pacific via the Niobrara valley (Alle
to pay s10O, 600 600 In per cent bonds The
military academy appropriation bill was No.
ported, also a joint resolution appropriatins
$500 900 for the relief of the flood sufferers
After . long debate the resolution passed
233 to Il. j3s5 '5 g r
Mr.. Washburn introduced in the house TO-
dhy q bill to authorize the construction of on,
! br more carriage or railroad bridges across tn,
mississippi river at ST Paul It Is snbsitut
for Q similar bill introduced by him some tim
hgo. g 81 81 y
"a bill was introduced in the house to-day, b,
Hon. D. B. Henderson Of Iowa to provide to
the issue of circulating notes to national tanl
associations. Sss5 IL z, sss g.