The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-02-27
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS-.

SESArE-The senate, in spite OF strong Efforts
oy Mr.. Van Wyck to have the Texas Pacific land
r1ant forfeiture bill considered, voted TO take
Up the bill prohibiting the importation OF for
.tyn contract labor. This measure was debated
1t great length without action.
HousE-A bill passed amending the Pacific
:ailroad act so as to authorize the construction
If a road from Sioux City. Iowa, to Granger.
Wyo. The senate bill regarding Jurisdiction over
The %llowsto National Park passed. The post
office appropriation bill was considered. The
,liair overruled q point Of order against q para
zraph allowing additional compensation TO
American steamships carrying ocean mails, and
IN an appeal the decision was sustained. Aftor-
ward, by a vote of los to OF, the house struck
,ut the paragraph in question. An evening ses-
,ion was held for the consideration Of private
pension bills.
There was an animated discussion,
turing which the scandal over
he Pacific mail subsidy in the
Forty third congress was referred to by Hoi-
man, Mills and Blount as n warning against
Affirmative action. Bayne OF Pennsylvania
made the decisive attack on the clause.
charging the Democrats with utter incompe-
;ency and with being led by the agents of
lay Gould. When tho vote was taken on the
motion TO strike out the subsidy advocates
were paralyzed by the discovery that they
were defeated and that their pet scheme was
punched out Of the bill
SENATE-The day was mostly devoted to the
indian appropriation bill The provision for
the payment of claims for Indian depredatlons
was struck out
The nomination Of T. A. Kr1edler,
to be marshal of Montana. was
taken up, and, at the request OF Senator
Cameron of Wisconsin, was laid over till
Monday.
The paragraph of the bill which provides
for the reduction of postage on letters, as
passed by the house, reads as follows:
Uron all matter OF the first class, as defined by
the laws of congress declared subject to postage
at the rate of three cents for each half ounce or
fraction, postage shall be charged on and after
the 1st day of July, 1885, at the rate OF two
cents for each ounce or fraction thereof, and
drop letters shall be mailed al the rate of two
cents per ounce or fraction thereof, including
delivery at letter carrier offices. and one cent for
each ounce or fraction thereof where their de-
livery by carrier is not established.
The paragraph providing for the reduction
Of the rate on newspapers reads as follows,
and forms part of the paragraph above
quoted:
except as provided in section 25 Of the said act,
when sent by the publishers thereon and from
the Office of publication to bona tide subscribers
or when sent from n news agency to actual sub
scribers thereto or to other news agents, shall
on and after July l, 1885, be entitled to trans.
mission through the mails ut one cent a pounc
or fraction thereof, postage TO be prepaid az no"
provided by law; provided, however, that pub
fishers OF second-class publications may mai
sample copies Of such publications at the rate OF
one cent for each four ounces or fractional part
thereof, to be prepaid by ordinary stamps AT
fixed thereto; and all acts, so far as they fix
different rate OF postage than herein provided
upon such first and second-class matter. are t
that extent repealed on and after July /. 1885
| and any article or item in any newspaper O
other publication may be marked for observa
ton except by written or printed words, withou
increase of postage.