Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-03-04

sion tnht, After l0e fln VI hhthf VIZ
troops would be Withdrawn. Mr. In
gals said there were no lands 81
the Oklahoma tract that were
In any sense public shds'
! II had been ssid that contracts ex-
listed for grazing cattle on these lands
that the senate was standing In the
way of opening the lands. ingalls, de-
MED that single contract OF the char
acter named existed or that single
head Of cattle fed on the Oklahoma
.ands. We should make a declaration
broad aud distict that no man should
be permitted to go on these lands In
contravention OF law. 1t might be,
however, that before sunrise sgain the
misguided citizens ofthe United States
would be in conflict with the troops
He would regret the shedding of blood,
but there was only one way, In his
opinion. TO avoid It, and that was
for the senate not 10 invite
pople to go there by the promise that
negotiations were about TO be entered
on for the purpose Of opening the lands
for settlement.
Mr.. Dawes felt entire confidence
that the incoming administration
would he found on the side of the law.
Mr.. Vest remarked that the boom
ers" regarded Oklahoma rs comprising
IL coo, 600 acres, instead OF the COM
paratively few acres which were more
correctly understood to be the Okla
homa lands. Within the 1900, 900
acres referred to there were many cat
tie grazing Mr.. Vest denied, as a
Democratic senator. that there was any
possible right Of the assumption
or intimation that the administration
OF President Cleveland would be in
| any sympathy, directly or indirectly,
with the violation Of law. The state
ment to that effect was inspired by the
desperation OF the "boomers and not
by any person in authority in the
Democratic party.
The senate insisted on its amend
ment and the chair appointed Messrs.
Dawes, Plumb aud Ransom q com.
mittee Of conference.
Mr.. Allison of Iowa submitted the
conference report on general pension
bill, No action was taken on IL for the
present.
Mr. Hale of Maine from the COM.
mittee on appropriations submitted
the deficiency appropriation bill. He
said IL comprised ninety odd pages and
ought to be considered rs soon as
possible in order to go back to the
house. There were now but twenty
three hours of the session Of the Forty
eight congress remaining, and he ask
ed the unanimous consent to have this
bill at once taken up.
Mr.Conger OF Michigan, called atten-
ton TO the river and harbor bill which
he said he had yesterday notified the
senate he would call up to-day.
This bill and the fortification bill
were all the bills now left. The senate
adjourned and the legislative day OF
the 3rd began.
The credentials OF Me.srs. Leland
Stanford and j. G. Eustis. senator's
elect, were laid before the senate,
Hawley of Connecticut submitted
verbal report Of the work done by the
special committee to investigate the
steel, producing capacity of the United
States, stating that the committee had
visited several cities and examined
many factories and furnaces and had
in type the result, but that such inves-
legations had not been completed for
want OF time.
Mr.. Morgan Of Alabama moved that
the committee be continued during the
recess and required to report next De-
cember. Agreed to
Mr.. Aldricb OF Rhode Island sub
mitted report from the committee on
transportation routes to the seaboard.
Ordered printed.
Mr.. Halle Of Maine, called up the
general deficiency appropriation bill,
and its reading WAS proceeded with.
The house provision sbOllshlng the Of
flee OF the tenth census was stricken
out by the senate.
| Mr.. Miller of Kentucky offered an
amendment approprlatlng 100000 to
complete the pedestal for the statue,
Liberty Eulightening the Worldn to
be erected on Bedloe's island, New
YORK harbor. Agreed to.
Amendments were adopted apyro-
priating $50, 900 to continue the Mis-
sissippi river commission and increas
ing the appropriations for the COM
peneation of postmaaters whose sala-
ries have been read justed under the
act OF 1888 TO SITS, Ash, an increase OF
Sl3I9S3. A few other unimportant
amendments were adopted and the
bill was passed.
The fertilization bill wa. then taken
up An amendment was adopted an.
propristing $40, 600 for the purchase of
machine guns. The committee amend
ments were adopted, and the bill was
passed. The senate then went into
executive session, and when the doors
reopened took recess until O O'Clock.
When the senate reconvened the
river and harbor bill was taken up
AZ passed by the house IL appropriated
1000, 600 In gross, rs proposed by the
senate committee To be amended IL
appropriates $40 10000
Mr. Conger of Michigan, defended
the increase, and Frye OF Maine, was
opposed To lump the sum OF the bill
Pending the debate on the bill, MFR.
Pendleton of Ohio, offered the follow
ing resolution, for which he asked
Immediate consideration:
Resolved, That the thanks OF the
senate are due and are hereby ter dered
to the Hon, George +. Edmunds, for
the courteous, impartial and able man
ner In which he has presided over it's
deliberations and fulfilled rhe duty OF
president pro tem.n
The resolution was unanimously