The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-02-19


HocsE-The past Office bill was debated and
1T conclusion of the Presidential count q
long debate ensued in regard to the announc-
ment thereof.
WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, Feb. IL
The senate, after spending two long execu-
nve sessions and the entire afternoon in a
chaotic debate, passed the house bill to re-
peal the presumption and timber CULTURE laws
py 70 To 20 1t is safe TO say that no bill has
Deen passed this session which is in q worse
muddle and is less understood The discus
sion to-day was on Palmers amendment This
xas simply the old and much described On
sonagon land grant BILL which was success
fully tackedon the repeal The original bill
virtually the bill which Gen Washburn got
through the house two years ago 1t was
passed by the house last June. The amend
ment provides:
Whenever public lands have been withdrawn
rom sale by grants made to aid in construct ion
Of railroads, and such Withdrawals have been
Sermlnated by act ii congress, executive order
aave been, by operation Of law, reduced in price
20 Sl.25 per acre and purchased IN good faith or
entered with warrants or scrip, and the officers
of the land department have issued certificates
G patents IN accordance with this purchase
~ithout such lands having first been proclaimed
oy the president and offered al public auction;
v,
we're 10 valid conflicting claims thereto or state
aeHts thereon, all such entries ETC., are con-
srined snd declared valid and legal
Morgan amended Palmer amendm lent Sc as
20 except two hundred or more settlers who
have gone on the disputed lands in Northern
Michigan and entered homesteads The Pal
mer amendment passed by close party
cote. Senator Vest produced sensation by
reading letter from a Michigan citisen.
~narrrirp nh al no mr. n
steal, i'll which few capitalists were inter
ested Senator Palmer in very temperate
speech, denied the aspersion, but the letter
produced :. hub-bub for some time after
ward Commissioner Mcfarland SAYS there
are between 100, 600 and zoe, 900 acres of
land embraced in the Ontanagon amend
ment The original entry men, having paid
S12o fer them, and having paid taxes in
many cases for fifteen years, VIII now have
their patents endorsed as regular. The sem
ate amendments to the orls inal house bill
aue numerous and sweeping-so much so
that there is no expectation that they will
be concurred in. The hnal vote was almost
strict party one, Edmunds being the only
Republican to vote against the repeal, and
Brown the only Democrat to vote in the
Affirmative
WASHINGTON. Feb, 1o-The resolutions offered
yesterday by &essrs Ingalls, and Hosr, relating
TO the electoral count, were, motion OF Mr..
aoar, referred without comment to the COM
nittee on privileges and elections
Aresolution offered by Mr.. Sherman was agreed
70. authorizing the president Of the senate APP
point committee Of three senators 10 make the
necessary arrangements tor the Inauguration of
the president-elect.
The chair laid before the senate the house con-
current resolution providing for joint COM
nlttee OF three members of the house of repre-
@entatITes and two senators 10 notify Grover
rr.eseiand OF his election as president OF the
United states from the 4th of March next, and
Thomas A Hendricks of his election as vice
president from the same date.
On motion Of Mr.. Garland It was referred to
me committee on privileges and elections. Mr..
Garland said the phraseology of the resolution
needed looking ct The senate passed the orig
maj joint resolution authorizing the president
20 return 10 the government Of Great Britain the
steamer Alert, with the thanks OF the United
states The bill 10 quiet titles Of the Des
AVlnes river settlers was then taken I'D.
SESATs-The senate, in spite Of strong efforts
by Mr. Van Wyck to have the Texas Pacific land
zrsnt forfeiture bill considered. voted TO take
up the bill prohibiting the importation Of for
eign cont ract labor. This measure vas debated
1t great length without action.
HoUsE-A bill passed amending the Pacific
railroad act so as to authorize the construction
Of road from Sioux City, Iowa. to Granger,
Wyo. The senate bill regarding jurisdiction over
The Yellowstone National Park passed The post
Office appropriation bill considered The
chair overuled point of order against para
graph allowing additional compen sation to
American steamships carrying ocean mails. and
on an appeal the decision sustained. After
ward by vote of los to 81, the house struck
out the paragraph in question. An evening ses-
sion WAS held for the consideration of private
pension bills
There was An animated discussion,
during which the scandal over
the Pacific mail subsidy in the
Forty third congress was referred to by Hol-
man, Mills and Blount as warning against
affirmative action. Bayne of Pennsylvania
made the decisive attack on the clause,
charging the Democrats with utter incompe-
tency and with being led by the agents of
Jay Gould When the vote was taken on the
motion 10 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
SESAE-The day was mostly devoted to the
Indian appropriation bill The provision for
the payment of claims for Indian depredations
was struck out
The nomination of E A Kredler,
to be marshal of Montana. was
taken up, and, at the request of Senator
Monday.
The house passed the postoflce appropria-
ton bill to-day. The advocates of the steam
ship subsidy clause made the most de-
teImined efforts to overcome the adverse
vote of yesterday in committee of the whole,
but their efforts were unavailing The prin-
cfpal objection to this clause was that the en-
tire amount of the appropriatiou-S6OO,0 900
would be absorbed by the Pacific Mail
Steamship company, in whose special inter
est it was charged the clause was drawn
This allegation was given color by the fact
that Mr.. Louderback, prominent director
of the company, has been here most of the
winter nursing this scheme, and it was given
further confirmation to-day by his presence
In the corridor, surrounded by professional
lobbyists and notorious strikers all of whom
were actively working for the subsidy clause
under Louderback's orders. Considering
the persistent and bare-faced operations of
this Pacific Mail lobby it is creditable to the
house that the action of yesterday in elm
mating the subsidy clause was confirmed by
an increased vote to-day. Many of those
who voted against this clause are favorable
to granting proper aid in the form of liberal
compensation for carrying the United States
mails but in the case under review no ben
eft would have followed to the commerce Of
the country, and no additional facilities
would have been furnished the postal ser
vice.
The paragraph of the bill which provides
for the reduction of postage on letters, as
passed by the house. reads as follows:
Upon all matter Of the first class, as defined by
the laws of congress declared bject to postage
1t the rate of three cents for each half ounce or
fraction postage shall be charged on and after
he ofd la of Irrtv or rba rain of
cents for each ounce or fraction thereof, and
drop letters shall be mailed at the rate of two
cents per ounce or fraction thereof, including
delivery ut letter carrier offices, and 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