The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-01-24
CONGRESSIONAL.

DAY, JANUARY
CONGRESSIONAL.
81 SENATE.
WASHINGTON, January N.-Beck
moved an amendment to the Inter-
state commerce bill by striking out
the four flrst sections of the provision
reHafding Determinations In passen-
ger Recommendations and discriml-
mating on account Of color. This
woaA leave the bill. he said, in the
condition which 1T had been orik ioally y
been brought into the House by Rea-
gan.l Beck said he would also move
to amend the Senate bill 40 as to
prohibit railroads from charging
more for carrying freights over q part
of their line than they charge for car
ryink them over the whole length of
their line.
Colquitt presented the credentials
Of JQs. E.. Brown. re-eiecaed senator
from Georgia. Referred.
A bill was reported favOrably from
the Eommittta on nnblic lands, to
provide that whenever lands have
beeh withdrawn fr0la sale because
Of grants made to aid internal i'm.
proponents, and such Withdrawals
have been afterwards termioated. or
where lands have, been reduced in
price to 81. .25 per acre, and such lands
hav9 been purchased In good faith
and patents obtained therefor with
out kaving been first proclaimed by
the president, such patents shall be
valid, whereon the 25th of January,
,186e there are no conflicting claims.
The senate resumed the cOnsidera-
d0niOf the interstate CONNIE 'ce bill.
Th6 house bill or Reagan bill, 90
called, having been already In : the
senste, read twice by title and placed
on tie calendar, was now taken from
tho calendar and read In full.
Plnmb offered q preamble and resO-
lution, which went over until to-
morrow. The preamble sets forth
that widely extended belief pre-
walls that the unoccupied lands in
the indian Territory are subject to
settlement. But the President does
not concur in the opinion, and con-
sideGs 1t his duty to remove by mili-
tarE force those persons now on the
lands, and the consequence Is there
will soon be danger Of q conflict,
Therefore
Aesotved, That the President be
requested to advise the senate as to
tDsstatus of the lands III question,
a. viewed by the executive, and the
action taken, if any, to expel persons
seeking to settle thereon, ard his
reasons for the same, together with
any other information in his pos
session bearing upon the existing con-
troversy-
A message from the President was
laid before the Senate, transmitting
information relating to foreign COM
merce of Mexico, Central and South
America, Spain. West ladies, Haytf,
San Domingo, with the shores of the
United States. After an executive
session the senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
i. Oates, from the committee on pub
lie lands, reported q bill prohibiting
Aliens or foreigners from acquiring
title or owning any land in the United
States.
.sssnreWitt, of New York, from the
committee on ways and means, re-
ported bill amending section 3,Ol9
of the.revised statues 80 1t will read
as follows: section 3,0l9. There
shall be allowed ON all articles wholly
manufactured from materials i'm
ported, or upon which duties have
been paid, when exported draw
back equal in amount to the duty
paid Oh such materials, and no more,
to be ascertained under such regula-
tions US shall be pr. scfibed by the
secretary Of the treasury, and all pro
visions If law Inconsistent herewith
are hereby repealed.
After some opposition, the House
went into committee OF the whole
(Wellborn in the chair on the Indian
appropriation bill.
The committee on post offices and
post roads will, next Friday, consider
the various bills re ating to reduction
of newspaper postage. The c0mmit-
tee is In receipt of memorial on the
subject prepared by Messrs. Morrison,
Mulnford, D. X. Locke and VIM.
Penn Nixon q committee represent
iug newspaper publishers Of the West
and Northwest. This committee was
appointed at the last annual met ting
of the Western Associated Press, held
at Detroit, to call the attention of
congress to the inequality Of postel
laws, bearing on the rate charged for
newspapers and periodicals. The
memorial says in part: Newspaper
publishers are not mendicants, but
they claim to have such rel .tions to
the diffusion of light aud / nowledge
among the people, which We under
stand was one Of the objects for which
the postal department of the govern
ment was created, and it gives them
the right to demand q fair hearing
and just treatment. The lncongruity
in the law referred to above would,
to a stranger to our institutions, lndi-
cate that the government looked
with disfavor on all publications cir
culated beyond the confines of the
county in which they are published.
We certainly understand such is not
the case, but believe it will be un-
wise for congress to permit such an
Inconsistency to remain on our stat
ute books. We hope you will add
nothing to the burdens of publishers
now free. but ask that you will di-
minish the burdens of those FIR whom
we speak,"
WASHINGTON, January 2o.-A. q
tribute to the memory of the late
John Fl. .Evins OF South Carolina,
the House adjourned.
Mysterious Murder.
PlrTsBURG, Jan. D.-A report
was circulated here late tonight that
a horrible tragedy had been COM
mitted near Rochester, Pa. The re-
port was to the effect that a German
had killed young man and bis sis
ter aud cut them up into small pieces.
No names are given. Strenuous ef-
forts are being made to get full par