The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-03-06
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.

the senate q memorial from the legislature ol
Wisconsin urging the placing OF Gen. Grant on
the retired list Of the army.
MI. Hoar, from The committee on privileges
and elections, submitted a written report re-
garding the dual sets of credentials OF Mr.. Ali
sons election. The substance OF the report MI
uoar said, was that Mr.. Allison appeared to be
elected in either event, and it was not profitable
to inquire If the election was that which took
place the second Tuesday after the temporary
organization of the legislature or the second
Tuesday after the permanent organization anu
if IL were necessary to determine that question,
it was for the Forty-ninth and not the Forty
eighth congress to determine. Mr.. Hoar added,
of course there was no doubt whatever OF Mr.
AIlisOn's election.
MI, Dawes asked and was granted unanimous
consent to take up the hill heretofore introduced
by him to authorize the president 10 negotiate
for the purchase of the remaining rights Of the
Seminole, Creek and Cherokee nations OF In
dams TO
In less than five minutes the bill was read and
passed. It now goes to the house for action in
that body. The naval appropriation bill was
laid before the senate and referred TO the COM
mittee on appropriations. Pension bills upon
the calendar, and favOrably reported, were dis
posed OF.
Mr.. Buckner called up the senate bill author
izinC the Commercial National bank of Chicago
to increase its capital stock to $20O,0o0
In opposing the bill, MI. Weller attacked the
national banking system, declaring 1t was the
duty OF every patriot TO strike IL a death blow.
After discrssion by Messrs. Henderson Qll.),
Springer and Stone in support Of the appeal,
and Turner CGal against the decision, the chair
was sustained by a vote of 100 to %; so the
Hennepin Canal clause is eliminated from tho
bill.
SENATE-A conference report was made on
the army appropriation bill. A debate arose, in
which several Republican senator's severely criti-
cised the action of the president in the case Of
the Swain court martial, calling it very unjust.
The legislative, executive and judicial appro-
priation bill was considered.
The same bill made appropriations as fol-
lows for Dakota, which were passed:
For salary of governor. ..... ............ SO, 600
Chief Justice and five associate judges, 5000
eacn. ooo
For legislative expenses, postage, station
For contingent expenses, to be expended
by the governor. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 800
The following clause had been passed by
the house and struck out by the senate COM
mittee. The senate adopted the erasure:
The legislature of Dakota may divide said ter
ritorv into as many council and representative
districts as they desire, which districts shall he
as nearly equal as practicable, taking into con-
sideration population, except Indians not taxed;
provided, that the number Of council districts
/ shall not exceed twenty-four and the number of
representative districts shall not exceed forty
eight.
HoUsE-BiIls passed for 4 100000 public
building at La Crosse and $10o,0oO to pay citi-
zens for supplies furnished Indians In Mime
sofa between 1860 and 1862. The river and
harbor bill was considered. At 6 y. m. the
opponents of the measure began to filibuster,
and this was continued until adjournment at
midnight. "
WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, Feb. 25.-The
claim of Nathan Myrick of st. Paul and others
I a.. - ~., 20 ,,oro,- Gov roodS sold 70 TpdianC
Just before the outbreak In 1862, for which the
Indians could not pay, because their annuities
were cut of, passed the house to-day. The bill
originated in the senate and there passed. allow
ing 100000 for these claims. The house
amended the bill by providing that the secretary
of war should approve the amount OF goods sold
to the Indians and pay the claims, tx they ag-
gregated less than 100000, and nothing should
be paid in excess of that amount. The story of
the claim is that in the summer of 1862 certain
the Yellow Medicine and Redwood agen-
cies in Minnesota for the purpose Of
receiving their annuities, which they had been
accustomed to receive about the last Of June or
the first of July. The money for the payments
did not come at the usual time. The indiana
waited until their supplies We're exhausted, and
also those Of the government at that point.
They became hungry, dissatisfied and restless.
Certain licensed traders, among them Mr.. N.Y.
rick. by the advice OF the indian agent, MAJ.
ure of preventing an outbreak, until their stores
were exhausted, relying upon Che money soon to
arrive for the annuities for payment. Before the
money arrived, the outbreak occurred. The In
l dams. goaded to desperation by hunger, COM
mitted atrocities for which they were punished
in part blythe confiscation of moneys due them
from the United States amounting to $685.
900. Payment of the annuities was stopped.
the means from which they could have paid fI
the supplies furnished them on the credit Of
futuye annuities was wholly taken from them.
Myrick has been pressing this claim Tor ten
v~s~a
SENATE Pacific railreaa funding bill was
introduced. The legislative, executive and
Judicial appropriation bill passed. The trade
dollar retirement bill was debated at great
length without action.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-The senate committee
on appropriations increased the naval appro-
priation bill as sent from the house by $780,
500. The principal items OF increase are an APP
preparation Of 100000 for continuing the work
on the double-turreted monitors; 100000 for
$4,000 for the construction Of steel cruisers
and gun boats, and $50,000 FOR the general
maintenance Of the bureau, docks, etc.
Senator Sherman reported to the senate yes
terday an amendment TO the sundry civil bill to
provide for the erection in the District OF CO.
lumbia of a statue OF Gen Lafayette, to cost
800,
HoUsE-A motion to suspend the rules and
refer the presumption law repeal bill to the COM
mittee on public lands was lost--166 TO SO. Mr..
Randall moved to suspend the rules and con-
slider the sundry civil bin containing q clause
~suspending the coinage OF silver dollars) four
hours. LcsS-11S to 149. A motion by Mr..
Randall to suspend the rules and consider the
bill with the silver clause eliminated, with two
hours 20 debate ti5 clause aprforfiatiig money
FOR the New Orleans exposition. WAS carried
The house adjourned before the bill was dis
posed of.
WASHINGTON. Special Telegram, Feb. Pea
lively contest occurred In the house over the bill
TO rcpeal the presumption, timber culture and des-
srt lands acts. This bill is on the speakers table
with amendments made by the senate. THERE'S
. decided majority in the house favorable TO con-
currenct In the senate amendments, but the