The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-02-19

muddIe and Ia less understood The discus
ZION to day was on Palmex's amendment This
was simply the old and much described On
onagon land grant bill, which was success
tully tackedon tho 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
nent provides:
Whenever public lands have been withdrawn
from sale by grants made to aid in construction
et railroads, and such Withdrawals have been
or order by the land department, or where lands
have been, by operation of law, reduced in price
20 81. 25 per acre aud purchased in good faith or
II the land department have issued certificates
Or patents In accordance with this purchase
without such lands having first been proclaimed
~ the president and offered at public auction;
md whore on the 18th Of January 1855, there
we're NO valid conflicting claims thereto or state
nents thereon, all such entries, ETC., are con-
armed and declared valid and legal.
Morgan amended Palmer's amendment 80 as
20 except two hundred or more settlers who
have gone on the disputed lands in Northern
Michigan and entered homesteada The Pal
mer amendment passed by close party
gOta. Senator Vest produced sensation by
eeading letter from Michigan citizen,
charging that the proposition covered big
steal, in which few capitalists were inter-
ested Senator Palmer, in q very temperate
speech, denied the aspersion, but the letter
produced Z hub-bub for some time after
ward Commissioner Mcfarland says there
are between 1OO, 600 and 200, 900 acres of
land embraced in the Ontanagon amend
mentt The original entry men, having paid
81. IS for them, and having paid taxes in
many cases for fifteen years. will now have
their patents endorsed as regular. The SEN
ate amendments to the orig inal house bill
are numerous and sweeping-so much 90
that there is no expectation that they will
be concurred in. The final vote was almost q
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. 1.-THE resolutions offered
yesterday by Messrs. Ingalls, and Hoar. relating
70 the electoral count, were. ON motion of Mr..
Hoar, referred without comment to the COM
mittee on privileges and elections.
A resolution offered by Mr.. Sherman was agreed
TO- authorizing the president of the senate to ap-
point committee OF three senator's to mako the
necessary arrangements for the Inauguration of
the president-elect.
The chair laid before the senate the house con-
current resolution providing for joint COM
nittee Of three members Of the house Of repre-
sentatlves and two senators to notify Grover
cleveland 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.
A., On motion OF MI. Garland, It was referred to
che committee on privileges and elections. MI.
Garland said the phraseology Of the resolution
anal joint resolution authorizing the president
60 return to the government Of Great Britain the
steamer Alert. with the thanks Of the United
states. The bill to quiet titles Of the Des
MOlOeS river settlers then taken
by Mr.. Van Wyck to have the Texas Pacific land
grant forfeiture bill considered, voted to take
up the bill prohibiting the importation OF for
slgn cont ract labor This measure vas debated
1t great length without action.
HoUsE-A bill passed amending the Pacific
railroad act so - to authorize the construction
Of . road from Sioux City, Iowa, to Granger
Wyo. Tho senate bill regarding jurisdiction over
the Yellowstone National Park passed The post
office appropriation bill was considered. The
chair overruled point Of order against q para
graph allowing additional compensation tc
American steamships carrying ocean mails, and
ON IN appeal the decision was sustained. After.
ward. by vote Of los to 81, tho house struck
out the paragraph in question. An evening ses.
sion WAS held for the consideration Of private
pension bills.
There was IN animated discussion
during which the scandal over
the Pacific mail subsidy In thu
Forty third congress was referred to by Hol.
man, Mills and Blount as a warning against
Affirmative action. Bayne of Pennsylvania
made tho 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
szNATE-The day was mostly devoted to tn,
Indian appropriation bill The provision fol
the payment Of claims for Indian dspredations
The nomination Of E. A. Kriedler,
to be marshal of Montana, wa
taken up, and, at the request of Senator
Cameron of Wisconsin, was laid over till
Monday.
The house passed the postofloe appropr1a-
hon bill to-day. The advocates of the steam
ship subsidy clause made the most de-
termined efforts to overcome the adverse
vote Of yesterday in committee of the whole,
but their efforts were unava1ling: The prin-
ctpal objection to this clause was that the en-
tire amount Of tho appropriation-$6OO, 600
would be absorbed by the Pacific Mail
Steamship company. In whose special inter.
est 1t 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 tho N0Yr}Hnp cd h1,, II
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 1t is credtable to tn
house that the action of yesterday in elm.
mating the subsidy clause was confirmed BY
m 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
CIT 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, a.
passed by the house. reads as follows:
Upon all matter Of the first class. as defined by
the laws Of congress declared subject to postage
.t the rate Of three cents for each half ounce OF
fraction, postage shall be charged on and after
the LIST day Of July. 1885. at tho rate of two
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 q letter carrier Offices, and one cent fol
each ounce or fraction thereof where their de-
livery by carrier is not established.
The paragraph providing for the reduction
Of tho rate on newspapers reads as follows
and forms part Of tho paragraph above
quoted:
That upon al publications Of the second class
except ~ provided in section 25 of the said act,
when sent by tho publishers thereof and from
the Office Of publication to bona fde subscribers
or when sent from = news agency to actual sub.
scribess thereto OF to other news agents, shall
mission niGnsS tho %sils At one cent 70 poani
o. fraction thereof. postage to be prepaid az now
fishers Of second.ciass publications may mai
sample copies Of such publications at the rate o.
one cent for each four ounces or fractional part
thereof tn h0 Ylfenaid nv ordinary atamns NJ