The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-02-20

steamer Alert, with the thanks OF the TnitaS
States. The bill TO quiet titles OF tha Des
Mo1nes river settlers was then taken up.
In his opening prayer the chaplain of the housa
invoked divine protection upon him who had
been elected president. 1t was ordered that On
and after Monday next, the house will meet A.
IL o'clock. The senate amendments to the CON
sular and diplomatic appropriation bills were
non-concurred in and a conference Committee
appointed. Several bills for the construction az
public buildings passed.
Mr.. Thompson called mp the bin amending the.
Pacific railroad act, so as to authorize the con-
struction of = road from Sioux City, Iowa. to 4
point on the Northern Pacific railroad west If
the Tooth meridian. Pending consideration the
hour allowed under the special rule expired
Nathan A. Dixon of Rhode Island was sworn i'm
as successor to Mr., Chace. Mr.. Tucker. from
the committee on judiciary, reported a bill pro-
v1d1ng for the payment Of Judgment rendered Nv
the supreme court of the District OF Columbia IN
the case of Hallett Kilbourne against j, a.
Thompson. Committee Of the whole.
S~ENATE-The senate, in spite Of strong efforts
,y Mr.. Van Wyck to have the Texas Pacific land
rant forfeiture bill considered, voted to take
Up the bill prohibiting the importation Of for
.gn contract labor. This measure was debated
Vt great length without action.
HoUsE-A bill passed amending the Pacific
abroad act so as to authorize the construction
II a road from Sioux City, Iowa, to Granger.
Wyo. The senate bill regarding Jurisdiction over
The Yellowstone National Park passed. The post
)ffice Appropriation bill was considered. The
chair overruled a point Of order against a para
yraph allowing additional compensation tn
American steamships carrying ocean mails. and
IN an appeal the decision was sustained. After
ward, by a vote of los to 81, the house struck
)ut the paragraph in question. An evening ses-
zion was held for the consideration Of private
pension bills.
There was an animated discussion.
turing which the scandal over
he Pacific mail subsidy In the
Forty-third congress was referred to by Hol-
man, Mills and Blount as o warning against
Affirmative action. Bayne of Pennsylvania
made the decisive attack on the clause.
charging the Democrats with utter incompe-
jency and with being led by the agents Of
lay Gould. When the vote was taken on the
motion 10 strike out the subsidy advocates
were paralyzed by the discovery that they
we're defeated and that their pet scheme was
punched out of the bill.
SENATE. 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 Z. A. Kriedler,
TO be marshal of Montana, was
baken up, and, at the request of Senator
Cameron of Wisconsin, was laid over till
Monday.
The house passed the postofice appropria-
ton bill to-day. Tn advocates of the steam
ship subsidy clause made the most de-
bermined efforts to overcome the adverse
vote of yesterday in committee Of the whole,
but their efforts were unayailing. The prin-
cipal objection to this clause was hat the en-
tire amount of the appropriation--$600, 900
would be absorbed by the Pacific Mail
Steamship company, in whose special inter-
est IL was charged the clause was drawn.
This allegation was given color by the fact
that Mr.. Louderback, a 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 1t 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 mmer 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 DIS follows;
Upon all matter OF the first class, as defined by
the laws of congress declared subject to postage
at the rate of three cents for each half ounce OK
fraction, postage shall be charged on and after
the LIST day Of July, 1885, at the rate OF two
cents for each ounce or fraction thereof, ana
drop letters shall be mailed at the rate Of Two
cents per ounce or fraction thereof, including
delivery at letter carrier offices, and one cent Tor
each ounce or fraction thereof where their de-
livery by carrier is not established
The paragraph providing for the reduction
of the rate on ~newspaper reads as follows,
and forms part of the paragraph above
quoted:
That upon all publications of the second class,
except as provided in section %. OF the said act,
when sent by the publishers thereof and from
the office of publication to bona hde suDscIipe,s'
or when sent from a ne We agency to actual SUD-
scribers thereto or TO other news agents., snail
on and after July j, 1885, be entitled to trans.
mission through the mails at one cent q pound
or fraction thereof, postage TO be prepaid as now
provided by law: provided, however, that pub
fishers OF second-class publications may mail
sample copies OF such publications at the rate OF
one cent for each four ounces or fractional part
thereof, TO be prepaid by ordinary stamps al
fixed thereto; and all acts, so far as they NIX q
different rate OF postage than herein provided
upon such first and second-class matter. are 20
that extent repealed on and after July !, 1880.
and any article or item in any newspaper OF
other publication may be marked for obserya.
tion except by written or printed words, without
increase Of postage.
Atnightthe Mexican policeman brings
. lantern and a blanket. He sets the
lantern ia the middle of the street, III
all carriages are compelled to keep to
the right of the row of lanterns which
can. be seen glimmering from one end