The Dickinson press., 1885-03-07

SENATE.-A substitute of theriver and harbor
bill was read q second time, and referred to
the committee on commerce., which, OH request
of MI. Mcmillan, got permission to sit during
sessions of the senate.
Mr.. Mitchell offered q resolution: That the
committee Oil finance be and herebyi is instruct
ed forthwith to prepare and report to the SEN
ate a proper bill to provide for the immediate
suspension of tho coinage of standard silver
dollars. and for the resumption of such coinage
whenever the commercial value Of the stlnd,rd
dollar aforesaid shall rise to within 5 per cent.
of par with the standard gold dollar of tho
United States. The resolution was laid
over. The senate then on motion of Mr.. Will
son, took up the house bill to forfeit tic un-
earned lands granted to tho state of Iowa to
aid the construction OF the Sioux City x st.
Paul raiload. The bill as passed by the house,
declares such unoarned lands forfritcl; re-
quircs the attorney general to institute legal
proceedings to ascertain and determine treir
quantity. and provides that actual bona iide
settlers already on tho lands shall have prefer
ence Of entry at the land Office, etc.
Mr.. Mcmillan opposed il. 1t was o prop
osltion, he said, which, i'll the name of popu.ar
prejudice, sought to do violence to public phi
waste rights. The grant had been not to a rail-
road company, but to tho state of Iowa. and
was an entire grant. Pending debate on this
bill, house bills providing for tho erection of
public buildings at various places wore taken
Up and passed.:
The debuto on the Sioux City a. st. Paul for
feiture bill was resumed. MIR. Hoar said citi-
Zcns of Massachusetts had invested as Sos at
6 per cent in that enterprise. Ito thou int
such men were entitled to justice at the hands
of tho senate. The land was all thosa people
would have for their money. They were en-
titled to lands coterminous with the completed
portion of tho road.
HousE.-A long debate took place on tho late
silver letter of President Cleveland, the fortii-
cation ball being under consideration. Tho
debate was of a partisan character and of little
account
S~ENATE-After business of unimportant nature,
the sundry civil appropriation bill was consid-
cred. A resolution was offered requesting the
president Of the United States to negotiate with
foreign powers to secure treaties binding the
nations to open their m1nts to the free coinage of
silver.
The senate committee on appropriations
knocked out of the sundry civil bill the
Minneapolis building appropriation and the
clause fixing the limit of its cost at $500,
600. When the clause was reached in the
senate this afternoon Senator Sabin took up
the cudgel for Mr.. Washburn and saved his
bacon. Beck scored the item numerically
but the vote was 32 to 20. The approprla-
tions OF $75, 900 for Fort Smelling and $75,-
900 for San Antonio passed. An appropria-
ton OF $25O,OOO to complete the Deer Lodge
penitcntiary in Montana was stricken out by
the committee, and the senate concurred on
the ground that last year Gov. Crosby asked
and received $4,000, representing that this
sum would finish the building. The Yellow
stone Park appropriation Of $4,000 was
concurred in as it came from the honse.
The committee inserted in the bill an appro-
p~riation of $4,000 to complete the com
missary depot in st Paul, and this was con-
1yprpsaI tp A Nfo ,vvo, ,,,nl1 h-y Sr,,n rrr
Van Wyck n Harris against paying Charles
H. Reed and G. W. Scoyille for defending
Guiteau. The items were $4,000 for Reed
and So, 900 for Scoville. No action was taken
in committee of the whole, but notice was
given that amendments would be offered
when a vote was taken. The committee
amended the bill to provide for the continu-
ance of the joint commission of three SEN
atOrs and three representatives to consider
the present organizations of the signal serv-
ice, geological, coast and geodetic hydro
graphic departments, provided for last SEES
sion. Power was granted to sit during the
recess and report by the third Monday i'll De-
cember, by bill or otherwise. The present
president OF the senate and speaker OF the
house are authorized to fill the places of
those whose terms expire with the present
congress.
HoUsE-A resolution was offered refusing to
take part in the Inauguration ceremonies, be-
cause the representatives had not been
assigned their proper place. 1t was lost. The
house voted. Notwithstanding Republican fill
clustering, to take up the contested election
suspend the rules and pass the bankruptcy bill
was lost-1l yeas to 1875 nays.
Both houses were in session far into the night,
their attention being chiefly paid to reports
from conference committees on disputed points
in appropriation bills. Much flibusteriu. was
resorted to by the Republicans in the house,
who did not wish the Frederick-Wilson case to