Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1886-08-20
CONGRESSIONAL.
LATEST rELEGRAPmlC REPORT
A Synopsis Of Measures introduced in til,
National Legislature.
SENATE.

opposition to Van Wyck's amendmen
to the Northern Pacific forfeiture bill
as passed by the Senate. The peti
TONERS said that with that amend
ment in it the bill will make it impos
sible for the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company to secure capital wherewitl
to complete the Cascade branch, anC
that the branch is necessary to the
commerce of the Northwest. The
amendment referred to is that which
forfeits lands coterminOus with the
uncompleted portion of the Cascade
branch. The bill having already
passed, the petition was laid on the
table.
The Fitz John Porter bill was taken
up and passed-yeas, 80; nays, II
The bill having already passed the
House, and not having been amended
by the Senate, now goes to the Presi
dent for signature.
Senate passed the bill repeating the
pre- emption and timber culture laws
The Committee on Commerce has
nearly completed the river and harbor
bill. Items in the House bill have
been increased to the aggregate OF
w ,4S3, 275, and others have been de-
creased to the aggregate of $615, 800
net increase of $2,S67,775. The
total appropriation by the Senate bill
is $1S,l9,975. Among some of the
most important changes made by the
committee in the bill are the follow
ing, the amounts given being the
totals of appropriations recommended
by the Senate Committee: Yaquina
bay. 100000; Coos bay, $4,000
Portland harbor, $4,000; Cascades,
$25O,OOO Columbia river, $3.50, 900.
The Chair laid before the Senate
the credentials of reelection of Nelson
w. Aldrich as U. S. Senator FROM
Rhode Island.
George, from the Committee on
Judiciary, reported favorably the bill
to remove the political disabilities of
]. F. Flourney, of Mississippi. The
bill passed, the vote being unanimous
Maxey, from the Committee on
Nicaraguan Claims, reported resolu-
ton requesting the President to bring
to the attention of the Nicaraguan
Government claims of citizens of the
United States against that Govern
ment. The resolution was agreed to.
HOUSE.
The agricultural appropriation bill,
as it passed the Senate, was considered
by the House Committee on Agricul-
ture. The Senate amendments rela-
ting to the Bureau of Animal Indus
try Statistics and sugar were non-con-
cured in.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs
will report favorably the bill authoriz-
ing the President to appoint military
and naval attaches to foreign legations.
Also the bill to protect submarine ca
bles.
Henley, of California, introduced
the following resolution in the House
WHEREAS, Itappears from published
reports of the Union Pacific Railroad
Company that said corporation with
out the consent of Congress did issue
in 1884 about $5,00O000 in collateral
trust bonds, also 100000 in 6 per
cent. collateral trust bonds, did pay
dividend in 1883 and 1884, notwith-
standing the existence of a great float
ing debt of 81 300, 900, and in 1883 and
1885 did guarantee interest of $14 931 )
600 Oregon Short Line bonds, in de-
fiance OF the provisions of the law OIL
1878. section of volumne II, statutes
at large; therefore be it
Resolved, by the house of Represen-
tatives that the Attorney General be
and is hereby directed to prosecute all
officers of said corporations, civilly and
criminally, against whom there is SUI
ficient evidence to warrant judgment
or conviction.
The Committee on Invalid Pension,
agreed to amalgamate the substitut,
for the Blair bill pensioning disabled
soldiers with the bill to increase tn,
rate of pension of soldiers who hav,
lost leg or arm, and attached to tin,
combined bills clause imposing al
income tax to meet the expediture
This clause is patterned after the in
come tax bill introduced in the Forty
seventh Congress by Gen. Ewing Sta
tistics collected at the time the bill
was introduced indicated that a reve
nue. of 100000 per annum coulc
be raised in that way.
In the sundry civil appropriation
bill are contained the following items
For frame or log court house at Juneau
City, Alaska. $4,000; completing q
first-order light and fog signal at Des
truction Island, w. T., $45, 900; salary
ofsuperintendent of life-saving stations
ON the coast of Washington, Oregon
and California, $500; continuing tn,
survey of the coast of Oregon and the
Columbia and the Willamette rivers
$1,000; continuing the survey of tn,
coast of Washington Territory, $4,000
continuing exploration of the water
of Alaska and photographic surveys
$4,000; salaries and travelling expense
of agents of the seal fisheries of Alask,