Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-07-08
CONGRESS

SENATE.-Senator Observation-Disclosures
bill which, If it should become Law, Will
invest in the president the sole power ofnp.
pointing large number OF officers, whoare
now appointed by and with the advice
and consent OF the senate" Among these
are: "Postmasters OF all casses, collect.
ors Of internal revenue, collectors OF Gus
toms and certain ports and all other Gus
toms officers, all territorial officers except
Judges OF the supreme courts, all district
ATTORNEYS and Emitted States marshals In
dian agents and district land officers.
There was a singular scene in the senate
a few days ago. Mr.. Morrill, is. confined
to his house by serious illness. Learn
ing that the open executive session resoiu-
ton was to be called up by MFR. Hoar, he
sent for Senator Henderson. who is oRe OF
the finest orators in the senate, and asked
il he would read his remarks. which bad
been prepared some months ago. Air.
Henderson consented. Spreading Mr.. Nor
rilfs manuscript before him he delivered it
with more energy and eioquence than usii-
ally marks the speeches ofthe father OF the
senate. This is believed to I've the first time
that a speech was ever delivered for an alb
sent senator.
HoUsE.-The three reports OF the COM
mittee which investigated the telephone
scandal were presented, the Democratic re-
exonerating the attoney general and all
the other officials concerned. 4 joint reso,
luton WAS adopted providing for the ex-
penditures of the government Tor ten days,
this being the close of the fiscal year. The
consideration Of the sundry civil bill was
resumed.
Mr. Henley, from the committee on In
dian affairs, reported a substitute Tor the
house bill, providing for commission to
,,sx 20 anl audit claims fpr Indian
depredatlons.
1t provides for q commission of three per-
sons, to be appointed by the president,
confirmed by the senate, salaries to be
SO. 900 per annum, and the commission is
to sit in Washington for the investigation.
They are allowed either collectively or sim
civ to travel into The territories and states
where depredHtions have been committed
to investigate tliesame.
The report goes into the history OF In
dian legislation from the earliest days of
the republic and says:
1t was estimated that for the FISCAL year
ending June 80, 1850, there was necessary
TO carry our treaty stipulatious With the
Indians 81, 1877, $50, instead OF making the
investigation and payment OF claims Keep
pace with the payment oil this sum, the
government went on paying it out and pay
ments have been so far made that in the
fiscal year 1887, 81, 625, 440 only is neees-
sary to carry out treaty stipulations, and
oil this 81 400, 900 is "a final payment to
the Sioux, leaving the annual charge now
only $1,325, 444. Whenever these annui-
ties we're paid to tribes that had commit
ted atrocities the government violated its
trust to the people:
SENArE-Mr Sawyer presented the PEE
titi5h OF Pomona Grange No. 8, OF Fond
du Lie, in favor of the oleomargarine bill.
Mr.. Mcmillan presented Il petition from F.
NJ. DIVER. secretary OF q farmers alliance
representing 2 1000 farmers of Window
and Cottonwood counties, in favor OF the
same measure. Senator Wilson presented
letter from T. j. Dennison OF Carton,
Wright county, Iowa, warning the senate
that the passage OF the oleoinargarine bill
was an absolute necessity If the republican,
party was to carry Iowa this fall
Mr.. Edmunds criticised the house for its
Uniform delay in passing the appropriation
bills, and said il congress could not bring
itself into better fashions about this bus
mess he rather let the wheels OF govern
ment stop by refusing to pass this joint
resolution. The resolution was amended
extending the time to fifteen days, and was
then passed. The senate resumed the con
sideratiou of the legislative appropriation
bill. After Along discussion the paragraph
for the office work connected with
the publication OF the records Of the Rebel
lion was retained, but with provisions re-
stricting the publication to Contemporaries
Gus events OF the war, and directing the
publication Of the evidence in the Porter
case and the report thereon by Judge Adj
vocate General Holt The bill was report
ed back to the senate. Some amendments
were agreed to and Others left for further
action.
HoUsE.-Mr. Payson presented reasons
why the Des Moines River Land Bill should
be passed over the presidents veto, which,
he said, was based on G total misapprehen-
sion Of the facts OF the case and the end
sought to be accomplished by the measure.
The vote on the passage Of the bill, not
withstanding the objections of the pres-
dent, resulted-yeas, 161; nays, 91--not
the constitutional two-thirds vote in the
affirmative. The following Democrats yot-
ed in the affirmative:
Messrs. Allen Miss Barksdale Barry
Bland, Burnes, Bynum, Caldwell. Camp
bell l0hiol, Carleton, Cobb Grain, Cll-
bertson, Daniel Dockery, Edridge Fish
er, Frederick, Geddes, Hatch, Henly,
Holman. Jones (Tex.) Kleiner, Laffoon,
Lanham, LAWYER, Lowry, Matson, May
bury. Mills, Morgan, Murphy. Neal, Niece,
Sayers, Skinner, Stewart TEX, Stone
MO- J, Tarsney, Taulbee, j. NJ. Taylor
Tenn, Tillman, Townshend, Van Eaton
Warner (Ohiol, Weaver, Qowa), Wellborn,
Wilkins, Winans, Wise, Wolford ard
Worthington.
The republicans voting in the negative.
we're Davenport, johnson, Ketcham, Mil
Ter, Ramney and Sawyer. The house then
went into COMMITTEES of the whole (Mr.
Reagan in the chair on the sundry civil
appropriation bill.
SESATE.-The consideration OF the legh
lative appropriation Sill was concluded,
and the bill was passed. The amendments
were agreed to. The amendments inereas-
ing the compensation of the commissioner
OF pensions IRON 81, 900 to So, 900 was re-
iected-24 to %. The vote was subse.
quently reconsidered and the amendment
agreed to without a division. The like
amendment as to the commissioner OF pat.
ents was agreed to-24 to 10. The amend.
ment increasing the compensation OF the
solicitor OF the treasury from 81, 900 TO
$4,000 was rejected.
Mr.. Edmunds' bill, whose provisions
have not yet been clearly stated, is as fol.
lows! That subject to the provisions OF
this act, the president oil the United States
shall have the power and it shall be his
duty, to appoint the officers now appoint
ed by and with the advice OF the senate, ex-
cepting heads of departments, assistant
secretaries in the various departments,
assistant postmaster general, assistant
attorney general, ambassadors and other
public ministers and consuls justices and
judges OF the court of the United States in
Guiding the supreme court of the District OF
Columbia, the supreme courts of the terri.
tories and the court of claims, officers in
the military and navy service, collectors OF
customs in districts in which the gross rev.
enues collected in any one year exceed
-, the treasurer and assistant treasurer r,
controller OF the currency. commits
sioner OF internal revenue, controller OF
the treasury, commissioner of customs,
register of the treasury, soscitor of the
treasury, director of the mint, supervising
Inspector OF steamboats,, supervising sur
geon general, solicitor general, chi ifs OF the
several bureaus OF the navy depar tment.
Sec. 2. That each officer so appointed
by the president shall hold his Office for
four years next after the issuing OF his com
mission, subject TO the provisions OF this
act.
See. 3. That any of the officers Sc APP
pointed by the president may be suspended
whenever the president or the head OF the
department in or under which the officer
serves shall have reason to believe that
said officer has been guilty OF malfeasance
in Office, OR neglact OF duty, or of any Off.
eial OF personal misconduct, rendegjng it
Injurious to the public interest for him
longer to hold such office.
HoUsE.-A senate bill passed for an adj
tltlonal supreme court justice IN Montana.
The senate amendment excepting the Gulf
Il Ship Island rtiilroad from the provisions
oil the bill FORGETTING the lands of six south
ern railroads WAS concurred in. Thesenate
amendments 90 the bill repeating the pre-
emption and other land laws were non-eon.
CURED in. Consideration OF the general de.
fciency bill occupied the rest OF the day.
Mr.. Dockery, in speaking on the paragraph
relative to the navy department, said: In
1866 there were 320 serviceable vessels in
the navy; to-day there were but 81 vessels,
and OF these the secretary OF the navy GER
titled only 81 were seryiceable. During these
20 years SAL 5000 600 had been expended
for the naval establishment, OF which $780,
100000 had been expended for construc-
tion and repair.
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