New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-06-02
CONGRESSIONAL.

SENATE.-On motion OF Mr.. Sawyer pr.
vate pension bills were taken up.
Mr.. Cockrell insisted on having the re-
ports read in anumber OF the cases, and had
some of the bills that he considered of doubt
full propriety postponed. In a short de-
bate on one of the bills covering case that
had been rejected by the pension office, Mr..
Cockrell said the chief OF the division, who
had rejected SO plain and well proven
case, ought to be discharged from the SER
vice OF the United States
HousE-Several senate amendments to
the Dingley shipping bill were non-con-
cured in, including that OF Senator
Frye authorizing the president to retaliate
ON Canada for such acts as the seiz-
ure OF American vessels. Bills were in
PRODUCED to consolidate customs districts;
to revive the income tax for the payment
OF pensions, and to distribute the surplus
in the treasury for educational purposes.
The bill to tax bogus butter was dis
cussed.
SENATE.-The commissioner of pensions
was the subject of lively and bitter de-
bate in the senate, and was pronounced an
impostor by Mr.. Ingalls,.
Mr.. Voorhees, defended Commissioner
Black with much warmth and earnestness.
The president sent two more mes
sages to congress vetoing pension
discussion at any time. A good deal OF
feeling is being awakened by these vetoes,
especially those which refer to cases which
have once been rejected at the pension Of
fee, and it is believed that nearly all of
these vetoes will be passed over the presi-
dents head.
The bill to secure the appointment OF
Lieut.. Greedy, OF Arctic fame, as adiutant
general OF the army, with the rank ofmajor
OF cavalry, was indefinitely postponed.
The Atlantic & Pacific railroad grant for
pensions OF soldiers and sailors who have
lost an arm or leg passed.
SENATE.-Senator Edmunds reported
favorably from the committee on foreign
relations the following described bill OF
Senator Morgan of Alabama:
Directing the attorney general to bring
suit in the name Of the United
States in the supreme court OF the Dis
trict OF Columbia against Ben We'll,
or his legal representatives or assignees
to determine whether the awards OF
We'll and La Abra cases were pro-
cured by fraud and if so to secure judy
ment against the claimants, their heirs and
assigns to recover the amount paid. The bill
to tax railroad land grants was briefly con-
sidered, when the bill supplementing and
amending the Chinese immigration act OF
1884 came up. 1t was, after debate, post
poned.
HOUSE. Another day was spent on the
oleomargarire bill. Mr.. Hammond offered
an amendment making it unlawful for any
merchant Or shopkeeper in the District OF
Columbia or the territories to sell oleo-
margarine without labelling it in con-
spicuous manner, and requiring hotel,
restaurant and boarding house keepers
who use oleomargarine to place in their
dining rooms a placard bearing the words,
''This house uses oleomargarine, and
to have the same words printed on the bill
OF fare. Agreed to-92 to IS. Mr.. Ham
mond also offered an amendment provid-
ing penalty for the violation OF this pro-
vision. Lost-58 to 100. Mr.. Durham
moved to reduce from $500 to $500 the
special tax on manufacturers of oleomar.
garine. Mr.. Breckenridge (Ky.) denounced
the bill. Adjourned.
SENATE.-The senate had under discussion
the bill reported by the committee on public
lands to forfeit that portion of the
Northern Pacific land grant from Wal
lula to Portland, over which it is
understood the company does not
not want to build. Van Wyck tried to
amend the bill SO as to forfeit all thelands
west of Bismarck. with the exception OF the
right Of way, but withdrew it and substi.
tuted a modified amendment. Before any
the regular order-the eulogies on the late
Senator Miller-was taken up.
HoUsE.-Wednesday was spent in fill
iactious opposition was INDUCED in because
the friends OF the measure would not per-
NIT any reduction to be made in the spec
ial tax rates imposed, which in the case OF
manufa cturers OF oleomargarine are fixed
at $500 per annum. The opposition
claim that these rates as well as the
tax of 10 cents per pound, are excessive
and unjust, and are prescribed to destroy
the industry in the special interest OF dairy
men. Many opponents OF the measure are
willing that the manufacturers shall be
placed under federal law and regulation,
but will not consent that law shall
be made that will entirely suppress it.
Representative Breckenridge OF Kentucky
reported favorably from the committee on
ways and means bill to provide:
Manufactured tobacco, snuff and cigars
may be removed for export to a foreign
country without payment of the tax under
such regulations as the commissioner of in.
| ternal revenue shall prescribe. The bill al
so repeats section 1851, of the Revised
Statutes authorizing the appointment OF
one or more inspector OF cigars IN eaCn col
| lection district, to receive as compensation
such fees from manufacturers as the COM
| missioner of internal revenues may pre-
scribe.
SENArE.-The bi II to forfeit the land grant
OF the Northern Pacific railroad from Port
land to Wallula created good deal of in
terest in the senate, and the amendment Of
Senator Van Wyck to include in the for.
fixture seventy-fve miles over the the Cas-
cade mountains awakened an antagonist
that will probably defeat the bill. Sen
ator Edm unds intimated that the
bill would never pass with that provision
in it, and sa id that the remaining six
weeks OF this session were not lon1
enough for that purpose. Some OF the sen
ators hold that the Van Wyck am endment
confirms to the Northern Pacific all o.
the land it now holds, except those
included within the provision, and there
fore they object to it. Other sena
tors object to FORGETTING the land in the
Cas- cade branch on the ground that tn.
railroad company needs it to complete tn.
line, is faithfully endeavoring to do so
and that the inhabitants OF the territory
should have the benefit OF a road in that
direction to compete with the Canadian
Pacific.