The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-12-17
CONGRESS ADOPTS THE IN
DIAN LAND SEVERALTY
BILL.
Senate Discusses the Tenure Of once
Act Again.

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ford, Conn, port of entry instead of
Middleton. Adopted.
The senate bill amending Revised
Statutes was passed, for the payment
of pension out of the naval pension
fund to every person who served rs
an enlisted person in the navy or mar
inc corps, aud the bill is designed to
cover the cases of those who actually
rendered the same service as ap.
pointees of petty officers, although
not actually enlisted.
House passed senate bill providing
that Admirals Rowan and Warden
may, after forty years service, be re-
tired with the highest pay of the
grade to which they belong.
Resolution for printing 1000 extra
copies of correspondence Oh fishery
complications was adopted.
After consideration, the house
passed, with amendments, the senate
bill for the allotment of lands in sew
crafty to Indians. AS amended the
bill authorizes the secretary of the in
terror, in his discression, to allOt the
lands of Indian reservations to the In
dams located thereon on their applica-
ton, giving to each head of a family
one-quarter of section, to each single
person over Is years of ago and to
each orphan child under 10 one-eighth
of section, and to each other person
under 10 years one sixteenth of . Sec
ton. Ii prohibits for twenty-five
years the conveyance of any such al
lotted lands. 1t also confcrs upon
every Indian to whom allotments have
been made the rights and privileges of
citizenship.
The provisions of the bill do not ex-
tend to the territory occupied by the
Cherokecs, Creeks Choctaws, Semi
noles and Osages, Miamis and Peorias,
and Sacs and FoXs in the Indian Ter
ritory. Before any reservation be
abolished the consent of majority of
the male members 81 years old shall
be obtained.
Consideration of the urgency def
cheney bill for public printing. 1t
was said that the public printer was
confident that in future he could do
all the public printing for $4,000, 600
instead of $2,400,0C0, heretofore ex-
pended.
The bill was passed, and the house,
in committee of the whole, resumed
consideration of the sundry civil bill.
An amendment was adopted to ex-
empt United States commissioners, in
cities having 100000 population, from
the provision limited to $500 per an
mum the fees and compensation of
commissioners.
At $50 committee rose. reported
bill to house, and adjourned.
SENATE.
The following bills, petitions, etc,
were introduced and referred:
Pugh--Fixing salaries of the commits
sioner of education and the commits
sioner of labor at $4,000.
Van Wyck- Proposing an amend
ment TO the constitution in relation to
the election of United States senators.
Plumb-Concerning the transfer of
the stocks Of railroads engaged in in
terstate commerce.
Vest and Ransom-Petitions from
tobacco manufacturers protesting
against house bill respecting packing
of cut tobacco.
Evarts- Remonstranc against he
establishment of marine hospital OH
Staten Island.
Adopted: Van Wyck's resolution,
offered Wednesday, calling tor infOr-
nation as to the apportionment of
money by the Missouri River commits
sion.
Blair-.A resolution. which was
adopted, instructing the committee on
finances to inquire into the propriety
of reporting bill providing for a re-
bate on all imported materials incor-
porated with domestic materials or
converted into other articles and ex-
ported to foreign countries.
The calendar was then taken up and
and bill was passed to permit the
owners of American vessels and their
cargoes to sue the government for
losses by collision with United States
vessels, arising from their mismanage-
ment.
A number of other measures were
laid aside.
Van Wyck moved to make special
for the second Tuesday in January of
the bill for the relief of settlers and
purchasers of lands in Nebraska and
Kansas adjoining the ID. 4 st. j. road.
Agreed.
The senate then resumed considera-
ton Of the bill to repeal the tenure of
office act, and Mr.. Edmunds addressed
The senate, opposing the bill. lie ar
gued that IT the executives OF state
governments could not be trusted, as
they were not, with kingly power, II
was certainly more important that the
national executive should not be
vested with such powers. The philo-