Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1886-02-26
A New Route to the Pacific Coast
By the Way Of the Cana
dian Pacific.
Manufacturers Marble Block, in st.
Paul, Furnishes Food for
the Flames.
The Wax Ends Of Milwaukee on a
s.ss 81. Strike-Armour's Reply
to Fink.
SENATE.
$250O00 APPROPRIATED FOR A MONUMENT
7ls TO GEN. GRANT.

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$500 APPROPRIATED FOR A MONUMENT
71g4 TO GEN. GRANT.
v WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S-Alr. Dolph, from
the committee on public lands, reported a
resolution, calling on the secretary of the
interior for full information concerning the
sectioning, surveying and patenting of the
lands given in aid Of the construction Of
the Northern Pacific railroad. The resolu-
luton was agreed to.
Mr.. Hoar called up the bill appropri-
ating $25O,OOO for the erection of monu-
ment, in Washington, to the memory of
General Grant. = y$@~%
Mr.. Plumb thought the bill oughtnot to
pass. He was sure that he voiced the
wish of the great soldier, whose fame the
proposed monument would commemorate,
when he (Mr. Plumb) said that no such
monument was necessary.
Mr.. Hoar briefly but warmly eulogized
the memory of General Grant. This bill,
he said, had the support of our most distin-
guished volunteer soldier (alluding to Mr..
Logan. 49, r..E.+ f. .'..
MI. Blair thought the amount provided
by the bill too small for the purpose in
tended. He regretted that congress had
not yet seen proper to erect fitting monu-
ment to the memory of Abraham Lincoln,
and characterized the Lincoln monument
erected in Washington as not worth $25 as
a work Of art. The bill was passed.
MI. Hoar said that the committee on
the library would consider the matter of
an appropriate monument to the me-
mory Of Abraham Lincoln. ..-@
The education bill was placed before the
senate, and Mr.. Gray took the floor in op-
position to the bill, taking the ground that
education in the states was not only
wholly outside of the jurisdiction of the
United States government, but exclusively
in that of the several states. In conclusion
Mr.. Gray said: 81 trust it may not be con-
sidered presumption in me if beg the SEN
ators, older in experience and wiser than T.,
to hesitate long before taking the first step
in this new and unexplOred pathway of
federal encroachment. Down it's dark Wis
tas see shapes of direful portent, and
shrink from the encounter. Over the level
bulwarks of the constitution will come
thronging thick and fast the armies of CEN
tralization, and the enemies of local self
government" Mr.. Plumb also opposed the
bill. He regarded it as an anomily in leg
islation, appropriating money not only for
one year. but for eight years. He had no
doubt that at the end of the eight years,
if the pabulum now provided were not con-
tinued, conventions would meet and dele
cations would be sent to Washington to
urge congress to keep on appropriating
more money. ,s
BILLS INTRODUCED.
Among the bills introduced in the senate
today were the following: .. .5
BY Senator Stanford-To establish quar-
antine station at the port of San Francisco
to be under the supervision of the marine
hospital service. 1t appropriates 100000
for the purchase of grounds and the erec-
tion of suitable buildings for the purpose,
and provides that the use thereof may be
from time to time granted to the authori-
ties of the health department of the city
and county Of San Francisco, and of the
state of California, upon condition that
they shall assume the expense of maintain
ing the station. i.
By Senator Wilson, of lowa-For a pub
lie building at Fort Dodge, Iowa Ut appro-
PIRATES 100000 for the purpose).
s. By Senator Collaborating that in all
cases of homestead entry, where the home
steadero or his widow, or his children residing
upon, and cultivate the land for five years,
patents therefor shall be granted, although
final proof was not made within the time
required by law. and such proof May be
made at any time, and the patent obtained
for the same. ls-3s.
Mr.. Hewitt, representing the minority OF
the committee On ways and means, today
submitted report on Mr.. Morrison's bill,
directing the payment Of the sur
plus in the treasury exceeding
$1OOOO0OOO in liquidation of the pub
lie debt. The effect of the resolution,
says the report, if enacted into a law, will
be to reduce the balance in the treasury
available for the payment of its current in
debtedness, and for the redemption of its
legal tender to $10O,OO0O0O. 4
e. NOMINATIONS.
{ Charles #. Wilkins, register Of the land
Office, Benson, MINI. The senate con-