Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-06-23
DOENRS ~ CONGRESS
Senate.


MONDAY June lathe Northern Pacific
land forfeiture bill was taken up, and hot
debate ensued, an adjournment being taken
at O'Clock with Senator George on the
floor.
TUESDAY, June 15.-The Northern Pa
ciic land grant forfeiture bill was again
taken up and after debate was passed.
WEDNESDAY, June 16.-The Military
Academy appropriation bill and the invalid
pension appropriation bill were passed as
reported from the appropriation commit
tee. Consideration was then begun of the
House bill for the repeal of the pre- emption,
timber culture and desert land laws, the
Senate committee having amended the bill
by substituting the provisions of the Sen
ate bill.
THURSDAY. June 17.-Among the meas
ures passed by the Senate were the follow
ing: A House bill appropriating $150,OOO
for additional barracks at the Soldiers
homes at Hampton, Milwaukee and
Leavenworth; g. bill to provide for one ad-
ditional assistant adjutant general with
the rank of major of cavalry; bill to Sc
cure to the Cherokee freedmen their pro-
portion of certain proceeds of lands under
the act of March 3, 1888; to authorize the
purchase OF tract of land near Salem,
Ore, for the use of the Indian training
school; granting to the Oregon Railway
Bridge Company of Oregon the right to
build p bridge over the willamette River
near Rays Landing, Ore; House bill to
provide for the sale of the Cherokee reser.
walton in Arkansas; a, bill authorizing the
Secretary of War to repair the barracks OF
Forts Robinson and Niobrara, Neb.,
and those at Fort Russell, Wyo.; q
bill to pay to the representatives of the
government of Great Britain SIS 800, to
enable that government to indemnify the
owners of the British bark Chance for
abandoning their whaling voyage in the
Arctic Ocean in 1871, and rescuing ninety
six American seamen from shipwreck in the
ice; bill authorizing the postmaster-gen-
eral to pay rent for buildings leased as post
offices; bill providing for appointment
of an additional assistant secretary of the
treasury to hold Office for one year from
the passage of the bill: providing for an in
spection of meats for expectation, and pro-
hibiting the importation of adulterated
articles of food or drink; to authorize the
postmaster-general to allow compensation
to railroad companies in certain cases
for apartment service furnished; to
authorize the improvement of the water
power in the Mississippi River at Little Falls
Mimi, classifying registers and receivers Of
land Offices and fixing salaries for them
according to such Gle ssifcation, in lieu of
fees; to promote the political progress and
commercial prosperity OF the American ma
tions. This is Mr.. Frye's bill authorizing
the President to invite, on behalf OF the peo-
pie of the United States, delegates from
Mexico and Central and South America, to
meet in Washington October /, 1887, to
meet delegates on the part of the United
States to consider such questions and
recommend SUCH measures as shall be to
the mutual interest and common welfare of
the American states.) The following public
building bills were passed: For a building
at Duluth, Mimi, 500, 900; Ell Paso, Tex.
$15O,O0O. To complete buildings already
begun the following additional amounts
were appropriated: For the building at
Hannibal Mo-, $37 ,00o; Peoria, ILL.,, $780,
900; Frankfort, KY, SIC, 900; Keokuk, Ia,
$4,000.
FRIDAY, June 1S.-The Fitz-John Porter
bill was made the special order for next
Thursday. Mr.. Platt's resolution provid-
ing for open executive sessions was objected
to and went over. Among the bills passed
from cents to cents the fee on domestic
money orders for sums not exceeding SIS;
the publication of lottery ad.
refreshments in the District OF Columbia
and the territories; a House bill to make
the allowances for clerk hire to postmast-
ers at first and second. class post-offices
cover clerical labor in the money order
DuBlQS5SS d. Oil tOE Uu0 encouragement Oh
the American merchant marine and to pro-
mote postal and commercial relations with
foreign coun tries; bill authorizing the free
of weather reports through
the mails; a bill to increase the efficiency OF
the army of the United States. The Senate
adjourned until Monday.
House.
MONDAY, June 14.-Mr. Cobb Qnd.)
called up the report of the committee on
public lands, recommending concurrence in
the Senate amendments to the Atlantic q
Pacific land forfeiture bill. Mr.. McRae
(Ark.) opposed the Senate amendments.
contending that Notwithstanding the title
OF the bill the adoption of the amendment
would convert the bill into confirmatory
act. The report of the committee was then
agreed to and the amendments concurred
in. Under the call ofstafes the following bills.
etc., were introduced and referred: To in
corporate the United States and Congo Ma
tional Emigration Steamship Company;
for the deposit of gold and silver coin and