St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-12
Hi f. HOUSE.
Passage Of the Bill FORGETTING the
OntOnaeOn & BruIe River Railway
Land Grant.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 11.-On motion of
Mr.. Peters. Kan. bill was passed extend
ing the laws of the United States over Ger
tain unorganlzed territory south OF the state
of Kansas. known as the public land strip,
and providing that this land shall be subject
to entry by actual settlers under homestead
law. The speaker announced the appoint
OF Messrs. Morris, Harrison and McKinlay as
confereres on the fractional gallon bill, and
of Messrs. Cobb, Van Eaton and Payson
on the alien landlord bill. Mr.. Randall
moved the house proceed to the considera-
ton of the sundry civil appropriation bill,
but the motion was lost, 119 to 121. In the
morning hour Mr.. Payson, ILL.,, on behalf
of the committee on public lands called up
the bill
DECLARING A FORFEITURE
of the Ontonagon d Brule river land grant.
In detailing the circumstances of the grant,
Mr.. Payson declared that from the organ
iZation of the OntonagOn & Brule River
company no steps had ever been taken by
it which did not indicate that that organ
iZation had been purely speculative, and
effected for the purpose of getting land
from the general government. 1t had been
an attempt at barefaced robbery from it's
conception down to the present time. Re-
ferring to the statement made by persons
interested in the road. that it had been &C
copied by commissioners and reported upon
as hsving been built in tirst-class style, he
asserted that miles of the road had no other
ballast than ice and snow, which, melting
in the spring, left the rails held in sus-
pension eight inches above the ground. In
support of his assertion, he produced pho
FOO ahcn rin .>f fbo -
commented upon them, much to the amuSe-
ment of the house. A bridge, as depicted
by a photograph, he declared to be
BUMPED LIKE A CAMEL,
and backed liked whale, a section of a
mile in length showed but one railroad tie,
while $50 foot cut was shown as being
filled with logs and brush. The bill was
passed without division. Ut forfeits
3S4, 800 acres.) The house then went into
committee of the whole Mr.. Hammond in
the chair, on the sundry civil appropriation
bill. In the course Of the general debate,
Mr.. Lanham. of Texas, made an appeal in
favor of the redemption of the trade dollar,
and abiding to the standard silver dollar, he
declared that it's coinage would never be
suspended, no matter who might recon-
mend to the contrary. Mr.. Herbert, of
Alabama, said that while the sundry civil
bill appropriated less than the bill of last
year,
THE DECREASE
was attributed to the fact that the commit
tee on appropriations had surrendered jur-
isdiction over the items for navy yards and
the new naval observatory, claiming that
those items could be provided for in the
regular naval appropriation bill. He con-
tended on the contrary, that the apprOpri-
tons for the objects named should be made
in the sundry civil bill, which would then,
instead of showing a decrease, exceed in
amount of appropriations the bill of last
year. Mr.. Randall argued that the naval
committee had proper jurisdiction over the
subject of navy yards, but they pointed out
that when they were provided for in the
pending measure the bill would still carry
less money than that of last year. Pend
ing further discussion the committee rose
and the house adjourned.