Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-06-10
CONGRESS.


There had been much elimination and
refrimination in both houses about mem
beers of congress being employed by rail-
road companies. The bill was intended to
see il remedy could BE provided for the
trouble.
The bill makes ii unlawful for any mem,
her of either house to accept employment
rs attorney or payment for services of any
kind from any railroad company or any
officer or agent thereof, which obtained its
charter or any grants of land or pecuniary
aid from the United States. violation OF
its provisions is made "A misdemeanor,
punishable by fine not to exceed So,oOo,
or Imprisonment not more than one year.
Mr. Miller called up and the senate passed
the bill extending the eight-hour law to let
ter carriers Tho postoffice department
had ruled that the letter carriers were not
entitled to come under the provision OF
that law.
The anti-alien land holders bill passed
the senate 1t was introduced by Senator
Plumb early in the session. 1t provides;
ut shall be unlawful for aliens or any
corporation not created under the laws OF
the United States, or some state or terri
tory, to hereafter acquire or own real es-
tate except by legacy or in the collection OF
debts. This also applies to corporations
more than 20 per cent OF whose stock IS
owned by aliens. No corporation except
railroad or canal companies shall acquire
or own over 5000 acres, unless such land
is granted by congress. Property held IN
violation OF the act shall be forfeited to
the United States"
The bill applies only to the territories
and the District of Columbia.
HousE.-Mrs Weaver of Ohio denied the
charge that he had been improperly in
fuenced in his course toward the bill to
tax oleomargarine. The consideration oil
this measure was resumed. An amend
ment reducing the tax from 10 to cents
a pound was agreed 10.
SENATE.-The Northern Pacific land grant
forfeiture bill was considered. During the
debate it was stated that an English syn
dictate had offered $500, 10000 for the
company's lands at $3.50 an acre.
Mr.. George stated The average sales OF
land by that company had been within a
fraction ISL instead of 50. so. The whole
cost OF She road had been estimated by
the commissioner OF railroads at $1,000
900, while the land was AZ, 900, 900 acres
which at 81 an acre would make $l6S, O0O,-
600. Deducting from the sum the cost Of
the road, there was left 500, 00O,O 900 for
the projectors of the road.
The railroad land taxation bill was also
discussed. Mr.. Evarts submitted an
amendment to exclude unsurveyed lands.
Agreed to. Mr.. Hoar's amendment was
then brought up. 1t provides:
More than $40 acres OF land sold under
the provisions OF this act shall be pur-
chased by any one person or shall thereafter
be acquired or owned, or held in trust for
any one person, and any title or interest
acquired in violation thereof shall be for
feited to the United States without any
other act or entry or process whatever.
Senator Cullom introduced joint resolu-
ton proposing the following amendment
to the constitution, designated Article
XVI:
Section /. The only institution or con-
tract OF marriage within the United States
or any place subject to their jurisdiction
shall be that of the union in marriage OF
one man with one woman, and bigany or
polygamy is forever prohibited; any law,
custom, form or ceremony, civil or relig
ious, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Sec. 2. No state shall pass any law or
allow any custom, form or ceremony OF
marriage, except in obedience to aud con-
formally to the institution OF marriage as
herein defined and established hut other
wise the regulation within each state OF
marriage or divorce, q civil and criminal
jurisdiction over these subjects shall belong
to the several states as heretofore.
Sec. 3. Congress shall have power to en-
force this article by appropriate legislation.
SENATE.-A resolution was offered call
ing on the secretary OF the interior Tor IN
formation as to the authority under which
the land commissioner issued an executive
order suspending land entries. The con
sular and diplomatic bill was debated
The bill to indemnify Chinese subjects for
losses sustained in the Rock Springs
(Wyo.) riot passed 80 to 10. The sena
tors voting in the negative were Messrs.
Beck, Berry, Cockrell, Coke, Eustis, George,
Harris, Maxey, Mitchell (Or.l, and Vest.
The bill authorizes t;Ie president to ascer-
tain the actual losses sustained by China
men by the riot at Rock Springs, Wyo., in
September, 1856, and to pay such losses.
The amount appropriated for that pur-
pose is $3.50, 900.
Mr.. Ingalls, offered a resolution of the fol-
lowing import, which, on objection by Mr..
Beck, went over.
Calling on the secretary of the interior to
inform the senate whether a circular had
been issued by the commissioner of the
general land Office with the approval ofthe
secretary OF the interior, suspending
land entries pending legislation by
congress on the report OF these acts.
The resolution directs the secretary OF the
interior to inform the senate by what act
it was claimed that congress had delegated
to the commissioner OF the general land
office or the secretary of the interior, or to
the officers jointly, the power to suspend,
by executive order, the operation through
out the United States of the presumption.
timber culture and desert land acts, and
to deny the citizens OF the United States
their rights under said acts.
HoUsE.-The civil service reform com.
mittee reported a resolution discharging l..
+. Warder. assistant doorkeeper, for i'm
proper conduct i'll securing an apDropria-
ton for the improvement of the Jefferson
vile lind levee. A substitute resolution
was adopted by the house, censuring
Warder but not discharging him. A bill
was introduced striking from the free list
certain kinds OF fish and increasing the
duty on Others; being aimed at Canada.
SENArE.-Mr. Ingalls, called up his resoIu-
ton in the senate calling Messrs. Lamar
and Sparks to account and was proceed
ing in his peculiar and haunting manner to
hold them up to public contumely and
scorn, when Mr.. Cockrell came in. The
latter gentleman interrupted to ask what
was going on. Mr.. Ingalls, having a razor
edge on at the time, replied rather sharply,
and the Missouri senator said:
1.-The senator might have answered a po-
lite question"
"The senator from Missouri is incapable
OF asking polite question:" retorted In.
gals.
''And the senator from Kansas is inca
pable OF answering a gentleman" said
Cockrell, growing red in the face.
II shall never have the opportunity OF
doing so as long as the senator from Mis-
souri, is asking questions, replied Ingalls,,
the bilious hue OF his countenance growing
yellow.
Then he pursued his argument, detailing
with vividness the suffering of the settlers OF
the West and Northwest from Sparks ex-
tr8ordinary and erratic conduct. The
resolution was adopted almost unanim Gus.
ly, and then Ingalls, sauntered over and
laid his hand upon Cockrolls shoul der.
The latter looked up and became crimson.
Ingalls, passed some remark, and the sen
ator from Missouri rose and finally smiled.
Two minutes after they were sauntering
arm in arm across the floor OF the senate.
HOUsE.-The bill extending the bonded
debt OF the pacific railroads seventy years
was considered through out the day. The de-
bate was marked by a fierce attack by
Mr.. Crisp of Georgia upon Mr.. Holman.
Every ear was strained to hear the con-
sroversy, and Holman, who was nervously
playing with his spectacles, arose and shrek
ed out aquestion.1 Crisp full face and white
bald head had been growing redder and red.
der until his countenance resembled q
turneresque view OF Venice, and his power.
iul voice fairly came back in echoes from
the glass ceiling, as utterly ignoring the
great Director he cried:
And these men talk Of attorneys. II
either one OF them insiuuate, suggest or in
intimate that / am an agent or attorney,
or counsel for, or in any way interested in
any railroad, | hurl it in his teeth as I'M
qualifiedly false.
As he performed this dental operation
with thunderous tone, Crisp stood and
glared for a moment and dropped into his
seat, while Springer leaned over his desk
and shook a copy Of a report at Crisp, and
in "A voice weak with emotion said: "And
| hurl it back" Holman sprang to his
feet with book in his hand, his gaunu
frame trembling his necktie Sigh tly awry,
his voice trembling with anger, and big
chew of tobacco upon which his jaws work