New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-08-04
CONGRESSIONAL.


| bill was considered. On motion of slr.
| Dawes, an item of $50. oeOwas inserted for
| the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota on ac-
| count OF damages to their lands by over
] flow caused by government dams.
| On motion the senate proceeded TO the
consideration ofprivate pension bills which
| have been favorably reported. Fifty were
! passed, including one granting pension to
| the widow OF Gen. Durbin Ward A bill
was passed authorizing the construction OF
a hotel on government land at Fortress
Monroe Several public building bills pass
ed, including the following: Increasing to
$4,000 the limit OF cost to the building
at La Crosse, Wis; appropriatings $3.50, coo
for the purchase OF additional land near
the public building at Brooklyn, n Y:
$780, 600 for a public building at Charlotte.
n. c.; authorizing the construction OF a
public building at Owenstoro. KY.
bill was passed appropriating $780,
900 for the establishment OF military
post at or near Denver, Colo
Senator Blair, from the committee on
education and labor, submitted favora-
blereport on Joint resolution proposing
that an amendment to the constitution in
relation to alcoholic liquors and other
poisonous beverages be submitted to the
legislatures for ratification. The amend.
meat provides:
From and after the year 10, 90, the man
ufacture and sale and Importation OF dis
titled alcoholic intoxicating liquors except
for medicinal, mechanical, chemical and
scientific purposes and for the use in arts,
shall cease.
The report which accompanies the pro-
posed amendment says the committee be-
lseve the people have right to decide what
measure shall be taken for the regulation
OF e.tirpation OF this traffic.
HoUsE.-Mr. Henly, from the committee
on public lands, reported back the senate
bill FORGETTING certain OF the lands granted
the Northern Pacific Railroad company.
The committee recommends that, in lieu
OF the senate bill, there be substituted the
provisions OF the house bill on the same
subject. M. Henly stated:
The difference between the two bills was
that while the senate bill forfeited the
grant from Wallula Junction to Portland,
the house bill included also the forfeiture
OF the grant from Bismarck to the Pacific
ocean. The house bill forfeited $4,000.
600 acres more than the senate BILL
Mr.. VOORHEES, favored the house bill, de-
claring There were high reasons of public
policy why the land grant of the Northern
Pacific company should be taken from its
control as far as this could legally be done.
He pictured what he characterized as the
oppression OF the railroad company as
practiced in Washington Territory, assert
ing that it dictated the laws relating to
railroad taxation and set at defiance every
legislative action OF the people. The his
tory OF the company was a chapter of
broken promises, Misrepresentation and
double dealing.
Mr.. Glfillan submitted i, legal argument
in opposition to the house bill. which he
Said was based upon 1nischievous and
misleading misconstruction OF the granting
act.
Mr.. Oates argued against the equitable
and legal power OF congress to pass the SEN
ate bill.
SENATE.-Most OF the day was spent in
secret session. MIR. Wilson presented in
the senate memorial from citizens of
Richland, Iowa, asking that the bill grant
ing a pension to James D. Haworth, late
OF Company H, Third Iowa Infantry, which
was vetoed by the president, be passed
notwithstanding.
Mr.. Malone, from the committee on pub
lie buildings and grounds, reported favor
ably McMillan's senate bill increasing the
limit OF the cost OF the Minneapolis post
office building.
The senate passed the following pension
bills: Morris L. Mintour, Eighteenth Wis
consin: Mary NJ. Gillian. widow of James
Gillham Eighteenth Iowa also pension
OF 500 a month to Lizzie Wright, only sur
viving daughter OF George Wright; also to
Joshua Armstrong, dependent father OF
John Armstrong, late Of the Seventh cav
airy; also to Elizabeth Collins, widow of
w. II. Collins, Sixth MINNESOTA. A bill al
SO passed to pay to T. w. Hademan, of
Avoca. Iowa, $500 for services performed
during the war. Bills also passed to place
on the pension rolls the name OF A. n. But
Ter, Twenty-seventh Iowa. The senate
passed bills to place Oh the pension rolls
the name OF Jacob Mix, who served as
captain in the Brown county (Minn..) mill
tia during tae attack of the Indians upon
New Ulnl in so, and was severely wounded
in the arm; Irene Cookins, widow of Oscar
Cookins, Seventh Minnesota; and Barbara
Fuchs, mother OF John Fuchs Sixth Wis
consn.
In secret session the senate disposed OF
five o. it's contested nominations. The
case Of Thomas Hanlon to be collector OF
the Seventh Indiana internal revenue dis
trict. "hcn brought to {. vote, WAS rejected
by IL tic. denomination of Morris Thorn
as OF baltimore to be an Indian inspector
after an hours debate, was confirmed
by ~ vote of thirty-four to twenty two
Postmaster Ross~tta, OF De kalb, Illinois,
WAS unanimously rejected. His oiiense was
til. writing and publication OF an obituary
OF Gen. Grant, in which the hero was al
lu'!el to as q tvrant and compared with
julius Caesar The remainder OF the ses-
sio', was chiefly spent in debate upon the
nomination Of three territorial judges, one
each for Montana, Utah and Washington
Territory. The first two were confirmed
HOUSE. After substituting the house bill
Tor the senate measure by a vote OF ia to
Go, the house passed the Northern Pacific
forfeiture bill by vote of 1875 to 40. The
only speech upon the bill was Mr.. Pay
sons. advocating the substitution OF
the house measure for the senate.
After the vote on the substitute, little in
terest was shown in the result by the friends
OF the senate bill, and the house stampeded
to the support OF the bill. Mr.. Payson
asked for conferences on the BILL and they
were granted by the house. 1t is generally
agreed that no agreement can be arrived
at with the senate this session, and that
the bill will 60 over until the next.
SENATE.-The fertilization bill was dis.
cussed atlength and passed. Senator Will
son OF Iowa, from the committee on post
offices, reported favorably a bill to amend
the revised statutes 50 as to authorize the
postmaster general. in his discretion, to
allow third-class postmasters reasona-
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