, 1886-07-08

intend 10 become, and did they be
come scoUndrels all at once? When
Il man enters congress he is not ex-
pected, and it is not a practice, to
renounce worldly business. All that
is expected of him is that he shall
not use the influence of his place for
the advancement of his private in
terest. The report reviews the his
tory of the conference proceedings,
and finds nothing in the conduct of
GOode deserving of censure. The
report says the suit to test the legal
ity of the Bell patents was rightfuIiy
brought, but the same could not
result to the benefit of the Pan -Elec-
tric Telephone company, as many
inventions preceded that of Rogers.
The Salt Lake Tribune, published
hundreds of miles from the line of
the Northern Pacific, denounces the
proposition made in the senate, and
sustained by the vote of 'Old Crazy
Horse" and eleven democrats, to
forfeit all the grant to the company
not earned July 4, 1879. 1t said:
Now the company wish to push its
line through the Cascades and give
Washington a direct road back to its
agricultural lands, and, though the
men who invested in the stock to
drive the road across the Bad
Lands of Dakota have never received
the slightest return on their invest
ment, the senate of the United States
steps in and says that all the lands
not enetrated by the road in 1878
shall be declared forfeited. We
think it is a swindle upon the com
pany, direct breaking a faith, for
the reason that when congress per
mitted 1879 to go by without making
the order of forfeiture it virtually
extended the time of completion"
Land Commissioner Sparks, in reply
to inquiries of Delegates Voorhees,
and T0ole, of Washington and Mon.
tana Territories, respectively, rela
tive to The policy of the department
in respect to the prosecution of per-
sons occupying reserved school sec
tions in the Territories, says that the
sections are not subject to appro-
priation by any person after the sur
vey, but that it is not the practice of
his Office to recommend prosecution
against bona tide settlers who go up
on such lands with the view of ulti
mately purchasing from the state
| when admitted and the grant thereto
shall have been made, but only III
cases where parties are despoiling
land of its timber or other valuable
product, or when persons. firms, cor
porations OF combinations are usurp-
ing all of such lands, unlawfully en-
closing them, or otherwise denomi-
mating their control to the public in
jury and deprivation of the rights OF
others.
The president has approved the act
to reduce the fee on domestic money
orders for sums not exceeding So; the
act making allowances for clerk hire
to postmasters of first and second
class postoffices; the military, post
Office, agricultural and army appro-
priations bills; the act granting leave
of absence to employees in the Gov
ernment printing Office; the acts pro-
viding for the completion of public
buildings at Ell Pasco, Tex, Hanni-
bal, Mo, Savannah, Ga, Peoria. ILL.,,
and Des Afoines, Ia; the act for the
sale of the Kansas City, Fort Scott &
Gulf Railroad; the act authorizing
the Cheyenne & Northern Railroad
Company to build road across the
Fort Russell and Fort Laramie re-
servations, the act providing for ad-
ditional barracks at the Southern,
Northwestern aud Western branches
of the National Home for Disabled
Volunteer Soldiers; and the act for
the relief of the officers and crew OF
the lighthouse tender Lilly.