Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-03-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail.
CONGRESSIONAL.


IN the Senate OF the 18th the House bill
increasing widows pensions came up, and
Mr.. Van WycS offered an amendment in
creasing the pensions Of minor children and
those idiotic or insane which was agreed to
and without reaching final vote the bill
went over The deatk OF Representative
Hahn, OF Louisiana, was announced and the
Senate adjourned. -. Owing to the sudden
death of Representative Hahn no business
was transacted in the House.
In the Senate on the 10Th the House bill
increasing the pensions of soldiers widows
from S. to Sl2 per month was called up and
the Senate reconsidered all amendments and
finally passed the bill AS it came from the
House. The bill only requires the signature
of the President to become q law. The debate
on the ght of the Senate to call for papers
in removal cases was then resumed and con-
tnued until adjournment. In the House
several bills were introduced. MIR. Bland
moved to suspend the rules and adopt resO-
luton making the Free Coinage bill con-
tnous order on certain days. This brought
on short struggle between the friends and
opponents of silver. The resolution was
finally adopted. Adjourned.
In the Senate on the 18th Mr.. Van Wyck
offered a resolution which was agreed to,
directing the Committee on Public Lands to
examine into the nature and extent of the
alleged deStruct, on of timber on public lands
adjoining the lands of the Northern Pacific
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discussed briefly and passed. Debate on the
report of the Judiciary Committee on the
right to call for papers was then resumed,
and continued until adjournment. In the
House many bills were reported from COM
mittees. The Senate amendments to the
Urgency Deficiency bill was agreed to. The
House then went into Committee OF the
Whole -On the Indian Appropriation bill,
which was considered until adjournment.
The Senate on the 18th passed the bill
providing for a committee of five to investi
gate the liquor traffic and its relations to rev.
enue and taxation; also the bill providing
for the study in the schools of the Terri
tories and District of Columbia Of the nature
OF alcoholic stlmulantS and narcotics: also
the bill to remove the charge of desertion
from soldiers of the late war who re-enlisted,
under certain provisions. Debate was then
resumed on the right to call for papers in
cases or removal, and continued until adj
iOurnment.. AT the expiration of the morn
ing hour the House went into Committee of
the Whole on the Indian Appropriation bill,
which was considered until adjournment.
The Senate on the 10Th passed Senator
Coke's bill setting apart for ten years strip
OF public land twenty miles wide along the
east line of the State of Colorado as Nation
al livestock highway. The bin also passed
t!ves of certain recruits killed in the Guam
tril raid on Lawrence, Kan. in 1868. The res
mander of the day was devoted to debate on
the report of the Judiciary Committee on the
right to call for papers. The House devoted
/ he day to the passage of private bills, and at
the evening session passed thirty pension
bills. Adjourned.