Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1886-03-19
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TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
The Widow Of q Homesteader Can
Prove Up Without Contin-
uous Residence.
The Silver Question to Be Finally
Disposed of on the Eighth
Day OF April.
Secretary Lamar Decides that q Pre-
emptor May Commute a
Homestead.
The OsWego & Erie Canal Indersed
by the Duluth Board
Of Trade.
SENATE.
ANOTHER BILL REPORTED FROM THE
= C0NINIITTIEEl ON PIlNsIONs

COMMITTEE ON PENSIONS. y
WASHINGTON, March 16.-Mr. Cullom
took the floor. He said that the refusal of
the attorney general to furnish the papers
called for was denial of the right of the
senate to inquire into the management of a
public Office.
Senator Blair, from the committee on
pensions, reported a bill to provide that
every person specified under the several
clauses enumerated under section 1898 of
the revised statutes, who served six months
in the military or naval service during the
war of the rebellion and who was honora-
bly, discharged, who is, or shall become,
disabled from any cause not the result of
his own gross carelessness, shall, upon
making known the facts, be placed upon
the pension roll, and receive pension
during the continuance of such disability,
at rate proportionate to the degree of dis
ability; such pension to commence at the
date of filing of the application. The
highest rate of pension granted under this
section is fixed at $A for total incapacity
to perform manual labor. ~
,-... ,s NOMINATIONS.
The president today sent the following
nominations to the senate: William L.
Trenholm, of South Carolina (now civil
service commissioner, to be comptroller of
the currency, in the place of Henry W
Cannon, resigned.
John H. Oberly, of Illinois, to be civil
ID service commissioner, in the place of Will
liam Trenholm, nominated to be the comp
troller Of the currency.
Charles Lyman, of Connecticut, now chief
examineEof the civil service commission,
to be civil service commissioner, in the
place of Dorman B. Eaton, resigned.
HOUSE.
THE SILVER MEN SEEM TO BE IN THE AS
.f TENDENCY.
MIR. Holman, of Indiana, submitted the re-
port Of the commission appointed to in
quire into the expenditure for the indians
and Yellowstone park, and it, together with
the views Of the minority, filed by Mr.. Can
non, of Illinois, was referred to the COM
mittee Oh Indian affairs. s.s.
The senate bill passed, authorizing the
comptroller of the currency to permit the
receiver of a national bank to use the trust
funds for the purchase of property upon
which the bank holds mortgage or other
evidence of Indebtedness. ~
Mr.. Bland, Of Missouri, under mstruc-
tions from the committee upon coinage
weights and measures, moved to suspend
the rules and adopt the following resolu-
ton: -
Resolved, That house bill No 1890, 'for the
free coinage Of silver" be made special
order for Saturdays, the 2Oth and 9th
insts., Saturday, the Sd of April, and the
same to be again taken up Tuesday, April
9Th. after the morning hour for the eOnsid.
Grafton of bills reported by committees, and
so to continue from day to day until dis
posed of; 49,, s
Provided, That, unless sooner ordered by
the house, the previous question shall be
pending thereon at 8 o'clock, Thursday,
April 9Th; this order not to interfere with
the revenue or general appropriation bills,
except ON Thursday, April Sth, fixed for
the final disposition of this order.
The motion was seconded-96t to %.
A brief debate ensued, showing consider
able opposition to the motion.
The motion TO suspend the rules and
adopt the resolution was agreed to-179 to
81.
The announcement of the result was
greeted with a round of applause from the
silver men, ~. 5&1Ta ~ .f -