Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-05-29
PHIIIIPsBURG. KANSAS. SATURDAY, MAY %. 1886.

In the hous on May 20, the com
mittes on appropriation, reported
the executive, legislative and judicial ap-
pro priatiOn bill, and It was referred TO the
committee of the whole. Mr.. DOugherty,
OF Florida, offered am amendment proVld-
ing that $4,000 shall be expended for the
establishment Of mail IKE from a gulf
Bort to ports IN Central and South America.
Mr.. u. Il. Taylor, OF IeuneEsee, offered an
amendment providing that 500, 600 shall be
applied TO the transportation of foreign
mails by existing lines running from New Or
leans to Central and South American ports.
Mr.. Hewitt, Of New York, moved to strike
out the appropriation of $500, COO and insert
one OF $4,000, and to add to the senate
amendment the following "And the post
master general SHALL as far as possible cause
the mails Of the United States to be carried
to and from said places respectively IN
American built and reglst 3red steamships,
provided the same can be carried for rea-
Eonable compensation to be by him deter
mined, but not TO exceed the rate of fifty
cents per nautical mile for the distance
usually Travelled IN the most direct and
feasible course between the terminal points
herelnbetore specified Ihs amendments
were allvOted down and the house adjourned.
In the house on May 2lsts the cOnsidera-
ton of the bill prohibiting the importation
OF makerel during the spawning season was
resumed. After long debate the bill was
passed-yeas IO2, nays so. As passed. the
Dill prohibits for the period OF hVe years
from March /, 1887, the importation into the
United States or the landing on It's shores of
mackerel, except Spanish mackerel, bought
between the fist of Magland the nrsr of
June Of each year. The penalty prescribed
for a violation of the act is the forfeiture of
the mackerel imported or landed, and if the
vessel violating the act be a United States
vessel, forfeiture of its license. Nothing,
however, in the act is to be held TO apply to
maCkerel caught OF the shore with hook
and line from open row boats with less than
a tWenuy-fOOt keel and landed in said boat.
Bills were passed removing the charge of
desertiOn from the record of Franklin
Thomas Seelaye. This is the case of q WO-
man, who for two years served IN Alchi-
gan regiment as a soldier without disclosing
heridentity. At the evening session the
house passed 35 pension bills.
In the house on May % the speaker pre-
scented a communication from the first comp
troller Of the treasury stating that there Is
deficiency in the appropriation 70 Ifess Of
the United States jurors and witnesses for
1888, and prior year. Referred, The senate
bill was passed, extending for TWO years the
time within which the St. Louis 6San Fran
cisco railway company had to complete its
road through the ChOctaw and ChickasaW
Indian reservations. The committee on
commerce reported back the CutlOm inter
state commerce bill with substitute there
for. Referred to committee of the whole.
After passing a few private measures, the
house went into a committee OF the whole,
for general debate on the Dunn free ship
ping bill. Pending debate the house adj
JoUrued.