Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-08-12

and trophies: to provide that surveyed
lands granted to railroad company ter
minus with completed portions of such
roads and in organized counties, shall not
be exempt from local taxation on ac-
count of any lien of the United States
upon them for costs of surveying, select
ing or conveying them. ct also makes
provision for selling such lands on the
refusal or neglect of companies to pay
the costs of survey.)
THE oLEoMARGARINE BILL;
the bill for an increase of the navy; to
provide that homestead settlers within
railroad limits restricted to less than 160
acres shall be entitled to have their addi-
tional entries patented without any fur
| Their cost or proof of settlement and cul-
| tivation; to reduce the fees on domestic
money orders for sums not exceeding SIS
from cents to cents; to allow steam
towing vessels to carry in addition to their
crews as many persons as the supervising
inspector may authorize; for the relief of
Fitz John Porter; to provide for the sale
of the Cherokee reservation; to enable
national banking associations to in
crease their capital stocks and to
change their names or locations:
authorizing the construction of buildings
for the accommodation of the congress
slonal library; providing that after July
L, 1886, no fees shall be charged to Amer
lean vessels for the measurement of ton
mage; issuing of licenses; granting GER
tlticate of registry, ETC., and amending
the laws relative to shipping and the dis
charging of crews; liability of owners;
| licensing of vessels, etc.; to forfeit the
lands granted to the Atlantic & Pacific
Railroad company and restore the same
to settlement; to increase to $12 a month
the pensions of
WIDOWS AND DEPENDENT RELATIVES
of deceased soldiers and sailors; declar-
ing forfeited certain land grants made to
| the states of Mississippi, Alabama and
| Louisiana; to amend section 1886 of the
revised statutes so as to require brewers
commencing business to give bond in a
sum equal to three times the amount of
the tax which they will be liable to pay
| during any one month and to execute a
new bond whenever required; directing
the secretary of the treasury to deliver to
| the proper claimants or owners of silver
ware, jewelry, ETC., captured by the Unit
ed States army during the late war and
to sell at public auction all such
articles not claimed within one year;
to direct the commissioner of
labor to make an investigation as to con-
yict labor; to establish life saving stations
on various stations on the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans and great lakes; providing
that manufactured tobacco, snuff and
cigars may be removed for export with
out the payment of tax, and repeating
the law providing for the inspectors of
tobacco; to extend the Immediate delivery
system; to increase the pensions of sol
diers who have lost a arm or leg.
In addition to the foregoing the subject
matter of
VARIOUS SPECIAL BILLS
have been enacted into law in several ap-
preparation bills, as follows:
In the agriculture appropriation bill
directing the commissioner of agricul-
ture to purchase and destroy diseased
animals whenever in his Judgment it is
essential to prevent the spread of pleuro
pneumonia from one state into another;
in the legislative appropria-
ton bill creating the Office of as
sistant commissioner of Indian affairs;
in the sundry civil appropriation bill,
authorizing the secretary of the treasury
to issue silver certificates in denomina-
tions of one, two and five dollars; also
appropriating $4,000 for the establish
ment of an industrial home in Utah for
women who renounce polygamy, and for
their children.
Important measures, which, after de
bate, were defeated in the house in which
they originated, are as follows: The SEN
ate bill to increase the efficiency of the
army; the house (Bland) bill for the free
coinage Of silver, and Sen. Vance's bill to
repeal the civil service act.
Among the bills upon which further
action by congress is necessary before
they can become laws are as follows:
The Collum Inter state commerce bill;
the Mexican pension bill; the bill to re-
peal the timber culture and presumption
and thu desert land laws; Morrison and
Randalls tariff bills; the house bill to
prevent aliens from acquiring and own
ing land in any of the territories; the
bankruptcy bill; the house bill to term
mate the Hawaiian treaty; the anti-po-
lygamy bills; and the Chinese indemnity
bills.
Mr.. Morrison's surplus resolution fail
ed by reason of the adjournment of con-
gress before executive action had
been passed on it.
CONGRESSIONAL