The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-08-05

the house bill included also the forfeiture
OF the grant from Bismarck to the Pacific
ocean. The house bill forfeited 3,0OO-
900 acres more than the senate bill.
SENArE-Most OF the day was spent IN
secret session. Mr.. Wilson presented in
the senate a memorial from citizens OF
Richland, Iowa, asking that the bill grant
ing pension to James ID. Haworth, late
of Company H, Third Iowa Infantry, which
was vetoed by the president be passed
Notwithstanding.
Mr.. Malone, from the committee on pub
lie buildings and grounds, reported favor
ably McMillan's senate bill increasing the
limit OF the cost OF the Minneapolis post
office building.
The senate passed the following pension
bills: Morris l.. Mintour, Eighteenth Wis,
consin; Mary NJ. Gillham widow of James
Gillian, Eighteenth Iowa: also a pension
OF $50 month to Lizzie Wright, only sur
viving daughter of George Wright; also to
Joshua Armstrong, dependent father OF
John Armstrong, late of the Seventh cav
airy; also to Elizabeth Collins, widow of
w. II. Collins, Sixth Minnesota. A bill al
SO passed to pay to +. w. Haldeman, of
Avoca, Iowa, $500 for services performed
during the war. Bills also passed to place
on the pension rolls the name oil A. n. But
Ter, Twenty-seventh Iowa. The senate
passed bills to place on the pension rolls
the name OF Jacob Mix, who served as n
captain in the Brown county (Minn.,) mill
tia during the attack Of the Indians upon
New Ulm in '62, and was severely wounded
in the arm; Irene Cookins, widow of Oscar
Cookins, Seventh Minnesota; and Barbara
Fuchs, mother OF John Fuchs, Sixth Wis
consin.
In secret session the senate disposed OF
five of it's contested nominations. The
case of Thomas Hanlon to be collector OF
the Seventh Indiana internal revenae dis
trict, when brought to a vote, was rejected
by tie. The nomination OF Morris Thorn
as OF Baltimore to be an Indian inspector,
after an hours debate, was confirmed
by vote OF thirty -four to twenty two.
Postmaster Rosetta. OF De kalb, Illinois,
was unanimously rejected. His offense was
the writing and publication OF an obituary
of Gen, Grant, in which the hero was al
luded to as tyrant and compared with
Julius Caesar. The remainder OF the ses-
sion was chiefly spent in debate upon the
nomination of three territorial Judges, one
each for Montana, Utah and Washington
Territory. The first two were confirmed:
HoUsE.-After substituting the house bill
for the senate measure by vote OF LA to
65, the house passed the Northern Pacific
forfeiture bill by q vote OF 1S5 to 40. The
only speech upon the bill was Mr.. Pay
sons, advocating the substitution OF
the house measure for the senate.
After the vote on the substitute, little in
terest was shown in the result by the friends
OF the senate bill, and the house stampeded
to the support Of the bill; Mr.. Payson
asked for conferences on the bill, and they
were granted by the house. 1t is generally
agreed that no agreement can be arrived
at with the senate this session, and that
she bill will 60 over until the next.
gEsArE.-The fertilization bill was dis.
sussed at length and passed. Senator Will
son of Iowa, from the committee on post
offices, reported favoFahly q bill to amend
the revised statutes so as to authorize the
postmaster general, in his discretion, to
allow third-class postmasters a roasona-
BILE sum out of the surplus revenues OF their
Offices for rent, fuel clerk and other
necessary expenses.
HousE-~The house went into committee
of the whole MIR B,Qunt in the chair) OH
the senate amendments to ths sundry civil
appropriation bill. The amendments were
considered withoutdiscussion. and the rec
concentrations of the committee on appro-
CREATIONS were agreed to until the clause re-
lating to silveY certificates was reached.
Mr.. Bland offered an amendment provid-
| ing:
The certificates shall be issued Oh all the
| standard silver dollars in the treasury and
paid out on the expenditures and obiiga-
| tions OF the government, and when receiy'
cd in the treasury shall be reissued.
Rejected 81 to 81 and the clause was
| agreed to in the shape recommended by
the committee on preparations.
Action o; the house on the silver
certificates indicates that a very deci acd
change in the sentiment In the house or
| this question has ia. en- piaco within the
| past few weeks, as the Bland proposition
| yhich was defeated, was inserted in tho
bill by an overwhelming vote, its oppo
nents not having sufficient strength to or
der a roll call.
Messrs. Townshend and Cobb took the
same ground, and the lat ter reiterated the
assertion which he has made before upor
the floor, that 80 Der cent. OF the entries
in the North west wero fraudulent. T. Is
aroused the Indignation OF the representa-
tives of TINT section, and Messrs. Ryan
Perkins, Dorsey and Nelson vigorously dc
MED the correctness OF the assertion.
When the senate amendment to the sun
dry civil bill striking out the provision Tor
extra special land agents for Mr.. Sparks
was under consideration in the house Mr..
Nelson of MINI. attacked the proposition
for increase in . fve-minutes speech. Il.
characterized the special agents as, ii
many cases, drunken political bum'ncr
who levied tribute or the great timbe
companies and drove the poor settler
from his land, simply to make record To-
himself. He was Q creature OF the com
| MISSIONER OF the general land office vested
with an enormous power, yet WITH ont CON
mission or responsibility. on -, ou' ~
year he Travelled around, stopping Mt 81
dav hotels and making the govern ment pa.
heavy expenses for an absolutely worthless
| service.
sENArE.-senator Wilson 81 Iowa Offered
che following resolution:
That the commissioner Of agficr.tns
be directed to report to the scnat
at the commencement OF tho mex
session Of congress the amount in bush
els OF wheat harvested in each whea
producing country during tilc present year
and the amount harvested during tte PFC
ceding five years, the average increase or dc
crease in the world consumption OF whea
during said years. the probable require
ment OF each wheatlmporting conn,r.
prior to Sept. /, 1887, and the probabl
surplus to each wheat exporting countr.
to meet such requirement, with the mum
her Of acres in the ground in each to mak'
the erop Of 1887 to the date OF such re
port, as compared with Q like date il
| 1856.
The house committee On public building
and grounds has reported iayQfapiy I'LL
senate bill increasing the limit the appEo
priation on the public building Of y;
Crosse, Wis.
The senate committee on commoYcs e.
ported back favorably the house bi
Amending the Revised Statutes relating t
the inspection OF steam boilers and hullf
SO as to pro vide for the establishment {
an Office Of Inspectors 81 boilers and hull
at Duluth.
Mr.. Evarts, from the con.,nittee on 5ldic
syy, reported favoraly the house bill fixin
terms Of tho United States courts at Ea'
Claire, La Ceosse and Madison, in the west
srn judicial district Of WISCONSIN. The ju
iicinry committee, however,, etruck GU
sections and OF the bill, except tbs psI
vision that the clerk residing at Madiso
shall attend all terms Of court held at Ea
Claire.
HousE.-The house took up for consider
alton. this veto message on the billgrantir
pension to Andrew j. Wilson And Feiuse
los to 85-to pnss the bill over the vet.
the constitutional two thirds not voting ]
the affirmative. The balance Of the dpy ws
spent in fllibustering.