Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-03-24
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IN the Senate for the admission OF Utah
'as State; authorizing the President TO
appoint and retire John C Fremontas 3
Major GENERAL and to provide method
for the settlement by arbitration Of the
controversies between Inter-S State railroads
and their employees The bill to prevent
fraudulent undervaluation by importers
swas passed Adjourned to tho 10Th In
the House the bill to annex por ton OF
Idaho to Washingt ION and Montana, the IN
dian Appropria bill \ and the bill rednc-
Ing the rate Of postage on seeds, bulbs
plants and scions to one cent for each two
ounces were reported An adverse report
was made on the joint resolution to diecon-
Time the green two-cenb postage stamp
and return to the terra-cotta colored
stamps At the evening session thirty I've
pension bills were passed.
SATURDAY, March ~ The Senate was
NOT in session. In the House bills were
passed increasing to fifty dollars per month
tie pensions to the widows Of Rear ADJ
miral Welles and Rear Admiral Wyman
MI. O'Neill called up the resolution assign
Ing March2O for the consideration OF labor
bills. Claiming that such bills had been
throttled, and the resolution was adopted
MONDAY, March 10 In the Senate fifty
i've bills were passed, the most inn
portant being: Authorizing the appoint-
ment OF q superintendent OF Indian schools
and prescribing his duties; to authorize the
sale Of timber on the Menomonee Indian
reservation in Wisconsin; to settle and
adjust the claims of any State for expenses
incurred by it in defense of the United
States during the War OF the Rebellion;
appropriating 81 90, 900 for the erection In
soldiers and sailors who gave their lives
for the preservation Of the Government;
for the relief of soldiers and sailors who en-
listed or served under assumed names, and
to pension volunteer female nurses during
the war at $40 month. In the House
bills We're introduced to appoint special
committee to examine into the condition of
the civil service in all the departme nts and
branches~of the Government; to place all
articles of products that are protected by a
trust or monopolistic company on the free
list; providing for bounty on wheat, corn,
Hour and oatmeal exported from the United
States; to create boards Of arbitration 4or
settling controversies between officers
and employees Of railroad companies Bills
were passed to discontinue the coinage Of
the one-d dollar and three-dollar gold piece.
and to authorize the issue of fractional. sill
yer certificates The measure directs the
Secretary Of the Treasury to issue silver
certificates of the denomination Of twenty
fve;f fifteen and ten cents in such form and
design as he may determine, such certii-
Gates to be received, redeemed, paid and re-
issued In the same manner as silver certi6-
Gates of the larger denomination
TUESDAY, March O-Bills were report
ed in the Senate to encourage the hold
ing of a National industrial exposition OF
the colored race in the United States in
1889, and providing hatpensions be rated
according to the rank held at the date Of
discharge. The Finance Committee made a
favorable report on the bill to wine out the
charges against the States for the loan of
1886 Itamounts to between 500, OOO, 900
and Sac, 600, 600. In the House bills were
introduced to protect free labor and the
industries in which it is employed from the
injurious effects Of CONVICT labor; toestab-
lish a department. of. labor, and to provide
forthe issue of legal-tender Treasury notes
IN lieu Of notes estimated to be lost or de-
StrOyed