Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-03-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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WHEN the Senate met on the 10th bills
were reported and placed on the calendar. The
bill to incorporate q Washington City cable road
was taken up when Senator Edmunds, lin or
der TO place Senators ON record a. to the d.
rect tariff question" moved an amendment
that the rails used shall be of Amer
lean manufacture, which was adopted
by q vote of . to IT, After an executive ses'
sion the Senate adjourned. In the House
business Of routine character was transacted.
After long and uninteresttng debate upon the
motion to suspend the rules and pass the Senate
joint resolution to extend the day OF Inaugural
ton from March 4 TO April 80 and the defeat OF
the motion the House adjourned.
AFTER committees reported in the Senate
on the 21st the bill to incorporate the Washing
ton Electric Gable railroad was taken up and
debated until adjournment. 49,. In the house the
bill TO credit and pay to the several States and
Territories the direct tax levied in s61 was re-
ported from the Judiciary Committee, also the
joint resolution for . constitutional amendment
prohibiting polygamy. The bill for the sale Of
the Black Bob Indian reservation In Kansas
was amended SO as to fx the price at six
dollars per acre and passed. The House then
went into Committee of the Whole after which
1t adjourned.
WHEN the Senate met on the 22d the
business OF the session was dispensed with and
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the presiding of1cer. The Senate then ad-
journed The House was not in session.
The Senate on the 23d passed the bill to
extend the laws of the United States over GER
tain unorganized territory south OF Kansas
known as NoMan's-Land. It establishes
the Cimarron land district. Debate on the
bill for compulsory education of Indian chill
dren then followed when the bill to incorporate
the Washington Electric Cable road was taken
up and passed. Adjourned. e. In the House Mr..
McAdoo offered q resolution which was referred
calling for correspondence In regard to disputed
boundary between Great Britain and Vene-
zuela. The Public Buildings Committee then
reported a number OF bills and the House went
into Committee Of the Whole upon the special
order-the consideration OF bills for public
buildings. A number were agreed to in COM
mittee and passed by the House when the COM
mittee rose in spite Of earnest and persistent
opposition from Mr. Bland, Of MI souri,. Ad
journed.
In the Senate on the 24th considerable
time was consumed in debating the Nicaragua
Canal bill. The bill granting pensions to ex-
soldiers and sailors who are incapacitated for
manual labor and providing for pensioning de-
pendent relatives Of deceased soldiers and
sailors was then taken up and M. Henderson
address the Senate in favor Of the measure.
Mr.. Turpie also made an eloquent appeal
in its behalf. After an executive ses-
sion the Senate adjotEned until Monday.
go. In the House several Senate bills of little
public interest were passed. A monster petit
ton in favor Of the Letter Carrier and Postal
Clerk bills now pending was presented from
business men and others from New York and
other places. The Senate Invalid Pension bill
was favorably reported by Mr.. Lynch. OF Penn
sylvania. Tho House then, In Committee of
the Whole, considered bills on the private cal
endar The Committee on Elections re-
ported on the contested election case of
McDufle VS.. Davidson, OF Alabama. In
favor Of Davidson, sitting member. Mr.. Long.
OF Massachusetts, made Q minority report in
favor Of the contestant. Mr.. Springer, from
the Committee on Territories, reported ad-
versely the bills for the admission of North and
South Dakota as separate States. and Mr..
Baker, of New York. presented o minority re-
port on the same measure. Adjourned.