Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-03-24
Epiton1e Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
F1FTIETH GoNGREss.

FRIDAY. March l6 Bill were introduced
in the Senate for the admission of Utah
as State; authorizing the President to
appoint and retire John G. Fremontas
Majors General, and to provide method
for the settlement by arbitration of the
controversies between Interstate railroads
and their employees. The bill to prevent
fraudulent differentiation by importers
was passed Adjourned to the 19Gh In
the House the bill to annex a portion of
Idaho to Washington and Montana, the In
dian Appropriation bill and the bill reduc-
ing the rate OF postage on seeds, bulhs,
plants and scions to one cent for each two
ounces were reported. An adverse report
was made on the joint resolution to discon-
tinue the green two-cenb postage stamp
and return to the terra-cotta colored
stamps. At the evening session thirty-fye
pension-bills were passed
SATURDAY, March 1.-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 Ad-
miral Welles and Rear Admiral Wyman.
Mr. O'Neill called up the resolution assign
ing March 20 for the consideration of labor
bills, claiming that such bills had been
thrO ttled and the resolution was adopted.
MONDAY, March 19.-In the Senate fifty
five bills were passed, the most i'm
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 800, 900 for the erection in
Washington of a monument to the negro
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 $50 a month In the House
bills were introduced to appoint a special
committee to examine into the condition of
the civil service in all the departments and
branches>o of the Governments; 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-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 denominations of twenty
five, fifteen and ten cents in such form and
design as he may determine, such certifi-
Gates to be received, redeemed, paid and re-
issued in the same manner as silver certifi-
Gates of the larger denomination.
TUESDAY, March 2O-Bills were report
ed in the Senate to encourage the hold
ing of National industrial exposition of
the colored race in the United States in
1889, and providing that pensions be rated
according to the rank held at the date OF
discharge The Finance Committee made a
favorable report on the bill to wipe out the
charges against the States for the loan of
1886 It amounts to between 800, 900, 900
and $50, 600. 900. 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; to estab-
lish department. Of labor, and to provide
forthe issue OF legal-tender Treasury notes
in lieu of notes estimated to be lost or de-
stroyed