The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-10-05
FlFTIt1H CONGRESS-.
FIRST SESSION.
SENATE.

SENATE.
| WAsHIS GToN, Sept. GA bill was passed
allowing any person who has abandoned or
reltnquished homestead entry before the
requisite six months to make another entry
not exceeding quarter section of land
| Among the bills introduced and referred
were the following:
| To prohibit immigration Of Chinese IN.
bsrers.
Offering 10000 reward to any person OF
persons who shall discover the remedy and
treatment of yellow fever.
| Fer a commission of medical men In jack
sonviile, Fla, to observe and report upon the
facts relative to yellow fever and the beat
method OF It's cure, prevention and suppress.
Ion. In connection with the two latter bile
Ar. Harris presented telegram from Mem
PMS, Tenn, attributug the existence Of ycl-
low fever at Decatur, Ala, and jackson,
Miss, to unrestricted Intercourse between
| Cuba and Florida during the past two years,
ssying that that demonstrated the necessity
OF perfect system of quarantine, and recon-
nending the establishment Of national
board of health.
To authorize the sale Of timber on certain
lands reserved for the use of the Chippewa
Indians in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Also regulating the allotment OF lands In
severalty to the indians.
| The bill restoring 10 the United States Gel
tain lands granted to the Northern Pacific
Railroad company was taken up, and the sen
ate then proceeded to the consi !eration of the
general deficiency approximation bill. After
agreeing to a number OF amendments the bill
was passed.
| a1 house
WASHINGTON, Sept. a5.--The relations be.
tween the United States and Great Britain
and Canada was discussed.
| On motion of Senator Paddock the hous,
bill for the relief OF settlers upon old Camp
Sheridan military reservation In Nebrasha
was taken from .he csendst and passed.
The eena.e proceeded to pass the private
pension bills which were on the calendar tc
which there were no objections. Among the
bills passed WAS the senate bill gransins e
pension of Ss,stso per yea. to the widow Ct
Gen. P II Sheridan.
Senator Berry said he was opposed to The
bill, but would not make any argument agsins;
1t, contenting himself with voting "no" on ts
passage, which he did. All the pension bills
On the calendar, to the nGirber of Ia, were
pasted, the legislative operation occupying
forty-fye minutes. After passing several
minor bills the senate adjourned.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.--senator Chandler
from the committee on naval affairs, re.
ported bill authorizing the president TO s
sue a commission as rear admiral to Phllir
@. johnson, to be dated January %, 1887, aud
to deliver the same to his widow. The bill
WAS placed on the calendar.
| The bin reported By Senator Hoar on Teh.
rusry last "to provide for insuests urdei
national authority was taken up, ahd Ser
utor George proceeded to address the senate
action.
A committee Of conference was ordered or
the deficiency bill, and Senators Hale, Allison
and CockrelI were appointed.
| Adjourned.
WAsHlNGToN, Sept. 27-The boRseamend
NAfAs " 'AiS pSatAsS ci'A SIpc,bo'
aid Of the yellow fever sufferers, WAS lait
before the senate. Senator Edmunds said h
had examined it and wac very much afraid
had missed the point aimed at; that was, t.
use any of the money in aid of those VIII
We're sick and in distress and in danger o
starvation. In hope, therefore, thet some
thing better would be done he moved that tn
senate non-concur In the house amcndnen
ana asked for conference. So ordered.
Senator Call offered resolution instruct
ing the committee on epidemic diseases t
consider the report before the adiournmen
of this session of congress such addition.
legislation as may be necessary to proven
the importation of contagious and infection
diseases from foreign countries on the coas
or boundaries of the United States and t
present and suppress it in the interstate con
merce and for the subsistence of such pc
sons as may be detained by thcpublic autho
titles
The matter went over TIL Monday
The conference report on the sundry civ
appropriation bill was presented and agree