Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-03-20
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Senate.

Inc SENATE.
WASHINGTON, March 19ih.-In the Senate
to day the following bills were reported and
placed on the calendar:
For the erection of public building at
Salem, Or, ana to increase the appropria-
ton for public building at Sacramento,
California.
The House bill to divide portion of the
Sioux Reservation in Dakota into separate
reservations, and to secure the relinQuish-
ment of the Indian title to the remainder.
Bowen introduced bill to establish a
park in Colorado to be known as the Royal
Arch Park.
The Senate then proceeded to the con-
sideration of bills on the calendar in their
regular order. The bill to reimburse the
depositors of the Freedmen's Bank went
over without action.
The following bills were passed: To
amend Article 103 of the Rules and Arti-
cles of War, in relation to desertions ;
authorizing the appointment of Superin-
| tendent OF Indian Schools, and prescribing
his duties to construct railroad to the
National Cemetery at Corinth, Miss: TO en-
able the State of Colorado to select indem-
nifty lands; to settle and adjust the claims
of any State for expense incurred by it in
defense of the Union during the War of
the Rebellion authorizing the appoint
ment of delegate to the fourth Interna-
| tional Prison Congress at st. Petersburg, in
1890; appropriating Sl00000 for the cree
ton in Washington of a monument to the
negro soldiers and sailors who gave their
lives for the preservation of the Govern
ment-yeas 81, nays 10; for the relief
of certain settlers upon school lands of
Washington Territory to establish an ad-
ditional land district (the Harvey District)
in Oregon 10 amend the Act for the ad-
mission of Colorado into the Union to
establish public park at Pagosa Springs,
Col.
There were altogether 55 bills passed,
among them two bills pensioning volun-
teer female nurses during the war, at $25 a
month.
Blair, from the Committee on Civil
Service, reported the bill providing that
whenever persons who were not loyal to
the United States during the war shall be
appointed to places in the civil service,
those who were not dishonorably dis
charged from the military or naval
service of the Confederate States, and
who are suffering from wounds or dis
abilities resulting from slch service shall
be preferred to other persons not known to
have been loyal to the United States during
the war.
Platt objected to the second reading of
the bill, and it went over till tomorrow.
Teller introduced a bill for the admis-
sion of the State of Wyoming into the
Union Referred.
After an executive session the Senate ad-
journed.
The House.
| WASHINGTON, March 19th.-Anderson OF
| Iowa offered resolution III the House to-
! day for the appointment of special com.
| mittee of five members TO investigate the
I railroad strikes and to report what legisla.
ton is necessary to prevent such obstruc.
ton 10 commerce and disturbances of the
public peace. The resolution was accom-.
panied by a long preamble, recitine thai
the strike OF locomotive engineers on the
! Burlington road resulted il an obstruction
to inter state commerce, and put in
jeopardy the public peace. The resolution
was referred.
Under the call of States the following
| bills and resolutions were introduced and
referred
By FELTON, of California-For the free
! admission of machinery for the manu-.
facture of beet sugar.
By O'Neil of Missouri-To create Boards
| of Arbitration for settling controversies be-
tween officers and employees of railroads
engaged in interstate commerce.
| Morrill, OF Kansas offered resolutions set.
ting apart the I'd and Sd of May for the
consideration of general pension legisla-
| ton.
! Under the rules this resolution would GO
| to the Committee on Rules, but Morrill,
moved its reference to the Committee on
Invalid Pensions, and the motion was
agreed to-yeas 135, nays 100.
! wilkins of Ohio moved to suspend the
rules and pass the bill authorizing the issue
of fractional silver certificates.
After long debate the bill was passed
yeas 17S, nays 67.
Ihe rules were suspended and the bill
passed disseminating the coinage of So and
81 gold pieces.
Adjourned