The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-06-05

The Senate Passes n Number of Measures,
cluding Forty Pension Bills.

The Senate Passes n Number of Measures, In
Guiding Forty Pension Bills.
WASHINGTON, June Among the bills re-
ported from committees and placed on the
Senate calendar to-day were the following:
Appropriating $l25, 900 for public building at
Salt Lake, U. T.; to repeal all presumption and
timber-culturs laws.
The Senate then proceeded to consideration
of bills on the calendar, and passed, among
others. the following
Senate bill to authorize the Paris. Choctaw e
Little Rock Railroad Company to construct and
operate a railway, telegraph and telephone line
through the Indian Territory; the Senate bill
appropriating $50, 900 for an equestrian statue
OF ex- President Taylor in the city Of Washing
ton; the House bill appropriating $l5, 600 for q
a public building 10 Monroe. La; the Senate
bill creating an additional retired list of the
army for eighty officers now on the active
list, but incapacitated for active service;
the House bill authorizing the Presi-
Pleasauton, with rank and grade of colonel, with
an amendment reducing the grade to that of
major; the House bill to authorize the con-
ssruction Of bridges across Rail creek. In Michi-
gan City, Ind, and across the Mississippi river
at Hickman, KY, with amendments; the Senate
bill appropriating s75.0 900 for public building
in Altoona, Pa; the Senate bill to establish a
land Office at Folsom. N. NJ; tho Senate bill to
increase the endowment by q grant Of
$4,000 acres of public land in Louis
lana OF the Louisiana State University
and Agricultural College; the House bill to pro-
tect lands belonging to the Indians from unlaw-
ful grazing. with amendments; the Senate bill
authorizing the President to place on the re-
tired list, with the grade Of major, Mxjor-gen-
sral VIM. w. Averill; the Senate bill appropri-
ating $4,000 for q public building at Virginia
City. New, and 100000 for one at Reno. New;
the House bill to promote agriculture. requiring
American consuls abroad 10 make monthly re-
ports on agricultural and horticultural subjects.
The House bill to enlarge the powers and
duties of the Department of Agriculture. and to
make IL an executive departments, having been
taken mp, arguments were made by Senators
Morgan and Plumb against the amendment re-
ported by the committee on agriculture to strike
out the fifth section of the bill, which transfers
the weather service of the Signal Service Bureau
TO the Department Of Agriculture, and by Mr.
Platt againt the bill itself. on the ground that,
created. IL should embrace the interests. not
only OF agriculture, but of manufactures, min
ing, commerce, transportation and labor.
Finally the bill was recommitted.
The House bill to prevent the employment of
alien labor upon public buildings or other public
works In the various departments of the govern
ment having been reached. Mr.. Teller moved an
amendment requiring public buildings to be con-
structed wholly of materials made and prepared
within the United States, and limiting contracts
to residents and citizens Of the United States.
After discussion by Senators Teller, Blair,
Platt and Call, the bill went over without action
seventyeieht bills, forty of which were pension
hills