Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-02
GRAYLING MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST ?. 1888.
NATIONAL LAWMAKERS.
What Is Being Done by the National
. Legislature.

The conference report on the river and harbor
bill was presented and agreeu to by the Senate
on the 29d. The Senate then proceeded to con-
slider the fisheries treaty in open executive
SION, and was addressed by Mr. Dawes and Mr..
Stewart in opposition to its ratification. After
which the House bill for the relief OF the South
ern Illinois Normal University was passed, and
the Senate adjourned. In the House Mr..
Crisp Ca ca led up and the House
passed the Senate bill TO perfect tho
quarantine service f the United States.
bill 10 tax the products Of trusts IL provides
that in addition TO the taxes already imposed
upon any product manufactured by trusts, there
shall be imposed an internal-revenue tax OF Az
per cent, and that no drawbacks shall be al
lowed on any such goods when exported. The
House conferrees ON the Anderson bill requiring
the Pacific railroads TO maintain and operate
their own telegraph line agreed to the Senate
amendments These eliminate the requirement
that the roads shall construct the lines and
leave the manner OF requirement open 10 the
discretion of the companies. The report was
agreed TO by the House.
In the Senate the resolution TO print 5000 ad-
ditional copies OF the report Of the Senate Com
mittoe Pensions the subject Of vetoed
pension bills was taken up ON the oath, the
question being ON Mr.. Cockrell's amend
ment to print 100000 copies OF Presi-
Dental votes in the last and present
Congresses. After considerable discussion
the matter allowed to pass over
without action and Mr.. Sherman, from the COM
mittee ON Finance, reported an amendment to
the Bundry civil BILL to incorporate in IL a pro-
vision to refund the direct tax Referred to the
Committee on Appropriations. The Senate then
proceeded to the consid ration OF the naval APP
preparation bill, and after the adoption of sew
eral amendments adjourned In the House the
Senate bill was passed appropriating S2OJ,OO
for the erection of Il public building in Chicago
to be used as an appraisers warehouse The
Senate bill prohibiting the transmission through
a
which would be prohibited IL printed or written
ON the outside OF the envelope was passed.
bill to forfeit the lands in Minnesota granted to
the Hastings Dakota Railroad Company was
passed. The House then went into committee
of the whole on the Oklahoma bill, but adjourned
without action.
The Senate resumed consideration Of the
naval appropriation bill the 25th, the pending
question being on the amendment stIiking out
of the bill the item for the expense of COM
mission to locate a navy yard and docks on the
Gulf coast. The provision was retained in the
bill, modified and the bill passed. The Sem
ate bill appropriating $4,000 for pub
| lie building at Allentown, Pa, was passed.
| The Allentown bill vetoed by tine President
appropriated Sl0)OOo. The Senate then pro-
| ceeded to pass the private pension bills on the
calendar and disposed of all of them-l27-in fifty
| minutes. Senator Spooner reported favorably u
| bill to appropriate $4,000 for public building
| at Muskegon Mich. In the House the Senate bill
| for the holding Of terms of the United States
| District Court ut salina, kan., was passed.
| The House TOOK up ana cOnBluereu q Dill 10
| establish United States land court and TO pro-
vide for judicial investigation and settlement
| OF private land claims in the Territories OF
Arizona and New Mexico and the State of Col
orado 1t establishes United States land
court, to consist of a chief justice and two asso-
ciate jus ices appointed by the President, by and
with the advice and consent OF the Senate
Arizona was exempted from the bill as 1t passed
| The House then went into committee of the
whole on the Oklahoma bill No gentleman was
| prepared to proceed with the discussion, and a
| recess was had The evening session was void
OF business.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the
army appropriation bill the 96th, the pending
| question being on the amendment offered by Mr..
Hawley nppropriating s75O,OOO for an armory
| New York; s5,OtOOO for the purchase
| OF steel for high-power coast-defense
| guns; $500,000 for the purchase of sub
marine mines, and slOO. 900 for submarine con-
| trollable torpedoes. The Senate adopted ga to
| l6) Mr.. Hawley's amendment and the bill was
| passed. The Senate then proceeded to consider
| the fisheries treaty in open executive session.
no actiC b, ing taken. Two Presidential vetoe s
| were read and referred, and the Senate ad-
| jOurned. In committee of the whole the House
| +, ,sumed consideration Of the Oklahoma bill.
| After discussion the bill was read by paragraphs
| and an amendment adopted that after Oklahoma a
| had been organized five years, all officers APP
| pointed by the President should be selected
| from residents of the Territory.
The Senate again considered the fisheries
treaty in open executive session the 9th, but
| it went over without action. The sundry civil
appropriation bill was then considered. Among
other amendments reported and agreed TO were
the following: Increasing The appropriation for
repairs of lighthouses etc, from $3O0O0O to
| S3l5, 600; increasing the appropriation for sal
aries of lighthouse-keepers from $5e5,C0l 10
$G0)0O0; increasing the appropriation for the
lighting OF rivers from S235,O to S250,00)
inserting an item of S5O,Oc0 for ex-
| penses of enforcing the alien contract
labor laws inserting an item of S450,00O for
| expenses of collecting revenue from customs for
1889 in addition to the permanent appropriation
inserting an item of $4,000 for fish-culture
station at Neosho, Mo-, and OF 5000 for the
maintenance of the same; inserting an item OF
slOJOOO for the survey and relocation of the
boundary line between the United States and
Mexico west of the Rio Grande. A dozen
private war-claim bills were passed by the
House. On motion of Mr. Grain lTex.) a bill
was passed authorizing the Brazos River Chan
mel and Dock Company to improve the mouth OF
the Brazos River, Texas On motion OF Mr..
Hovey (Ind) a bill passed for the erection
of marine hospital at Evansville, Ind, at an
ultimate cost of 100000. At the evening ses-
sion thrty-six private pension bills were
passed
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