The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-03-08


FlF1lETn CONGRESS.
Abstract Of the Pfooeodjugo OF thu
Senate and House.
Tho resolution offered last week by Mr..
Hoar to continue the investigation OF laat
session into certain events alleged to have Ave
taken place in Texas Tin the petition Of
stephen Hackwo.th and others) was re-
ported back from the COMMITTEES ON com.
tinGent expenses, and agreed to.
Inc senate then resumed consideration
o. the D,a granting pensions to ex.soldisrs
ana sailors who are incapacitated from
x;S;pp er ,os Of manual labor, and pro.
Q! deceased soldiers and sailors, the cues.
t'on being on the adoption OF Mr.. Calls
a,nendment making the bill apply also to
those who served In the war with Mexico
OF tIor 80 days, in any OF the Indian wars.
Inc amendment was agreed to.
Tho bill vas loaded with amendments
which may have the effect to deieatit. Sen.
u EV.Cn r..
istic speeches in favor OF the bill az it came
from the committee, asking senators to
halt before fastening upon it legislation
that would endanger its passage.
Senator Faulkner. Of West Virr;nin.
who voted in COMMITTEES for the bill.
said iraLkly that he should feel compelled
TO vote against it it the amendment
ed. which would give a pension to nersona
whose disability is only slight. Should
tho bill pass with the amendment. the pen
SION appropriation would he increased
some SIS. 900, 900 per annum.
Alter further debate by Messrs. Teller.
Hoar, Blackburn, Blair aud Henderson.
the bill went over without action, and the
Senate proceeded to executive businesa
and soon adjourned.
The bill appropriatius $500, 900 for a
Alto Tor public building in Omaha, Neb.,
was agreed to, with an amendment retluc.
ing tho appropriation to 100000.
Tho next bill called up was one appro.
priating $50. 900 for public building ut
Bar Harbor, Me. The appropriation was
reduced to $25, 900 and the bill was agreed
to.
TIT. next bill called up was for the cree.
ton OF an appraisers building in the city
OF New York. Mr.. Kerr, Of Iowa, spoke in
opposition to the spending Of the surplus
IN the erection OF public buildings until
some line OF policy in regard to taxation
should be determined upon.
Alter " speech by Mr.. Cox. OF New York,
the bill was agreed to unanimously. The
site and building will cost 81, 500. 900.
The committee having risen, the house
ratified its action, and also passed two
bills, coming over from Saturday. increas.
ing the limit Of appropriation OF the build.
n To-
purchase OF a site at Buffalo.
Bills we're also agreed to appropriating
100000 for an interstate building at
Texarkana. and $125.OOO for the pur-
chase OF additional ground at Indianapolis,
Ind. In speaking OF these measures, Mr.
Kennedy. OF Ohio, arraigned the Democrat.
&c party in the House for failure to re.
deem tho pledges it had made to the PEG.
pie.
Bills were agreed to for the erection OF
public building ut Bay City, Mich, at an
ultimate cost OF $50, 900, and apr opri.
ating $500, 900 for a building ut Milwaukee,
Wis.
Mr.. Call offered resolution in the senate
instructing the committee On public lands
to report q bill declaring all patents for
public lands issued by the secretary OF the
interior without authority OF law to be
NO0Outo1y VOIO. anu requiring tue 1LCOr.
ney general to bring suits to vacate and
set them aside.
bill for the compulsory education of
Indian children is passed by the senate. 1t
makes it the duty OF the secretary OF tho
interior to establish an industrial board.
ing school on every Indian reservation up
on which there may be located an Indian
tribe numbering 500 or more adult In.
dians. The pupils are to he taught in the
branches OF useful labor in addition to the
usual studies in primary schools. Nothing
in the bill is to prevent the education OF
the Indian in schools outside the reserva-
tions with the consent of their parents or
guardians, and no provisions OF the act are
to apply to the five civilized tribes, nor to
the Usage Indians OF the Indian Territory.
The senate resumed the consideration
Of tho G. A. r. pension BILL Mr.. Wilson OF
Iowa moved an amendment to insert the
words from the in6rmities OF age," 50 as
TO pension all ex-soldiers suffering from
tho inhrmities OF age or from mental or
physical debility"
Mr.. Vest made a rafting speech against
the amendments proposed to Senator
Davis bill, and reflected severely upon some
Presidential candidates in the senate. He
said: would give to every disabled or de-
pendent soldier 1.-THE Federal army, and the
widows and orphans OF those who had
lost their lives in the service, the last acre
Of land and the last dollar. would have
done the same for the Confederate soldiers
il God had pleased our cause. Why the
talk that congress has not done enough
has paid out since 1855 $685.. ZOO, 900 for
pensions-a liberality unparalleled in
the s.soe:Sooo OF men so' enr rSI,d as as
soldiers during the four years OF
war, there were applications from 1,2GO,-
900 for pensions, on account OF disability.
Such military execution was never known
in the history OF the whole world.
Who believes that these pension bills
have not degenerated into political
abuse, which cries aloud in the faces OF all
honest men for redress? A recent dispatch
from Paris caused political candidates to
become as thick 'as leaves in Vallam.
brosa." Mr.. Teller replied to Mr.. Vest
and the bill vent over.
The house passed the bill to make
st. Paul port OF entry, and to
provide for collector OF the
port to be appointed by the presi.
dent. reported by the house committee on
commerce as a substitute Tor Mr.. Rice's
bill on the same subject. The bill provides
that there shall be in Minnesota two COL
lection districts, St. Paul and Duluth.
The act provides for the appointment in
the district OF Minnesota OF q collector to
reside in St. Paul. and deputy collector
TO reside at st. Vincent. and also for the
appointment Of collector for the district
OF Duluth to reside at Duluth.
The house then went into committee OF
the whole (Mr. Burrows OF Michigan. in
the chair) for the consideration OF the bill
authorizing the secretary to purchase
bonds with the surplus revenue. The bill
was passed after a long debate. which was
chiefly devoted to the tariff and politics.
IN the course OF debate. Mr.. Randall
eaid that he did not wish to
traverse the remarks of his
friend from Kentucky, breckenridge
when he spoke OF the past, except to say
that he had no regrets. He was the more
reconciled in that connection when he
heard from the gentleman from Kentucky,
prompted by a more liberal spirit than