New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-03-07
FIFTgETH CONGRESS.
Abstracto OF the Proceedings OF the
Senate and House.
SENATE.

SENATE.
The resolation offered last week by Mr.
Hoar to continue the investigation OF last
session into certain events alleged to have
taken place IN Texas Gn the petition OF
stephen Hackworth and others) was re-
ported back from the committee on con-
tlngent expenses, and agreed to.
The Senate then resumed consideration
OF the bill granting pensions to ex-soldiers
ana sailors who are incapacitated from
Uhe performance OF manual labor, and pro.
Vld1ng Tor pensions to dependent relatives
OF deceased soldiers and sailors, the ques-
ton being on the adoption of Mr.. Calls
amendment making the bill apply also to
those who served in the war with Mexico
or (for 30 days, in any of the Indian wars
The amendment was agreed to.
The bill was loaded with amendments
which may have the effectto deieatit. SEN
ator Davis made one OF his short, character
istic speeches in favor OF the bill as itcame
from the committee, asking senators TO
halt before fastening upon it leg islation
that would endanger its passage.
Senator Faulkner, of West Virginia,
who voted in committee for the bill,
said frankly that he should feel compelled
to vote against it if the amendment
striking out the word total was adopt
ed, which would give pension to persons
whose disability is only slight. Should
sion appropriation would be increased
some S75, 600, 900 per annum.
After further debate by Messrs. Teller,
Hoar, Blackburn, Blair aud Henderson,
the bill went over without action and the
Senate proceeded to executive business
and soon adjourned.
The bill appropriating $500, 900 for
site for public building in Omaha, Neb.,
was agreed to, with amendment reduc-
ing the appropriation to 100000.
The next bill called up was one appro-
priating $50 900 for public building at
Bar Harbor Me. The appropriation was
reduced to $25, 600 and the bill was agreed
to.
The 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.
After a speech by Mr.. Cox OF New York,
the bill was agreed to unanimously. The
site and building will cost 81, 100000.
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
ing at Chattanooga, and providing for the
purchase OF site at Buffalo.
Bills were also agreed to appropriating
$1,000 for an Interstate building at
Texarkana, and S125, 900 for the pur-
chase OF additional ground at Indiana polls,
Ind. In speaking OF these measures, Mr..
Kennedy OF Ohio, arraigned the Dem Ocrat-
lc party in the House for failure to re-
deem the pledges it had made to the peo-
pie.
Bills were agreed to for the erection OF q
public building at Bay City, Mich, at an
ultimate cost OF $3.50, 900, and apr opr.
ating $500, 900 for a building at 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
abs olutely void, and requiring the attor-
ney general to bring suits to vacate and
set them aside.
A bill for the compulsory education Of
Indian children is passed by the senate. 1t
makes it the duty OF the secretary OF the
interior to establish an industrial board
ing school on every Indian reservation up
which there may be located an Indian
tribe numbering 500 or more adult In
dams The pupils are to be 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 the G. A. R. pension bill. Mr.. Wilson Of
Iowa moved an amendment to insert the
words from the intirmities OF age" SO as
to pension all ex-sodiers suffering from
the infirmities 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-
pendentsoldier ofthe 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 I would have
done the same for the Confederate soldiers
if God had blessed our cause. Why the
talk that congress has not done enough
for the Union soldiers when the country
has paid out since 1865 1888, OOo 900 for
pensions-a liberaity unparalleled in
the 100000 men enrolled as
soldiers during the four years OF
war, there were applications from /, 2GO,-
600 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 thick ''as leaves in Vallam-
brosa." Mr.. Teller replied to Mr.. Vest
and the bill went over
HOUSE.
The house passed the bill to make
ST. Paul a port OF entry, and to
provide for a collector OF the
port to be appointed by the presi-
dent reported by the house committee on
commerce a. a substitute for 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 a collector to
reside in ST. Paul and a deputy collector
to reside at ST. Vincent, and also for the
appointment of a collector for the district
OF Duluth to reside at Duluth.
The house then went into committee OF
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