Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-01-12
A FLOOD OF BILLS.

| New Measures in the House-The More
Important of the Nine Hundred and
Two Public Bills Introduced Wednes-
day.
| WASHINGTON, Jan 6.-In the House We'd
nesday nine hundred and two bills We're
| introduced for reference
Mr.. Springer. of Illinois, introduced a bill
| to provide for the organization of the Ter
ritory of Oklahoma
THE bill provides for the creation of
Territory out of the public-land strip and all
that part of the Indian Territory west
of the five civilized tribes, covering
an area about as large as the State of
Ohio. 1t provides all the machinery for Terri
torial government and opens the section to set
Element by homestead entry. Three years
actual residence is required before patents can
issue, aud all sales, transfers and mortgages
prior to the issue of the patent declared void.
The cattle leases are declared void and the
Presidents directed to remove such lessees.
All railroad grants in the section also de-
| clared void, and the Territorial Legislature and
local Governments are prohibited from aiding
such roads,
Among the bills offered were the follow
ing:
To provide for the reduction of customs
duties; to establish Court of, Appeals; to
amend the CivilService act; granting
pensions to survivors of Indian wars
who have attained the age of 20 years:
for the temporary support OF common
schools; for the refunding of the cottoa
tax: to remove the tax from tobacco and spir
its made from fruits; to authorize females to
enter lands under the homestead law; to do
nate public lands for school purposes; to, regu
late the jurisdiction of United States courts;
to secure cheaper Geographic correspondence;
to regulate freight and passenger rates on rail-
roads crossing the Indian Territory; for the re-
moval of dangerous aliens from the territory OF
the United States; granting bounty-land war
rants to the soldiers of the late war; to provide
fOr fha oil 81 h1- fhn ,yAfn
of the people of the States; to pro-
mote the establishment of free commercial in
tercourse among the nations of America and
the Dominion of Canada by the creation of an
American customs union or zollvereim; to or
ganiZe the Indian Territory under the name of
Oklahoma and consolidate certain tribes under
Territorial government, and to allot lands in
severalty among Indians; to establish the de-
partment of industries and public works; pro-
viding for the election of President and Vice
Presden by popular vote; to create
the lakes and gulf waterway COM
mission. (This bill was prepared by a
committee appointed at Peoria, ILL.,, in
October last. and provides for commission to
be appointed by the President to take into con-
sideration the establishment of deep-water
| navigation between Chicago and ST. Louis and
the Gulf of Mexico; to establish uniform sys-
tenn Of bankruptcy; granting lands to honor
ably discharged soldiers of the late war for
the Union; to repeal the Presumption, Timber
| Culture and Desert-Land laws; for the estab-
| lishment of a postal telegraph; abolishing
| the duty sugar; to prohibit the purchase of
| goods manufactured wholly or in part by con-
| Wet labor; dispensing with proof of loyalty
during the llate a condition of
| toration admission to the pension rolls;
placing sugar. coal, hemp and MANILA grass on
| the free list.
| Among the bills for the erection of public
| buindings were the following: Evansville,
| Indianapolis (for enlargement of building,)
| and Madison, Ind; Fort Dodge and Sioux City,
| Ia; Winfield, Kan. Kalamazoo, MusKegon,
| Manistee. Bay City and Lansing, Mich; Du-
| luth, Mimi; fremont, Grand Island, Omaha,
| Plattsburg and Beatrice Neb.; Portsmouth,
| Gallipolis, GAINESVILLE, Hamilton and Defiance,
O.. Milwaukee Wis.