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the company shall be a citizen and
resident of the United States.

resident of the United States.
The House Committee on Com.
merce ordered favorable report on
the Davis bill, providing for the estab-
lishment of Bureau Of Health in the
Interior Department. The bill pro-
poses to charge the new bureau with
the collection of information, to be
distributed weekly between the State
and municipal authorities, regarding
the sanitary condition Of foreign ports.
ANDERsoN's TELEGRAPH BILL.
In general debate, Peters, of Kan
sas, made speech in which he eluci-
dated the legal points presented in the
Anderson bill. Referring to the sub
sides OF the Pacific railroads to MAIN
tain and operate separate telegraph
lines, he gave history of the legisla-
tion upon the subject, and said that
the entire cost of the construction OF
the telegraph line from the Missouri
river to San Francisco did not exceed
$3.50, 900. In answer to the conten-
tion that in the act Of 1862 Congress
did not reserve the power to amend
its terms, he dec ared that the eight
eenth section positively reserved that
power. Turning his attention to the
contract between the Western Union
Telegraph and the Union Pacific,
he said that it was a remarkable
document and resulted in the destruc-
tion of competition in the telegraph
business, which it was the very OBJ
ject of the granting of the acts to
TI,n VInv0.r D,nsan Il
itself hand and foot by this contract,
SO that it could not transport the poles
or wires Of any company desiring to
construct a telegraph line along the
line of the Union Pacific, unless the
local rates were paid. That was the
virtual proposition Of the object, and
the effect of this contract was to
throttle all competition. He argued that
under the reserved power of Congress
to alter or amend the granting acts,
Congress had right to declare null
and void any contract which interfered
with the carrying out of the purposes
of the grant and that no vested right
had accrued byreason of contract en-
tered into between the Western Union
and Union Pacific Companies. Con-
gress had the power and right to step
forward and enact legislation which
would carry out the objects of the
grants. The committee then arose.
INDIAN RESERVATIONS.
The House Committee on Indian
affairs decided to report bill in lieu
of others on the subject of providing
for the division of the great Sioux
reservations and the relinquishment
of the Indian title to the remainder.
The practical effect of the measure il
it becomes law will be to open to set.
tlement over II 600, 900 acres, or ono.
half Of the great Sioux reservation in
Dakota. There are two general
reservations created by the bill, one
in the North and the other in the
South of the present reservation
The Grow, Creek and Winnebagc
reservations remain as they are, with
the exception of a few townships
which are excluded. There is also q
small reservation created opposite
Fort Thompson, for the lower Crule
Indians. The principal portion o1
the present reservation which il
thrown open to settlement lies be-
tween the White and Cheyenne
rivers.
The Speaker announced the resig-
nation of Cox of New York from ihe
Committee on Territories, and the
appointment of Taulbee of Kentucky
to fill the vacancy, Taulbee retiring
from the Committee on the Eleventh
Census. The House then went into
Committee of the Whole on the
Urgent Deficiency Rill.
Mr.. Cox of New York introduced a
bill for The payment of claims of the
Mayor, Aldermen and community OF
New York city. Referred.
1t provides for the payment Of
~ ,292 1857, the amount paid by New
York city for principal and interest
on bonds Issued to the Union
Defense Committee of New York in
1871 ov.I 1000