New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-05-30
FIT TIETH CONGRESS.
Abstract Of the Proceedings OF the
Senate and House.
SENATE


SENATE.
Ihe senate decided by q vote OF % To
n not to consider the fisheries treaty. in
open session. The division was upon
strict party lines, except in the case 81
Senator Hale, who voted with the demo.
Gratis adversely to the Riddl berger resolu.
tion No time has yet been fixed for the
taking up OF the treaty.
HOUSE.
In the house Mr. McShane reported from
the Indian committee Mr.. Toole's bill to
PROVIDE Tor the sale OF certain lands pat
eLted to the Flathead tribe OF Indians.
These lands are located in the Bitter Root
valley, Mont
Ihe Senate committee on agriculture
has ordered a favorable report on the
Hatch bill to enlarge the duties OF the de-
partment OF agriculture, and make it an
executive department.
The COMMITTEES on appropriations has
completed the considera ton of the Indian
appropriation bill. 1t has made a net re.
ductlon OF $226, 600, making the total an.
preparation So, 172,O 600.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Hudd called UP and passed in the
house to. day tue senate bill to allow the
Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western road
right OF way through the Lac du Flam-
beau reservation in Wisconsin. Mr.. Mel.
son introduced a bill granting the Duluth
q Winnipeg railroad right of way through
the Fond du Lac reservation.
SENATE.
The senate has confirmed James D
Jenkins OF Usage, Iowa, to be agent for
the Indians OF the Sisseton agency in Da-
kota. =
The presiding officer of the senate an
nounced as the select committee to ex-
anime into all questions touching the
meat product of the United States. Sena.
tors Vest. Plumb, Henderson. Cullom and
Coke.
The Spooner bill putting telegraph COM
panies under the Jurisdiction OF the inter
state commerce commission is likely to
be reported favorably to the senate. IN
less the bill is made more radical than
the committee now seem likely to make it.
the Western Union will make no on.
position to it. These people are in.
c g TO favor q moderate bill
Tor the reason that if they
were under government regulation they
think it would stop, or at least turn aside
a great deal OF the adverse criticism which
is periodically showered upon them, and
stave Oil the day of government telegraph.
Senator Vest ntroduced the house bin
granting the Duluth, Rainy Lake River q
Southwestern Railway company the right
70 construct and maintain pivot draw.
bridge across the Red River OF the North.
between Minnesota and Dakota
The house adopted a resolution author
lzlng the committee on foreign affairs to
inquire into the facts concerned with tho
imprisonment in an English Jail of John
Curtin Kent, naturalized American citi.
zen. Kent Was recently convicted OF a
dynam mite conspiracy in London, and sen.
fenced to imprisonment. The American
consul general at London says the Ameri-
can citizenship OF Kent was shown in the
trial. II. and the conviction was in direct con-
f1ict with the charge OF the court
Tie postofice appropriation bill was
passed. During the debate the inefficient
postal service in the west was thoroughly
ventilated. Mr.. Toole OF Montana and
Mr.. VOORHEES, OF Washington Territory
voiced the wishes OF the people OF the ter.
ritories for more efficient mail service
than they were now receiving. The con-
duct OF First Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral Stevenson was the subject OF unfayor-
able Republican comment.
SENATE.
The senate finance subcommittee held
Its frst meeting upon the tariff bill. The
meeting was designed only to bring out the
views OF the members as to the proper
course to pursue in the preparation Of the
bill.
Several hours were spent in secret SEES.
sion ostensibly discussing the motion OF
Senator Sherman to proceed to the consid-
n 1n fish fron Nv -
doors but in reality debating the merits OF
the treaty itself. Senator Morgan was
the principal speaker.
The senate considered the house bill
making an appropriation to supply de.
ficiency in the appropriation for expenses
OF collecting the revenue from customs.
The bill passed with amendments, the
principal one striking out the clause re.
pealing the law making a permanent an
nual appro priation OF So, 100000 for such
expenses.
Senator Blair introduced JOINT resolu.
ton providing for the following amend
ment to the constitution: That no state
shall ever make or m ain tain any law re.
speeding an establishment OF religion or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof, and
that every state shall establish and main.
tain system OF free public schools, but
that no money raised by taxation shall
ever be appropriated applied or given for
any school, institution, corporation or
person, whereby instruction is given in
any doctrine, tenets, beliefs and cere.
m onials or observations peculiar to any
religious sect
HOUSE.
The speaker laid before the House a let
ter from the attorney general asking for
deficiency appro pristion OF $4,000 for
the present fiscal year for witness and
jurors fees in tire United States and terri.
torial courts OF utah.
The conferees on the part OF the House
on Representa- O Neill's bill creating
department OF labor, have reached an
agreement by accepting the Senate amend
ments, which were merely formal.
Knute Nelson filed in the house and re.
ferred to the committee on ways and
means a letter from III. Z. Loucks, of Clear
Lake, Dak., giving reasons, cogently stated
why farm machinery should be placed on
the free list. He says that American bind
ers cost more and are no better than Can
adian binders.
SENATE.
The Senate committee to investigate the
Jackson, Miss, election riots, after sus-
pension of three or four weeks, has resum-
ed it's sittinos having secured siy fresh