Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-06-02
fiF!IETH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION.

hoi piii "+H reported 10 t3c senate, UrdcyUt
printed ana r~ocomIAit;cG.
Among the bills introduced was one b
senator Blair to secure to the people the en-
joyinent OF the first day Of the week as a da,
OF rest, and to permit its observance IS a da.
OF religions worship.
Inc senate at 3 p. IN. adjourned.
W~A.inSGroN, May 22.-Thc senate has de
rclded Iy q vote Of % tor not to consider the
rhsherics treaty in open session. The division
INas upon strict party lines, except in toe case
ttf Senator Hale, who voted with the Demo
esats adversely TO the Riddlcberger resolu.
ton. At the announcement Of the result the
BODY wen; at once into legislative session. No
ZINE Las yet been fixed for taking up the
7 treaty.
The following bills were taken from the
calendar and passed;
Senate bill authorizing the construction OF
a railroad bridge across the Missouri at Ne
oraska City, Neb.
senate bill appropriating $4,000 for the
completion Of The pub.ic building al Wipona,
MINI.
Senate ill approprlating 500, 900 for a pub
lie building at Vicksburg, Miss.
House bill authorizing the purchase OF adii-
tioual ground for public building in Council
Bluffs, Iowa, at a cost not exceeding $4,000.
Senate adjourned.
W~AsIINGTON, May 93.-Several bills were
oported after which the senate proceeded TO
executive business.
When the doors were opened legislative
~pusin'ss was resumed.
After the routine business was disposed Of,
Senator SpooHcr moved that the senate adj
journ out Of respect to the memory Of the
wife Of Senator sawyer. Carried.
WAsnIHa1oS, MAY Ex-senator Allison,
from the committee on appropriations, re-
ported back the deficiency bill for the eI
senses Of collection of revenue and the IN
dian appropriation bill. He gave notice that
he would ask Tor COZ sideration of the former
tomorrow.
senator Stewart called up TIE iOilt rcsolu
ton offered by him on the l4th last. for =
constitutional amendment reducing 10 sim
pie majority the vote necessary 10 override
thc presidential veto and addressed the SEN
ate on the subject.
The conference report on the pension appro-
~priatiOn bill was then agreed ~.
The special committee on the meat product
of the United States was annOunCcd-Scn-
a,ors Vest, Plumb, Manddrson, Oullom and
~eoke)-and the senate proceeded TO exccu-
tive business and then adjourned.
W~AsHIyGTON, Mag 25.-Senator Blair IN
troduced a joint resolution proposing an
amendment TO the constitution TO the eff
that no state shall ever make or maintain any
law respecting the establishment OF religion
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, and
that every state shall establish and maintain
a system Of free public schools, but that no
money raised by taxation shall ever be ap-
propriated, applied or given for any school
institution, corporation or person whereby
instruction is given in any doctiiaes, tcnrt.,
beliefs, cercmonials or observations peculiar
TO any religious sect. 1t was Laid on the
table at his own request.
The senate bill for the confinement of IL
ebriates in a government hospital for the in
sane was reported and placed on the calendar.
Senator Cullsm introduced a bill to provide
for the reconstruction OF the government dam
al Rock Island arsenal, destroyed by The re
sent food in the Mississippi river, and for the
immediate construction of a temporary lam.
Referred.
Senator Edmunds offered q resolution
which was adopted, instructing the committee
on Indian affairs to examine the condition of
the state bonds held 10y the United States in
trust for Indians, the amounts overdue there
on. and whether there is any legal method Of
enforcing payment and If not whether any
such can be devised.
The senate then proceeded TO the consider
alton Of the house bill making an appropria-
tion to supply the deficiency In the sppropria-
ZION for the expense of collecting the revenue
from customers.
Senator Allison, having charge of the bill,
exp aimed in answer TO questions put By
Senator Edmuads the causes Of the deficiency. |
He ascribed II largely to the legislation Of
1874 repeating the 'moicty SYSTEM and said
that since then the receipts from fines penal
ties and forfoiturcs had been constantly fall
ing OFF, while the expenses of collecting the
revenue have been constantly increasing.
Senator Edmunds suggested sarcssticslly
that while there might have been extravaganza
in the collection Of revenue under former ad-
ministrations there could not, OF course, have
been cry cXtrayagance under the present ad-
N nistration. The amendment was returned by
the cofrmittee on appropriations to strike out
the clau e ty repeating the law making a per
nan ut annual appropriation of ga, 500, 900
for the cX scuSes Of collecting the revenues