The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1888-01-20
FIFTiETn CONGRESS.
Abstract Of the Proceedings OF the
Senate and House.

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Abstract Of the Proceedings OF the
Senate and House.
SENATE.
Upon the assembling OF the senate after
tho holiday reccss. Senator Sherman
maue Z. speech more carefully prepared
than is his custom. every word Of it hav-
ing been reduced to writing. 1t is to be
considered in many respects rs the plat.
form Of a president candidate. Hewas fol.
lowed by Senators voorhees, and Teller.
Several recess nominations were sent to
the senate, including those oil the interstate
commissioners and Eugene Semple as gov.
ernor OF Washington Territory.
Senator Davis offered in tho senate
memorial from the st. Paul chamber OF
commerce, praying for tho establishment
OF more collection districts for the State OF
Minnesota and various other memorials
and petitions.
Among Minnesota private bills intro
duced in tho house were tho following:
By Mr.. Rice, granting o pension tn Mary
Month: to I. W. Travis. for services rendered in
the war with the Florida Indians: to Frederick
Etchlcr: to Albert Achley: %l2 per month to L.
W. Hucklin. for services in the Sioux outbreak:
to Elm st. Cyr: to Thomas Weekly: to remove
the charge of desertion against the name Of A.
H. Tobcy; bill for the relief OF Minnesota
mounted raugcrs
The latter bill provides that all persons
who served a full time OF year or more shall
receive 500; those who served six months
or any time less than q year, $G6, and those
who served less than six months 1913. 80.
He also introduced bill to allow Charles
a. Ruffee, late agent at White Earth agency,
81 800, being the difference between the
pay as agent of the White Earth agency
alone and agent Of consolidated Leech Lake,
Red Lake and White Earth agencies The
agency consolidated March 81. 1870, and
Euffce served from that time to Sept 80,
1881 at the old salary.
PRESENTED DY Mn. NELSON.
BY Mr. Nelson:
To remove the charge of desertion from the
record Of Alvin Milligan: granting pension to
!. 7. johnson; granting increase Of pension to
John Rowe; granting a pension to Joseph
to refer the claim Of d. IL Bcaulicu to the court
OF claims: for the relief OF citzcns engaged in
the Sioux Indian war in 1862; for the relief of
widow and Children Of Abner St. Cyr: for the re
lief OF llartwell Silver.
Mr.. Nelson also introduced his bill placing
lumber, coal and sugar on the free list; his
bill of last session for the improvement. of the
condition OF the He'd Luke Indians; for o
public building and term of court at Duluth,
and the railroad bills which have already
been mentioned Mr.. Lind introduced bill
placing books and pamphlets on the FREQ list
and bill to amend the interstate commerce
law. His amendment to the fourth section
provides:
1t shall also be unlawful for any common car
ricr, subject to the provisions Of this act, to
charge or receive any greater compensation per
ton per milo for the contemporaneous transport
tation OF the same class Of freight for shorter
than Tor longer distance over tho same line in
the same general direction or from the origin
point OF or to the same point of arrival; but this
shall not be construed as authorizing any COM
mon carrier, subject to the provisions of this
act. to charge higher rate per ton per mile for q
longer than shorter distance.
WISCONSIN AND IOWA BILLS
Senator Spooner presented the petition of
the board Of supervisors of st Croix county,
praying certain legislation defining and con-
STRUNG the granting and ndemnity clauses
of the act OF May 6. 1864. granting land to
Wisconsin 10 aid In the construction Of lail-
roads Mr. Spooner introduced bill to-day
providing for tho establishment of port of
entry ut Superior, Wis MIR. Gear of Iowa to-
day introduced the following bills In the
house:
Authorizing the construction Of railroad,
wagon and foot bridge across the Missippi river
Ss0.495 for completing tho work Of improving
the Des Moines rapids In the Mississippi, and
S18.250 for completing the dry dock At Des
$25.OOU appropriated for the completion OF o
pier ut the outer wall Of the Des Moines rapids
canal may be used to construct p floating boom
connecting the wall with the upper draw rest Of
the bridge Of keokuk.
DAKOTA.
Delegate Clifford OF Dakota introduced
two bills for the admission of North and
South Dakota, already printed in the Pro
SEER PREss; bills allowing the Duluth &
Manitoba road right of way through the Fort
Pembina military reservation; throwing
open to settlement abandoned and useless
military reservations; providing for COM
mission to negotiate with the sisseton and
Wahpeton Sioux Indians for modification
of present treaties and agreements; grant
ing section 1G, near Rapid City, to
that town; granting certain sections
OF land near Grand Forks to the
the Yankton & Missouri Valley railroad
right of way through the Yankton Indian
reservation. Clifford also introduced bill
providing for the opening of tho Great Sioux
reservation. 1t is practically the old Dawes
bill with the tribal patent clause stricken
out He also offered bills granting the Du-
luth, Watcrtown l. Pacific road tho right to
build q bridge across the Missouri river ut
some available point in Charles Mix county,
Oak; to establish two new land districts
with the land officers ut Pierre and Cham
berlain contingent upon the opening of tho
Great Sioux reservation; granting u section
of land to Aurora county, Oak. for the cs-
tablishment of u reform school, and provid-
ing for IN inquiry into the losses sustained
by settlers who had been deprived of their
rights on the Crow creek and Winnebago
reservations by tho summary closing of the
reservations by order of President Cleye.
land
SENATE.
Mr.. Mitchell in the senate called up tho
joint resolution directing the selection OF n
cite Tor navy yard on the coast north Of
the forty second parallel OF north latitude
in Oregon, Washington and Alaska. Mr..
Mitchell spoke in favor OF tho resolution.
Mr.. Dolph said: Puget sound possesses
oil the advantages that can be found for a
first.class naval station. We cannot
afford to allow foreign conquests and &C.
QUESTIONS to be carried to our very doors.
II we do we shall abdicnte the position
which our power, influence, wealth and
territorial location entitle US to maintain
among the nations OF the earth.
The resolution was referred to the com.
mittee ON naval affairs. Senator Reagan
made speech in opposition to the Blair
educational bill, which cane up in the sen.
ate. 1t was not to the purposes OF the bill
but to its methods that no was opposed.
Mr.. Plumb offered All amendment to the
second section, providing that the money
shall DO distributed among the states and
territories in proportion to their popula.
tion according to the census or 1850. No
action was taken on the bill.
Among the nominations sent to the zen.
ate recently were the following
Postmasters: T.. B. Conn, Kilbourn
City, Wis; n. j. Benson, Torah, Mimi;
Thomas Hall. Preston. Mimi; II. l..
Atchison, Chatiicld, Mimi. Henry Silkkcr.
vecr, Orange City. Iowa; +. a. Winchel,
Kingsley, Iowa; l.. J. Foulton. Casscl.
ton, Oak; G. L. Dudley. Marysville. Mont.
Register OF land offices: Gilbert w. Car
rinSton, Ashland, Wis; Henry Cornelius,
Menasha. Via; W. NJ. Blanding, St. Croix
Falls. Wis; William Porter, Dcs Moincs,