Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-08
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News.
CONGRESS.

THE Senate was not in session on the
18th. In the House bill was passed granting
pension OF $50 a month, with arrears from
1873, to Mary B. Kirby, widow OF Major r. M.
Kirby who died in 1874 from diseases contracted
in the Florida war. After committees reported
Mr.. Springer called up the bill for the organiZa-
ton of Oklahoma Territory, and it was con-
sidered in Committee of the Whole Mr.. Man
sur. of Missouri, speaking in its favor. The re-
mainder of the session was taken up in debate
upon public buildings. Adjourned.
BILL was reported i'll the Senate on the
27th aboiishing the ONCE of Surveyor General
for the district of Nebraska and Iowa. The
Senate then took up the bill Incorporating
the Nicaragua Canal and after some debate
passed 1t by vote of 80 to Is. The Total Dis
ability Pension bill was then taken up and de-
bated at length. Senator Plumb introduced
bill for public buildings at Lawrence and Kan
City, Kan. Adjourned. In the House the
resolution directing an inquiry into the circular
issued by Commissioner Black requiring certain
pension claimants to perfect the prosecution OF
their claims within 100 days was tabled. Bills
and resolutions were introduced. After trans
acting business pertaining to the District OF
Columbia testimonial of respect in memory
OF the late W w. Corcoran was placed on the
record and the House adjourned.
AMONG the bills introduced into the Sen
ate on the 28th was one by Senator Sherman
authorizing the issue OF circulating notes to Ma
tional Banks to the par value OF bonds de-
posted. After unimportant business and some
political talk consideration of the Dependent
and Total Disability Pension bill was resumed
in Committee of the Whole. An amendment was
adopted extending its provisions to soldiers
of the Mexican and Indian wars who served
thirty days. Then followed long talk which
ceased only with adjournment In the House
the Oklahoma bill was further considered in the
morning hour. In Committee OF the Whole
public building measures were considered and
a number passed on. When the committee
rose the House adjourned.
IN the Senate on the Goth the bill to estab-
1ish National Art Commission passed. The
bill to provide for the compulsory education OF
Indian children passed The five civilized
tribes are excepted from its provisions. The
Total Disability Pension bill was then
taken up aud a lively debate fol-
lowed without reaching vote. Ad-
journed. After the usual routine work
the House went into Committee of the Whole
for the consideration of the bill authorizing the
Secretary of the Treasury to purchase bonds
with the surplus, and debate continued until the
special order-eulogies upon the late Represen-
tative Moffatt, of Michigan, = was reached.
Eulogies were delivered and the House ad-
iourned.
In the Senate on March the resolution
reported from the Committee on Foreign Rela-
lions requesting the President to negotiate a
treaty with China containing provision that
no Chinese laborers shall enter the United
States was taken up and after some debate
adopted. The Pension bill was then taken
up and debated until adjournment. :. In
the House the bill forbidding the trans
mission through the mails Of pa
pers containing lottery advertisements
was reported adversely. The resolution accept
ing the invitation of the French Republic to
take part in the International Exhibit at Paris
in 1899, was discussed in Committee OF the
Whole also the resolution authorizing confer
ence to be held in Washington in 1889, TO pro-
vide commercial relations with the Republics OF
Central and South America. When the Com
mittee the resolutions passed and the
House adjourned.