The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-03-08

be followed by food Of similar claims
| involving hundreds OF millions of dol
lars. If this was paid claims would
come in asking for compensation fol-
occupation OF every camp ground
which the Union soldiers occupied after
crossing the Potomac river. There
would be nothing to prevent the owner
of the battle field at Manassas bring
ing in claim for the occupation of the
field by the United States army during
the battle.
Spooner, Of Rhode Island, supported
the amendment.
Allen. of Michigan, thought that
common fairness required that the
government should pay for the use and
occupation of this property from the
close Of the war up to the time it was
vacated by the army. But he was op-
posed to paying Tor its use prior to that
Holman, of Indiana, offered an
amendment providing that nothing
in this appropriation shall be
construed as recognizing 1.-THE
liability of the United States
to pay for the use of property used by
the United States army as the seat of
war during the late war.
Grosvenor regarded the amendment
as child's play. 1t would have no eff
feet except to quiet the conscience of
some gentleman who desired to vote
for the claim. In one breath the house
paid for the rent of property and in the
next said that it would not admit hay
ing done the very thing it had done.
Holman's amendment was rejected,
and Lees amendment was adopted,
IO2 to 81.
The bill was then agreed to and re-
ported to the house.
Pending action the house then took
a recess until 1880, the evening session
being for the consideration OF pension
bills.
The subcommittee of the house
committee on commerce, to which was
referred the Glover bill, to vest in
the interstate commerce commission
Jurisdiction over interstate telegraph,
has made report to the full commit
tee, recommending the establish
ment of new commission
to have authority to regulate
the telegraphs. The report, however,
was not acceptable to the full commit
tee, and it instructed the sub-commit-
tee to look further into the matter.
The senate committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia to-day voted six to
three against the Platt bill to prohibit
the sale of intoxicating liquors in the
District of Columbia.
The committee then by a vote of
eight to one (Riddleberger) decided to
frame and report a local option and
high license bill.
Riddleberger viii make a favorable
minority report on the Platt bill.
Professor Emmons to-day filed pc
tition asking that letters of administra-
ton be issued to him on the estate of
his deceased wife, the late wife OF
Weatha Emmons. The petition sets
forth that Mrs. Emmons had in her
custody certain property belonging to
petitioner, and that the only other pro-
perry she had was such as petitioner
had given her during their marriage,
and oyer which she had
no control. 1t was decided
to postpone the matter until next
week.
The secretary of the interior to-day
rendered decision rejecting the appli-
cation of Smith. Hatfield and others, las
members of the Missouri Home
Guards" for the certification of addi-
tional homestead rights.
The application was made under
sections 20, "a and 2,3O6 of the revised
statutes, and under Secretary Chand-
ler's circular of May II, 1877, prescrib-
| ing certain regulations to
govern the practice of the
SoHcId4 ldHu oAA0c III CoAAyhS AhEO o.
| feet the sections cited.
A statement prepared at the treasury
| department shows that during Febru-
airy there was a net decrease of 10, 043 :
| 7S3 in the circulation and a net increase
of 9,033, TAB in the money and bullion
in the treasury. The decrease in the
circulation was principally in gold GER
tificates and United States notes. The
increase in the treasury cash was prin-
cipally in standard silver dollars an6
United States notes.