Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-08
MUST TRETURN TO THE SENATE
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Ehe Fort Omaha Bill Passed By the
60 House.
AN AMENDMENT Tackled ON.
Randall Insists On Making the Meas
ure More Definite-How States
men Keep Cool-Dickinson's
Literary Aspirations.
m AMENDMENT TAcKEo ON.
Passed BY the House.
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WAsHINGToN, ID. c., July z. J
During the morning hour in the house
to-day the bill for the sale of ola Fort Omaha
and for the purchase of new site and the
erection of new ten-company post to be
known az Fort Omaha was called up by Mr..
Steele from the military affairs committee.
The bill went through the committee of the
whole without any difficulty, and just as the
speaker was about to put the usual question
relative to the third reading of the bill, Mr..
Randall insisted that the bill should be read
in full Then MIR Holman had TO do little
piowling He and Randall together were
dissatisfied with the wording of the section
pEthe bill fixing the cost of the new build
ings and the site. Mr.. McShane, who has
been working hard for the BILL was
alarmed at the outlook and FASTENED TO Ran
dali's side aud explained to him that the bill
was all right in every particular, but Mr.
Randall was not satisfied. He wanted some
thing more definite in the wording, and, at
his suggestion, an amendment was finally
adopted which provides that the cost of the
ste--to be within ten miles of the cty--shall
not exceed one Ethlrd of the entire appro-
priution; that the remaining two-thirds shall
be used in the construction of a ten company
post, and the entire sum for site and build
angs shall not exceed 5000, 900. This does not
chpnge the provisions of the bill in any par
tcular, but simply fixes a definite limit upon
the cost. The bill which was adopted
to-day was the" senate bill introduced
and passed some time ago by Senator Man
derson. The adoption of the amendment
pcccssltates the return of the bill to the
senate where it will doubtless be concurred
in without much difficulty
~ AFRAID OF AN. OUTBREAK.
Senator Paddock has received number of
Oetitions from citizens in Sioux and Dawes
counties, Nebraska, protesting against the
proposed removal of troops from Forts
3. Robinson and Mckinney to their summer
'encampment at Fort Kearney. AT present
the settlers are apprehrnsive that there may
he an outbreak of the Sioux pending the ad-
Y iustmcnts under the recent act of congress
openino mn the Great Sioux reservation IN
settlement. The senator has referred the
petitions to the secretary of war
AFTER cool COSTUMES
> -,s There was wonderful absence of conven-
tionnlity in the house to-day The members
had universally discarded the costumes of
: Legislative bodies and each appeared in a diff
y ferent rig, the principal design of which was
Ito secure as much atmospheric coolness as
possible Vests were discarded black coats
were ut a discount, and pongee, seersucker
light hannels alpacas and various other ma!
terial which resisted air as little as possible
were in high favor, and each individual
seemed bent upon capturing al Of the faint
fhe tariff debate was modified 10 some extent
by The extra revolutions which had been se.
cured from the engine running the
Enormous fans used in the ventilat-
Ing rooms. Even this, however, did
little toward lessening the oppressiveness
pf the teInperature A stranger coming
from the cool shores of Lake Erie which he
might have left last night for instance and
suddenly entering the house of representa-.
fives today might have Imagined himself in
the West ladies or in one of the tropicnl
CAPITALS of Central America so much was the
. Scene changed from the ordinary appearances
discernable in tile house, There was more
CARNATIONS in the costumes of members to day
THAN was ever noticed before, and a CORE.
spondingly greater degree of com
Tort. than is usually found dur
inc tho heated term in Washington
ACAniyET OFFICER IN A NEW ROLF,
NcwsDnper row has been treated this week
b. to thc unusual spectacle of a cabinet offirer
pettdiing news to his personal organ. POST
master General Dickinson was the cabinet
Dffircr and the Detroit Free Press the organ