The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-05-31
FlF1IETn CONGRESS.
Anetraot OF tho PTocoodIn9e Of tho
senate and Houoo.

Anetraot OF tho ProcoodInge Of tho
senate and House.
Tho senate decided by a vote of % to
~ not to consider the fisheries treaty in
open session. The division was upon
Senator Hale, who voted with the demo.
Gratis adversely to the Riddle berger resolu.
ton. No time has yet been fixed for tho
taking up OF the treaty.
In the house Mr.. McShane reported fro m
The Indian committee Mr.. Too)e's bill to
provide for the sale OF certain lands nat
cited to the Flathead tribe oi Indians.
These lands are located in the Bitter Root
valley, Mont.
The Senate comm ittee on agriculture
has ordered a favorable report on the
Hatch bill to enlarge the duties OF the de.
partment OF agriculture. and make it an
executive department..
The committee on appropriations has
completed the consideration Of the Indian
appropria ton bill. 1t has made u net re-.
duction of $22G, 900, making the total an.
propriat ton $S,172,OOO.
Tho best opinion now is that the report
Ot the senate committee on Mr.. Fujler's
nomina tion will be a favorable one. and
that all the Republicans. with possibly
two exceptions-lngalls and Edmunds-
viii vote with the Democrats to so report
It. Undoubtedly q good many Republi-
}. cans will vote against confirmation,
HOUSE.
MIR. Hudd called up and passed in tho
house today tho senate bill to allow the
Ml1w QIIkeo 1ako Shoeo
right OF way through the Lac du Flam-
beau reservation in Wisconsin. Mr.. Mel.
son introduced n bill granting the Duluth
d Winnipeg railroad right Of way through
the Fond du Lac reservation.
The House committee on appropriations
he's ordered an unfavorabIe report on
Representative Outhwaite's bill appropr.
ating 5 IL, 600 to defray the expense III q
government exhibit at tho Cleveland OK.
position next fall.
The senate has confirmed James D.
Jenkins OF Osage Iowa, to be agent for
the Indians OF the Sisseton agency in Da.
kota.
The presiding officer OF the senate an.
nounced rs the select committee to ex-
anime into oil questions touching the
meat product OF the United States, Scna.
tors Vest. Plumb. Henderson. Cullom and
Coke.
The Spooner bill putting telegraph com.
panies under the Jurisdiction OF the inter.
state commerce commission is likely to
be reported iavorably to the senate. In.
less the bill is made moro radical than
the committee now seem likely to make it,
the Western Union will make no Oh.
position to it. These people are in.
clned to favor ~ moderate bin
Tor the reason that If they
were under government regulation they
Of ~ =: l.
great deal OF the adverse criticism which
10 periodically showered upon them, and
stave off the day Of government telegraph.
Senator Vest intr oduced the house bill
granting the Duluth. Rainy Lake River e.
southwestern Railway company the right
TO construct and maintain pivot draw.
bridge across the Red River OF the North.
between Minnesota and Dakota.
HOUSE.
The house adopted a resolution author.
lz'ng the committee on foreign affairs to
inquire into the facts concerned with tho
imprisonment in an English Jail Of John
curtin Kent, u naturalized American citi.
zen. Kent WAS recently convicted OF a
dynamite conspiracy in London and SEN
fenced to imprisonment. The American
consul general at London says the Ameri.
can citizenship of Kent was shown in the
trial and the conviction was in direct con-
fiict with the charge OF the court
lie poStoffce appropriation bill was
passed. During the debate the inefficient
postal service in the west was thoroughly
ventilated. Mr.. Tools OF Montana and
Mr.: VOORHEES, OF Washington Territory
voiced the wishes OF the people Of the ter.
ritories Tor Il moro efficient mail service
than they were now receiving. The con.
duct OF First Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral Stevenson was the subject OF unfavor.
able Republican comment.
SENATE.
The senate finance subcommittee held
ats first meeting upon the tariff bill The
meeting was designed only to bring out the
views OF the members as to the proper
course to pursue in the preparation OF the
bill.
Several hours we're spent in secret ses-
sion ostcnsibly discussing the motion OF
Senator Sherman TO proceed to the consid.
Grafton OF the tishcrics treaty with open
doors but in reality debating the merits OF
tho tre;':y itself Senator Morgan was
the principal speaker.
The senate considered the house bill
making an appropriation to supply de.
hClenCy in the apprOpf3s, ton for expenses
OF collecting the revenue from customs
The bill passed with amendments, tho
principal one striking out the clause re-
pealing the law making permanent an.
nual appropriation OF IS, 500, O0Ofor such
expenses.
Senator Blair introduced JOINT resolu.
ton providing for the following amend
ment to the constitution: That no state
shaIl ever make or maintain any law re.
sPecting an establishment OF religion or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof, md
that every state shall establish and main.
tain a system Of free public schools, but
that no money raised by taxation shall
ever BE- appropriated, applied or given for
any school. institution, corporation or
person. whereby instruction is given in
any doctrine, tenets, beliefs and cere.
monials or observations peculiar to any
religious sect
The speaker laid before the House a let
ter from the attorney general asking for a
deficiency appropriation OF $4,000 for
the present fiscal year for witness and
jurors fees in the United States and terri
torial courts OF Utah.
The conierees on the part Of the House
on Representative O'Neil's bill creating a
department Of labor. have reached m
agreement by accepting the Senate amend.
ments, which were merely formal.
knute Nelson filed in the house and re-
ferred to the committee on ways and
means letter from H. l.. Loucks OF Clear
Lake. OAK, giving reasons. cogently stated
why farm machinery should be placed on
the FREQ list. He says that American bind
ers cost more and are no better than Can
adian binders.
The Senate committee to investigate thu
jackson, Miss, election riots after r. s,,s.
pension OF three or four weeks, has res,im.
ed it's sittings, having secured ak fresh
witnesses from Jackson. The sittings are
continued with closed doors.
The sub commit tee Of the committee on