Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-03-14
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
the Daily News
Summary
CONGRESS

CONGRESS.
WHEN the Senate met on the 9th a foint
resolution was passed directing the Secre-
tary OF the Interior to investigate the prac
storage OF water in the arid regions OF
the United States. The Pension pill was
then taken up and debate continued, Mr.
ingalls, replying In severe terms to the
speech previously made by Mr. Vest in opposi-
ton to the bill, to whidh Mr.. Blackburn re-
joined with equal spirit. Adjourned. .. The
House resumed consideration OF the Alabama
contested election case of McDufie VS.. David
son. After q long debate Davidson was con-
frmed in his seat by ia to l2S. Adjourned.
AFTER routine business in the Senate on
the nth the Urgency Deficiency bin was taken
up. The provision inserted by the House re-
Quiring rigid enforcement of the Eight-hour
law by the Public Printer was struck out by
vote OF b 70 %. A long and Irrelevant debate
followed, and the Senate adjourned with
out action. In the House committees re-
ported and in Committee OF the Whole
public measures were considered The
public measures considered, however were
mostly public buildings. After debate a bill APP
propriating $1,000 for a building at Sedalia,
Mo, passed. Two bills passed relating TO the
Indians, one confirming an agreement with GER
tain tribes in Montana and the other to divide
the great Sioux Indian reservation into smaller
reservations. Adjourned
INthe Senate on the Sth monster petition
signed by over 102, 900 persons from thirty-three
differet States was presented demonstrating
against the admission of Utah as a State SO
long as her people were under Mormon priest
hood control. The Pension bill was taken up,
All amendments that had been offered were
voted down, and the bill finally passed by a vote
of a to 16- Twelve democrats, Blodgett
Brown, Faulkner. George, German, Hamp-
ton, Kenna, Mcpherson Payne, Pugh Turpie,
and Voorhees, voted for the bill There were a
number OF pairs. After routine business the
Senate adjourned. -. In the House a bill passed
appropriating $4,000 to purchase certain swords
belonging TO the late General Shields. After
committees reported the House went into Com
mittee OF the Whole on public land measures.
When the committee rose bill passed concern
ing the allotment of lands to certain Indian
tribes in Minnesota, and the House adjourned
THE Senate was not in session on the 9th,
having adjourned on Monday the 18TH In the
House the Omnibus War Claim bill was con-
sidered, being the regular order. A long sQuab-
BILE ensued over the amendment to pay the
Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary Of
Virginia so, 900 for occupation and damage du-
ring the war but it was finally Incorporated In
the bill and as amended the bill passed by q
vote Of 1O6 to 100. Private bills occupied the
attention of the House until five O'clock Al
the evening session pension bills were consid-
cred.
In the House on the 10th the Pension bill
was received from the Senate and referred. A
bill was introduced authorizing the United
States to negotiate with Mexico for the ap-
pointment OF a commission to determine the
boundary line between the United States and
Mexico. bill was passed extending for two
years the time OF payment to-purchasers of land
on the Omaha Indian Reservation in Nebraska
Pending action on the bill allotting lands to the
Miami and Peoria Indians in the Indian Ter
ritory, the House adjourned.