Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-02-08
FIFTEEN eONGREss
FIRST SESSION.


sHNATH.
WASHINGTON, Jan. ~. SENATE not In ses-
sion.
WAsHINaroN, Jan. so-tn the senate the
Judiciary cofnlnittee reported bill removing
the political disability of Andrew j.. Lindsay,
OF Missouri, and it was passed.
Senator Sawyer, from the pustolllce com
mittee, reported back adversely the PROPOSE
ton to reduce letter postage to one cent. The
COMMITTEES did not think 1t prudent to attempt
to reduce the postage at present The post
office department is still running behind, and
twas thought better to wait until it was self
sustaining before further reduction Of post
age was attempted. After some discussion
the report was placed on the calendar
WASHINGTON, Jan. Sl.-The following bills
were taken up and passeds
Granting right-of-way through the public
lands for irrigation purposes.
For the purchase of site aud the erection
of public building at Omaha, the maximum
limit Of cost to be 81, s00,000.
A joint resolution proposing an amendment
to the constitution. It provides that the term
OF office of the president and the Fiftieth con-
gress shall continue until noon Of the 30th of
April, 1889; that the senators whose existing
term would otherwise expire on March 4, 1889
land thereafter), shall continue in oAiee until
April so succeeding such expiration. that
/ the Both of April at noon shall thereafter be
substituted for the 4th OF March as the com
mencement and termination Of the official
term Of the president, yice-president, senators
and representatives in congress; and that the
twelfth article of the amendments to the con-
stitution shall be amended accordingly.
Senator Evarts then spoke in favor of the
Blair educational bill, and after I'm executive
session the senate adjourned.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.--Amopg the bills In
troduced and referred were the following:
By Senator Cameron, to place on the pen
sion roll all officers and enlisted men who
served In the army or navy betweed March 4,
1861, and February /, 1866, at a rate of cent
per month for each days service, this to be a
service pension biil'' and sin addition to In
valid pensions for disability
The Blair educational bill was then taken
up, and Senator Pugh; spoke in its favor. AT
the conclusion of his Adde'S the senate went
into executive session and sooneadjourned.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. s7.-Mr. White, of New
York, introduced bill for the protection and
administration of forests on public lands.
Referred.
Adjourned.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-Uuder the call of
states the following bills and resolutions were
introduced and referred:
By Mr.. Townshend, of Illinois-To place
salt on the free list.
BY Mr.. Baker, OF Illinois-Directing the
committee on postofllces and postroads to in
auire into the expediency of reducing postage
on seeds, bulbs, ETC., and of reducing to
three cents the fec for money orders for IS or
less.
BY Mr.. Lawler, Of Illinois, bolishing the
tax on olcomargarinc, and 1t was referred to
the committee on agriculture.
By Mr.. Cutcheon, of Michigan Resolution
declaring it the sense OF the house that in
any proposed revision of the tariff the prin-
ciple of protection to American industry,
and the maintenance of wages for
American workingmen, at an American
standard, ought to be distinctly recognized
| and firmly adhered to; that the duties ought
not to be imposed for revenue only, but the
production of those articles which the United
States has abundant raw material and labor
to produce ought to be protected, and that the
articles on the free list should be selected
from among such necessaries OF life az were
not produced in adequate quantities In this
country. $500 .--
By Mr.. Campbell, of New York-Fixing the
salaries of the supreme court justices and
cabinet officers at $4,000.
By Mr.. Wilkins, of Ohio-For the issue Of
fractional silver certificates. M ~
The speaker pro tenn. laid before tho house
letter from the public printer, in response to
the resolution calling on him for information
as to the discharges made by him. The pub
lie printer makes statement in regard to
these discharges, justfying and explaining
them, and defends the administration of his
office and .emphatically denies the charge
that the congressional work is largely in ar
rears. He calls attention to the fact that dur
Ing the forty-fve days of the Fiftieth con-
gress the printing ordered by congress had
increased 46 per cent. over that ordered dur
ing similar period Of the Forty-ninth con-
gress, but states that the work has been
promptly handled with working force of 800
less employees than on the rolls at the begin
ming Of the Forty-ninth congress.
Mr.. Richardson, of Tennessee, regarded the
latter as conclusive and satisfactory reply to
every criticism made against the the printing
office. He praised the refoIms which he said
Mr.. Benedict had inaugurated, and as an In
stance stated that the gentleman bought prin-
ter,s ink at 81 cents pound, whereas his pre-
decessor had paid 60 cents.
Mr. Cannon protested against an assault
being made upon a dead man by an official
who was assiduously blowing his own horn.
Mr.. Cntcheon, of Michigan, said that he
had been impelled to draw up the. resolution
by the story Of soldier who had been dis
charged with sixty other employees from the
printing Office, in the middle Of winter, with
out cause, at time, too, when the printing
ordered by congress was greatly in arrears.
He (Cutcheon) did not care how much more
paper the printer had used, or anything about