The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-02-01
AMONG THE COMMITTEES.
Measures Acted On and Up for Discussion
-Pensiona and Territoriea

Measures Acted On and Up for Discussion
Pensions and Territories.
WAsHINGToN, January 3O.-Tne House
Committee on Elections to-day continued
consideration of the Worthington-POst
contested election from Illinois, Attorney
Bancroft speaking for Mr.. Post.
The House Select Committee on Elec.
tions, President, Vice-President and Repre-
sentstives in Congress, has agreed to re-
port favOrably to the House the Grain reso-
luton proposing an amendment to the
Constitution, substituting the 3lst day OF
December for the 4th of March as the com
mencement and terminal of the official
term of members of the House of Repre-
sentstives, and providing that Congress
shall hold its annual meeting on the first
Monday in January.
The House Committee on Invalid Pen
sions has agreed to report favJrably to the
House the bill granting pension of 81
600 year to Mrs. John a. Logan, and 10
increase the pension of Mrs. A. A. Blair,
widow OF the late Francis z. Blair, Jr., to
the same amount. a minority, composed
of Chairman Matson and Messrs. Walker,
of Missouri, and Pidcock, of New Jersey,
will submit and adverse report. The bills
are identical with those which passed the
Senate last week.
A favorable report has been ordered by
the House Committee on Postoffces on
Representative Andersou's bill, requiring
the subsidized railroad companies TO
afford equal facilities to all telegraph
companies prompt and convenient inter-
change of telegraph business over the
wires, and to maintain and operate their
own telegraph lines. The only essential
amendment made in the bill by the full
committee was the inclusion OF subsidized
or aided telegraph companies within its
provisions.
Delegate VOORHEES,, OF Washington Ter
ritOIy, this morning addressed the Senate
Committee on Territories in support of
the bill to annex the PAn-Hsndle of Idaho
to Washington Territory, and Governor
Stevenson, of Idaho, replied, opposing the
change. Next Friday the committee will
hear arguments upon pending measures re-
lstiDg TO ss-airs in Utah.
The Senate Commit ee on Postoffi ces and
Post-roRds this morning appointed Sena-
tors Sawyer, Chace and Salisbury a sub
Committee on Postal Telegraph Bills, and
Messrs. Reagan, Wilson and Quay a sub.
Committee 10 consider questions relating
to the pay of fourth-clsss postmasters, and
to the pay and hours of letter carriers.
John I. Shorthall. Adolph Moses aud
Kirk Hawes, Of Chicago. were before the
Senate Ctmmittee on Public Lands this
morning, asking that several associations
OF Chicsgo, inc uding the Academy OF De-
sign, the Public Library Board, and the
Grano Army be permitted to combine and
erect memorial hall in Dearborne Park,
Chicago.
The sub.co nmittee of the House Com
mittee on Public Lands, which has been
considering the various propositions to
change the land laws, has completed it's
laboTs, and will report to the full commit
tee next Thursday. The result of its de-
liberationsis is bill in lieu of all others on
the subject, entitled "a Bill to Secure to
Actual Settlers the Public Lands Adapted
to Agriculture, to Protect the Forests on
the Public Domain and for Other Pur-
follows; All public lands are
to be classified as agricultural
timber, mineral, desert or reserved. No
timber land is to be sold, but the timber
growing upon IT may be disposed of to the
highest bidder, after advertisement, in
f0rty.acre tracts, the timber to be removed
within six years from the date of sale.
Mineral entries may be made of the same
land, even after the sale of timber, but can
not impair the right of the purchaser of
the timber. Timber land shall moi De ap-
| prsiseds at less than $40 per acre. The
| President may set apart any fruit lands as
public reservations. The desert land law
is continued in effect, with an amendment
requiring entry men to file maps exhibit
ing the MODE OF contemplated irrigation
aud the source of water supply. All the
laws allowing pre-enption OF public lands,
and the act entitled IAN Act to Amend
the Act toEncouTage the Growth ofrimber
on the Western Prairits," and all other
laws in conflict with the provisions OF the
present bill, are repealed, but all bona fide
claims initiated before its passage may be
perfected. All laws relating TO bounty
land warrants. COLLEGE and other land
scrip, remain in force. The homestead
law is amended so as to allow heads lof
fsmi les and citizens of the legal age, or
persons who have filed declarations of in
teption to become such, to enter a quarter
section or less Of public lands, put no per-
son who Is the proprietor Of 160 acres of
land, or who quits and abandons his resi-
dence on his own land to reside on the pub
lie lands in the same State or Territory,
shall acquire any right under the home
stead law.