Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-08-28
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS
The Senate,

WASHINGTON, August 27th.-In the SEN
ate the resolution heretofore offered by
Stewart calling for copies of reports, affi-
| davits and communications on which the
| Commissioner of the General Land Office
based his letter to Burns on the subject OF
| timber depredations, was taken up.
Beck and Edmunds wanted to amend to
exclude papers, the publication of which
might defeat the ends of justice.
Pending the discussion, a new confer
eDce committee on the army appropriation
bill was appointed, and Allison presented
the conference report ON the sundry civil
bill.
The Senate bill authorizing the citizens
of Colorado, Nevada and the Territories to
fell and remove timber from the public do
main for mining and domestic purposes.
was reported from the committee.
Stewart proceeded with remarks in sup
port of his resolution. Senators some
times wondered, he said, how Blaine be-
came so popular in the Western country.
1t was owing to two speeches which he
made in the Senate, one in which he
recognized the fact that the people on the
Pacific coast could not live in company
with the Chinese, the other in favor of the
people of Montana when deprived of wood
by the new construction Of the law given
by Schurz when Secretary of the Interior
Blaine then defended them in speech
from which Stewart read extracts.
After long discussion, in which Teller
referred to the bill reported by him this
| morning on the subject, and which he said
proposed to allow the miners to cut wood
under the license the amendment was
| agreed to and the resolution adopted.
The Senate then proceed to the consider
alton of the report of the Judiciary Com
mittee on the Jackson, Miss, election, and
Wilson of Iowa continued his remarks be-
gan on Tuesday last.
When Wilson concluded his remarks
Wetherall made reply, and at the close of
his speech the report went over without
action, and the Senate adjourned.
The House.
WASHINGTON, August 9th. - In the
House, under the call of States, a number
of bills were introduced, among them the
following:
By Mason of Illinois-To investigate cer-
tain national banks that hold and use Coy
ernment money without interest and to
ascertain how much, if anything. is con-
tributed by such banks, for the use of such
Government money, to the Democratic
National Campaign Committee.
By Joseph of New York-A resolution
directing the Secretary Of the Interior to
examine into the occupancy of the Max
well Land Grant by those who hold ad-
versely TO the party or parties in whom
title thereto has been decided to lie by the
Supreme Court and to report to Congress
During the pendency of such investigation
and report thereon all writs OF eiectment to
be temporarily suspended. Referred to the
Committee on Private Land Claims.
BY Vandever of California-To provide
means of exterminating the cottony cush-
ion scale now threatening the citrus fruit
cultare in California
The Speaker laid before the House re-
quests of Messrs. Hovey and Masson. rival
candidates for the Gevernorship of Indiana
for leave of absence for fifteen days on
account OF important business y Granted.
The House then went into Committee of
the Whole on the deficiency approximation
bill, the pending question being an sppeal
from the decision of the Chair ruling the
French spoliation claims section out of The
bill. After an hour or more the vote Of 4
quorum was secured and the decision of
the Chair was sustained and the provision
was eliminated FROM the bill.
By unanimous consent the floor was ac.
corded to Yost of Virginia. who made an
exhaustive speech in favor of the Blair
educational bill