Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-03-30


| both hands or the use of both hands
| pension of 500 per month; the house
! bill to facilitate the prosecution of the
works projected for the Improvement of
rivers and harbors, with the amend
ments, on which a conference commit
! tee was appointed. The house
bill for the relief of the volunteers
| of the 4Sth regiment of Iowa in
fantry, amended by substitute entitled
| for the relief of certain volunteer sol
dlers. The substitute provided that the
act of April -, ~, in relation 10 houn-
ties, shall have the restrictive words
| before August 6, 81" struck out and
| that the claims OF all soldiers and their
heirs, who had been G.nied the bounty of
| 500, granted by the act of April -, -,
| shall be TeconsIdered, allowed and paid.
If found correct and Just, provided the
soldiers were enrolled prior to July -,
| 81, for three years. Other public bills on
the calendar that were passed were the
| following: The house bill to divide the
| Great Sioux Indian reservation into separ-
| ate smaller reservations, with substitute,
| being the senate bill to divide portion
| of the reservation of the Sioux nation of
Indians IN Dakota into separate reserya-
tlons and to secure relirq quishment of
| NtlS 4LiAidA lllls 10 InS remainder.
| To provide for the sale of the site of
Fort Omaha, Neb., and for new site and
construction of suitable buildings there
! on.
HouSe.-The bills were passed
to prevent the product of convict
labor being furnished to OF for
the use of any department OF the
| government and from being used in pub
lie buildings Or other public works and to
| prevent the employment of alien labor
on public buildings and in the various
departments of She government.
The house then went into committee of
the whole on the bill to establish de-
partment of labor and after number of
amendments had been offered the house
adjourned.
THURSDAY, Mar. 22.
Sen. Among the bills reported from
committees and placed on the calendar
! tins morning were the following: The
| house bill to authorize the city of Chica-
go TO erect crib in lake Michigan for
water works purposes. The senate bill
adversely to permit miners to prospect
and lease mineral lands on any Indian
reservation. Sen. Allison introduced q
bill to appropriate 1925, 900 for a public
building at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. SEN
Sabin bill to increase to S150,OOO the
limit of cost for the pCblic building at
NInona, Mlnn. The senate then proceed
ed to the consideration of the calendar
end the following bills were passed. To
provide for commission on the subject
of the alcoholic liquor traffic. The bill
printed. The house bill authorizing the
president to arrange q conference be
We ha tD2 < i l.
lies of Mexico, Central and S0utn Amer
lea, Hayti, San Domingo and the empire
of Brazil. The senate added some amend
ments, and on these a conference was
ordered. bill authorizing the cUnstruc
tion of high wagon bridge across the
Missouri river at or near Sioux City, Iowa,
and number of other bills. The post
office committee reported the bill rcdus-
ing the postage on seeds, cuttings, bulbs,
roots, sclOns, etc, to one cent per four
ounces. Passed.
RouSe-The following bills were pass
ed this morning: Regulating the times
for holding terms of the United States
court in the northern Iowa and extend
ing the protection of United States laws
over United States officials executing
processes in Indian territory. Authoriz-
ing the secretary of the treasury to re-
NIT all duties collected upon all animals
heretofore imported fer breeding pur-
poses, whether for the importers own use
or for sale. Am ending section 9SS of the
revised statutes to read: That where by
the laws of a state defendants i'll court
Thereof are entitled to a stay of execution
defendants in courts of the United States
helf therein shall be entitled to like
StHV the conditions nd
the giving and enforcement of bonded
security for the performance of the judg-
ment thus stayed, providing that the
judgements and DEGREES of the u. S.
courts, rendered within any state shall be
liens on the property in the same manner,
aud to the same extent as the judgments
and DEGREES of the courts of that state.
The conference report on the urgent
deficiency bill was agreed to. As passed
the bill appropaiates $6876,500.
MONDAY, Mar. 26.
Sendte--Nr. Allison introduced bill
appropriatlng $4,000 to defray the funeral
ex penses of the late chief Justice of the
upreme court. Passed. The bills re-
ported from the committees and placed
on the calendar include the following: To
provide for the formation and admission
ntO the union of the state of Montana.
Sen. Riddleberger then called up his
resolution for the consideration of the
fishery treaty in open session. Sen.
Sherman thought the foreign relations
committee would so recommend. After
some debate the resolution went over
and the senate took up the house bill au-
thorizing the purchase of government
bonds with the surplus. Sen. Plumb
offered an amendment in the form of
new section requiring the secretary of
the treasury whenever the circulation of
the national banks rendered it necessary
to issue treasury notes TO equal the
amount Sens. Beck and Fargell
antagonized the amendment and on mo-
tiOn of Sherman it was laid on the table.
Afterward Sen. Plumb renewed II, modi-
fed in regard to the legal tender quality
of the proposed treasury notes and argued
in support of it. After discussion The
amendment was adopted; yeas %,
nays 2l.
House.-The house this 1.orning
adopted resolutions that the funeral
ceremonies of the late Chief Justice
Waite be held in the ball of the
house of representatives Wednesday,
March 2S, at noon, under the arrange
ments of the supreme court, and that
When lne mouse adlOurned the ZItn inst.
it shall be until II 80 O'Clock Wednesday
morning, and that the clerk of the house
notify the senate and supreme court of
of the passage of the resolution.
The senate bill vas passed appro-
priating five thousand dollars to provide
for the payment OF the funeral expenses
of the late chief justice of the supreme
court. The following bills were intro
duced andreferred: For the erection
of public buildings, Mount Vernon Ills.
By Mr.. Laird, (Neb.) rendering thanks
of congress tC Lieut.. Gresly for courage,
eoergy and fidelity in conduct of late
scientific expedition to the Arctic seJs.
ARoYAL BARBARIAN.
Reminiscent OF the Shah's Visit to the German
Capital
While in Berlin the Shah, Beatty King
ston's book says attended gala per
formance of the ballet, "Ssrdana palus,"
and sat in the court box between the EN-
press and Prince Karl, and there he cid
one or two harhsric deedz that suO+a