Bismarck weekly tribune., 1888-03-30
NATIONAL NEWS.
Information Asked as to the Neces
sity Of Fortifying the Entrance
to Puget Sound.
The General Public Land Bill Dis.
cussed with Spirit in the House,
but Action Postponed.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Senate.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Senate.
WASHINGTON, March 27.-N[r. Dolph Of
fered resolutiod that was adopted calling
on the secretary of the treasury for infor-
nation as to the necessity for Notifications
on Puget sound and as to the practicability
of f0rtifying the entrance to the sound.
THE BOUNDARY SURVEY.
Mr.. Sabin introduced bill for the ap-
pointment of commission to establish the
boundary line between northern Minne-
sofa and the Canadian provinces. Re-
ferred.
CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS AND CIVIL. SER
VICE.
Mr.. Blair called up the question of the
second reading of the bill introduced some
time since to give preference to injured
confederate soldiers among men who had
been disloyal in appointments to civil Of
fee. MIR. Edmunds opposed the second
reading of the bill.
THE FUNERAL COMMITTEE.
On motion of Mr.. Sherman committee
of five senators to attend the funeral of the
late chief justice at Toledo, G., was ordered
and Senators Sherman, Allison, Evarts.
George and Gray were appointed.
THE BOND BILL.
MIR. Palmer moved that the bond bill be
recommitted to the committee on finance.
The motion was entered and will be pend
ing when the bill is taken up again next
week.
The House.
In the morning hour the house consid-
cred the Union Pacific funding bill.
The military academy appropriation bill
was then taken up and passed.
MIR. POST SUSTAINED.
Mr.. Offerall Of Virginia called up and
the house adopted the resolution of the
committee ou elections in the contested
election case Of Worthington VS.. Post from
the Tenth Illinois district. The resolution
confirms the right of Post, the sitting men,
ber.
THE PUBLIC LAND BILLS.
Mr.. Holman called up the general public
land bill. Mr.. Smith of Wisconsin offered
an amendment providing that all deposits
OF coal and iron on the lands of the United
States shall be reserved to the United
States and no further grant or patents
from the United States shall be held to in-
clude such deposits. No disposition was
made of the amendment and it was left
pending. Mr.. FELTON, of California moved
to amend by striking out the clause per-
mitting person who has declared his in-
tentiOn to become citizen to enter on
public lands. Mr.. Nelson of Minnesota
opposed the motion. He was out of
patience he said with the sentimentalism
which had grown up since the anarchists
had made little raid in Chicago. The
policemen who had been shot down had
also been foreigners and the sheriff who
had hanged the men had also been a for
eigner. He was tired of the maudlin senti-
mentality which would reyolutionize
everything because few crazy lunatics
took the course they did. Chicago had had
something worse than those lunatics. 1t
had had Carter Harrison, who had nursed
them and made them believe that they
could do anything except to be respectful
to the American flag. The country needed
protection against such men as Carter
Harrison, instead of against foreigners
who came here and settled in the west
This country had grown for the last
twenty-five years as no country had ever
grown before. 1t was the great free pub
lie lands and the immigration which it
attracted that had built up the country and
not the tariff taxes. Applause on the
democratic side.] The motion was lost
Mr.. Payson of Illinois offered an amend
ment providing that no patent to mineral
lands shall issue except to citizen of the
United States. He declared that no man
should be allowed to acquire title to min
eral lands unless he assumed the burnens as
well as the privileges Of American citizen
ship. Pending action the house adjourned.
n DANGEROUS DISEASE
STRICT QUARANTINE ADVISED.
The president to-day transmitted to con-
gress a report from Minister Pendleton at
Berlin, dated January 30, 1888, from which
it appears that trichinosis prevails in GER
tain parts of Germany and that number
of persons have eaten and died from the
effects of meet of diseased hogs grown in
that country. He also transmitted re-