The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-02-21

Jamestown &Northern railroad right of way
through Devils Lake reservation, and bill
providing for the allotment of lands in sever
atty to the Oneida Indians in Wisconsin
HoUsE.-The Sioux bill passed tile house
with all the amendments adopted by the
committee of the whole at the special session
held a week ago last Wednesday night These
| amendments have already been printed. The
two amendmentsupon which a separate vote
was ordered IN the house were promptly killed,
| although of very little moment One of these
| was the amendment offered by Breckenridge
| of Kentucky, providing for free homestead
entry, the other the soldiers homestead en-
| try clause proposal by Payson of Illinois,
The submission features of the bill was in no
| way challenged.
Representative Baker of New York to-day
presented n bill simplifying previous meas
| ure proposed by him and aiming to regulate
commerce between the United States and
foreign countries, with specific mention of
Canada. This bill was referred to the COM
mittee on ways and means and Mr.. Baker
I expresses some hope that it will be reported
and passed this session, several senators
| having endorsed it. Its scope is evidently
one of retaliation in event oil pending legis-
lation in the dominion.
Friday, Feb. 10.
| SENATE.-A bill introduced by Senator
| Spooner to-day provides that system of
| farmers institutes shall be maintained as q
| part Of the agricultural department. sup
! erintendent OF Institutes is to be aDpointed
at an annual salary of $4,000. Meetings of
| the institutes shall be regularly held in the
! agricultural sections of the country The
| proceedings are to be published and au-
thority is given the superintendent of insti-
! tutes to hi e lecturers at a fair rate of com
| pensation for the time actually employed
The annual cost of the system of institutes
| is not to exceed $500 600, exclusive of per-
manent salaries and the printing of the re-
ports the institute meetings.
| HoUsE.-In the house today Mr.. Mills
| from the committee on ways and means, re-
| ported back th- Mills tariff bill with the SEN
| ate amendment and, by direction of the
| speaker it was referred to the committee of
| the whole. Mr.. Mills also reported the fol
| lowing resolution, which he said presented a.
question OF privilege and the consideration
of which, he said, he would ask the house to
| enter upon on Tuesday next:
That the substitution by the senate, under
| the form OF an amendment for the bill of the
| house, No. 9051 (the Mills bills), of another
| and different bill, containing a general revi-
| sion of the laws, importing impost duties and
| internal taxes, is in conflict with the true in
| tent and purpose of section 7, article l. ofthe
constitution; and that said bill be returned
| to the senate with the respectful suggestion
| that said section vests in the house of repre-
| SellullfeS the SOLE power 10 OflSlnuLe SuCn q
| measure.
| The committee at its meeting today prac-
| tically decided to report a bill making an
! estim ate reduction i'll the revenues of about
| $70,000,000. After reading the report on
the senate tariff bill, submitted to day. the
| committee took for consideration a revenue
reduction bill offered by Mr.. McMillin OF
| Tennessee. The bill is substantially the
same as t he Mills bill.
Saturday, Feb. 16'
SENATE Senator Davis introduced a bill
in the Senate Tor the relief of James Healy of
Minnesota, for $466.23, for balance due him
) on a mail contract.
HoUsE.-The house lookup the postofice
bill Mr.. Holman offered an amendment pro-
viding that the aggregate salaries of post
office clerks as fixed by the new classification
| shall not exceed the sum appropriated by
the bill ($6, 55O,OOO) The amendment was
adopted after q brief debate in which Mr.
Peters (Rep.) of Kansas characterized the
civil service law as the froth of political econ
omt, the morass of political honesty and the
excelsior of political hypocrisy. Mr. Kerr of
Iowa moved to strike out the clause
| relative to assistant postmasters. Adjourned.
The ways and means committee reported
| favorably the following bill of Mr.. Rices,
amending section 2506, of the Revised
Statutes: And the produce of the forest OF
the State of Minnesota on the Rainey Lake
river and the Lake of the Wood and their
| tributaries, owned by American citizens and
sawed in the Provinces of Ontario and Man
itoba by American citizens the same being
in part unmanufactured, shall be admitted
into the ports of the United States free OF
duty, under such regulations as the secretary
of the treasury shall from time to time pre-
scribe"