New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-02-27
CONGRESSIONAL.
Weekly Resume Of the Proceedings Of the Senate
and House.

Weekly Resume Of the Proceedings Of the Senate
and House.
Saturday, Feb. 16.
] SENATE.-Senator Davis introduced a bill
/ in the Senate for the relief of j ames Healy, of
Minnesota for $466.23, for balance due him
on a mail contract.
HoUsE.-The house took up the postoffice
bill Mr.. Holman offered an amendment pro-
| vldlng that the aggregate salaries of post
/ office clerks as fixed by the new classification
shall not exceed the sum appropriated by
i the bill Csc, $50 ,0O0.) The amendment was
adopted after a brief debate in which Mr..
Peters 7(Rep.) of Kansas characterized the
civil service law as the froth OF political econ
omy, 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 MI. Rice's,
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
i 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
Monday Feb. Is.
SENATE:-The house bill to provide for
taking the eleventh and the subsequent cen
suses passed the senate to-day.
/ The senate committee on territories report
ed favorably the Springer bill to organize
the Territory of Oklahoma.
In the senate Mr.. Vest entered a lotion to
reconsider the vote by which the conference
report on the direct tax bill was agreed to
Saturday This hangs the bill up temporari-
j ly and may result in it's defeat.
HoUsE.-In the house Mr. Crisp called up
the California election case ofSullivan against
/ FELTON,, against which Mr. McKenna of Cali
/ fOrnia raised the question of consideration
i The Republicans filibustered and prevented
any action being taken before adjournment
/ The house recommitted the bill for the pro-
lection OF the fur seal fisheries in Alaska with
/ instructions to The committee on merchant
marine and fisheries to report it back with
i an amendment reducing from twenty to ten
years the term Of the lease of the seal fisheries
and authorizing any person to bring suit
against the lessees to recover $40 for every
seal taken in excess of the number fixed by
law.
Under the terms of the Indian appropria-
ton bill, the st. Benedict academy in Stearns
county and St. Paul's Industrial school at
4 Clontarf, Mimi, secure the education of 100
apiece. The new Indian Industrial school at
Pierre, Oak, is given $175 for each Indian
child educated. The superintendent is to be
paid 81 500 per year. Thirty five thousand
dollars will 20 into Pierre next year for fit
ting out the school and for the support of
pupils.
The bill reported favorably from the COM
mlttee on ways and means allowing tim Der
cut in Northern Minnesota to be taken over
into Manitoba to be sawed and then re-
turned duty free was at one time report
ed adversely upon by the secretary OF
legislation would open thedoor for gigantic
frauds on the revenue, which he believed had
been perpetrated in Maine. Mr.. Nelson took
the matter up, however, and showed the
secretary in a letter written last year that
there was no timber in Manitoba to be
Struggled in.
4 The Sioux bill in it's amended condition has
reached the senate, and has gone to the COM
mlttee on Indian affairs. 1t is not known
whether Mr.. Dawes will report it, as his own
bill, which was introduced some time ago.
contains also a submission clause. The fol-
l lowing clause in the Indian appropriation
bill will show the manner in which the house
committee expects to bring the Sioux to
4 time
''That the secretary of the interior shall
cause a census OF the Sioux tribe of Indians
to be carefully taken by a special agent to be
ascertaining how many OF them are able to
support themselves, and in ascertaining this
fact their physical capacity to work the land
owned or occupied by them, either individ-
4 ually or collectively, the value OF the land,
its nearness to market and general produc-
tlveness shall be considered, and such other
facts and circumstances as will aid congress
in determining how many of such Indians
are capable of sef-support. And after such
census has been taken only those Indians
that are found to be unable to support them.
selves by reasonable exercise shall receive
ratiOns from the government of the United
States"
Tuesday. Feb. 10.
SENATE.-Mr. Harris. in .he senate, called
attention to the large number ofunconfirmed
nominations He held it to be as much the
. duty OF the president to make nominations
90 I'LL official vacancies as to perform any
other official duty, and as much the duty of
the senate to consider and confirm or reject
such nominations as to performance of the
senatorial duty. He moved that the senate
proceed to the consideration of executive
business, The motioa was rejected by q
Z party yote--yeas "a, nays, 26.
/ Mr.. Harris-I shall give the senate an op-
pOrtunlty to vote on this motion every day
to the end OF the session.
Mr.. Edmunds (ironically )-That is right.
. HoUsE.-In the house, Mr. Caswell submit
ted the conference report on the bill to re pay
the direct tax. Democratic mem bers there
upon flibustered, and Mr.. Caswel Withdrew
the matter from the consideration of the
house, announcing that he would call it up
tomorrow. In the senate, Mr.. Vests motion
TO reconsider the vote by which the confer
ence report on the direct tax bill was agreed
. to, was rejected-8 to 43. There is a sus-
E picion in the minds of the friends of the bill
that the lively opposition in the house to the
reception of the conference report on that
that bill, and the flibustering against its
consideration, were the result of an intima-
ton from the president that he would prefer
not to have to choose between the approval
4 OF the bill or a direct veto. If action on the
Z bill is delayed beyond tomorrow or If there
should be failure on the part of the senate
committee on enrolment bill to deliver the
bill to the president before next Thursday,
the president may avail himself of the consti-
4 tutional RIGHT to hold the bill ten DAYS. which