The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-07
FINISHING UP BUSINESS.
Several Important Conference Reports Act
ed Upon by Congress-


ed Upon by Congress.
AMENDMENTS to the deficiency appropriation
bill wereconsidered by the Senate on the I'd inst,
and one appropriating $35 600 to pay the State of
Nebraska on account of the per cent fund arts
ing from the sale of public lands was agreed %.
Various other amendments were offered and
ruled out on points of order. The bill was then
reported to the Senate, and the amendments
adopted in committee of the whole were agreed
to-, except where special votes were required,
and the bill was passed. The House amend
ment to the bill authorizing the sale
of part of the military reservation at
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, was concurred in.
A conference was ordered on the deficiency ap-
preparation BILL and Senators Hale Allison, and
Cockrell were appointed conferrees on the part
of the Senate. The conference report on the
sundry civil appropriation bill presented
and agreed to. Conference reports on bills for
lighthouses at Humboldt, Calif and on
Lakes Erie, Huron. Michigan and Superior
were presented and agreed to. The Presi-
dents veto of the direct tax bill was pre-
sented and read and, after a short debate
the bill was passed over the Presidents veto
yeas. As; nays, 8. Conference reports were pre-
sented and agreed to on the bills to amend the
interstate commerce law, the bill in regard to
tne salmon fisheries of Alaska, and the naval
appropriation bill. The following bills were
taken from the calendar and passed: The House
joint resolution appointing H. H. Markham of
California manager of the Soldiers Home to
I'LL a vacancy (the Senate joint resolution ap-
pointing James A. Weymore being indefinitely
postponed; the House bill Tor the dispos ition
OF the agricultural lands embraced with
in the limits of the Pipestone Indian
reservation in Minnesota; the House bill for the
relief of st Joseph Commercial College, of St.
Joseph, Mo. with substitute). bill passed
the House authorizing the States OF Illinois,
Indiana and Ohio to prosecute suits against
the United States in the Supreme Court on &C
count of the sales OF public lands in these
States. bill passed the House authorizing
the Litchfield, Hamilton and Western Railway
to build bridge across the Illinois River near
Columbiana. This bill has passed the Senate.
The conference report on the bill to amend the
interstate commerce act was agreed to-
BOTH the Senate and House galleries were
packed VIE sight seers on Sunday, the Sd inst,
while the overflow crowd surged through the
corridors and impOrtuned the dOOrkeepers for
places where they could catch even glimpse of
the national lawmakers at work. Both houses
met in accordance with adjournment, the
sions being continuance Of that of Saturday,
the intermis siohs being simply recesses. The
conference reports OH the bill 10 provide for the
allotment of lands in severalty to the United
PeOrias and Miamis in the Indian Territory and
the Indian appropriation bill were adopted by
the Senate, and the Union Pacific funding bill
was recOmmitted to the Select Committee on
the Pacific Railroad Indebtedness. On the
sundry- civil bill the Senate cOnferrees receded
from the Waite amendment and practically the
steam press amendment, the yalty remaining
at l cent per thousand Impressions The House
adopted the conference report. The conference
on the deficiency bill came to
agreement, the Senate conferrees yield
ing the French spoliation claims amendment in
order to secure the passage of the bill. The
Senate agreed to the conference report. The
House passed the Senate bill increasing to
81, 500 900 the limit of cost for the public build
ing at Detroit, Mich, the land grant forfeiture
BILL and tho bill granting O. pension of $50
month to the widow of Gen. H. J. Hunt. The
conference reports on the Indian appropriation
bill and the bill for tho allotment of lands in
severalty to the United Peoria and Miami bands
of Indians were also agreed to.