The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-02-28
CONGRESSIONAL.

CONGRESSIONAL.
Wsskly Resume Of tie procesdingss Of ths ssnats
s4 snd Houss. -
Friday. Feb. Ii.
SENATE.-Ae. bill introduced by Senator
Spooner to-day provides that a system Of
farmers institutes shall be maintained as q
part 0; the agricultural department. A sup
e~rintendent Of Institutes is to be appointed
at an annual salary of $6, 900. Meetings OF
the Institutes shall be- regularly held in the
agricultural sections Of the country; The
thority is given the superintendent of insti-
tutes to hire 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 100000, exclusive of per-
manent salaries and the printing OF the re-
ports Of the institute meetings.
HousE.-In the house today Mr.. Mills,
from the committee on o n means, re-
ported back thu 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 q
question OF privilege and the consideration
Vi NA'Cu UC buAut X WOuAo VA AOu6c ~
enter upon on Tuesday next:
That the substitution by the senate, under
the form of an amendment for the bill of the
house, No. 9O51 (the Mills bills), Of another
and different bill, containing a general revi-
sion of the laws, imposing impost duties n
internal taxes, is in conflict will the true in
tent and purpose of section Z, 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-
s%entatives the sole power to originate such a
measure.
tically decided to report a bill making an
estimated reduction in the revenues of about
$40, ,0Go. After reading the report on
the senate tariff bill, submitted today, the
committee took for consideration a revenue
reduction bill offered by Mr.. McMillin OF
Tennessee. The bill is substantially the
same as the Mills bill.
Saturday, Feb. 16'
SENATE Senator Davis introduced q bill
in the Senate for the relief of James Healy, Of
Minnesota, for $466.23, for balance due him
on O mail contract.
HousE.-The house tool up 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 gum appropriated by
the bill ($6, $50. 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
omy, the morass of political honesty and the
excelsior of political hypocrisy. Mr.. Kerr of
Iowa moved to strike out the clause
relative to Observation-Disclosures. Adjourned,
The ways and means committee reported
favorably the following bill Of Mr.. Rice's,
amending section 25o6, 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 manufactured, shall he admitted
into the ports of the United States free of
of the treasury shall from time to time pre-
scribe" -: :" d. -..~
Monday Feb. 1s.
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 o motion to
report on the direct tax bill was agreed to
Saturday. This hangs the bill up temporari-
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
lfornia raised the question Of consideration.
The Republicans flibustered 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
an amendment reducing from twenty to ten
years the. term OF the lease ofthe seal fisheries,
and authorizing any person to bring suit
against the lessees to recover $40 for every
law. ~ ts%> - - 49,
Under the terms of the Indian appropria-
ton bill, the st. Benedict academy in Stearns
county and st. Paul's industrial school at
lClohtarf, Mimi, secure the education of 100
lChippewa boys and girls at $3.50 per year
Pierre, OAK, is given $175 for each Indian
child educated. The superintendent is to b.
paid $1,000 per year. Thirty five, thousand
dollars will 20 into Pierre next year for ft-
ting out the school and for the support OF
pupils:
mittee on ways and means allowing timber
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
the treasury, who maintains that such
legislation would open the door for gigantic
frauds on the revenue, which he believed had
been perpetrated in Maine. Mr.. Nelson o O
the matter up, however, and showed the
secretary in b letter written last year that
thererswas no timber in Manitoba. to he
struggled in. ~ ag5@s.s =, "a 3.s.fss a.. -
The Sioux bill in it's amended condition has
reached the senate, and has gone to the com.
mittee on Indian affairs 1t is not known
whether Mr.. Dawes will report it, "a his own
bill, which was introduced some time ago
contains also submission clause. The foI
lowing clause in the Indian appropriation
bill will show the manner in which the houst