The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1889-02-08
SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES


A Synopsis Of Proceedings Ia the Senate and
House Of Representatives.
SENATE.-In the senate on the 28th
bills to authorize the construction OF
bridges across the Missouri river near
Leavenworth, Kan, and near Kansas
City, were taken from the calendar and
passed. The army nurses pension bill
was taken up, amended and passed. 1t
allows q pension of $25 per month to all
properly appointed nurses during the
late war (prior to August. 1869. The
senate then proceeded to the considera-
ton of the diplomatic and consular APP
preparation bill. Several amendments
were agreed to, including n appropri-
ating $15, 900 for the families of the Jap
anese accidentally injured by shells
from the United States steamer Omaha.
Mr.. Gibson moved to insert the word
Ambassadors" instead of ''envoys ex-
traordinary and ministers plenipoten-
tiary," as applied to France, Germany,
Great Britain and Russia. Without
coming to q vote on Mr.. Gibson's
amendment the senate adjourned.
HoUsE.-In the house on the 2Sth the
sennte bill was passed increasing the
pension of soldiers who have lost both
hands to 500 per month. The senate
concurrent resolution was agreed to,
providing for a joint meeting of the two
houses of congress Wednesday, Februa-
nv Is, for the purpose of counting the
electoral vote. The house then went
into committee of the whole on the sun
dry civil appropriation bill. The pend
ing amendment appropriating $3.50, 600
for the investigating of the best method
of irrigating the arid region was agreed
to. On q point of order raised by Mr..
Kilgore the clause providing for a con-
zressional committee to institute an IN
quiry into the Alaska ~outrages, was
ruled out of the bill. The appropriation
for the Rock Island arsenal was in
creased SO, 500. Pending final action
on the bill the committee arose and the
house adjourned.
SENATE.-In the senate on the Goth
the committee on military affairs re-
ported back, with a substitute, the house
bill as to furnishing cannon to soldiers
homes, and it was passed. Chandler Of
fered resolutions, which we're agreed to,
calling on the secretary of the navy for
q statement of expenditures for each six
months of the present fiscal year from
appropriations for the construction and
repair of vessels and for steam machi-
merry; also for a statement as to the ma
ture, extent and cause of the recent acct
dent to the cruiser Baltimore. The sem
ate then considered the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill.
House. In the house on the Goth, the
sundry civil appropriation bill was
passed. The paragraph appropriating
$500, 600 for the new library building was
discussed at length but was not changed.
Several amendments were offered and
rejected. On q point of order, raised by
stricken out ~suspending the act of 1885,
secretary of war to acquire a valid title
to the Fl. Brown military reservation.
Mr.. Rogers of Arkansas reported a bill
providing for writs of error or appeal to
the United States supreme court in all
cases involving the question of the juris-
diction of the court below-printed and
recommitted. A bill was passed to
amend an act to provide for the organi-
sation of the militia of the District of
Columbia. The house at 4:40 adjourned.
SENATE.-In the senate on the 30th
Mitchell offered q resolution (Which was
agreed toy calling upon the secretary of
the treasury for a statement of amounts
in the sinking fund to the credit of the
Union and Central Pacific railroads on
February 1, 1889, under the Thurman
act, with the amount of each invested
in bonds; the market value Of such
hands aud tho nr,Dr -l,4, ~v~,ll
have been in the sinking fund if no in
vestment in bonds had been made. The
senate resumed consideration of the di-
plomatic and consular appropriation
bill, the question being the amendment
affecting the Samoan islands. Final
action was not taken on the amendment
at the hour of adjournment.
HOUsE.-1n the house on the Both, the
Oklahoma bill was broughtto the atten-
ton of the house by Mr.. Springer, with
a motion to go into committee of the
whole on its consideration. Agreed to.
The pending amendment was one offered
by Payson, of Illinois. expressly provid-
ing that the rights of honorably dis
charged soldiers and sailors of the late
civil war to make homes on public lands
under existing homestead laws, shall not
in any degree be impaired by the pass
age of this bill, but that such rights shall
extend to any and all lands which shall
be open to any settlement under the pro-
visions of this bill. The amendment
was agreed to. Holman, of Indiana, Of
fered an amendment providing that
nothing in this act should be construed
to authorize the extingnishment of In
dian titles to any lands in Indian terri
tory, which, by virtue of any existing
law, would enure to the benefit of any
railroad corporation, or title to which
would vest in any such corporation on
extinguisement of the Indian title
thereto; that all lands shall be held by
Indians i'll tribes, or in severalty, or by
the United States in trust for the benefit
of Indians. Agreed to. Pending action
on further amendments the house adj
iourned.
SENATE - the senate on the 31st,
the presidents message in relation to
the Samoan islands, and to Corea, the
same as presented to the house WINS read
and referred to the committee on foreign
relations. After the passage Of a few
private bills the senate resumed consid-
Grafton of the diplomatic and consular
appropriation bills, the pending ques-
ton being the amendment referring to
Samoa. After a long and exciting de-
bate. in which Messrs. Frye and Reagan
took strong ground in favor of the pro-
lection and independence Of Samoa, and
of securing a harbor there for American
ships, and in which it was intimated by
them and by MI. Hale that the debate
wonld come up again soon in another
and more serious form, perhaps involv-
ing the relations of the United States
and Germany, Mr.. Reagan's proposed
modification to the amendment was
withdrawn and tie amendments as re-
nortad from tho nonmiffoo nm forai-