The Dickinson press., 1889-03-02
WORK OF
The Senate.

WASHINGTON, Feb. GA number of
petitions were presented and referred,
after which MIR. HUa: called up the resu-
luton relative to the election outrases IN
certain states. MIR. Daniels, Of Virginia,
addressed the senate at length on the
subject.
MAsH1NGToN, Feb. 2G.-A number of
lighthouse bills were reported and
passed. The request for a conference ON
theb bill %pensioning the widow OF Gen.
Sheridan, which as amended by the
house reduces the pension from :s3.5U0 to
$4,000 q year, was withdrawn and the
amendment concurred in.
The senate passed the house bill to di-
vile IL portion OF the Sioux reservation
in Dakota; also the bill tn ratifv and con-
firm an agreement with the Ute Indians.
The army appropriation bill was then
taken up, Senator Cullom giving notice
that when it was disposed of lie would
call up the Oklahoma bill. At 3 o'clock
the resolution on the death of the late
Representative Burnes, of Missouri, was
taken up, and eulogies we're delivered by
Senators Cockrell, Ingalls,. Voorhees,,
Hale. Hampton, Coke and Vest. after
unanimously and the senate at 4:25 adj
journed.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 27.-The bill for
the relief of William r. Wheaton and
Charles II. Chamberlain, of California.
land office in California; for money paid
by them for clerk hire, which was We. oed
by the president, was reported back and
passed over the veto by IL vote of yeas
80, nays s.. A number of bridge bills
were reported from the committee and
placed on the calendar. The army APP
preparation bill was then taken up and
passed. The senate passed a large num-
Der OF minor measures and after q short
secret session adjourned.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2S.-The senate
agreed to the conference report on the
agricultural appropriation bills. ordered
Il new conference on the army appropri-
alton bill. and discussed house amend
ments to the interstate N law.
Pending which az adjournment was taken
for the day.
The House.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-The house met
at 10 o'clock q. m., but no business was
transacted until an hour later, when MIR.
Peel. OF Arkansas, called up the senate
bill. which vas passed, to ratify and
confirm the agreement with the Creek
Indians for opening up unassigned lands
in the Indian terrific y for settlement.
Senate amendments to the house bill
for taking the eleventh census were con
Cured in. The deficiency appropriation
bill was then taken up in committee of
the whole.
WASHINGTON. Feb. Notwithstanding
was the order Of the day in the house. 1t
was begun as soon as the journal was
read, by Mr.. Bland, of Missouri. who
raised the point OF no quorum. He with
drew his point to permit c. F. Booher,
of Missouri, to qualify as the successor of
the late Mr.. Burnes.
Mr.. Peel also made a conference re-
port on the bill granting a right of way
through the Indian Territory to the st.
Louis and San Francisco Railroad COM
panY. Agreed to.
The senate amendments were nom
c%oncurrcd in to the agricultural appro-
priation bill.
Mr.. Crisp then called up the contested
California case. and Sayers. of Texas, in
the interest of the deficiency %appropria-
ton bill raised the question of consider
alton. The house decided to consider
the election case. FiliGustering was re-
sorted to and continued until adjourn
ment.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-Senate amend
lnents to the bill for the opening to set
Element OF IL portion of the Sioux rcscr-
walton were non-concurred in and a con-
ference ordered.
The house concurred in the senate
amendment to the bill authorizing the
president t. appoint William English as
Il lieutenant in the army.
MIR. Randall reported the sundry civil
bill. The recommendations of the COM
mittee on appropriations were agreed to
n Il conference ordered.
The house then went into committee
of the whole on the deficiency appro-
priation bill, passed it and took up the
Indian appropriation bill. Incidental
to the Indian bill a prolonged debate
took place on political outrages in the
south and a bitter attack on speaker
Carlisle was made by Mr.. Kennedy of
Ohio. Great excitement and confusion
prevailed. Pending discussion the house
recessed until ) o'clock.
At the evening session an amendment
was offered appropriating Sl.9l2.oOo for
payment to the Seminole band of In
dams for the land in the Indian Territory
coded by that band to the United States.
Pending a vote the house at 1890 adj.
journed.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2s.-Several bills
were passed in the house in the hour be-
tween 10 and IL o'clock, after which
consideration of the Indian a%ppropria-
tiun bill was resumed.
ton bill was resumed and the bill passed,
after adoption of the amendment APP
propriating 81, 9la 900 to pay the Semi
uOle Indians Tor the lands in ti,p Indian
territory coded ly them to the United
States. The lands acquired C2.037. 900
acres are made open to settlement under
the homestead law.
AN Exrph ccec,oM