The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1889-07-13
Epito1ne Of Of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate on the 9th the bill was passed
j to amend the Interstate Commerce act, and
motion to refer to the Committee on Pensions
several vetoed pension bills was adopted. The
proposition to submit to the people Of the sew
eral States constitutional amendment to pro-
hibit the liquor traffic in the United STATES
was favorably reported from the Committee on
L Education In the House the amendment to
the Tarif bill placing sugar on the free list
was rejected by q vote OF 81 to 1903. Another
4 am endnaent was offered, which was defeated,
placing all sugar and molasses on the free list
SENATOR HoAR spoke on the 10th in the
& Senate IN opposition to the fisheries treaty. A
resolution directing the Finance Committee to
Il report in connection with revenue bills such
measures as it may deem expedient to control
or prohibit all contracts, trusts or combinations
y that tend to prevent free and full competition
in trade was adopted. "A bill was introduced
to amend the act to punish postal crimes. ~.
In the House the debate on the Tarif bill
was resumed, AT the evening session nu-
merous bills granting rights OF way through
Indian reservations to various railroads were
4 passed. $4s
TIE Qualifications and Sea-Coast Defense
Oil was considered in the Senate on the 18th,
and bill was introduced to appropriate $780,
600 for the erection Of a public building at Bur
lington, Ia. Several petitions were presented
from labor organizations praying for the pas
sage OF a bill to regulate and restrict immigra-
ton. The bill to prohibit the coming OF Chi
nese laborers into the United States was
favorably reported. j. In the House confer
ence on the Land-grant Forfeiture bill was
ordered. The Senate amendment to the Ag-
ricultural Appropriation bill appropriating
sloo,oOO for sorghum-sugar experiments was
agreed to. The Tariff bill was again consid-
cred, the wool schedule being reached before
adjournment At the evening session bill to
provide for taking the eleventh census was
passed.
IN AN animated discussion took place in the
Senate on the 18th over a motion made by SEN
= ator HaWley to have extra copies printed of
the report made by the Committee on Pensions
on the Presidents pension vetoes. Senator
George spoke in favor OF ratifying the fisher
les treaty. The bill to pay all the Government
Workmcn for the excess of work over eight
hours day since June 49, 1868, was discussed.
So. In the House q resolution for the appoint
ment OF u special committee to investigate al
legged inyasions of the Contract Labor law was
discussed. Discussion OF the wool schedule of
the Tariff bill occupied the remainder of the
session.
In the Senate on the 18th bills were passed
to build bridge across the Mississippi river at
WabaSha, MIMI. and to establish a branch
home for soldiers and sailors in Indiana to
cost 5000, 900. The fisheries treaty was further
discussed. Adjourned to the 18th. :. In the
House the conference report on the Post Office
Appropriation bill was submitted, and all the
amendments were agreed to except the one
known as the subsidy A long debate fol-
lowed but no action was taken, AT the even
ing session twenty-four private pension bills
were passed.
DOMESTIC,
DURING the last fiscal year thenumber of
post-offices established in the United States
was 1864; number discontinued, 1,64s;
number OF fourth class postmasters APP
pointed during the year, II, 852; number of
PRESIDENTIAL postmasters appointed during.
the year, 436. Total number of Presiden-
tial post offices, 2503, an increase during
the year Of 1866
The National Department of Agriculture
at Washington reported on the 10th that
the crop conditions Of the country greatly
Improved within the past month.
SEVEN EIGHTHs Of the town OF Suisun,
Cal, was destroyed by fire on the 10th.
Loss, s4OO, OOO
ut Danvllle, KY, was burned on the 10th,
and thirty three head Of fine trotters were
consumed.
The bodies Of man and woman who had
been murdered were found in the Ohio
river near Louisville, KY, on the 10th.
ELIAS FRANKLIN, the Kentucky farmer
who slew James Brent because Of the lat
ter's intimacy with his wife, committed
suicide on the 10th.
In addition to the previous arrest of six
men accused Of conspiracy to commit muir
der and destroy property Of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railroad, Chairman
Hoge, of the Grievance Committee of the
brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers, and
Chairman Murphy, Of the Grievance Com
mittee OF the Locomotive Firemen's Broth
erhood, were arrested in Chicago on the
10th, accused of being participants in the
same conspiracy.
An ill-feeling existing between the two
families eliminated in Miss Hattie De-
baum, aged eighteen years, being shot and
killed by her aunt, Mrs Mary Junkins, at
Tecumseh, Ind, on the 10TH
81 THE New London e Northern Railroad
Company's repair and machine shops at
New London, Conn.,, were destroyed by fire
on the 10th. Loss heavy.
Ar Old Orchard, Me-, on the 10th Thomas
Riley, an American, and P. F. Mack an
Australian, swan five miles for the Amer
lean championship. Riley won by 80 sec
onds in j hour and rs minutes.
TEN business houses at Deming, N. NJ,
were destroyed by fire on the 10Th.
Mrs. ELIZABETH SIMON, of Douglas, w.
T., on the 10th shot and killed William
Bowling, who was attempting to assault
Mrs Simons' young daughter.
EDWARD A.. DEACoNs, a vagrant, who
last August murdered Mrs Ada Stone at
East Rochester, because she refused to
give him food, was hanged at Rochester,
y N. y, on the 10th.
UP to the 10th over $500 bills had been
introduced in the United States Senate
this session In the two sessions Of the
Forty ninth Congress there were only
1858. and that was more than the Senate
had ever producsd in any previous Con-
gress. ss$5ss
ts Mis-. RosANNA DETER, aged sixty two
years, committed suicide on the 10th at
Canton, o., by hanging herself with a
clothes line. I'll health prompted the act
THE sixteenth annual convention Of the
National Association Of Union ex- Prison
ers of War has been called to meet at In
dianapolis September 49, 8
IHg weather in the Northwest on the
11.h was hot At Minneapolis the Their
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