The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-18

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.-Among the bills
reported from the committees and placed
on the calendar were the following: To
relieve the treasurer of the United States
from the amount now charged to him and
deposited with the several states.
To increase the pension of pensioners
who are entirely helpless.
From the committee on appropriations,
reported back a small deficiency bill, $780,,
600 for public printing and binding, and
$3.50, 900 for preliminary printing of the
elevent census. The bill passed.
A communication from the President to
Congress in regard to the international
Maritime conference now in session and
recommending earnestly a further extern
sion of the limit of its continuance for two
months from the 1st OF January, 1890, be
authorized, was presented and with &C
sHnDanying papers, referred to the COM
Eittee on foreign relations.
~ Chandler offered resolution calling on
' the secretary of the navy for information
as TO whether any organizations not ex-
pressly authorized by the secretary of the
navy exist am ing naval officers for pur-
poses not merely literary or scientific; and
if so what are the objects of such organi-
cations and what officers are members of
them; whether such organizations embrace
only one branch of the naval service and
are designed to protect and advance the
any of them has been organized for the
purpose of influencing Congressional legis-
lation; and whether such organizations are
compatible with proper discipline.
Hale asked that the resolution be laid
over and i! was done.
4 Henderson offered a resolution, which
was agreed to, calling on the secretary of
the interior for information as to the dis
position of lands comprised within the
military reservations that have been relin-
quished by the war department.
Mitchell withdrew the resolution offered
by him last week in reference to the fail
ure of the pension bureau to furnish him
with copies of certain papers in pension
claim Commissioner Raum had sent him
the papers with a letter stating that the
refusal to furnish them had been based on
the old regulation Of the Office, which
seemed a Judicious one, IN order to prevent
a waste of the effective strength of his Of
Office. Mitchell remarked that any Sena-
tor, Representative or duly authorized at
torney of an applicant, or the applicant
himself, should have the right to copies of
papers. There was a brief discussion of
this point.
Rlitchell offered a resolution, which was
referred to the postoffice committee, calling
on the postmaster general for estimates for
the increased cost required for the extern
sion of the free delivery system TO all towns
anu CLUES udNluB uOGl budU OyOUO lnHdDl-
tants, and where the gross postofice
revenue is at least 5000. Also to cities
and towns of 5000 inhabitants and with a
gross postofice revenue of s., 900.
Senator Turpie, from the committee on
pensions, to-day made favorable report
on Quay's bill, fixing $72 per month as the
pension to be granted all persons who are
or may become totally helpless from in
iuries received, or disease contracted while
in the military or naval service of the
United States.
Among the bills introduced in the Senate
to-day were the following:
BY Mitchell, the Chandler bill of the last
Congress, for the creating of division of
silk culture in the department of agricul-
ture.
By Teller, authorizing the citizens of
Colorado, Nevada and the territories to
y fell and remove timber on the public do
main for farming and domestic purposes.
Also provi ding that the half dollar shall
contain one half, the quarter of dollar one
fouth. and the dime one-tenth of the
amount of the silver contained in the
dollar. Also his bill from the last Congress
to grant irrigation companies the right-of-
way through public lands for irrigation
purposes. After executive session the
Sepate adjourned.