New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-02-27

| ment toward giving their consent to the
| opening of the Reservation
HoUsE:-The postponement of the election
OF congressman in the new states until the
first Tusday in October may have no import.
ant bearing upon the call for an extra session.
Those who are opposed to an extra session
will insist that it will be ine1pedient to at
temptto organize the house and to enter up
on the transaction of important business
with a scanty majority, when it is pretty GER
tain that by the election in these new states
the Republican mem bership of the house will
belncreased by four if not by FIVE. On the
otherhand those who are insisting upon the ne
cesslty OF an extra session maintain the fact
that the hveneW members who are to be adj
mltted to congress after October will not re
move the risks attending narrow majority
before that time, and that it might happen
that there would be some delay in organizing
the new states or in obtaining admission for
the new members. mother words many of
| the most prominent Republicans insist that
1T is necessary for the Republic ans to reor-
game the house at the earliest possible OBJ
portunity, so as to provide against the haz-
! zaId OF the loss OF organization by death or
otherwise
The house committe on agriculture decided
to report adversely a bill to punish dealing
in futures in agricultural products: also a
bill to prohibit fictitious and gambling tran
actions on the price of articles produced by
bills is to stop grain gambling on the public
exchanges and boards of trade
Thursday Feb. 81.
SENATE.-As was stated to be possibility
when the bill passed. the president to ay ve->
toed the bill for the relief of settlers upon the
| Des Moines river lands The present meas
ure was drawn upon lines supposed to meet
objections which were urged on in the presi-
dents last veto message sent to the Forty
ninth congress, but it seems that those OBJ
| Jectlons can in no way be met.
! In the senate the committee on
| public buildings and grounds reported
a resolution directing the president of
the senate to issue his warrant commanding
| the sergeant-a farms forthwith to arrest and
bring to the bar of the senate Thomas D.
flsterHto show cause why he should not be
| punished for contempt Mr.. Morgan, re-
marking that the resolution presented some
| delicate points of law objected to it's present
| consideration, and it went over Fister is
| the employe OF the supervising architects Of
| fee who refused to answer the question as to
| the collection in the Office of money for polit-
| cal purposes.
The senate committee on Indian affairs to-
day reported favorably the house bill open
| ing the Sioux reservation. The Pine
Ridge reservation was changed as
| to it's boundaries SO as to make its lower
boundary the northern edge OF Pass
|
| the original bill the tribal patent arrange
| ment was wiped out and the regular submits
| sion clause is inserted in section 49, The
| amount OF land required for station purposes
! by the railroads is fixed at twenty acres in
| place of the indefinite terms fixed in the
house bill. The amendment offered by La
| Toilette of Wisconsin in relation to the build
ings to be placed upon the
grounds granted by the railroads, which was
| defeated in the house, was placed in the bill
by the committee. The amount of money to
| be paid each Indian is raised from $40 to
| $50.
HoUsE.-Mr. Randall introduced in the
house resolution which instructs the com
mittee on rules to report a rule the purport
of which is that the house shall proceed to
consider the vote upon the Cowles bill to
abolish the tax on tobacco and that no fill
| clustering motions shall be entertained by
the speaker to prevent. This resolution,
after some Intellectual opposition on the part
Of the free trade members of the committee
on ways and means. was referred to the
committee on rules. The proposed rule will
be reported. 1t happens that on this COM
mlttee the free traders are in the minority
The committee consists of Carlisle, Mills and
Randall, Democrats, and of Reed and Cam
non, Republicans Mr.. Randall will vote with
the two Republicans, and the rule will be re-
ported forthwith.
Friday, Feb, %.
SENATE.-The senate passed the sundry
civil and agricultural appropriation bills
MIR. Reagan offered in the senate petition
OF Gen. Daniel Ruggles of fredericksburg,
Va, praying for an appropriation of $780,
600 to be expended in developing his system
of producing rainfall and resisting cyclones
and tornadoes.
Senator Stanford introduced a proposed
amendment to the army appropriation bill,
| authorizing the secretary of war to purchase
| four pneumatic dynamite guns of 15-inch
! calIber, and the necessary ma chinery to fire
and handle the same, together with the
| necessary ammunition and cartridges, to be
| located in the harhor of San Francisco, the
cost not to exceed $25OOOO In letter to
| the senator, Secretary Edincott approves Of
the location of these guns in the harbor of
| San Francisco.
The senate adopted an amendment to the
sundry civil bill which declares Tuesday, April
y, 1889, the anniversary Of the inauguration
of the first president of the United States
George Washington, a national holiday
/ throughout the United States; provides for
the assembling OF both houses in the hall of
the house of representatives on the second
Wednesday Of December, 1889, when, under
! an arrangement by joint committee, cere-
| monies are to be had in further commemora-
! ton of that historic event; authorizes the
| joint committee to sit during the recess and
| to invite the officers of the United States and
| OF the respective states and representatives
| OF foreign governments to attend, and also
| to invite the chief justice to deliver an adj
dress on the occasion, and appropriates
$4,000 to defray the expenses of the joint
committee and Of carrying out it's arrange
ments.
HoUsE.-The house amendments to the
senate bill authorizing the construction of a
bridge across the Mississippi river at Alma,
Wis, was concurred in by the senate
The house took up the senate bill for re-
tirem ent OF Gen. W. S. Rosecrans with the
| rank of brigadier general The bill was Wig
| orously opposed by Mr.. Struble of Iowa, on
the ground that Gen. Rosecrans had yilified
Gen. Grant and had declared Grant was
scoundrel. This man who had vilifed
hecountry's hero cam e here today and ask
ed for aid without a word ofapology OF with
out showing that he had changed his opin-
ion. Mr.. Anderson of Iowa said that at one
time he had felt, in consequence of an attack
made by Gen. Rosecrans upon Gen. Grant,
that he could never forgive Gen. Rosecrans.
But he had changed with time and he had
come to the conclusion that the manly thing
to- do in view of + he great, infirmities of b,,