St. Paul daily globe., 1889-02-10
VEST VICTORIOUS.
His Bill to Establish a Federal
Court in the Indian Territory Is
Adopted-Money for Fortifica-

HI IS Bill TO EStaDlfSn fcuefai
Court in the Indian Territory Is
Adopted-Money for Fortifica-
tiOns.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-The senate
to-day passed the senate bill for the
establishment Of court in IndiaR ter
ritory and also the fortification appro-
prlation bill. The credentials of MIR.
Ransom for new term were presented
to the senate and placed on file. Mr..
Vest, for the Judiciary committee. called
up the senate bill to establish United
States court in Indian territory, and
asked that it be substituted for house
bill to change the eastern and northern
judicial districts of Texas. Mr.. Jones,
of Arkansas, offered another substi-
tute and said that the substitute OF Mr..
Vest simply transferred the court
from Fort Smith to Musc0gee. thereby
increasing the business of the court,
whose calendars were now overcrOWded.
Mr.. Berry and MI. Coke made argu-
ments in favor of Mir. Jones' substitute,
and hlr. Edmunds supported the COM
nittee substitute. After some debate,
in which Mr.. Morgan, Mir. Butler and
MIR. Reagan took prominent parts, the
judiciary committees substitute was
agreed 20. A conference was asked and
conferrees appointed on the part of the
senate. A resolution of Mr.. Stewards,
calling on the commissioners of fish and
fisheries for information concerning the
salmon fisheries of Alaska, was adopted.
A conference Oh the direct tax bill
was ordered and conferrees Oh the part
of the senate appointed. The fortifica-
tions appropriation bill was passed with
the committee amendments, and para
graph inserted at the suggestion OF Mr..
Henderson appropriating $2nO,000 to
PURCHASE SUBMARINE TORPEDOES
impelled;and controlled at will by power
from shore stations. The house bill for
the relief of Thomas Mathews and sew
eral other importers, for fees illegally
collected from them in the port of OS-
wego, N. Y, between 1878 and 1882, was
taken up, discussed briefly (Sena-
tors Sherman and Coekrell in op-
postion), and laid aside without action.
Senators Hoar, Cullum and Cockrell,
were appointed with the presiding of
ficer) the senate committee on Inaugural
ton ceremonies. Mr.. Manderson Of
feretl a resolution (Which was agreed to-
for the appointment by the presiding
officer of tellers, on the part of the SEN
ate, in the counting of the presidential
votes. The senate then. at 2:45, re-
sumed consideration of the Union Pa
cific refunding bill-the question being
on Mr.. MitchelFs motion to re-
commit, with instructions to the
committee to report a bill
applying also to the central
Pacific. Mr.. Stewart gave notice that
he would move Instructions to the COM
mittee to report bill requiring the
amount of the debt to be expended by
the railroad companies in the construc-
ton of Improvements on their main
lines, including double tracks and fun
nels to avoid high grades, and Of branch
lines and id the construction OF such
hydraulic works for irrigation as con-
gress may authorize, with such iimita-
tons OH freights and fares as within
sure cheap transportation. He bro
ceeded to address the senate in elucida-
tien of this plan. Some questions put
by Mr.. Blair provoked Mr.. Stewart to
say that if the senator had listened to
his remarks, it would not have been
necessary for him to ask them. TO
which MIR. Blair retorted that he was
the only senator who had been listening
to him much of the time. Without ac-
ton, the senate at 500 adjourned. tiN