The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-02-22
FlF1lE1H CONGRESS
Second Session .
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WAaniNGToS, Feb 11.-Sena.or Dawes p e.
sentcd n petition from 12O Indian students at
Hampton, Va, against the continuance OF
the ration system to the Indians as an encour-
ment to idlenees, and recommending their
equivalent in farming implements and Stock
Referred.
AT 12:45 the senate proceeded to executive
business and at 3:15 legislative business was
proceeded with.
Senator Frye having been called away by a
death In his family, the Union Pacific fund
Ing bill was laid aside and the Daval appro-
ported by the committee on appropriations
| for the construction of two steel cruisers or
| gunboats of 500 to 1,20l tons displacement,
to cost not more than 500, ,OG0; of one steel
cruiser OF about 1900 tons, at cost of not
| more than ST00,00 and of one ram Tor har-
Dor defenses, was sgreed to without discuss
on.
| WASHINGTON, Feb. l2--Amohg the bills
| reported back from tine committee and placed
on the calendar was one to provide for
the enforcement of the quarantine laws
and regulations OF the Un!teu States and for
the establishment OF national beard ci
health.
The senate at i2:45 proceeded to executive
| business. Within five minutes the executive
business was transacted and the considcra-
tion OF the naval appropriation bill was re-
sumed and occupied the rest OF the session.
| WASHINGTON, Feb. Ex-senator Hale pre-
sented the conference report Oh the diplo-
matte AMI consular appropriation bill, which
was agreed to.
The house bill granting to the st. Paul,
! Minneenolit and Manitoba railway the right
| of-way through the White Earth Indian reser.
vstion In Minnesota was ported aud passed
| with one formal amendment, on which con
ference WAS asked.
| en- motion of Senator Hoar it was ordered
that five inmates before to-day the senate
shall leave its chamber and proceed to the
hall of the house Of representatives, there to
take part in the proceedings for the asaer-
ta.nment snd counting the electoral vote.
| After further unimportaut business was
traniacted the appointed time arrived ard
the senators thereupon headed By the Officers
| OF the body, proceeded to the hail of the house
| OF representatives. The senate returned to
| its own chamber at 2:25, when Senator Man.
| derson, on behalf of the senate tellers, re,
| ported the result OF the counting and aecer-
talnment OF the electoral vote for president
| and vice-president OF the United States. Re-.
| port was ordered to be entered at length on
| the journal
| The resolution reported fron the commit
tee on privileges and elections, instructing
that committee to revise the existing law reg.
ulating the election of members of congress
was taken up and Senator Evarts spokc IN It's
| support.
WASHINGTON, Feb. l4.-Thc resolution
heretofore offered BY Senator Stewart for a
|! select committee Of seven senators to tnves.i-
gate irrigation aud the reclamation of arid
lands with q clerk at So per day), was
agreed to.
The senate bills granting right-of-way to
the Cherokee Central Railroad compan,
through the Indian territory, snd to the
| oaiiiSStVWi anu 1Noi hditlbdl CDDpIIN
throughout DEVILS Lake Todlan reservation,
were reported and placed on the calendar.
| The house bill for the allotment OF land in
severalty to the Indians on Bida rssery alton,
| Wis.,, was reported back adversely and pIac.G
On the calendar.
Senator Morgan offered an amendment &
the resolution reported from tho comm!5tct
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the table and ordered printed.
| Senator Wilson, Of iowa addressed the seu
ate IN support OF the bill relating 10 in
ported liquors, introduced by Senator Frye OF
December Il, 1851, reported hack adYefs ],
from the judiciary committee on Ma ca 10
1883, and then placed on the calendar. Tn
bill reads:
The consent of congress Is hereby piyel
that the laws OF the severel states relotlug t,
the sale OF distilled and fermeuted liquors
within the limits OF each state, may apply Il
such liquors when they have been imported
In the same manner as when they have beer
manufacture! in the United States.
a conference committee was ordered on tn
legislative appropriation bill, and Senator
Allison, Dawes and Cockrell appointed con
ferrees.
The senate then resumed consideration O
the resolution reported from the committe
on privileges and elections, and was addrcsse
by Senator Coke.
Without concluding, Senator Coke yielde
Tor other business.
After brief executive session the senat
adjourned.
WAsHINGToN, Feb. Is The senate uiii I
ratify and confirm the agreement with tn
Muskogee (or Creek) nations of Indians /
Indian territory aud opening to settlemer
The unassigned lands in Indian Territory, tn
consideration being S2,2s1, 600, was take
from the calendar and passed.
The senate bill authorizing the president t
appoint William English second lieutenant /
the regular army wss taken from the ca
endar and explained aud advocated by Sci
ator Daniel, who claimed that the sentens
of the count martial under which English ws
cashiered was unduly severe, and that
severe reprimand would have been quite su
ticient. Tie bill passed with an amendmei
authorizing the president to nominate an
with the consent of the senate to appoint.
Amoug the other bills taken from the ca
endar and passed we're the following
The senate bill authorizing the preside,
to place Gen. William Rosecraus on the r
tired list ns trlgadier-general OF the r{guls
army.
Tie house bill granting the right-of-way
the Fort Smith, Paris and Dardanelle Raj
way company from Fort Smith, Ark, tbreug
the Indian territory to or near Baxter Spring
10 Kansas with amendmentsl.
The senate then took up the individual pei
sion bills on the calendar aud passed all
them, forty-one in number,
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HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-The senateto hi
enable the president to protect the intere
OF the United States in Panama was referrt
to the committee on foreign affairs, and leal
was granted to the committee to report al
time.
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