Dodge City times., 1889-12-19
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
so,rx SENATE bills

Among the bills before the senate are
One each for the admission of Idaho ant
Wyoming into the union; one by Senate
Plumb to equalize bounties to soldiers ant
sailors, and another to prevent the issue o
passes to official personages.
Mr.. Blair introduced a Sunday obeerv
ance bill: also proposition for a constitu
tional amendment to give the District o
Columbia representation in both houses o
congress and IN the electoral college.
Mr.. Turpie Offeied resolution that tht
proposed acts against trusts affecting com
merce among the several states should pro
vide for the seizure of trust goods, on law
full warrant and information. and for tn.
forfeiture, confiscation and sale of the same
Senator Hiscock introduced a bill to give
soldiers who were conined in confederate
prisons for tn rty DAYS or more after thei
term of enlistment had expired, s. a da,
for each day so imprisoned.
SOME OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEES.
Speaker Reed announced the following
committees:
Ways and Means Messrs NJ cKinley. Bur
rows. Bayne. Dingley. Mckenna. Payne
LaFollette, Gear, Carlisle, Mills, Mcmillan
Appropriations-Mess Common, Butter
worth, McComas, Henderson (of Iowa. Pc
tiers. Coggswell, Bslden, Morrow. Brewer (oi
Michigan, Randall. Forney. Sayres, Breck
enridge (of Kentucky. and Dockery.
Manufacturers-Messrs Kelley (of Penn.
Arnold. Morse, Sanford. Wilson tof Wes'
virg nia), Bynum, Williams (of Ilinois)
Grimes and Fowler.
Elections-Messrs. Rowell, Houk, Cooper
Haughen, Sherman, Dalzell, Bergen. Green
halge, Comstock, Crisp, Farall. Cultivate
Maize, Moore (of Texas, and Wike toi
Illinois).
Pennsylvania), Wallace (of Massachusetts,,
Clunie and Pennington.
BREWERS APPOINTMENT.
The senate iudic in considering the
appointment of David J. Brewer. of Kansas
as associate Justice of the supreme court
had before it an earnest opposition to the
confirmation of the appointment, coming
from. the wholesale liquor trade and the
brewers.
WAR TELEGBaPHERs.
Senator Merrill introduced bill to pro
vide for the relief of telegraph operator:
during the war who, althougl no. rform-
ing strictly military duties. lost their lives
or were imprisoned, and who have received
no recognition for their fidelity.
SMALL NATIONAL BANKS.
Senator Morrill,, from the finance COM
inittee reported back adversely the bill to
provide for the organization of national
banks with less capital than $500 and n
was indefinitely postponed,
CENTENNIALs.
Senator Evarts introduced bill for the
celebration of the four hundredth anniver-
sary of the discovery of America by holding
an international exposition in New York.
The programme for the ceremonil. in
the house in commemoration of the one
hundredth anaiversary of the first inaugura-
nj o6nnfa6
PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.
Senator Vest introduced bill which pro-
poses to greatly reduce the numbe, of
printed copies of certain public docume ats.
He made statement as to the immense
mass of books ard documents rotting away
in the attic and basement of the capitol. and
of the stencil arising from such decaying
matter.
MONTANA LEGISLATURE.
A memorial from one of the branches of
the legislature of Montana was presented
and referred; whereupon the reierence was
revoked. and the memorial was laid upon
the table. This action was taken upon the
sugges ion of Senator Ingalls,, TO AVOID any
committal of the senate in regard to the
difficulty about the organization of the
Montana legislature.
SERVICE PENSIONS.
ingalls, also introduced (at the request of
an association of soldiers OF Kansas and
Indiana, service and disability bill, which
vas referred.
CENTENNIAL EXERCISES.
In pursuance of q resolution adopted by
congress in February last. the two houses
met in the hall of representatives to ho,d
centennial exercises in commemorat!on of
the inauguration of the first president.
Through the foreign legations resident in
Washington all were officially represented.
Added to these were the delegates from the
Central and South American republics ac-
credited to the Pan-American cong ress now
in session, and the members af the marine
conference.
The galleries were packed shortly be ore
l O'Clock. The house of representatives no.
titled the senate that it was in session, and
IN few moments the senate, preceded by
the president and vice president. the men,
bers of the diplomatic corps in their bril-
liant uniforms, ard the justices of tie su-
PRIME court of the United States in their
official robes, entered the hall OF the house.
They were escorted to seats Ie,erved :or
them in front of the speakers desk.
Vice President Morton took the sGcaker's
chair and gavel, and at o'c ock called the
two houses to order in joint session. The
marine band rendered appropriate music.
Rev. J. G. Butler. the senate chaplain,
opened the services with prayer. Chief JUS
United States. then delivered his Grafton on
the progress OF America.
MEMORIALS AND PETITIONS.
In the senate resolution of the Mass1-
chusetts legislature was pre- Scnted in favor
of pension law giving pension to every
honorably discharged union sailor and SOL
dier.
Petitions were presented from various
parishes of Louisiana in favor of a national
l,xr, l.,
and Evarts.
NEGRO COLONIZATION.
Senator Gibson offered resolution to in
struct the committee on foreign relations
TO inquire into the practicability of coloni' >
ing colored citizens, aud to what extent
federal aid may be extended.
TAX ON TOBACCO.
Mr.. Brewer. of North Carolina, intro
duced bill in the house of representatives
for the repeal of the tax on tobacco in all
its forms. Referred.
THE OHIO BALLOT BOXES.
Representative Butterworth, of Ohio, in
troduced a resolution, which was adopted,
for the appO ntment of a committee to in
the charges male b. the Cincin-
natl Commerclal-GaZette and others that
certain United States senators and others
were implicated in corrupt scheme to de-
fraud the United States in the matter of tho
purchase of ballot boxes.
President Marvel and A. A. Robinson, of
he Santa Fe. have made another trip to
Kansas, and that city is jubi-
ant over their assurance that Hutchinson's
interests will be foskored.
A stock company is forming in the SOUTH
,rn states to put up 500, 100 to buy of JEFF
Davis estate 5, 100 acres of lands in Arkansas.
The object is the relief of the Davis family,
Who refuse gift or loan.
The Joliet, ILL.,, Manufacturing company's
works Is destroyed by fire. Loss about $685.
90: well insured. The company was en-
jagged in the manufacture of corn shelters,
.ultlvators, corn planters and barbed wire.
p. S. Hawk & Co., general commission
of Kansas City, make a general
assignment. The company's stock was at
ached by eastern creditors for amounts
$l2.OOl. The liabilities of the