New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-02-20


| titled to q seat, and it YVES rejected l26 to
I45-a party vote with the exception Of
wilson OF Minnesota and Russell Of Massa-.
chusetts, who voted with the Republicans
The majority resolutions seating Elliott,
was then agreed to without a division.
| Thursday, Feb, Ii.
SENATE.--In the senate Mr.. Morgan offered
| an amendment to the resolution reported
from the. ommittee on privileges and cleo.
tons, which lnstructs the committee to SO
| frame legislation on the subject of elections
that.l shall not apply to any state whose
constitution and laws provide amp esecurity
! Tor the honest exercise Of the right to vote,
TOR the just and impartial counting and re-
turn OF the votes, and for the just. impartial
and true ascertainment and certifcation Of
the results; and i'll which state those reSIuire-
| ments have been honestly compiled with.
| The senate resumed consideration of the
| committee resolution and was addressed by
/ Mr.. Coke.
| Mr.. Wilson ofIowa addressed the senate
| to-day IN support of the bill relating to i'm
| ported liquors introduced by Mr.. FRYE. re-
| ported back adversely from the judiciary
committee and placed on the calendar
! The resolution heretofore offered by MIR.
Stewart for a select committee of seven sen
ators on irrigation and reclamation Of arid
lands with q clerk at So per day. was agreed
1 to- and the following were appointed: Sen
ators Stewart Allison, Plumb, Hiscock, Cor
man. Reagan and J ones OF Ark ansas
/ The Senate committee onIn indian affairs re-
1 ported favorably to-day a bill to allow the
| jamestown &Northern railroad right Of way
| through Devils Lake reservation, and a bill
/ providing for the allotment oflandsin sever
atty to the Oneida Indians in Wisconsin.
HoUsE.-The Sioux bill passed the house
/ with all the amendments adopted by the
committee of the whole at the special session
! held a week a go last W ellnasday night. These
amendments have already been printed The
/ two amendments upon which Il separate vote
was ordered IN the house were promptly killed,
! although ofvery little moment. One OF these
| Was the amendment offered by Breckenridge
| OF Kentucky. providing for free homestead
entry, the other the soldiers homestead en-
try clause proposal by Payson Of Illinois,
| The submission features OF the bill was in no
way challenged.
Representative Baker of New York to-day
presented bill simplifying previous meas
| ure proposed by him and aiming to regulate
commerce between the United States and
| torelgn countries, with specific mention of
Canada. This bill was referred to the com
m1ttee on ways and means and Mr. Baker
expresses some hope that it will be reported
/ and passed this session, veral senators
| having endorsed it. Its scope is evidently
one of retaliation in event OF pending legis-
lation in the dominion.
| Friday. Feb. Is.
l . 3 F.. i f. 81 . + i
SENATE.-A bill introduced by Senator
| SDooner to-day provides that a system of
| farmers Institutes shall be maintained ss a.
part o. the agricultural department.. A sup
| erlntendent OF institutes is to be appointed
at an annual salary of $4,000. Meetings of
the institutes shall be regularly held in the
agricultural sections of the country. The
! proceedings are to be published, and au-
1 thorlty is given the superintendent of insti-
tutes to, hil lecturers at q fair rate of com
I pensation for the time actually employed
The annual cost of the system Of Institutes
4 is not to exceed 100000, exclusive of per-
manent salaries and the printing of the re-
Pc rts the institute meetings.
The senate bill to ratify and confirm an
| agreement with the Muskogee Cor Creek) ma
| ton of Indians to the Indian Territory,
opening the settlement unassigned lands in
| the Indian Territory, the consideration be-
ing S2,2SO, S5T, passed the senate to-day
HoUsE.-In the house today MIR Mills,
from the committee on ways and means, re-
! ported back the Mills tariff bill with the SEN
ate amendment and, by direction of the
I speaker, it was referred to the committee of
the whole. Mr.. Mills also reported the fol-
/ lowing resolution, which he said presented a
question OF privilege and the consideration
OF which, he said, he would ask tho house to
enter upon Tuesday next:
/ That the substitution by the senate under
/ the form OF an amendment for the bill of the
! house, No. 9051 1.-THE Mills bills) of another
and different bill. containing a general reyi-
sion Of the laws, imposing impost duties and
internal taxes, is in conflict with the true in
I tent and purpose of section Z, article l. ofthe
I constitut ton; and that said bill be returned
/ to the senate with the respectful suggestion
! that said section vests in the house of repre-
! sentatiyes the sole power to originate such a
| measure.
The committee at its meeti ng to-day prac-
III l1xyl r. ,rloI I.
| estimated reductionin the revenues of about
| $50, 100000. After reading the report on
1 the senate tariff bill, submitted to day, the
committee took for consideration revenue
reduction bill offered by Mr.. McNiilln of
| Tennessee. The bill is substantially the
same as the Mills BILL
Saturday, Feb. 16.
SENATE -Senator Davis introduced a bill
/ IN the Senate Tor the relief of James Healy, of
| Minnesota, for $466 %, for balance due him
on a mail contract.
| HoUsE.-The house took up the postoff1ce
! bill. Mr.. Holman offered an amendment pro-
| viding that the aggregate salaries ofpost-
/ office clerks as fixed by the new classification
shall not exceed the sum appropriated by
the bill Csc, 55O,0O0.) The amendment was
4 adopted after a brief debate in which Mr.
! Peters (Rep.) of Kansas characterized the
civil service law as the froth of political econ
omy, the morass of political honesty and the
/ excelsior of political hypocrisy Mr.. Kerr of
| Iowa moved to strike out the clause
relative to assistant postmaster Adjourned
The ways and means committee reported
fayorably the following bill Of Mr.. Rice's.
amending section $780, of the Revised
Statutes: And the produce of the forest of
the State of Minnesota on the Rainey Lake
| river and the Lake of the Wood and their
tributaries, owned by American citizens and
1 sawed in the Provinces of Ontario and Man
itoba by American citizens, the same being
in part unmanufactured. shall be admitted
into the ports of the United States free of
duty, under such regulations as the secretary
OF the treasury shall from time to time pre-
scribe
Miss Brady's Elopement.