The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-02-14
CONGRESSIONAL.
Weekly Resume Of the Proceedings Ofths Senate
and House.


ed in both branches Of congress to-day and
considerable experimenting done, but no i'm
portant action was taken and the proceed
ings were uninteresting.
The president to-day transmitted to con-
gress for his approval and ratification
provisional agreement lately entered into
between the United States and the Greek In
dams by which the title andinterest in and to
alllands in the Indian Territory or elsewhere,
except such as are held and occupied as
homes are coded to the United States By
the agreement of the Creek nation coded to
the United States the title to the entire west
ern half of the domain of the nation, lying
west of the division line established by the
treaty Of 1866. The United States agrees to
pay to the Indians 50 $50, S57-$2SO, S57
to be paid to the national treasurer of the
nation and 81 100000 to remain in the
United States treasury to the credit of the
nation and bear interest at the rate of per
cent. The nation agreed to devote not less
than $4,000 annually for educational pur
poses.
HoUsE.-There was laid before the house to-
day report of the board of engineer
officers of an eXamin alton aud survey of the
present channel of the Mississippi river at the
Rock Island rapids, made with "a view ofits i'm
provements The board is OF opinion that
the most direct and feasible route for canal
from the herd Ofthe rapids to the upper part OF
Moline is i'll the river along the illinois shore.
ltwould be about ten and half miles long and
formed, as in the case ofthe Des MOines canal,
by embellishments in the river, with width OF
from 200 to 500 feet and depth at low water
increasing from & to II feet, having two
locks so feet wide and 325 feet long.
The house committee on Indian affairs
have another evening assigned to them for
tomorrow night and will make another eff
fort to get the Sioux bill through, but Mr..
Peel inclined to view the outlook as
rather hopeless. Hooker's obstnacy insist
the bill cannot be overcome, and the COM
mittee is little disposed to pass another bill
with this stumbling block contained therein.
Wednesday Feb. 6.
SENATE.-Senator Davis reported favor
ably from the senate committee on military
affairs bill granting the Big Horn Southern
railway right of way across the
Fort Custer military reservation in Montana
The report accompanying the bill quotes
extracts from the letter OF Col Dudley, COM
mandant OF the post, who endorses the bill,
showing how necessary the road was to the
the post, and that it's construction would
save the government much extra expenses
and loss of time in transportation of Indian
and military supplies.
Senator Sabin introduced a bill granting
the Duluth Winnipeg road right of way
through the White Earth and Leech Lake re-
servations in Minnesota He also introduced
bill granting the St. Paul, Minneapolis &
Manitoba road the right of way through the
same reservation. This is the branch road
which the Manitoba is constructing from
Crookston southwest to the interior of the
state, its purpose being to supply the eastern
portion of Dakota with lumber from the tim
bered portions of Minnesota.
HOUsE.-The house committee on terrific
ries held their regular meeting this morning
and took final action on the bill for the ad-
| mission OF Utah and the omnibus bill provid-
ing m enabling act Tor the admission OF the
Territories OfldahO, Wyoming and Arizona as
states of the Union. 1t was decided, although
| nOtunanimOusly, in regard to theUtah matter
| to appoint subcommittee of five members,
| with Representatives, rin ger as chairman. to
| draft a report to the effect that owing to the
| Iateness OF the session. it would be impossi-
| BILE to secure the passage of the pending bill.
Thursday. Feb. :.
| SENATE.-The conference report on the bill
| to incorporate the Maritime Canal Company
| OF Nicaragua was presented by Mr.. Sherman
| in the senate and agreed to The bill now
| goes to the president for his approval
The senate bill to provide for Writs of error
| or appeals to the supreme court ofthe United
| States in all cases involving the question of
| The jurisdiction of the courts below was
| passed by the senate
| joint resolution proposing an amend
| ment to the constitution declaring that the
| right TO vote shall not be abridged by the
| United States or any state on account of sex
| was taTorabiy reported by Senator Blair
( from the select committee on woman suf-
/ frage.
A bill introduced by Senator Daniel to-day
| provides that any American citizen over
| tWenty-one years of age, who shall have
| passed the civil service examination and have
| been found qualified, shall be furnished by
| the civil service commission with q certificate
of the fact and shall therenpQn be eligible to
| appointment to any position to which said
examination applies without further formal
| ity, if the quota of his state or territory is
| not already full.
| HOUsE-lnthe house Mr. Holman, for the
committee on public lands, reported back the
| senate bill providing that the public lands OF
| the United States now sub eCt to private en-
try, or adapted to and chiefly valuable for
| agriculture, shall be disposed ofaccording to
! the provisions of the homestead laws only.
An amendment was adopted repeating the
| communication clause of the homestead law.
MIR. Weaver showed disposition to object
| to the immediate consideration, bee ause he
regarded it's language as ambiguous. 1t did
not in terms repeal to the desert land and
timber culture laws Mr.. Holman gave as
surance that if any ambiguity existed it
| would be removed in conference. An amend
meHf was adopted allowing. persons who
have abandoned or relnquished their home
stead entries to make another entry. The
bill was passed.
Friday Feb. 8.
SENATE.-The senate passed the house bill
to quiet title to lands on the Des Moines
river in Iowa. The consideration of the bill
led to briefdiscussion, Senators Evarts and
Wilson of Iowa taking part. 1t was a bill
of this character passed by the last congress
that President Cleveland vetoed at the sng
| ecstiRn Of Benton ]. Hall, now commission
er OF patents, then member of congress
from the Des MoiDes district, and the only
Iowa member of congress who opposed or
vetoed against the bill.
The senate passed the legislature appropr-
alton bill. The pension appropriation bill
las to which there was q motion 0 reconsider
pending) was amended in relation to be
checks for pensions and to payments for por-
tions Of quarter up to the death of pen
sioner and tho hin was apain nasSn6 Tho