Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-03-07


Agreed to. The house till to divide
portion of the Sioux reservation in
Dakota, was taken up, read, amended and
passed. Regular business was susP pended,
and Senators Cockrell, Ingalls,, Voorhees,,
Hale, Hampton, Coke and Vest delivered
brief eulogies, after which the resolution
was adopted and the senate adjourned.
HOUSE, Mr.. Bland, of Missouri,
through dilatory tactics, accomplished
his object in multiplying tbs order assign
ing one hour to the consideration of
measures called up by unanimous con
sent, and it was eleven O'CLOCK before any
business could be transacted. The re-
mainder of the day was consumed in the
discussion of contested election cases,
TUESDAY, Feb. 20.
SKNArE-rhe committee on public
lands reported back the senate bill VETOED
by the pres1dent), for the relief of VIM.
r. Wheaton and Charles II. Chamberlain,
with she recomm endgtion that the bill
pass. Ser. Dolph made an explanation
claiming the presidents objections were
made under a misapprehensIon OF them.
The bill to reimburse parties formerly
register and receiver OF the land office in
California;, for clerk hire paid by them,
was called up. The vote resulted-yeas
As, nays g. two-thirds having voted in The
affirmative the bill passed. The resolu.
ton offered yesterday by Sen. Sabin, call.
ing on the s. cretary of the interior for
statement of his action toward discOn
tinuing certain United States land
officers, was taken up and agreed to.
The house amendment TO the senate bill,
granting a pension of 500 month to
the widow of Major General Fitzpatrick,
was agreed TO. The amendment reduces
the rate to $75. The senate then resum-
Cd consideration of the army appropria-
tion bill.
HoUsE.-Mr. Sayers, of Texas, read a
letter which Mr.. Scott of Pennsylvania
received from Col. Lamont, stating that
when he accepted the position of private
secretary to the president he had full
knowledge of the pay attached TO it. Be
preferred not to be beneficiary to retrac-
tory legislation, and he therefore asked
the committee to recede from its amend
meut appropriating $4,000 for his benefit.
Mr.. Sayers asked leave to strike out the
amendment, but Mr.. Hayes, of 10 VA, OBJ
jected. An amendment was adopted di-
recting the attorney general to report to
the 5lst congress the legal status of the
two per cent. claims of Illinois and In
diana The committee then arose and
the bill passed, the Lamont amendment
being elimina ed. The conference re-
port on the pension appropriation bill
was presented and agreed to. The house
then went into committee of the whole
on the Indian appropriation bill.
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 81.
SENArE.--The senate conference report
on the agricultural bill was presented
and agreed to. Sen. Plat, from the
committee on territories, reported two
bills for the formation and admission of
the states of Idaho and Wyoming, and
said that az soon as the bills were printed
he would ask for their consideration.
Sen. Hoar, from the committee on
privileges acd election reported an
amendment to the deficiency bill (which
was referred to the committee on apprO-
priations), appropriating $4,000 to
enable the president of the United STATES
TO offer as reward for the arrest and
conviction of persons who illegally
carried away and destroyed the ballot
boxes at Plumerville, Ark, at the last
election for the representatives in con
gress and for presidential electors. He
stated that it was the majority report, the
minority dissenting. The conference
report on the bill authorizing the con
struction of a wagon bridge across the
Missouri river near Sioux City, Iowa, was
presented and agreed to. Adjourned.
HoUsE,-UpOn motion of MIR. Adams,
of Illinois, the bill was passed for the
relief of the widow of Col Arnoy0F5. Mr..
Allen, of Michigan, called up the bill
increasing to S150,O00 the limit of the
cost for the public building at Winona,
Milan, but pending action the hour for
the consideration of business by unani-
nous consent exp ired. The house then
went into committee of the whole on the
Indian APPROPRIATION bill. The presi-
dent has signed the bill pensioning Mrs.
Sheridan and retiring Gen. Rosecrans.
The senate amendment apprOpriatlng
81, 1872, 600 to gay the Seminole Indians
for lands in Indian Territory eeded 20 the
United States, was agreed 10. The land
acquired -2, OBJ 600 acres--is made open
20 settlement under the homestead law.
THURSDAY, Feb Is.
SENArE.-Amoug bills passed to-day be
tho senate we're the following: Senayt
bill granting right Of way 10 the Foresl
City g. Wstertown railroad company
through the Sioux Indian reservation;
senate bin granting right of way through
Lake Leoeh and White Earth Indian
reservations to the Duluth d Winnipeg
railroad company; the senate bill grant
ing right of way through the Devils Lake
Indian reservation in DAKOTA to the
jamestown Il Northern railroad com pany.
HuUsE.-Senator Bowen, to day, intro
duced the proposed amendment to the
Indian appropriation bill to ratify and
confirm the agreement made in Novem-
Der last with the Southern of Indians OF
Colorado, and appropristing S80,500 to
carry out the provisions of this agreement.
Representative Burnett, OF Massachusetts,,
who was threatened with a serious attack
of pneumonia, is now regarded as out of
danger. There are two members of the
Tennessee delegation who are too i'll to
attend the sessions of the house. OLe of
these, Whittbone, has not been present
this winter.
FRIDAY, March /.
SENATE The conference 5epor5 on the
bill TO divide that portion of the Sioux
reservation in Dakota icto separate