Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-01

nren at the Holy Family Indian school at
me Blackfeet agency, Mont. At 3 O'Clock
.he tariff bill came up as unfinished bust
ness and was laid aside. After further
discussion on Indian schools a vote was
taken aud the amendments reiected-yeas.
~; nays, ~. So the items for the schools
a. RENSSELAER,, Ind; Banning, Cal, and
biackfeet agency, Mont, are re-
1s,.ed in the bill. Senator
fettlnrew offered an arnndmen
ap.propriating $45, 900 for the San, ee tribe
OF Sioux Indians located at Flandreau. s.
~, being the allowance of 81 m acre for
tne land to which they are entitled in the
elon1 reservation. Agreed to. On motion
OF Senator PettiRrew an item Of $50, 600
was inserted for thirty school buildings for
ING Sioux Indians; also an item to paw the
Indians of the Standing Rock and
cheyenne river agencies for ponies
taken from them in 1876. On mo.
ton of Senator Power the item for
ths school building at the Blackfeet
agency, Mont, was amended by fixing the
limit at $25,00 The bill was Then re-.
ported to the senate and all the amend
merits agreed 10 by the committee of the
Whole concurred in and the bill passed.
Senator Voorhees,, by request Of the labor al
lance, introduced a bill to secure constitu-
tlonal rights and freedom Of trade, speech
an press within the limits of the public.
AMI asked that in view of the respectable
so1rce from which it emanated, that it be
printed in full in the Record. Senator
Sherman objected to its being printed in
the Record as unusual. Senator Voor-
hees-Ihe alliance will take notice of the
objection and where it came from. After
executive session the senate adjourned.
IL the house on the Oath, after q short
parliamentary wrangle the house proceeded
tovote upon the committee amendments
to the bankruptcy bill. These amend
msnt ore principally verbal and informal
intheir character. After they had been
Opposed of an amendment was adopted
enforcing the laws Of the states giving
TO- labor a preference. A vote was then
TAKEN on the minority substitute, which is
Known as the voluntary bankruptcy bill. "
his was disagreed to-yeas, "a; nay, 1875.
lie Torrey bankruptcy bill was then
ye.s, III; nays, "a. Adjourned.
presented 3 memorial from the headquar-
tels of the G.. A. R., expressing abhor-
renee at the action of congress in allowing
pension agents a fee of $40 in each case
under the recent dependent pension act
and inclosing a circular of q Washington
claims attorney offering to receive men in
all localities ct one-half the fee in all
cases sent to him. Senator Cockrell
presented q memorial from st.
Louis protesting against the passage
by the senate Of the federal election
bill. Other memorials against the bill
wee presented from Adrian, Mich. The
ho1se bill on that subject was, on motion
of Senator Hoar, referred to the commit
tee on privileges and elections. Senator
Sherman offered a resolution instructlng
the committee on printing to report
whether any abuses exist in printing mat
ter in the Congressional Record that
ought not to be printed therein, and to re
pot such bill or regulation as will limit
such printing to the actual proceedings in
in Doth houses; also whether it is expedi.
entto edit the debates of congress by the
omission Of such parts as are immater:al,
and OF such papers as are already printed
as public documents. The resolution wa
referred to the committee on printing.
Senator Morrill, moved to proceed to con.
sideration of the tariff bill, and Senator
Gray antagonized that motion with on
to resume consideration of the house bill
to transfer the revenue marine service
to she navy department. The latter mo
ton was agreed to and the revenu'
marine bill was taken up. Amend
nents were adopted extending tn
application of the bill to he Hfe-savinI
service. Senator Cockrell spoke against
the bill. He had not concluded his re
marks when the hour of l o'clock arrived
and the tariff bill came up as unfinished
j ..:---. III. n~~oa l;-- 20 Az LII
was dispensed with and Senator Vance
then proceeded to address the senate
Senator Allison defended the senate from
of appropriation bills. After a lengthy
discussion the senate adjourned.
In the house, on the 25th, Mr. Cannon,
of Illinois, from the committee on appro,
priations. reported the sundry civil servic.
appropriation bill with senate amendments
with certain recommendations relativ,
thereto. On q point of order raised by Mr.
Breckenridge, of Kentucky, the bill wa
sent to committee of the whole, and Mr.
Cannon moved that the house go into sucl
committee for its consideration. Ate
some opposition the motion carried, and
the house proceeded to its discussion unit
the hour for recess. Nothing was done al
the evening session.
In the senate on the 26th, Senator Cul'
lon offered a resolution, which was agreed
to, requesting the president to transmit t.
the senate all the correspondence not al
ready submitted to congress and now OF
file in the state department, touching tn,
efforts made by the government to obtail
a modification or the repeal of the decree
of the French government Of 1881, pro
hibiting the importation into France
of American pork and kindred Ameri'
can products. The tariff bill wa
then discussed. On motion of Senate,
Wilson, of Iowa, the house amendment tt
the original package bill was non-concur'
red in and a conference ordered. The bill
passed granting a pension of $4,000 q yea
10 the widow of the late Gen. Crook. Bill
also passed giving like pensions to Mrs
Fremont and Mrs. Mcclellan. Adjourned
In the house on the 26th Mr.. Mckinley
from the committee on rules, reported
resolution directing the speaker to appoin
o O mmittee of five members to Investigate
tbs charges brought against Pension Com
missioner Raum by Representative
Cooper, of Indiana. Adopted. Th'
house then went into committee O.
the whole on the senate amendments to tn
sundry civil appropriation bill. After thu
speaker had appointed conferrees on tn
original package bills-the committe'
having risen for that purpose-the senat
amendments to the sundry civil bill wer
read se,iatim. Non-concurrence wa
rooo,, mande1 in several. and the commit