Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-01-18

| fishing hospital at Hot Springs, Ark, to
| which all disabled ex-union soldiers shall
be admitted under proper recommends
tons.
| POSTAL TELEGRAPH.
Senator Dawes offered resolution, which
was agreed to- calling on the postmaster
! general for information as to the proposed
connection of the postoffice department
/ with the telegraph companies, and as to the
probabIe cost of erection of a government
| Independent telegraph line between st.
L outs, Chicago, Philadelphia and New York.
PAY OF SUPERVISORS.
The senate then took up the amendment
to the census act to increase the pay OF su-
pervisors from $500 to 81 ,O0). Passed.
PENSIONS FOR THE HELPLESS.
A bill to increase to So Ter month the
pensions of certain soldiers and sailors who
are totally helpless from in uries received
or from disease contracted while in the ser
vice of the United States was passed by the
senate.
NEW HOUSE BILLS.
The following bills were introduced IN
the house:
To regulate and limit the charges of ez
press companies.
To create additional courts In the lndlan
territory.
tary reservation.
Requesting the executive departments to
change the extradition laws with Great
Britain so that persons charged with grand
larceny and embezzlement may be extra
dIted from Canada.
By lane of Illinois: To prevent the con-
traction of the currency: so for gradu-
ate income tax: also to tax trusts; also to
ascertain the amount of mortgage lndebt-
edpess Of the farmers of the United States.
By Mr.. Springer, of Illinois: For the adj
mission Of Ari ona, Idaho, New Mexico
and Wyoming into the union as stat's.
building at Parsons, Kan; also to divide
Kansas into two j1d cial districts; also for
the free coinage of gold and silver.
By Mr.. Hand, of Misso ri: l ooking to
the imposition of an income tax for the
payne Mt of pensions; also for the free coin
age of silver; also limiting the CO mage of
the double eagle.
By Mr.. Sm tn, of Arizona: For the ad-
mission of Arizona; also for the reclama-
ton of desert lands.
By Mr.. Breckenridge, of Kentucky: For
the erection of monument to Zach lay
lor.
OKLAHOMA TOWN SITES.
Mr.. Perkins, of Kansas, from the COM
mlttee on territor es, reported back the bill
providing for townsite entries in Oklahoma.
Printed and recommitted.
EMIGRATION or BLACKS.
Senator Morgan addressed the senate at
length on the bill introduced toy Senator
Butler, to provide for the emigration OF
persons of color from the southern states.
He favored The bill He had reached the
conclusion that there was a natural incon-
gruity and an irrepressibie conflict between
the races which nothing could cure except
their final separation. The return of the
negro race to Africa was the final and
only solution to the problem. In the Congo
basin are found the best types of the Afri-
can race, and the American negro would
find there field for his efforts, There were
grand possibilities there for the American
negroes.
He saw no chance for change of feeling
of aversion existing against the blacks In
this country: nor an opportunity for adj
vancement open to them here. He looked
forward to the establishm Mt of free re-
publican government in the Congo region
by the influence of American negroes who
would thus be the Iedeemers and regenera-
tors of their fatherland.
BLOCKS OF FIVE.
Senators Voorhees, and Edmunds dis
cussed a resolution offered by the former
on a previous day. which called for inform
alton regarding the charges made against
W. W. Iudley, of Indiana, of bribery in
the last federal election. The resolution,
as amended by Senator Edmunds, was
adopted, 81 to 81. 1t reads:
THAT the attorney general be andis here
by instructed to inform the senate what in
structions, if any, the department of justice
has given to S. n. Chambers, district attor-
ney for the district of Indiana, on the SUBJ
ject of the arrest of W. w. Dudley or his
exemption from arrest; and by what au-
thority of law any such instructions have
been given: end that copies of all such or
respondence be transmitted to the senate"
The FIRST BILL PASSED BY THE SENATE.
The house considered the District of Col
umbia appropriation bill in committee of
the whole, and after striking out the clause
requiring electric light wires to be placed
under ground: also the clause authorizing
the commissioners of the district to impose
q license fee of s. 5 year against any per-
son or corporation, for each telegraph or
telephone pole, the comm: ttee rose and the
bill was passed.
NO INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN.
The vice pes dent laid before the senate a
communication from AttOl ney General Mil
Ter in responsa to resolution. The attorney
general stated that no instructions, oral or
written, have teen civen to District Attor-
ney S. n. Chambers on the subject of the
arrest of w. W. dudley, nor has any COM
munication been sent by the department of
justice TO the district attorney of Indiana,
nor has any been received by him with
rel erence to the sub ect. The communica-
ton was referred to the committee on the
judiciary.
sNAGs IN THE MISSOURI.
On motion of Senator Vest Joint reso-
luton was passed Apr priatlng $4,000
for the removal of distractions to naviga-
ton in the Missouri river between st. Joseph
and the mouth.
ADJOURNMENT.
The senate having adjourned from Thurs
day to Monday, January Ii. the house, on
Friday. adjourned for the day as a mark of
respect TO- Will am d. kelley. whose death
was announced. His desk was draped, and
adorned with a simple boluet of white
flowers.