The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-07-18
CONGRESSIONAL.
A Resume Of the Proceedings
It Congress During the
Past Week.
SENATE.

on commerce OF tho senate to urge that his
bill for the improvement OF Hay luke chan.
+ mel and for finishing the lock ut the Sault
OF some equivalent measure, he incorporat.
ed into the general river and harbor bill.
Senator Washburn presented q resolution
BY Washinton camp No. l OF the Patriotic
Order Of the Sons Of America, deprecating
tho use OF the American flag for selfish ends,
&. such as for advertising purposes and the
like. The resolutions favor national legisla.
ton to prevent this.
Representative LAWS introduced bill pro.
viding for appointments by the president OF
q commission, consisting of five persons. to
have an impartal and thorough investga-
ton Of social vices in oil its phases, in rela.
ton to labor and wages, marriage and di.
vorce and the general welfare Of the people.
The report based on the investigation
made FOR irrigation in the Dakotus will soon
ton OF 1880, 900 tor the nrtcsan investiga-
ton and experimental work, and the
allotment for the Dnkotas of $4,000.
The report will further show that in the
DaEotas the commission examined Il number
OF wells, the pressure per square inch. the
number oil acres served, The area in the Dn.
kotas examined by the agents embraces
about 141 900 square miles.
SENATE.
Mr.. Morgan introduced n bill (Which was
referred I o the committee on public lnnds)
providing that no person shall enter any OF
the public lands of the United States in Wy
oming under the homestead or other laws
who is n bigamist or polygamist, or who
teaches, counsels, aids or encourages Others
to enter into bigamy or polygamy, or WHO'S
amember of any association that teaches
polygamy.
A conference was ordered on the agricul.
tural Appropriation bill, and Messrs. Plumb.
~Farwell dnd Cdr were appointed conferecs
on the part of the senate. The consi1era.
tion of the bill for he admission of Idaho us
state was resumed. and Mr.. Nunce ad.
dressed the senate in opposition to it.
At the close of MIR. Vance Il speech, tho bill
was passed without a division.
The house bill to confirm the title 10 Ger
tain lands in Sault Ste. Marie was reported
aud passed.
The house resumed the consdera ton of the
federal election bill, the pending amendment
being that offered by Mr. l.ehlbach. of New
Jersey, providing that the chietsupervisor of
election for each judicial district OF the Unit.
ed States shall take. such action as is rcquis
lite to secure such supervision in every con
gressiona district is provided by the laws of
the United States. The amendment, was
lost, yeas 32 nays 1873 Pending the discus.
sion, the House adjourned.
SENATE.
M. Plumb, from the committee on public
lands. reported the senate bill to provide for
the delivery OF land patents to their rightful
owners aud asked Tor its immediate consid-
Grafton.
Statements were made by Mressrs Plumb
Paddock and Berry, to the effect that there
were nome $50, O00land patents accumulated
In the general land office for which those en-
titled to them had not applied; that n
thrifty firm of Washington attorneys had
been permitted to have lists made OF them
that they had then communicated with the
persons entitled to them, notifying them
that they could yet their patents on pay
memt OF II certain fee lin one case $25 was
then made $50), that this wis an net OF col.
fusion between the assistant commissioner
(who was then the assistant secretary of the
interior, acting US commissioner and this
law firm, and the bill was designed to frus-
trate that job. The bill was then passed.
HOUSE.
The house resumed the consideration of the
federal election bill.
The conferrees on the silver bill met and
spent an hour in discussing the differences
between the two houses. The house
coiilerre-a brought to the meeting n COPY
Of the bill rs it passed that body, and tlis
formed the basis OF whatever discussion took
placf. A great portion OF the time, one OF
the conferrees said, was spent in general
talk upon the subject, with no definite prom
osition batore them. Tho conference is said
to have been satisfactory in its tone ana
tendency to the members.