New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-03-26
.Dl[OINGS OF CONgR} ES|S
Whatour National Lawmakers
Have Been Doing the
Past Week.

Past Week.
SENATE.
The Republican mem bers OF the Senate
committee on privileges and elections met to-
4 agree upon the report to be presented to- The
tSenate on the Montana election case. Mr.
| Hoar has been busy writing the report since
/ the cammittee agreed a week ago to make q
| report favorable to the Republican contest
| ants The report was presented to the Re-
publican members and some alterations.
were made at the suggestion of ona,or other
OF those present.
| HOUSE.
/ There has been some delay In the.bill grant
| ing right of way across the Fort Penn bipa
reservation TO the Duluth & Manitoba road
| The bill has been amended by the committee
on military affairs so as to provide that the
road must be built i'll three years. The uoad
| has been built for three years, and was re-
! commended by Gen. Sheridan
The bridge bill for the Missouri. 1ixer at
! Pierre, after being buffeted about between
/ house and senate. was finally disposed of, the
i house concurring in the SENATE amendments.
t The.house also passed the bill aut horizing the
/ Oregon and Washington Bridge company to
construct bridge across the Columbia river
between Oregon and Washington.
SENATE
| Senator Squire introduced a. bill, appropri-
attn e 900 to be expended annually Tor
/ the maintenance and equipment of two fast
steam launches for service on Puget sound
/ The object OF the bill is to prevent small
craft in the sound fom landing Chinese and
contraband goods.
| Senator Daniels spoke infavor of the edu-
cationai bill. Mr.. Morgan. opposed the bill.
/ 1T was a bill for double tax alton, which would
compel some states to tax themselves more
than they We're now doing for the benefit Of
public education. He did not like the idea of
congress forcing the people of Alabama to
tax themselves, as they would have to do at
the close OF the term of the bill, So, 900, 900 a
! year for all such expenditures OF his state
| government. Mr.. Blair denied that the South
ern states would be culled upon under the bill
to increase their taxation.
HOUSE.
With the exception of one section, the
worlds fair bill is, ready to report to the
! house This section, however is not in q
| fair way to be disposed OF easily. It con-
Germs the financial plan ON which tho fair is
to be conducted, and it caused long con-
troversv.
Mr.. Morrill, of Kansas introduced bill pro.
riding for a service pension of So per month
/ to certain soldiers OF the late war aud their
widows. Its enactment into a law will place
! 100000 additional pensioners on the rolls at
once and about 81, 900 each year thereafter
Senator Ingalls, introduced q bill providing
that soldier who has lost both eyes or one
arm and one leg may get married tany time
he may so desire to some one to take care of
him, and at his death the soldiers widow
shall receive $12 a month as long as
she remains single. If the soldiers wife re-
fuses to live with and care for him he may,
after her absence OF six months, procure q
divorce from any comfy courtnpon payment
of IS.
Senator Pierce Of North Dakota surprised
the senator's by making a good speech in OPP
| position to the Blair bill
Senator Pettigrew expects to pass bill
separating South Dakota from Nebraska
and making it a separate collection district
for internal revenue, North: Dakota. to be ut.
tached to the southern twin.
HOUSE,
i The Mudd-Compton election case was ar-
I gued in the house, but no vote was taken.
| The house committee on agriculture Or
1 dered favorable report on the Conger bill
defining and taxing compound lard, with
/ some amendments
The house committee on public lands decid-
1 ed to report favorably Representative Com
stocks bill for the relief of settlers on the in
| demnity lands OF the Northern Pacific road.
! Some amendments were made which do not
/ in the least change the general effect of the
/ bill, being in the wording of the measure.
| W here settlers have lived on the indemnity
lands in good faith they may select other
lands by making a showing sufficient for
| final proof, and lands selected by them from
I government land may pass to patent. They
/ are required to select the lands in as compact
form as possible Where the claimant is dead
his widows or heirs become beneHciaries OF
the act.
SENATE.
The senate passed the bill to authorize the
secretary of the interior to survey and mark
the seventh standard parallel between the
States OF North and South Dakota.
The senate bill appropriating $40 900 for
penitentiary in the State al North Dakota
was passed by the senate
Senators Teller and Dawes came to the
rescue OF the government to-day against the
charges that it had robbed the Indians at
Turtle mountain of their valuable lands, and
is now looking on while they st arve and
freeze to death in the rlgors of North
Dakota winter. The amendment appropri-
| ating IS, 600 for their relief was adopted on
the ground that it was better to feed q
thousand worthless squatters from Mantle.
ba than to allow few of this governments
| wards to die of hunger and cold.
HOUSE.
The bill to repeal the timber culture act,
the pryisions of which have been heretofore
| published. was up in the house. It is CON-
bination Of bills introduced by Hansbrongh
| OF North Dakota and Picker of South Dako-
| ta All the new state men arein favor of its
| repeal.
! bill was introduced in the house by Mr.
Gest OF Illinois granting bounty of $50 to
| all soldiers and sailors of the late war who
served in the volunteer service for not less
than ninety days and who were honorably
discharged.
y SENATE.
The senate committee on Indian affairs
instructed Senator Pettigrew TO report favor
| ably his bill for the relief of settlers on the
Grow Creek reservation who lost the lands
| settled upon by revocation of the order Of
President Arthur; also to favorably report
his bill appropriating $4,000 for an Indian
farm ut Pierre. S. d.
The Blair educational Gill is thing of the
past. so far as this session is concerned, ex-
scept that Blair will have an opportunity to
move reconsi 1eration OF the vote by which
it was killed. There Was rejoicing even among
1.-the men who voted for the bill under a Med ora