Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-01-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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| THE Senate transacted no business of gen.
| eral Importance on the 18th Several public
| buildings bills were reported. bill passed
| for a railroad bridge across the Missouri
river in Nebraska Senator Plumb addressed
the Senate on his resolution relating TO the
lease of certain islands in Alaska, and the
Senate adjourned upon being notified OF the
proceedings in the House regarding the death
of Representative Kelley..-.In the House a
report was made by the committee inyesti-
eating the Silcott defalcatiOn and bill
offered appropriating $4,000 TO cover the
defalcation. A minority report was also SUBJ
mitted. Under the call of States many bills
and resolutions were offered The Okla
bOma ToWnsite bill was then considered in
Committee of the Whole until adjournment
IN the Senate on the l4th the bill to declare
trusts and combinations in restraint OF trade
unlawful was reported and placed on the
calendar. The remainder of the session was
occupied in debating Senator Calls resolu-
ton in relation to the claims of Florida I'M
der the swamp land grant, in which Senators
Call, Plumb and Dolph took part. After the
Introduction of several bills the House re-
fused to go into Committee of the Whole on
the Oklahoma Townsite bill, but considered
the bill apprOpriating $4,000 to cover the
SIcott defalcation. No action was reached
before adjournment.
IN the Senate on the 18th Senator Sherman
National bank circulation. The Senate then
took up Senator MOrgan's resolution recog-
nizing the United States of Brazil and Sena-
tor TuTpie spoke at length in support of it.
The resolution went over. Several bills
passed, among them the bill relating to
homesteads in the Indian Territory for the
settlement of claims of the State of Missouri
for payment to militia during the rebellion,
and authorizing the construction of bridge
over the Missouri river within one mile of
the mouth of the Kansas river. The House
resumed consideration of the bill appropri-
ating SIS 900 to reimburse members who lost
by the Silcott defalcation, and when a vote
was reached the bill was defeated by 126 yeas
to 142 nays. The House then adjourned.
IN the Senate on the 10th Senator Hale
reported adversely the bill requiring the
Superintendent of the Census to ascertain
what percentage of the people owned their
farms, the number of farms under mortgage
and amount. Senator Buffers bill to provide
for the emigration of colored people then
came up and Senator Butler addressed the
Senate in support of it and was replied to by
Senator Hoar. Adjourned until Monday.
The whole session of the House was occupied
in talk upon resolution in regard to locat-
ing the Worlds Fair in 1892, the fight being
one between the East and the West
The friends of each section were so near equal
that the House reached no definite result be-
fore adjournment.
THE Senate was not in session on the 18th.
THE House again took up the pending
question at adjournment, the motion to re- |
consider the vote on the substitute for the |
report on the Worlds Fair location. The mo- |
ton to table prevailed by IA to 142, and the |
original motion for a select committee to be |
called the Worlds Fair Committee prevailed. |
The House then considered in Committee of |
The Whole the Oklahoma Townsite bill until |
adjournment.