The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-01-31
NATIONAL CAPITAL.

INV oOCIO'dIy VI GlIo treasury mas
transmitted to the house letter rec.
ommending increase of the limit of cos'
Of public buildings as follows: Los
Angeles, $25 1000; Sacramento, $15O, 900
Carson City, New, $4,000.
The senate committee on finance con.
tinued consideration of Senator Sher.
mans bill to declare trusts unlawful
Alter adopting several amendments
which do not affect the principle or scope
OF the measure, the committee ordered a
favorable report to be made to the senate
In the senate Hale, from the census
committee, reported back adversely the
bill to require the superintendent of the
census to ascertain what percentage oi
the people own their farms, the number
OF farms under mortgage and the amount
thereof.
Senator Mitchell's bill appropriatine
$3.50, 900 for public building at The
Dalles, and Senator Dolph's Iill appro-
priating $l01, 900 for public building al
Salem. have been agreed to bv the COM
mittee on public buildings and grounds,
and will be reported favorably without
amendment.
The senate committee on pensions has
unanimously directed Chairman Da is
to report the dependent bill. The title of
the bill reads as follows: ga bill grant
ing pensions to soldiers and sailors who
are incapacitated for the performance of
labor, and providing for pensions to
their widows, minor children and de-
peLdent parents"
Merriam, from the finance committee,
'eported the concurrent resolution re-
questing the secretary of the treasury not
to make a new lease of the island of St.
Paul snd St. George, IN Alaska, for the
purpose of taking fur-seals therefrom,
and to postpone all action in relation
1892; passed.
In communication sent to the senate,
the third auditor of the treasury recon-
mends that $925, 900 be allowed the state
of California for moneys expended in sup
pressing Indian hostilities prior to 1854
The state, the third auditor says, issued
bonds for this purpose, and he recon-
mends that the government take up the
bonds and pay the interest. Payment of
$33, 900 on account of the Humb boldt In
dian expedition and of S., ,444 for ex oenses
incurred in the Modoc war is also re, om-
mended.
Secretary Windom's call for 10 per
cent. of the amount of public moneys
held by national hanks has expired.
Only Is banks ont of 80 called upon have
responded. The amount surrendered,
however, is far in excess of the amount
held bp them, and a number Of others
surrendered all the above amount neces-
sary for the transaction of current public
business. The total amount of bonds
purchased to date in liqu uation of these
deposits is $6, I'll 500. The future course
of the department in this matter will be
determined in a lew days
Senator Mitchell has introduced bill
which legalizes the testimony taken
before either a register or receiver of a
land office, if either official is dead, sick
or unable to be present at the hearing
The secretary of the interior will not
approve land claims under the law as it
now stands. The senator's attention
was called to the matter by the death OF
one of the officers of the land Office at La
GraDde, Or, where about fifty proofs
were made before a single officer, but
they cculd not be perfec ed on account of
the vacancy. The law is designed to
cover this case, but applies to the whole
country.
The resolutions heretofore offered in
relation to the alleged unlawful selections
of land in Florida were taken up, and
Call addressed the senate. The burden
of his remarks was that lands which
were not swamp or overfowed, but
which were fit for cultivation, had been
selected under the swamp land act, to the
injury of the peoples right He asserted
,at 2 100, 900 acres had been selected
and approved in all the states as swamp
and overfowed lands, while everybody
knew there was no such extent of terri
tory-as large as Europe consisting oi
swamp and overflowed lands. Of over
| I6. .OOO, 600 acres which had passed in
Florida, under the SWAMP and overfowed
land act he asserted that IL .0O0, 900 were
high and dry.
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