The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1890-06-04
Northwest Bills that Have Be-
come Laws and Others
Still on the Calendar.
A Massachusetts, Expert Attacks the
Sugar Schedule in the Me-
Kinlsy Bill.
Public Debt Statement for the month
of May---The River and
Harbor Bill.


NAhbiSufoNs Jun@ =
The house calendar ms IT stands to-day
has I55 bills on the general hst. II
has 1856 more on the list 10 be considered
by tho COMMITTEES of the whole on the state
OF the union, exclusive of al public
building bills, and the private calendar OF
pension aud relief bills, numbers 755.
There are six bills under this head OF un-
finished business, and two contested elec-
ton cases, which are privileged reports.
A glance through the calendar shows that
the northwest has comparatively few i'm
porant measures on the calendar. The
new states have secured legislation enough
to put them In good shape as full hedgsd
states. They have their court
and land districts established,
and in about all cases the newly
created Offices have been filled. II is
no small work to have passed the bills
necessary to transform the machinery Of
territories to that OF states. The bills
which call for reimbursement FOR holding
the constitutional conventions for the Da-
kotas and Washington are oil on the house
calendar. Montana is waiting for an item
lied statement. There is little doubt that
all these bills will be passed. Montana
has been foftunate In having secured most
Of the measures wanted, except public
buildings, and there are not not on the
house calendar many bills OF exclusively
local interest TO that state. On the gen.
erai calendar are the bills granting right Of
way TO the Montana Mineral Railway COM
pany 20 effect entrance to Cook
City, and setting aside tract of
land near the headwaters. Of the Yellow
stone as park. Washington has more
biils on the calendar, although its state
machinery Is fully set going. The separate
bills introduced for river and harbor inn
proyements for the two states were, of
course, incorporated in the river and har-
Dor bin or killed In the committee room,
The Washington bills ON the calendar are
appropriations for thu eonsfrausEon of =
lighthouse on North Head, Cape Disap-
pointment, Washington state; to restore
telegraphic communication between Sa-
toosh island and Port Angeles In WASH
ington; 10 authorize the secretary OF
war to issue ordnance stores IN pay |
ment of stores borrowed by Oregon dur
ing the Nez Perces war; reorganixing the |
customs district of Puget sound. The |
bin granting the right-of- way to the Port
land & Puget Sound Railway company |
aud for other purposes IL No. 90 on the |
general house calendar. North Dakota |
bills ON the calendar are: To ratify the |
agreement with the Fort Berthold Indians
and authorizing the secretary of the inter-
ior TO negotiate with the Turtle mountain
Indians for the cession of their lands. |
Bills of interest to both Dakotas are those
to ratify and eonfrm the agree
ment with the Sisseton and Wahpeton |
Indians and authorizing the survey of |
the boundary line between the Dakotas |
and TO establish q customs district con-
sisting Of North and South Dakota. There |
are several South Dakota btlls on the list, |
though,not of spcciai importance. -6ue t
authorizes the,city of Aberdeen to purchase |
lands which have long been in dispute. |
Another authorizes the secretary of the IN |
terror to ascertain damages resulting to |
persons who settled on the Grow Greek |
and Winnebago reservations in 1885. Few |
bills purely local TO Minnesota are on the |
calendar, one recently reported by Mr. |
comstock TO provide for carrying out |
the agreement with the Chippewa |
Indians being pretty well down on |
the list. The Son canal bill, which |
has passed the senate, lie No. I36 on the |
general calendar. There are three bridge |
bills on this list, one authorizing the Du- |
Iuth, Red Wing a sonthern to bnild a
bridge over the Mississippi at st. Paul and |
one at Hastings. 1t Is uninteiesting TO |
study the senate calendar, for il Is an easy
matter 10 secure the passage Of local
measure In that body. The iron-clad rule
which gives each bill les own place meits
under the warm rays of senatorial cpur-
legy Tharn have haen introduced In the
house over 1900 bills this session. Sew
eral thousand have never come ont Of the
committee room, and never win.