The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-11
CONGRESSIONAL.
A Resume of the Proceedings
Of Congress During the
Past Week.
SENATE.


Mr.. Morgan introduced bill (Which Wa
referred to the committee on public ianosl
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 q bigamist or polygamist, or VINO
teaches, counsels, aids or encourages others
to enter into bigamy or polygamy, or WHO'S
member Of any association that teaches
pOlygamy.
A conference was ordered on the agricul.
tural appropriation bill, and Messrs. Plumb,
Farwel1 and Call were appointed conferees
on the part of the senate. The considera.
ton Of the bill for the admission of Idaho -
dressed the senate in opposition to it.
At the close of Mr.. Vance's speech. the bill
was passed without q division.
The house bill to confirm the title to Ger
tain lands in Sault Ste Marie was reported
and passed.
The house resumed the consideration OF the
federal election bill. the pending amendment
being that offered by Mr.. Lehlbach, OF New
Jersey. providing that the chiefsupervisor OF
election for each judicial district of the Unit.
ed States shall take such action as 10 requis-
lite to secure such supervision in every con.
gressional district is provided by the laws OF
the United States. The amendment was
lost, yeas 1872, nays 1873. Pending the discus
sion, Cne House ADJOURNED.
SENATE.
Mr. Plumb, from the committee on public
lands. reported the senate bill to provide for
the delivery OF land patents to their rightful
owners and asked Tor it's immediate consid-
GRAFTON.
Statements were made by Mressrs. Plumb,
Paddock and Berry, to the effect that there
were some csc, 900 land patents accumulated
in the general land Office for which those en-.
titled to them had not applied; that 9
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 conld get their patents on pay
memt OF Il certain fee lin one case $25 was
then made $5O), that this was an act OF col
fusion between the assistant commissioner
(who was then the assistant secretary of the
interior, acting as commissioner and this
law firm, and the bill was designed to frus-
trate that job. The bill was then passed.
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
conerrees brought to the meeting a copy
of the bill as it passed that body, and this
formed the basis OF whatever discussion took
place. A great portion OF the time, one OF
the conferrees said, was spent in general
talk upon the subject, with no definite prop
osition before them. The conference is said
to have been satisfactory in its tone ana
tendency to the members.
SENATE.
The conference report on the consular and
diplomatic appropriation bill was presented
and agreed to.
The senate bill to established United
States land court, and to provide for the
settlement of private land claims in the Ter.
ritories of New Mexico, Wyoming, Arizona
and Utah and in the States of Nevada and
Colorado, was, On motion of Mr.. Edmunds,
taken up and discussed, when it was laid on
the table without action and the considera-
ton of the two shipping bills, reported by
Mr.. Frye from the committee on commerce,
was resumed.
Mr.. Payson explained that tlf3 oil in it =
general provisions proposed the forfeit, and
restore to the public domain all public lands
wherever situated, which have been granted
in aid of the construction, where the rail
roads have not been completed at this time.
There had been, he said. 81 railroads aided
by acts OF congress, which had not been com.
pleted within the time fixed by congress.
Twelve of these roads had been forfeited,
comprising nearly $4,000. 900 acres That
left Is roads which had not been acted upon.