New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-04-16
CONGRESSIONAL.
4 Resume Of the Proceedings
Of Congress During the
Past Week.
SENATE.

SENATE.
By request Senator Ingalls, introduced
bill providing for system of banking by the
United States proposed by the Wage Work.
ers, alliance. 1t provides for the establish
ment OF an executive department of banking,
with secretary ut its head. The banking
for the people shall be done free of cost, ex-
eept such merely nominal lees as are neces-
sary to pay expenses. Branches shall be es-
tabllshed at postof6ces throughout the coun.
try.
BY party vote-7 to 5-the house com.
mlttee on the election of president and vice
PRESIDENT and representatives in congress
authorized afavorable report, with amend.
ments, and on the McComas bill to prevent
gerrymandering of congressional districts
Inc bill also provides that representatives to
the Fifty-second congress shall be elected
from the districts composed of the same
territory and having the same boundaries as
those from which the representatives in the
Fl:ty-tirst congress were elected.
SENATE.
The.senate committee ordered q favorable
report on the bill to correct the description
OF the land given to South Dakota for the
erection ofan insane hospital. The building
IS on the land described in the original
act.
Mr.: Evarts presented resolutions of the
New York Chamber OF commerce protesting
against the pending bill for census emu
meration of the Chinese
The senate considered further the Montana
election cases. Mr.. Vance spoke in favor of
the minority report, declaring Clark and
Maglnnis, the democratic claimants, entitled.
to their seats, He knew, he said that the
fat had gone forth. He knew that the Re
pupilcan claimants were to be seated. But
IN the wise regulation of the moral world
there was compensation for all things. Re-
publican senators would be sicker over the
thing before they We're done with it than he
was
A favorable report has been ordered on the
bill granting pension of $50 per month to
Mrs. Della Z. S. Parnell, daughter of the late
Admiral Charles Stewart and mother OF
Charles Stewart Parnell.
The house com mittee on public lands re.
ported favorably Picklers bill giving the
city OF Aberdeen, s. D., the disputed quarter
section near Aberdeen. The bill was amend
ed so as not to invalidate the rights of.claim.
ants Tor the land or prevent any other per-
son rom acquiring title pending a decision
IN the interior department.
SENATE.
The antitrust bill was taken up in the
senate. Mr.. Sherman said that while the bill
was not Ill that he wanted, he believed that
AZ " DO lit tstsU IuaI cOulQ De got and he
would therefore vote fori as it stood. It
was passed.
The secretary fthe interior transmitted
to the Senate lettess Of Commissioner of
Tensions Raum, recommending the increase
OF the number OF pension agents by two, in
view OF the increase of the work in the hands
OF agents, both present and prospective.
HOUSE. Ks
The house passed. after short sk;rmish.
the bill reported by Representative Hall.
from the committee on public lands restor-
Ing the public domain lands withdrawn fors
reservoir purposes on the head waters of the
mississippi and St. Croi1 rivers in Minnesota
and the Chippewa and Wisconsin rivers in
Wisconsin. $500
The bill to prevent the enlistment OF aliens
IN the naval service of the United States was
now in the service shall not be permitted to
re-enllst at the expiration of their present
term.
The bill introduced by Mr. Comstock was
passed granting to the Duluth Winnipeg
right OF way across the Winnebigoshish, Cass
lake, Mh IT. Oak point and Red Lake reserva-
tons Ill Minnesota. The secretary ofthe inte-
rior is directed to fix the compensationto be
paid the Indians for this right
Representative Comstock's bill granting to
the settlers of the second ten-mile limits of
the Northern Pacific roud and who lost their
lands AMI time by the action of the interior
department. the right to transfer their entries
from that tract to otherland su beet to entry,
was passed in the house. Mr.. Comstock ex-
planned the bill briefly as granting the settlers
on other public lands the right to apply the
time spent on Northern Pacific lands in good
talth as time declared by law necessary in
making final proof and retaining their rights
as preemptors and homesteaders.
SENATE.
Senator Pierce introduced bill granting
pension to Thomas H. Fifeld. Senator
Moody to day introduced bill for the relief
OF Bryan Thyson, for money lost as mail
carrier in 1867, in the sum of 81 200.
Mr.. Wilson, OF Iowa, offered q resolution
which was agreed to, instructing the COM
mlttee on interstate commerce to INQUIRE
what additional legislation is necessary in
respect to communication and excu rsion tick
cts, so as to prevent abuses now existing in
regard to lndiyiduals and localities.
HOUSE.
The speaker having laid before the House
the Senate bill Tor the Improvement and
maintenance OF the National Geological park.
with Houee amendment (providing that the
District of Columbia shall pay half the ex-
pense), with the request from the Senate for
q con erence, Mr. McComas (Maryland)
ment. "A lengthy debate ensued. Mr. Nc
Comas' motion finally was defeated-1S to
lO9, the House insisted on the amendment
and conference was ordered
9 The House then went into committee ofthe
whole on the naval appropriation BILL
SENATE.
Appropriating So, 34S, 900 te complete the
works at the mouth of the Colum bia river
Oregon. not more than S7OO, 600 to be ex.
pended III any one year, and $1,25o,OOO to
complete the canal and locks at the Cascades
OF the Columbia, not more than $500, 900 to
be expended in one year
Mr. Cullom introduced bill to prevent
Mormons voting or holding any political Of
flee. The bill provides in brief thatno person
living in what is known as patriarchial,
plural or celestial marriage, or in violation
of any law of the United States, iorbidding
such crimes
HOUSE
In his prayer the House chaplain referred
ieelingly to the illness of Representative Ran
dali. s. -
The House went into ommittee of the whole
on the naval appropriation bill.
"A bill was introduced to reclassify and re-
FIX the salaries of railway mail clerks. The
bill provides for dividing these clerks into