New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-06-25
CONGRESSIONAL.
\ Resume Of the Proceedings
OF Congress During the
Past Week.
SENATE.

Fast Week.
The following bills were taken up and pass
ed by the senate: Senate bill for public
building at Racine, Wis, to cost $150,OOO;
increasing cost public building at Duluth
from $50, 600 to $275,OOO.
lhe senate committee on finance consider.
ed and amended the house silver bill, and
VIII oter 1T as substitute for the senate
bill 'ss
Adverse reports were made from the q.
nance committee on Mr.. Stanford's bill for
government loans on liens of real estate and
on the bill to abolish metal money, and the
oilis were indefinitely postponed.
HOUSE.
The dependent pension bill as agreed upon
ny the conference and reported to the house.
after providing for the pensioning OF depend
ent parents, says that all persons who served
three months or more in the military or
naval service of the United States during the
War of the Rebellion and who have been
honorably discharged therefrom, and who
are now or who may hereafter be suffering
from mental or physical disability of
paramount character, not tho result Of
their vicious habits, which incapacitates
from their performance Of manual labor in
SUCH O degree as to render them unable
to earn q support, shall be placed upon the
the list OF invalid pensioners of the United
States to be entitled to receive pension not
to exceed 81 per month and not less than
$6 per month, proportional to their inability
TO earn a support. such pension to continue
during the existence of such disability. Rank
IN TIE service shall not be considered in an
pllcations filed under this act" Provision
Is made for pensioning at the rate of So per
month widows Of men who served ninety
n vvi,Np. d., l.
army service, and likewise granting 50 a
month to each child under sixteen years of
age. Ten dollars is fixed as a limit Of the
fee to be charged by agents in preparing
cases under this act
SENATE.
Senator Davis explained at length the pen.
sion bill as it was agreed upon by the confer.
ence committee. AS heretofore stated, the
service clause 10 stricken out. Provision is
made Tor graded pensions from Sc to So per
month IN certain cases, according to the de-
gree OF disability. Another feature is analo-
gous to the Mexican pension act, giving to
widows So per month where the death OF the
husband is not the result of casualty, and
$l2 per month where it is proven that death
is the result of casualty.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Henderson OF Iowa, from the commit
tee on appropriations, reported to the house
an urgent deficiency bill appropriating So
ZOE, 600 for the payment Of pensions and
$3, o75, 900 for expenses of the eleventh cen.
sus. Passed
Mr.. Henderson. of Iowa, from the commit
tee on appropriations, reported an urgent
deficiency bill appropriating $3,7OS, 900 for
the payment OF pensions and $3,O75, 900 for
the expenses of the 18th census. Passed
Mr.. Hit, Of Illinois, from the committee
on foreign affairs reported back to the Lodge
resolution, calling on tho secretary of the
n n r. n tnrY finr no t>t hnr ~
the Cunard Steamship company to give q re.
turn passage to certain immigrants brought
to this country in violation Of the contract
labor law. Adopted.
SENATE
The Republican members of the senate
fnunce committee have disposed OF all the
schedules OF the tariff bill with the excep-
ton OF those relating to sugar and tobacco,
and they have been delivered to Mr.. Car
Isle, representing the minority of the com
mittee. 1t is thought the bill will be ready
to report to the senate in a few days.
Senator Moody presented another batch
OF petitions from Sanborn, Hughes and Day
counties. s. D., favoring speedy action on
the bill designed to counterfeit the original
package decision.
HOUSE.
The Sundry civil bill carries appropria-
tions for salaries and com omissions of regis.
ters and receivers at public land offices of
$3.50 900. This is precisely the same as
was appropriated for this same purpose last
year. Since the last appropriation was
passed sixteen land Offices have been created,
OF which two are in Washington, two in Mon.
tana and two in South Dakota. The fact
that no additional appropriation was made
provide for these has caused considerable
talk at the department of the interior
While the irrigation clause of the sundry
civil appropriation bin was under consider.
alton in the house, Carter of Montana made
u short talk. He claimed that the survey OF
this country, whether it resulted in irriga-
tion by the government ornot. was necessary
and fully as important as the coast and
geological surveys. The lands were now
withdrawn from market and could not be
taken except where the government had
made surveys and located reserv Dir sites and
determined that sites could not be profitably
located in certain sections. Mr.. Carter says
that the work OF survey in the arid region,
ascertaining the height OF mountains, the
water supply and geological condition OF tho
land. is benefit to the country.
SENATE.
After some unimportant m orning business,
the senate proceeded to the considerating OF
bills on the calendar.
The house bill granting the right of way to
the Duluth & Manitoba Railway company
across the Fl. Pembna reservation in North
Dakota. was passed and also the senate bill
to credit Major Wham. army pay muster,
with SIS, 1906 government funds of which he
was robbed in Arizona in May, 1889. After
the passage OF 50 private pension bills the
senate went into executive session.
HOUSE.
The speaker announced the appointment
Of Mr.. f. c. Taylor, OF Ohio MIR. Stewart
(Vt.) and Mr.. Bland, of Mo-, us conferees on
the antitrust bill. Mr.. Bland said that, as
the house had instructed it's conferees to re-
cede from the amendment, there was no fur
Their interest i'll the matter and he asked to
be excused from serving on the committee.
SENATE.
Mr.. Blair introduced joint resolution re-
qrcsting the president to invite I'm interna-
tional conference to meet in Washington
with view to the formation of an interna-
tional alliance for the suppression OF slavery
and the slave trade; oil the traffic intoxi-
eating liquors. firearms and destructive sub
stances with uncivilized people, and to pro-
mote the establishment of schools of com
mon knowledge, art aud industry among
them; also to secure the disarmament of ma.
tions and the organization of International
courts.
The deficiency appropriation bill for pen
sions and the census was passed by the sen
ate.
HOUSE.
Mr. Comstock tried tn IN II nm tba Chinnowo