Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-18
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
House.

on judiciary, to-day reported to the
House the bill to prohibit aliens from
acquiring title to or owning lands within
! the United States. An elaborate report
accompanied the bill. The bill proposes
to place these aliens under the disabili-
ties Of the civil law, as to all future at
tempts to acquire lands in this country
It also contains a provision which will
compel alien land owners to cause
! to be such, or to become citizens of
the United States within ten years.
Representative McRae, of Arkansas, in
PRODUCED in the House bill on the sub
ject of silver coinage. 1t provides for
the free coinage Of silver; foran increas-
ing of United States treasury notes each
year to make the total issue thereof
equal in amount to the revenues Of the
government for that year; for the issue
of treasury notes to replace national
bank notes surrendered; for the repeal
Of the laws authorizing the sale of
! United States bonds, and for the ac-
emulation of the gold reserve of $780,
600, 900, and finally for the covering of
! that reserve into the treasury as an
available asset. Representative O'Neill
of Pennsylvania, reported favorably to
! the House, from the library committee,
the bill approprlating 900 for the
erection of monument on the battle
! field of Tppecanoe, Ind, to commemo-
rate the heroism of the men who fought
and died there under the leadership OF
Gen. Win. Henry Harrison.
| TUEsDAY, June 10-The House passed
! the Senate pipeline bill, which is an
amendatory feature of the internal rev
enue laws. The bill is largely in the in
terest of Milwaukee brewers, and au-
thorizes the commissioner of internal
revenue to formulate rules and regula-
! tons by which beer may be carried
direct from the watts to the bottling de-
partment without passing through the
intermediate process of being drawn in
to kegs. The postofiice appropriation
| bill WAS passed, as was also IL bill author
izing the construction of railroad line
through the Fort Clark military reser-
vation IN Texas, after which the House
adjourned
WEDNESDAY, Juue 1.-THE dependent
pension bill las amended and agreed up
on by the,report OF the conference com
mittees from both houses. was passed by
the House to-day The report Of the
conference committee was adopted by q
vote of rs yeas to 20 nays, after which
the bill was taken up as amended and
passed by a vote of 145 yeas to IS nays.
In the bill as agreed upon by the con-
ference and passed, the sec
ton of the Senate bill TO
give service pension to all
over "a years old was stricken out, as
are all the service pension features of
the Morrill, bill. The only section of the
Morrill, bill that is retained is that given
to dependent widows of soldiers who
hoI-n EIpI tho yt-oT sc M
and - for each child under Is years of
age. The original Senate bill called for
the addition of about $40,000,G00 to the
yearly pension expenditures. and the
Morrill, bill would have added about
$4,000, 600, while the bill as agreed up
on, and which will now become q
law, adds about $50, 0,000 The bill
after providing for the pensioning of de-
pendant parents, says that call persons
who served three months or
more in the military or naval
during the war of the rebellion, and
who have been honorably discharged
therefrom, ana who are now, or who
may hereafter be, suffering from Il men
tai or physical disability Of a permanent
character, not the result of their own
vicious habits, which incapactates them
from the performance Of manual labor
in such degree as TO render
them unable to earn support,
shall be placed upon the list of in
valid pensioners Of the United States,
be entitled to receive a pension not to
exceed SD per month, and not less than
Sc per month, proportioned to their in
ability to earn support, such pension
such disability. Rank in service shall
not be considered i'll applications filed
under this act. Provision is made for
pensioning,at the rate of So per month,
widows of men who served ninety days
without proving death the result of
army service, and likewise granting
So a month to each child under
Is years of age. Ten dollars is fixed as
limit Of the fee to be charged by
agents in preparing cases under this
act Chairman Cannon, from the COM
mitted to the House the sundry civil
appropriation bill 1t recommends a
total appropriation of $27 $40, 5l3, being;
13,29S,370 less than the regular and
special estimates, and Of $2,G2o sol In
excess of tie appropriations carried by
the last bill.
THpsRDAY, June 13.-In the surdry
civil bill reported to-day appear the fol-
loving items of special interest in Wis
consin: For purchase Of site for public
building at Ashland, $4,000; for Mil
waukee Soldiers Home, items as fol
lows: Current expenses, SIC, 800; sub
sistence, S11640O; clothing, $34 ,6S9;
household, $40 HI; hospital, $685.
795; transportation Of the members,
81 $50; construction, $4,000; laundry,
ST 800; water supply, S15 GOO; funds, $l0,-
079; in all, 1907 200 The bill appro-
PIRATES S27, 1926, 143 in all, in any case 81
100000 over that of last year. The
item for clothing at the Milwaukee
Home is increased So, 1S9 on account Of
the increased membership; that for
hospital is increased s., 795. There is
al increase Of $4,000 for construction.
The water supply item is to connect the
home with the city water works.
FRIDAY, June 13.-The House after
the reading of the journal, went into
committee of the whole on the sundry
civil appropriation bill. Mr.. Cannon
said that the amount of appropriation
carried by the measure was, in round
numbers, SOS, 900, 600. This was $l0,0G0,--
| 600 less than the regular estimates, and
$13, 600 less than the regular and
special estimates. The folio wing