The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-08-23
CONGRESSIONAL
a Resume Of the Proceedings
Of Congress During the,
Past Week.
senate

-
If the senate win take mp and pass the river
and harbor bill IL seems quite likely that the
Davis amendment for the Improvement OF
but will find little opposition In the house,
the speaker having been brought to . realiz-
ing sense OF the magnitude Of the improv.
ment. The tariff bill now has the right OF
way over thu river and harbor bill, but 10
will be laid aside in order to give this meas
ure of national Importance q hearing.
Senator Allen has secured an
&c the sundry civil bill now IN conference re-
lating to land surveys II allows the 5000,
900 to be expended for surveys OF public
lands which may not bs wholly agricultural,
and which will allow the survey OfIands o
settled upon in the new states to be selected
for the grants made in the enabling acts.
house
Ths house adopted the conferences report
-120 to 93-on the original package bill.
The report leaves the bill just as it passed
the senate, and makes it, provisions applt
cable to liquors only.
The conferrees on the sundry civil appru-
priation bill have agreed on every item OF
difference except the irrigation appropria-
UiOu.# AuOtu0F COIeFeHCO Will 10 u0Cc6SdIy IN
this point. The conference COMMITTEES re-
duced the amount OF the bill IS, zoe, 900, and
it now carries appropriations Of $20,s
$4,000. s8
Again the river and harbor bill il post
poned by action of Republican senators in
order that debate may continue on the tarin
bill and that q quorum may be kept IN both
houses, 1T is q fact that nearly every man
In congress has some little item in the river
and harbor bill and they will not remain
away from Washington when it 10 still pend.
ing.
uorsr
= 1850
pandeyer 81 California introduced g D-s 70
Provlae lor Vne 81 arid !anoss zig
use OF reserve sites q tne protecGion OIL tns
forest OF the public lands, and for other pur
poses. The bill is the same as nelntroduced
in the senate q lew weeks ago..
Ihe mouse decided 70 CIV edeoreeM atune1s'
VINO was elected nearly Two years ago 9 dele
isIatsd nn+ - rhon ~ +orr;+nsn ya !. Ja1;dea
and adm;ttsd "a : sAoAs vas * s7e "a and
h SnrS 80 r;.o = dabat;nn ~
-.
s1NATE.
The concurrent resolution heretofore offer
cd by MIR. Plumb expressing the desire OF con-
gress for the removal of the remains OF Gen.
NIdIlU 10 lUUeEW0HC III Uue hTJlu&bOH uHulOU-
al cemetery and requesting the president to
convey TO the widow OF that eminent man
such desire, rendering 20 her, on Denaii OF the
nation. an necessary iac1litles iorsucn remov-
o. n interment, was agreed TO by ths sen
ate:
ABOUT tne only new point tnat came OUT
curing enc nour or more OF debate on irrlga-
ZION, when came up IN Ino senate Wasa
statement made BY senator Mitchell show.
Ing the Importance to the Western states OF
repeating the law OF 1855 WITH reference 20
OF alleged ARD iands; q
Mltcneil showed there are IN south DAKOTA
o,Uoo entries oy pona ma SETTLERS, involving
8oo,0o acres OF iand when cannot DC per
iecteo under the recent decision Of the az
Dakota, I, 90 entries IN Montana, inyoly-
ing 100000 acres; $4,000 entries IN wash
lngton, involving . y and 1914 en-
tries at Jour land ofices OF Oregon, involving
66S,7l6 acres.
HOUSE
civil bill struck out the appropriation Of
10000 to pay the salaries OF registers and
receivers IN the q offices which nave been
created at this session Of congress. Two
were in Washington State, two in Montana
and two In south Dakota The dificuity
can be remedisd by an appropriation IN the
deficiency bill
Inc mouse nnlsneo conslderatlOn OF tne
general deficiency bill, and passed it
SENATE.
Senator Vest announced that the Demo-
Gratis proposed to debate every paragraph
in the tariff bill as long 40 they had any,
thing to say, and Senator Edmunds pro-
posed to limit debate to Eve minutes for
each spe aker by %suspending the rules; but
as he did not care to take any technical ad-
vantage of Senator Morgan, who was talk
in,r hn allowod fhn mattar IN Oh nvor
There 10 q prospect for lively times In the
senate, as any proposition 20 smut on DE-
bate Will % resisted with all the iorce az the
command OF the Democrats. ~ - y known
how al the hepubicans vla vote on the
proposition, ana there y quiCe e hveiy skir-
mish to bring the party into line solidly for
the proposed change.
Inc senate committee on postoidces
POST ORDERED tne anteiottery mah
bill De reported to the senate with q recon-
uo,.r
A
nepresenSaeIvo somssock $3.50 upoI ~
s ~ IT, -. = 80 q -. ~ c.Nuu us.Is
On JJ,s rh; nhu a,euso ,asor e ~ VIZ
e eeen one -. M xhn !. approPr. - auous
Arkansas and Plumb, and they are said to
mem M ~ b ,aaor \. .ns Perkip.. Clifford ana aG Pssi
are not committed, but two, at least, ars
aareemspts to ia letter. and 81 ~aperopriat.
snr khn nnonaoorv rnCnaw <6so voap &H.@a*r$&