The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-06-07
NORTHWEST BILLS.
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eTs Are stu on the Calendar.
The house calendar as it stands
now has 1875 bills on the general list.
1t has lS6 more on the list to be con.
sidered by the committee OF the whole
on the state OF the Union, exclusive OF
all public building bills. and the pri-
vate calendar OF pension and relief bills.
number 735. There are SIX bills under
the head of unfinished business, and
two contest election cases, which are
privileged reports. A glance through
the calendar shows that the Northwest
has comparatively few important
measures on the calendar. The new
NJ atao have secured IegisiIGIiun s,I0s.sh
to put them in good shape as full.iledg-
ed states. They have their courts and
land districts established, and In
auout all cases the newly created OF.
fees have been filled. 1t Is no small
work to have passed the bills neces-
sary to transform the machinery OF
territories to that OF states. The
bills which call for reimbursement for
holding the constitutional coDven-
tions in the Dakotas and Washing
ton are all on the house calendar.
Montana Is waiting for an ttemized
statement. There is little doubt that
all these bills will be passed. Mon
tana has been fortunate in having "a.
cured most OF the measures wanted
EXCEPT PUBLIC BUILDINGS,
and there are not now on the house
calendar many bills OF exclusively 10.
cal interest to that state. On the
general calendar are the bills granting
right of way to the Montana Mineral
Railway company to effect entrance
TO Cook City. and setting aside tract
of land near the headquarters Of the
Yellowstone az d park. Washington
has more bills on the calendar. al
though it's state machinery is fully set
going. The separate bills introduced
Tor river and harbor Improvement
for the two states were OF course in.
corporated in the river and harbor bill
or killed in the committee room. The
Washington bills on the calendar
are appropriations for the con-
struction of lighthouse on North
Head, Cape disappointment, in Wash
ington State; to restore telegraphic
communication between Satoosh il.
land and Port Angeles III Washington;
to authorize the secretary oil war tc
issue ordnance stores In payment OF
stores borrowed by Oregon during the
NJ ID, N tgt. D hA
toms district of" Puget sound. The
bill granting the right OF way to the
Portland d Puget Sound Railway
company and Tor other purposes 10
No. 90 on the general house calendar.
North Dakota bills on the calendar
are: To ratiiy the agreement with
the Fort BerthoId Indians and auth
orizing the secretary OF the interior
to negotiate with the Turtle noun
tain Indians for the cession OF their
lands. Bills OF interest TO both Da-
kotas are those to ratiiy and confirm
the agreement with the Sisseton and
Wahpeton Indians and authorizing
the survey OF
THE BOUNDARY LINE
between the Dakotas and to estab-
lish u customs district consisting OF
North and South Dakota. There are
several South Dakota bills on the list,
though not OF special Importance.
One authorizes the City OF Aberdeen
to purchase certain lands which have
long been in dispute. Another au,
thorizes the secretary Of the interior
to ascertain damages resulting to per-
sons who settled on the Crow Creek
and Winnebago reservations i'm 1885.
Few bills purely local to Minnesota
are on the calendar, one recently re-
ported by Mr.. Comstock to pro-
vide for carrying out the agree.
ment with the Chippewa Indians
being pretty well down on the
list. The 500 canal bill, which
has passed the senate. is No. 1886 on
the general calendar. There are three
bridge bills on this list, one authoriz-
ing the Duluth, Red Wing d Southern
to build a bridge at Red Wing and
others authorizing n bridge over the
Mississippi 1t st. Paul and one at
Hastings. IL is uninterssting to stu
dy the senate calendar, for 1t is an
easy matter to secure the passage oil
n local measure in that body. The
iIon.clad rule which gives each bill its
own place melts under the warm rays
OF senatorial courtoGy. There have
been introduced in the house, over
10000 bills this session. Several
thousand have never come out OF the
committee room. aud never will.