The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-11

Or motion of Mr.. Hopkins, OF Illlneis,
the bill passed for the erection of e pub. ic
building at Aurora, ILL.,, to cost $40, 900.
At 3 o'clock public busines SIS was suspended
and the house proceeded to pay tribute to
the memory Of Newton w. NuttIng, of
New York. After eulogistiu addresses by
Messrs. Payne, Baker, Grosvenor, Peters
and Henderson, of illinois, the house, as a
mark of respect to The memory of the de-
ceased, adjourned.
In the senate on the 7th the house
amendment to the joint resolution for the
removal of the naval magazine from Ellis
ls!pnd, N. Y. was concurred in. Senator
ETarts presented resolutions Of the New
against the pending bill Tor a GEN.
sus enumeration Of the Chinese.
The house bill to allow the erection of a
bridge across the Iowa river ct Wapello,
Ia, was reported and passed with IN
amendment in the way of q substitute.
The Montana election case was then taken
up and Senator Vance made nm argument
in support Of the minority report, declar-
ing Clark and Maginnis (the democratic
claimants) entitled to the seats. He
Nance) had never heard of a title to a seat
in the senate based on such slender, tech.
nical and trifiing grounds. He had never
known the public will of a community to
tie thwarted and tranple! under foot on
such tiimsy pretexts, he knew the re-
publican claimants were to be seated.
But the republican senators would be
sicker over the thing before they were
done with it than he was. Senator Vance
said he was thankful that in all future de.
nunciations of the south for the suppress.
sion of colored votes, the southern sena.
tors would have company in the north.
All they would have to DO would be to in
quire of the republican senators, 'Who
stole precinct 81 of Silver Bow county,
Montana??" After further discussion an
executive session was held, after which the
senate adjourned.
In the house Mr.. Morrill,, of Kansas,
movedto suspend the rules,a and pass, with
a substitute, the senate bill granting pen
sions to soldiers and sailors who are inca
pacitated from the performance of labor
and providing for pensions to widows and
minor children and dependent parents. Mr..
Springer, Of Illinois, demanded q second,
and the motion was seconded-128 to 81.
After considerable discussion for and
against the bill the question was put to o
vote. The vote stood: Yeas, 1863; nays,
". A bill passed under suspension of the
rules to establish two additional land dis
tricts in Nebraska The house then went
into committee of the whole on the naval
appropriation bill. Without action the
committee arose and the house adjourned.
In the senate on the Sth the house bill to
admit free OF duty all articles intended for
the st. Louis exposition in 1890 that may
be imported from Mexico was amended 80
as to read, and other republics and the
dominion Of Canda." The bill then passed
and a conference was asked. The Montana
election case was considered for a time, but
was laid aside and the anti. trust bill taken
up, and after a short debate was passed by
a vote of SO to /. Adjourned.
On the Sth o bill passed the house plo-
vidlpg that persons settling on the second
indemnity plat of the Northern Pacific
Railroad company between August, 1888,
audJanuary, 1889, may transfer their entries
from that tract to other government land
subject to entry; also a bill to cause certain
lands at the head waters of the Mississippi,
st. Crolx, Chippewa and WISCONSIN rivers,
set apart for reservation purposes, to be
restored to the public domain. A bill was
passed granting right-of-way through var
lous reservations in Wisconsin to the
Duluth d Winnipeg railroad company.
The committee on naval affairs called up
the bill to prevent the enlistment of aliens
IN the naval service of the United States
and it was passed. Mr.. Adams, of Illinois,
called up his motion to reconsider the vote
by which the house defeated the bill
making an appropriation to supply the de-
fciency caused by Silcotts defalcation.
The motion was then reconsidered and the
bill passed. The house then went into
committee of the whole onlthe naval appro-
priaton bill, and after quite a lengthy de-
bate the committee rose and the house ad-
iourpad