The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-02-21
BLOOMSBURY, PA. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY q, 1890.
FIFTY-FlRsT CONGRESS.
Condensed Report of Proceedings In Sem
ate and House.

ate ana House.
WAsHINeToN, Feb 13.--In the senate a
number of bills were reported from commit
tees and placed on the calendar, among
them one for the establishment and mainte-
nance Of Indian Industrial schools in Michi-
gan and South Dakota. The bill appropri-
ating $500, 600 for public building at Port
land, Ore, was passed. Consideration of
the bill to provide a temporary government
for Oklahoma was then resumed, the pend
ing question being Mr. Plumb's amendment
TO include No Mans Land within the terri
tory.
After further discussion on the amend
ment, a vote was taken and IL was agreed
to: Yeas, 81; nays, 49, Mr.. Plumb offered
an amendment attaching the Cherokee out
let TO Oklahoma for judicial purposes, but
the amendment was rejected. Some fur
ther formal amendments were agreed TO
and the bill was passed
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.--In the house the
journal was approved, the speaker counting
the necessary number to make quorum.
The senate joint resolution congratulating
the people Of the United States of Brazil on
the adoption of Republican form Of gov
ernment was passed unanimously. Consid-
GRAFTON of the code of rules was then pro-
ceeded with.
The house committee on patents has
thorized favorable report on the inter
national copyright bill.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14-In the house Mr..
Chandler (Mass.l, from the Worlds fair com
mittee submitted report which was or
dered printed and recommitted. The report
is as follows:
"For years the people of the United States
in great numbers, with enthusiasm and
unanmity, in various ways-by petitions
resolutions in the public press and through
their representatives in congress-have sig
nifed their earnest desire that the four
hundredth anniversary of the discovery of
America by Christopher Columbus should
be recognized and oommemorated by this
nation in 1899. They would have this gem
GRAFTON record its grateful appreciation of
the genius and the courageous faith of this
great man, whose life and services contrib
uted so much to the progress and elevation
of mankind and not only the people of this
country, but people of the world, should be
invited to participate and contribute to the
grandeur of the celebration. 1t is indicated
by a recognized public sentiment that this
celebration shall include appropriate cere-
monies and Worlds fair and exhibition
unsurpassed and unequaled, if possible, by
any national commemoration that has pre-
ceded it.
"The committee in unanimously present
ing this report believe that the celebration
proposed is a deserved recognition of the
great services of Christopher Columbus,
and that it will lead the people Of the United
States to appreciate with greater patriotism
the beneficence of free institutions and the
achieved national greatness of their coun-
| try, and that by the interchange with our
own people and those of other nations who
will ba brouuht tpoathar tho material in
terests and prosperity of all will be pro-
| NOTED"
The rules were then adopted by a strict
party vote of: Yeas, 16l; nays, 145. Those
absent or paired are follows: Anderson,
Allen CMiss.), Blanchard, Biggs, Bootham,
| Carlisle Forney Frank, Haines, Hopkins
Mckinley, Morrow, Oates, Phelan, Randall
| Pa.), Rogers, Stahlnecker, Turner IN. W,
Van Schaick, Whitthorne, WILDER and VIII
son W. Va).
| WASHINGTON, Feb. IS. - Directly after
the transaction of morning business the
senate went into secret session for the dis
cusson of the British extradition treaty.
A vote was taken on Mr.. Gray's motion to
strike out the clauses relating to man.
slaughter and the obtaining of money under
| false pretenses. The motion was defeated.
Some unimportant amendments were made
and the treaty was ratified.
The treaty makes applicable to the arti
Gle of the extradition treaty concluded be-
tween the United States and Great Britain
on Aug 8, 1912, providing for the extradi
ton of persons charged with specified
crimes, the additional crimes of manslaugh
ter, counterfeting or altering money and
bringing it into circulation, embezzlement
larceny, receiving stolen property, fraud Of
all kinds, perjury, rape and abduction,
burglary, conspiracy, piracy by the laws Of
nations, revolt or conspiracy to revolt OF
the high seas and crimes against the law
of both countries concerning slavery. Po
litical criminals are exempted from the pro
visions of the treaty.
The senate was in secret session for thre
hours. At the end Of that time the door
were opened and the educational bill wa
taken up, Mr. Blair resuming his remarks il
favor of the measure In the course of hi
remarks Mr.. Blair commented on the fac
that very little of his speech had appeare,
in the daily papers or had been telegraphe
from this city. He stated that he woul
probably occupy the time of the senate 70
two afternoons more. The house bill for tn
relief of the Indians of the DEVILS LAX
agency, N. d., was passed.
Postmaster General Wanamaker argue
in favor Of his postal telegraph scheme b,
fore the house committee. He said ther
was no personal feeling in his propose
measure. He thought the scheme woul
work to the benefit of the telegraph compa
nies by giving them additional work, bu
the companies differed with him.
President A. b. Chandler, of the Posta
Telegraph company, said his company coul
not do the work contemplated within th
maximum rates fixed by the postmaste
generals bill. He thought that the govern
ment had no right to establish service ths
might ruin company with s7,OO0,000 c
kS,000,00O invested.
Mr.. Wanamaker told the committee
this point something about the scheme