The Dickinson press., 1890-04-05
CONGRESSIONAL D0INGS.
II HOUSE.

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In committee of the whole, and while
considering bills on the private calendar,
spent the entire afternoon discussing a
point of order raised against q bill for
allowance of a claim for stores used by
the government during the war. With
out action the committee rose. A reso-
luton authorizing the appointment of a
subcommittee to examine the Harlem
river improvement in New York was
adopted and the house at 8 o'clock took
a recess until 8 p. M, the night session
to be for the consideration of private
pension bills.
WASHINGTON, March 29.-Aftar a two
hours discussion over a railroad right of
way the house went into committee of
the whole on the army appropriation
bill. The provision relative to canteens
was discussed, and an amendment pro.
viding that no alcoholic liquors shall be
sold to any enlisted men in any canteen
was adopted. Pending further action
the committee rose. A joint resolution
was passed authorizing the president of
of the Mississippi river commission to
purchase or hire such boats as may be
required to rescue persons in the over
flowed portions of the Mississippi valley.
The house then at $50 p. m. adjourned.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-The house
passed a bill for the sale of United
States property in Pittsburg; a bill for
the disposal of the Fort Ellis military
reservation; a bill granting the Pittsburg,
Columbus and Fort Smith Railroad COM
gany right of way through the Indian
Territory senate bill with amendments)
providing for the administration of oaths
by judges, clerks or commissioners of
United States courts, and a resolution
calling on the secretary of state for in
formation concerning the levying of
duty tax on imported bread stufs BY
foreign countries since 1879.
MI. Springer, of Illinois, introduced a
joint resolution authorizing the president
to retire N. P. Banks with the rank of
major general. Referred. The house
then adjourned.
WASHINGTON, April 2.-The house
passed the senate bill creating the offices
of surveyors general in North and South
Dakota; house bill admitting free of
duty articles from Mexico to the st.
Louis exposition of 1890; and the house
bill providing that affidavits and declara-
tons in pension cases may he taken be-
fore any officer authorized to administer
oaths for general purposes.
The house passed the following bills:
Providing that dispositions of witnesses
before the United States courts may be
taken in the mode prescribed by the
laws of the states in which such courts
may be held; bill limiting to six years
the time within which suits may be
brought against accounting officers and
their bondsmen; senate bill to continue
the publication of the revised statutes;
bill exempting from the provisions of
the law requiring steamers to carry life
lines, boats plying on the inland waters
of the United States; bill authorizing
the construction of bridges across the
Iowa river at or near Wapello, Iowa;
also a bill transferring from Galena, Ills,
to Dubuque, Iowa, the Offices of in
spector of hulls and boilers.
The house then went into committee
of the whole on the Notifications appro-
priation bill. After some debate It was
laid aside with a favorable recommends
ton. Later it was taken up and passed,
1t appropriates $4,521 ,678.
WASHINGTON, April 3.-The house
passed a number of bills authorizing the
construction of bridges over Western
rivers, also a bill amendingth the act to aid
vessels wrecked or disabled in waters
co-terminus to the United States and
Dominion of Canada. It grants author
ity to Canadian wrecking vessels to aid
Canadian vessels in distress when SINH
lar authority shall have been given by
the Canadian government to wrecking
vessels of the United States to aid
United States vessels in distress.
The bill authorizing the construction
of a bridge across the Hudson river,
from Jersey City to New York, to regu-
late commerce in and over said bridge,
and to establish such bridgeas a military
and a post road, was called up and
passed.
The house then took up the Idaho ad-
mission bill, and it was discussed until
I'd journment, at SIS p. M.