Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-09-19
A Caucus of Republican Senators Fixes
a Program for the Balance
of the Session.
Twelve of the Most Important Bills
Are to be Considered Be-
fore Adjournment.
A Committee of Strikers Hold q
Fruitless Interview With
Mr.. DePeW.
In the Senate,

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-The house
bill for the sale Of certain lands for
school purposes in the town of Pelican,
Wis.,, was reported to the senate to-day
from the committee on public lands and
was placed on the calendar.
The resolution offered yesterday by
MI. Morgan, calling upon the secretary
of the interior for information as to the
lands Of the Northern Pacific railroad
company, and of other companies whose
roads we're not completed within the
period fixed by the granting act, was
taken up, discussed and agreed to. On
motion of Mr.. Plumb the conference re-
port on the railroad land forfeiture bill
was taken up. The main proposition in
the report is contained in the first Sec
tod as follows: That there is hereby for
feited to the United States and the
United States hereby resumes title there
to, all lands heretofore granted to any
state or to any corporation to aid in the
construction of a railroad opposite to and
coterminous with a portion of any such
railroad not now completed and in oper-
alton, for the construction or benefit of
which such lands were granted; and all
such lands are declared to be a part of
the public domain; provided, that this
act shall not be construed as FORGETTING
the right of way or station grounds Of
any railroad company heretofore granted.
MIR. Morgan opposed the report and after
speaking for yer four hours he said he
knew the questions which he had been
discussing we're going to their grave in the
passage of the bill, but that he desired
to give them decent burial. He wished
to erect headstones over the graves of
b rights of the people on the line of
the Northern Pacific, so that a historic
record might be read hereafter. He
wanted to remind the people of the
United States of the vast robbery perpe-
trated by that company and which was
now sanctioned, wound up and brought
to a conclusion by the bill. He knew
what the vote would be. He knew when
the republicans came in on one side of
the report, with democrats refusing to
sign it, what the result would be. When
ever a bill was passed looking to the for
felture of Northern Pacific railroad lands
it would be dead and buried and nothing
more would be heard about it. Without
finishing his speech, Mr.. Morgan yielded
for a motion to adjourn.
A caucus of republican senators was
held this morning for the purpose of
agreeing upon the order of business for
the remainder of this session of congress.
There was a full attendance of senators
and Senator Edmunds presided. The
caucus was in session nearly two hours.
Most of the members had a measure
which he deemed of sufficient import
ance to warrant it's being placed Oh the
order of business. It was decided, how
ever, to limit the programme to the fol-
lowing bills to be considered in the order
named, after the report of the conference
committee on the land grant forfeiture
bill shall be disposed of: First, the anti
lottery mail bill; second, to repeal
the timber culture act; third, to estab-
lish private land claim courts.
fourth, for the relief of the supreme
court; fifth, for adjustment of the claims
of laborers, etc., under the eight-llour-a-
day law; sixth, making eight hours a
days work for laborers, etc., in the gov
eminent employ, or employed by con-
tractors doing government work; sew
enLn, TO TRANSFER the revenue or the ma
rine service from the treasury to the navy
department.; eighth, the Paddock pure
food bill; ninth, for the settlement of
claims arising from Indian depredations;
tenth, the Terry bankruptcy bill; elev-
enth, to place telegraph companies under
operation of the inter state commerce
law; twelfth, the District of Columbia
bill. The question of adjournment was
discussed only incidentally. It was the
opinion as far as expressed that until
the tariff bill had been finally
disposed of, the day for adjourn
ment could not be intelligently fixed.
Outside of caucus the opinion was freely
expressed that after the tariff bill was
disposed of a quorum could be had only
for a short time.
The census office to-day announced
the population of the following named
cities: Cedar Rapids, 1887; Dubuque,
3O,147. The population Of Maine is
660,761, an increase of 11,225.
"Nothing More to Say"
New YORK, Sept. 1.-THE committee
Of five ex-employes of the New York