Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-18
CONGRESSIONAL.
The Senate Passes Important Bills,
Among Them the Anti-Lottery.
Enloe EndeavOrs to Keep Kennsdy'S Recent
Speech Ont of the House Journal.
Some Lively Discussions.
Ii. CONGRESS.

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and after some debate the report was
agreed 10 by vote of yeas. 30; nays,
| 10. Democrats voted in negative and
! Republicans in the affirmative
Vice President Morton presided in the
| senate to-day.
| The following bills were passed:
| Senate bill to authorize the construc-
ton of a pontoon bridge across the
Arkansas river at Durandee, Ark. senate
! bill TO grant the righr-of-way through
! public lands for irrigation purposes. and
| the conference report on the railroad
| land forfeiture bill was resumed, and
| Morgan continued his argument against
| it.
| Mr.. Bates also opposed the conference
report and asked to be informed where,
under the bill, the forfeiture came in.
| Mr.. Plumb, in charge of the
bill, said that it forfeited all lands
which under the decision of the supreme
! court could be forfeited. 1t for
| feited somewhere between I 900, 900 and
! &c, 900 200 acres. 1t confirmed no singl g
| tract 10 any railroad company, and 1t
did not disturb the status of any acre
granted to the railroad companies, ex-
cept By Terminating the right OF the
| companies to build any more of roads
and by forfeiting grants opposite TO I'M
completed portions.
Mr.. Bates stated that he was not sat-
isfied with Mir. Plumb's answer. He
desired to know just how much land was
to be forfeited under the bill, and how
much was to be confirmed. Although
he desired to see these railroad lands for
feited ne was compelled TO vote against
the conference report.
The vote was then taken and the con-
ference report was agreed to-yeas, 80;
nays, ia strict party vote.
The house anti-lottery bill was then,
on motion of Sawyer, taken from the
calendar and passed without word of
discussion.
On motion of Bates the senate pro-
ceeded to the consideration of the house
bill to repeal timber culture laws.
Sanders offered an amendment to Sec
ton six of the substitute providing that
IN gold and silver mining regions of the
state of Nevada and IN those states and
territories in which there are public
lands containing timber, and where
there is no United States law authorizing
the sale of such timber lands, residents
of such states or territories, if prose-
cuted for cutting timber may plead that
purposes. Agreed to with some modif-
cation-yeas, fl; nays, 3. Messrs Ed
munds, Quay and Spoouer.
MIR. Henderson moved TO add resolu-
ton setting apart the Annette island in
Alexander Archipelago, in Southeastern
Alaska, as a reservation for the use of
Metlakantla Indians, who have recently
emigrated from British Columbia to
Alaska, and of such other Alaskan ma
tiVes as may join them. The amendment
was agreed to and the bill passed.
conference was asked on the disa-
greeting votes, and Messrs. Plumb, Pet
tigrew and Walthal were appointed con-
ferees on the part of the senate.
The senate then on mot ion of Edmunds,
took up the senate bill to establish q
United State land court aud TO provide for
the settlement OF private land claims in
certain states and territories. The bill,
having been read, was laid aside until
Tomorrow and the senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Sept. l6.-After some
preliminary business the house proceeded
to the consideration of the Enloe resolu-
tion relative to the Kennedy speech. The
resolution is as follows:
Resolved, that the clerk of the house
of representatives be and is hereby d.
rooted to communicate 10 the senate the
fact that the house deprecates and con-
dennis the unparliamentary language of
Eon. Robert P. Kennedy, representa-
tive from the state Of Ohio, published in
the congressional records of September
IA, 1890, purDorting to be a speech de-
livered on the floor of the house Septem- |
Der 3, 1890, in which, revised and |
amended, speech he repeats his i'm
parchment of the honesty of senators iu- |
dividually and of the senate as a body. |
The pending question was on point of |
order against resolution reached by |
Mr.. Grosyenor of Ohio.
Mr.. Blount of Georgia argued against |
the point of order.
The speaker, IN rendering his decision, |
said there could be no doubt that the |
legislative proceedings of the two CO. !
ordinate branches of legislation would |
be very much impeded If improper re-
Elections were allowed by the members OF |
one body upon the members of the other.
The chair, therefore, overruled the point
Of order.
Mr.. Bayne of Pennsylvania offered a
resolution referring the resolution, to-
yether with Kennedy's speech, to the
on judiciary, with instructions
20 that committee to examine the speech
and rules and practice regulating debate,
md report its finding to the house within
hree days.
Mr.. Enloe thought there was no ocoa-
ion TOR sending the resolution to any
committee. The facts were before the
house and there was no judicial question
involved.
Mr.. Mcmillan of Tennessee thought
he house should purge Its record OF such
,alumny as was found in the speech of
he gentleman from Ohio. The question
vas whether the rules of the house
hould be observed.
Mr.. Cannon of Illinois favored the ref
renee of the resolution to al committee
n order that the house might act in
After further debate Mr.. Enloe de-
handed previous question upon his reso-
ution, which was so modified as to be an
Expression on the part of the house that
t "disapproyes and condemns Nj.
leunedy's speech, and direction to the
ublio printer to expunge it from the
ornament Congressional Record. The
ouse refused-yeas, SO; nays, I14-to
rider the previous question.
Mr.. Bayne of Pennsylvania again
fered his resolution referring the whole |