The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1890-03-14
FIFTY-FlRST CONGRESS.


IolloWlnS puDllc DulldlnB DllIs were passed.
Sterling, Ills, $4,000; Oakland, Cal, $780,
600; Cheyenne, Wy. T., $l5O,OOO; Chester,
Pa, 100000; Helena, NJ T., $1,000 0. The
bill appropriating $5OO,OOO for building at
Salt Lake City gave rise to debate, Mr..
Plumb desiring to have the appropriation
reduced to s400, 900.
AT o'clock the bill went over and tho
educational bill was taken up. In response
to inquiries, Mr.. Blair said he could not fix
day for voting ON the bill Several sena-
tors were still TO speak, among them Mr..
Evarts, who was to conclude the debate.
In the course of his remarks on the bill Mr..
Blair said that any longer delay in dispos-
ing of this matter would be unjustifiable.
and he would look upon it as a perpetual
abandonment of the effort to give national
aid to the schools of the country. The Re-
publican party was pledged in its platform
to the passage of the bill, and if that party
failed to make good its pledge that fact
would put an end to the party. Like many
other men in this country, he owed no po-
ntlcal allegiance to party that lied.
MIR. Hale spoke in opposition to the bill.
1t had been before the senate for eight years.
and all the time there had been rising tide
against it. In his state, Mr.. Hale asserted.
the press and educators and clergymen were
against the bill, and the increased opposition
to it was only because observation and
reason We're against it. He controverted
MIR. Blair's assertion that the condition of
education was worse now than twenty years
ago. If the bill became law, the line of state
and local interests and influence in educa-
tion would fade away and ultimately be
swallowed up by federal influence.
WASHINGTON, March I'm the house the
resolution declaring Mr.. Clark (Ala.) en-
titled to his seat was adopted and several
measures on the private calendar were dis
posed or. When the report on the Threet-
CLARK contested election case had been
agreed to, the house passed senate bill in
creasing from Sl5s, 600 to 5000, 900 the limit
of cost of the public building at El Paso
Tex. Senate bill referring to the court of
claims the claim of w. E. Woodbridge for
the use of inventions of projectiles for rihed
cannon was defeated-1ll to 12S. The house
then went into committee of the whole on
the private calendar.
The bill directing the secretary of the
treasury to pay $4,000 to Albert H.
Emery, OF Connecticut, in settlement of
his claim for the use of the testing machine
invented by him, was taken up and dis
cussed No action was taken.
WASHINGTON, March 10. The house CON-
Cured in the senate resolution providing
for an investigation by joint committee of
the senate and house committees on immi-
grafton into the working of the federal and
state laws relative to immigration from for
eign countries.
The resolution was amended so as to di-
rect the joint committee to investigate the
effect on American workmen that is like
ly to follow the purchase of American in
dustrles by foreign capitalists also to report
TO congress the official correspondence on
the proposal to make Bedloe's Island New
York harbor, an immigrant depot; what
title the government had to such island;
the buildings to be erected and the officers
and employees it is designed to employ at
such immigration depot and whether in the
opinion of the committee such island is the
best and most suitable place for such depot
A bill was passed increasing TO 500 a
month the pension of Gen. Horace Bough-
ton. Senate bills were passed for the ascer-
talnment OF the amounts due to the Pottawa-
tonne Indians of Michigan and Indiana,
and for the taking of the census in Alaska.
The senate bill to prevent the introduction
OF contagious disease from one state to an
other was passed
Mr. Lacey Qa.) reported from the com
mlttee ON elections Il resolution for the ap.
pointment of a subcommittee to go to Ar
kansas and make a full investigation of
the -Breckinridge contested election
case. Agreed to-
Among the bills introduced are the fol.
lowing: BY Mr., Watson Pa)-Appropriat-
ing $50, 900 for the purchase of a site and
the erection of Il public building at Brad
ford, Pa. By Mr. Mcclellan Qud )-Amend-
ing the pension laws regarding widows who
remarry. [Similar to Mr.. Voorhees, senate
bill By Mr., Cogswell (Kan)-Appropri-
ating SlOO, 900 for a public building at New
buryport, Mass By Mr.. Warson PaD-
Approprinting 100000 for public building
at Oil City, Pa.
The house committee on war claims has
authorized favorable report on the bill in
troduced in the house by Mr.. Maish to au.
thorize the payment of damages sustained
by citizens of the state of Pennsylvania
from Union and Confederate troops during
the late war. The bill appropriates So
Az 945, payable to the governor of the state
Of Pennsylvania, TO provide for the payment
OF these claims, The bill passed the COM
mittee by vote of 9 to T. The minority
will probably submit report opposing the
passage of the bill
A petition numerously signed has been
presented to Secretary Window protesting
against the selection of Bedloe's Island, New
York harbor, as an immigrant station.
Secretary Window said Bedoe's Island had
been selected after much care and consider
alton and he saw no good reason to change
his determination TO locate the immigrant
station there.