The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-03-21
.D0IlydSEO Il NdREss
What our ational Lawmakers
Have Been Doing the
Past Week.

House which elected Saunders and Powers
was cnnvassed by the only ofacial bonrd of
eanvasser under the territorial law, nnd
that 1t was the House recognized by the Sen.
ate. Of whose legitimacy there Was no ques.
tfon. The committee cannot go behind these
facts. The minority, 1t 10 said, will report In
favor OF referring the whole matter back to
tne people and holding new election.
HOUSE.
The House today consumed the morning
hour discussing the bill providing. for
@ before resistsrs and receivers of iand 1os Of.
1ces which was passed.
The House, then, in incommittesof the whole,
NJ. Payeon, Of Illinois, In the chair, resumed
the consideration ofpublic building meas.
ures. ~
{ 80 number of public building
be> and the educational bill
Directly alter the morning business the cal-
sndar was taken up and a hill Incorporated a
local street railway company was debated
at some length without action.
Senator Pierce introduced IL bill to author
ise North Dakota to transfer .ta, the state
range 40, In Cass county, as site for the In.
stitution.
The resolution declaring Mr.. Clark Of Ala
bama, entitled to his sent was adopted ond
several measures on the private calendar
were disposed OF.
When the report of the Three, Clark con-
tested case had been agreed TO, the House
p1ased the Senate bill increasing rom $3.50.
900 to 5000, 900 the limit OF cost Of the
house public building at FL Paso, Tex.
he claim of W. +. Woodbridge tnr the use ni
Inventions Of projectilea for riael cannon,
was defeated, Ill to 1873. The house then
went into the committee Of the whole on the
private calendar.
RESOLUTIONS were agreed to instructipg the
committee on rules to report rule defining
the extent to which senators shall be at liber.
" to revise their remarks for publication In
the Record; cnlling on the secretary of the
interior for statement Us to the causes OF
withholding patents for lands within the
copy Of the compilation recently made re-.
speGting the legal status of Indians and OF
10 nds within tho Indian territory.
HOUSE.
The House concurred in tie Senate resolu-
ton providing for ON investigation by O Joint
committee of the Senate and House commit
tees on immigration into tho workings of the
federal and state laws relative to immigra.
tiOn from foreign countries. Tho resolution
WINS amended SO ns to direct the joint COM
mittee to investigate the effect on American
workingmen, which il likely to follow the
purchase of American industries by foreign
capitalists.
The Senate bill to prevent tho introduction
ofcontagious diseases from ono state to nm.
other was passed. A number of bridge bills
were also passed.
Mr. Mitchell introduced n joint resolution
proposing nm amendment to tho constitution
providing for the election ofsena tors by votes
Unqualified electors in the staten.
Mr. Danicls introduced n bill providing TINT
national bnnks secure their circulation by
depositing silver bullion with thesccretary Of
the treasury, which shall be coined into dol.
lars in the event of the bunk becoming in.
solvent.
The why's md means committee have prnc.
ticalIy agreed up< Il a tariff bill nnd are rendy
to report 1t with the exception of That clnuse
relating to sugnr. Tho difference of opinion
Low IL as to whether to wipe out entirely the
tnriff on sugar or nuke Is per cent. rvJuc.
tion.
The Democrats, under the lead of Springer,
made o hard fight against the consideration
of the Wyoming admission bill but there were
enough Republicans present to outvote them,
and the bill was taken up. The samo fight
will he made on Idaho, and probably with
the same result.
Mr. Enloe of Tennessee made a motion to
discharge the committee on invalid pensions
from her consideration of the resolution
to investigate tho management of I he pen-
sion office under Commissioner Tanner ms
the committee had taken no action. Mr.. En-.
loe thought the matter should be invcstigat.
ed, concluding his speech MS follows: The
cuse for robbing the public treasury ought
to pnss. II there has been any robbery nnd
corruption, let the light of day bo turned on
and let the men who were concerned in it be
consigned to eternal infamy.
SENATE.
The concurrent resolution for tho nycst:ga.
tion OF immigrant matters, was laid before the
Senate today with the two house amend
ments extending the investigation to the p,ir.
chnse Of American industeries by foreign cup
ital, and to the use OF Bedloe's island in New
York harbor as an immigrant depot.
Passed. The resolution toexcnde from the
Record the interpolatiohsm mnde by Mr.. Callin
the report Of the discussion with Mr.. Chand-
Ter, was agreed to; yeas 30, nays IA. -Four
Democrats voted in the affirmative, viz:
Messrs Payne, Pugh, Vance and Cockrell.
The educational bill was then tnken up, and
Mr.. George spoke in support of tho lili. He
regarded the measure us q generous offer
made by the Northern states to the South.
ern states.
HOUSE.
The house to-day passed Senate bill appro.
priating ~, 100 for the removal OF sund bars
ct the entrance of the harbor of Milwaukee,
Wis. Bills were also pissed granting the
right of way through the SissetOn and
Wnhpeton Indian reservations; in Dakota. to
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroad
Company; and extending time ofpayment to
purchasers fland from the Omaha Indians
in Nebraska.
Along discussion occurred over the proposed
amendment prohibiting theaale of intoxicnt-
ing liquors in the territory of Oklahoma and II
high license amendment; but finally an amend
ment prohibiting the introduction of intox-
icating liquors into the territory until after
the adjournment of tho first session of the
territorial legislature was adopted by a vote
Of 20 to AZ.
A question Of Mr.. Eustis' in relation to
some remarks OF Mr.. Hoar on tho Southern
question precipitated hot political debate,
which lasted through most Of the afternoon
Mr.. Sherman and Mr.. Butler had an interest
ing set-to which provoked applsuse from the
whether he did not know that the
fifteenth amendment never would have
been proposed but for the !act that the laws
Of the Southern states were depriving the
negro Of his rights Of citizenship. Mr.. Euetis
asserted that oil reconstruction measures and
iuueuuIueuIs were uuOpUeO Dy
tho Republican party with the single object
OF Africanizing tho South md maintaining
political supremacy; and this he characreriz-
ed ns the greatest crime ever committed
against civilized communities" Mr.. Sl,er-
man then made q long speech In defense ofre-
construction measures,
HOUSE.
The ways and means committee are still
working hard trying to get together ON the
tariff on sugar, aud it IL now asserted that
an agreement will be reached so that the
bill may be reported to the house certainly
not later thnn the first Of April. The house
passed the bill introduced by Representative
Comstock granting right OF way through
the Mile Lacs Indian reservation to the Lit.
tie Falls. Mile Lacs & Lake Superior.
The house passed-160 to 25-the Okla
homa bill, with amendments. 1t is O substi.
tute for the senate bill on the same subject.
The bill fixes the boundaries ofthe new terri.
tory 80 rs to include the Cherokee outlets
occupy under treaty orlaw shall be included
without their consent, except for judicial pur.
poses
The Grief That Saps the Mind,
IfChicagoisrea lily to win in the end
no citizen Of New York or any other
eastern state need ever expect to be
elected president of the United States.
For her victory .meani.. that the
cost hos passed over to the west
scepter Of political power, or
.,x,shn< Ia tho on mo kh;np II the ond