The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-20
CONGRESSIONAL.
A. Resume Of the Proceedings
Of Congress During the
Past Week.
SENATE.

| 0SU w CChs.
SENATE.
| The following bills were taken up and pass.
| ed by the senate Senate bill for public
| building at Racine, Wis., to cost ST SO, OOO
increasing cost of public building at Duluth
from $15O,OOO to $275. 900.
The senate committee on finance consider.
ed and amended the house silver bill, and
| will offer it as a substitute for the senate
bill.
| Adverse reports were made from the f.
nance committee on Mr.. Stanford's bill for
| government loans on liens of real estate and
| on the bill to abolish metal money, and the
bills were indefinitely postponed.
| HOUSE.
The dependent pension bill as agreed upon
by the conference and reported to the house,
after providing for the pensioning OF depend
| emit parents, says that all persons who served
! three months or more in the military or
naval service of the United States during the
War of the Rebellion and who have been
honorably discharged therefrom, and who
are now or who may hereafter be suffering
from q mental or physical disability of q
| paramount character, not the result of
| their vicious habits, which incapacitates
| from their performance OF manual labor in
| such a degree to render them unable
| to earn a support, shall be placed upon the
| States to be entitled to receive pension not
to exceed $12 per month and not less than
| $6 per month, proportional to their ina bility
to earn support. such pension to continue
| during the existence of such disability. Rank
| in the service shall not be considered in ap.
plications filed under this act" Provision
is made for pensioning at the rate of So per
month widows Of men who served ninety
days without proving death the result of
army service, and likewise granting 50 a
month to each child under sixteen years of
age. Ten dollars is fixed as limit of the
fee to be charged by agents in preparing
cases under this act
SENATE
Senator Davis explained at length the pen
sion bill as it was agreed upon by the confer
ence committee. AS heretofore stated, the
service clause is stricken out. Provision is
made for graded pensions from Sc to $12 per
month in certain cases, according to the de-
gree OF disability. Another feature is analo-
| gous to the Mexican pension act, giving to
widows So per month where the death OF the
husband is not the result of casualty, and
| $12 per month where it is proven that death
| is the result of casualty.
| HOUSE.
| Mr.. Henderson of Iowa. from the commit
| tee on appropriations, reported to the house
an urgent deficiency bill appropriating 3d.
| 7OS.0OO for the payment of pensions and
$3,O75.OOO for expenses of the eleventh GEN.
sus. Passed.
Mr.. Henderson, of Iowa, from the commit
| tee on appropriations, reported an urgent
deficiency bill approprating $3,7Os, 900 for
| the payment oil pensions and $3, 900 for
| the expenses of the 18th census. Passed
Mr.. Hitt OF Illinois, from the committee
on foreign affairs reported back to the Lodge
resolution, calling on the secretary of the
| treasury for in formation as to the refusal of
the Cunard Steamship company to give re-
turn passage to certain immigrants brought
| to this country in violation of the contract
labor law. Adopted.
The Republican members of the senate
| finance committee have disposed of all the
schedules OF the tariff bill with the excep-
ton OF those relating to sugar and tobacco,
and they have been delivered to Mr.. Car
| Isle, representing the minority of the COM
mittee. 1t is thought the bill will be ready
| to report to the senate in a few days.
Senator Moody presented another batch
of petitions from Sanborp. Hughes and Day
! counties. 5. D. favoring speedy action on
the bill designed to counterfeit the original
| package decision.
The Sundry civil bill carries appropria-
| tions for salaries and commissions of regis
| ters and receivers at public land Offices of
| $3.50, 900. This is precisely the same as
was appropriated for this same purpose last
year. Since the last appropriation was
of which two are in Washington, two in Mon
tana and two in South Dakota. The fact
| that no additional appropriation was made
to provide for these has caused considerable
| talk at the department of the interior
| While the irrigation clause of the sundry
civil appropriation bill was under consider
alton in the house, Carter of Montana made
u short talk. He claimed that the survey of
this country, whether it resulted in irriga-
tion by the government ornot. was necessary
and fully as important as the coast and
| geological surveys. The lands were now
withdrawn from market and could not be
taken except where the government had
made surveys and located reserve sites and
determined that sites could not be proftably
located in certain sections. Mr.. Carter says
that the work OF survey in the arid region,
ascertaining the he. ght OF mountains, the
water supply and geological condition Of the
land, is u benefit to the country.
| SENATE.
After some unimportant morning business,
the senate proceeded to the considerating of
bills on the calendar.
The house bill granting the right of way to
the Duluth & Manitoba Railway company
across the Fl Penn bina reservation in North
Dakota: was passed and also the senate bill
to credit Major Wham. army pay muster,
with $2S, 395 government funds of which he
was robbed in Arizona IN May, 1889. After
the passage o: 80 private pension bills the
| SENATE WeuU INTO executive session.
| HOUSE.
The speaker announced the appointment
| OF Mr.. f. G. Taylor, OF Ohio, Mr.. Stewart
| (Vt.) and Mr.. Bland, of Mo-, as conferees on
the antitrust bill. Mr.. Bland said that, as
the house had instructed it's conierees to re-
cede from the amendment there was no fur
| Their interest i'll the matter and he asked to
be excused from serving on the committee.
SENATE.
| ~ - 49, o;,k o1,,%:
questing the president to invite an interna-
| tional conference to meet in Washington
with view to the formation of an interna-
tional alliance for the suppression OF slavery
and the slave trade; OF the traffic intoxi-
eating liquors. firearms and destructive SUBJ
stances with uncivilized people, and to pro-
mote the esta bshment of schools of com.
mon knowledge, art and industry among
them; also to secure the disarmament of ma
tions and the organization of International