Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-10-04
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
sorDrxRs' HOMES.

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CIRCUIT COURT OF APPKALs.
The senate passed its substitute for the
house bill establishing circuit court Of ap-
| peals. and asked conference upon it with
the house.
The bill as passed provides for the ap-
| pointment by the president of an additional
| circuit Judge, with the same compensation
as other circuit Judges. Ii creates IN each
circuit circuit court of appeals to consist
| of three Judges. and which is to be q court OF
record, with appellate jurisdiction The
| court is to have a clerk at 5000 year and
a marshal at s.. 500 year. A term Is to Do
| held annually by the circuit court OF appeals
| in the several judicial circuits at the follow
| ing places: Boston, New York City, Phila-
delphia, Richmond, Va, New Orleans, Gin
! cinnati, Chicago, st. Louis, San francisco,
and at such other places in each of the cir
cults as said court may from time to time
| designate. q
PENSIONS FOR WIDOWS OF GENERALS.
| The house passed sen ate bills granting
pension of $1,000 a year to the widows OF
! Generals Fremont. Nc Clelland and Crook.
OPENING RESERVATIONS.
The house passed the senate bill with an
amendment including PagOsa Springs reser-
vation) opening to homestead settlement the
Fort Lyon and the old Fort Lyon military
reservations in Colorado.
| THE ARKANSAS VACANCY.
! A resolution was adopted by the house di-
recting the clerk of the house to forward to
| the governor of Arkansas copy OF the reso-
luton declaring that there was vacancy IN
the Second congressional district OF that
state.
| OFFICIAL REGULATION.
| Investigation has been instituted in the
house of the official acts of the present and
last postmasters of the house. 1t Is charged
| that contractor, employed by the house
postmaster, at $5,O00 a year, for carrying the
house mails, has during several congresses,
been giving the postmater $50 month.
1t was asserted in the house that the pres
! ent postmaster stopped the practice after re-
| ceiving the money five months, and covered
the amount received into the treasury, as
soon as his attention was called to the matter.
NICKLE STEEL ARMOUR.
! The house passed a bill appropriatlnR one
million dollars to enable the secretary OF the
navy to buy nickle ore for the manufacture
| of nickle steel armour.
M'KINLEY EXPLAINS.
| Mr.. Mckinley in commenting upon the
| conference report on the tariff bill said:
'We consented to the reciprocity provision
put into our bill by the senate, a provision
! which is perfectly we'll understood by both
/ sides of this house. 1t is declaration that,
whereas the United States has already made
coffee and hides free and now proposes to
make sugar free, in the interest of reciprocal
trade arrangements with other countries,
and with the expectation that we shall secure
valuable concessions from those countries,
therefore in the event that these countries do
not respond to the reciprocity on the part OF
the American congress, the president of the
United States may by proclamation declare
that they have furnished us no reasonable or
/ Just reciprocal advantages In return for our
! concessions, and therefore the duties fixed by
. this bill shall be imposed upon these articles.
We have accepted the amendment known as
B tho ga ldrioh aTnandDnenfS' and in6ul0a
the hope that in accordance with the expecta-
ton and belief of so many distinguished men
all over the country this will enable US to
open yet great fields for the products of our
farms. We have accepted this amendment
in the hope that such a result will be fully
realized.
CUMMINGS DENoUNCEs.
Mr.. Cummings. of New York, declared
that the doctrine of American protection was
the most pernicious that had ever permeated
the American people. This bill was not pro-
lection to industry, but was depriVing Us of
markets.
MMIILEN PROPHECIES.
Mr.. McMillen, of Tennessee, said the house
had now reached the final Get when it was
about 10 impose the greatest burden ever
placed upon the people of the United States.
M'KINLEY SUMS UP.
Mr.. Mckinley said that the committee had
so far Disseminated in the adjustment of the
tariff as 10 give protection to our people, de-
Tense to their industries and compensation to
make up the difference between prices paid
labor IN Europe and prices paid labor in the
United States.
For it was the pride of this country that il
paid more and better wages to its workmen
than were paid anywhere else on the face of
Gods earth.
This bill, if it became a law, would put
upon the free list one BALI the products which
the United States imported, the like of which
was never known in any tariff bill passed by
the congress of the United States. Under
the Mills bill only 40 per cent. of foreign
importations were placed on the free list.
This bill recognized the principle which was
found in the Morrill, act-a principle on
which this country had risen to be the first
manufacturing nation of the world. Gen
tlemen on the other side would tax the peO-
pie of this country to make an income for
the government. The republican party would
tax the product of other people seeking mar
kets in the United states to supply the neces-
sary revenues of government.
PAssEs THE HOUSE.
The conference report was then agreed to
yeas 152 (the speaker voting in the affirm
ative); nays, 81.
CHoCTAW MINES.
The senate passed the senate bill giving
assent to coal mine leases in the Choctaw ma
non. Inc mousse passed THIS DILL later IN tho
day.
TARIFF IN THE SENATE.
Senator Morgan said that the only great
leading principle of the bill was higher taxa
hon of the people and greater profits to those
engaged In manufacture.
Senator Sherman addressed the senate in
general defense and advocacy of the princi-
pie of protection.
Senator Paddock said he should vote
against the conference report. "If, f" said he,
1T was purely political question he should
cheerfully accept the judgment of the ma
iority of his party associates, but he could
not consider this great economic problem as
one entirely political in its nature, affecting,
as it did, vita interests of his Immediate
constituency and of the entire west"
GENERAL DEFICIENCY BILL
The conference report on the general def
cency bill W agreed to in both houses.
PosToFFICE CLERKS.
The house concurred in the senate amend
ments to the house bill granting leave of
absence to clerks and employees of first and
second class postoffices. The amendment
extends the benefits of the measure to en-
ployes in mail bag repair shops.
EXTENSION or TIlIs TO Ho11EsfKADERs.
The house passed the senate bill extending
for one year the time for payment by settlers
m r1a1hlio lauda in naaa 0f droa1ka