Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-07-08
CONGRESSIONAL.
N THE SENATE.

WASHINGTON, July thin the Senate to. day
the conference report on the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill was agreed TO.
Morrill, moved TO take up the tariff bill say
ing it could be then laid aside informally until
the shipping bills were disposed OF. The Senate
reused-ayes 20, noes "a.
The Senate bill 10 provide United States
Land curt, and provide for the settlement CT
priva e land claims in New Mexico, Wyoming,
Arizona, Nevada and Colorado, was discussed
until . o'clock, when it was laid aside without
action, and the shipping bills resumed.
Reagan 81 oke against the bills. At the close
of his remarks the election bill was received
from the House, and wa;, on motion of Frye
ORDERED TO lie on the table until the return TO
Washington of the Chairman of the ommittee
on Privileges and Elections (Hoar).
Morgan opposed the bills, and Frye made
some remarks in their support.
Sherman presented a conference report on the
silver bill. After it was read he gave notice
that he would call it up for action tomorrow
morning.
After an executive session the Senate ad
| journed.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, July THIN the House to-day
Bland, rising TO a question of privilege haC
| read a dispatch stating that he was absent from
| the silver conference meeting Saturday. Ht
also read note from Chairman Conger stating
| that there would be no meeting Saturday. HI
did not desire to be advertised as not attendinl
| 80 his duty, when he was notified that his pres
i enee was not required.
After the transaction of some other business
| the House went into Committee of the Who'll,
for the consideration of the senate bill to forfei
certain iands heretofore granted for the purpos,
of aiding the construction of railroads, with tn.
| House substitute therefor
| Payson explained the bill in general This
provisions proposed TO forfeit and restore to thu
public domain all public lands, wherever stu
4 ated, which have been granted in aid of con
| siFucton, where the railroads have not beer
| completed at This time. There have beer
| thirty-seyen Jailroads aided by Acts of Congress
faa pt
| time fixed Dy Congress. Twelve of these road
have been forfeited, comprising so 900 900 acres
| That left twenty-five roads which have no
been acted upon. Nine have been fully com
| pleted. That lie { sixteen roads now uncom
| pleted, and the House substitute recommended
\ the forfeiture of all lsnds lying opposite suef
| portions OF the roads as are not now completed
| IL IS his opinion that a bill of broader charac
| ter could never pass the Senate and become {
law. A careful estimate was to the effect tra
| the bill would restore 20 100000 acres to the
public domain
| stone of Missouri took the position that {
| forfeiture should be made of all lands which
| had not been earned by the railroads at the
| time fixed IN the granting Acts for the compile
| ton of the roads. The Northern Pacific road
! he said, was most vitality interested in thi,
measure. He quoted from speeches by Paysor
| in the twenty-eighth and twenty. ninth Con
gress unfolding the right of Congress 10 forfeit
4 lands unearned at the time fixed by the grant
| ing Acts, and attacked that gentleman for wha
| he declared was a change of front. The pend
ing legislation the railroads. especially the
| Northern Pacific, demanded OF Congress The
| Speaker Reed in the forty seventh Congress
when Chairman of the Judiciary Committee
| reported that congress had no power to forfeit
an acre of the Northern Pacific grant since
| then Thomas B. Reed has been recognized as q
| friend ami jealous companion of that great
arrogant and corrupt corporation on the
| hoor of the house. This corporation knew
| It's friends, and it stood by them mos
Loyalty. IL was an open seere
that no infi1ei ce had been more potential in
| the organization of the House than that exer;ed
| by tue Northern Pacific Railroad. The passage
OF the DILL under consideration was a matter o
| FIRST importance 10 this corporation. The bill
wonld pass he bosses must Insist upon it
they could hot do otherwise. aud the rest of the
other poor fellows on the other side of the aisle
with their hands tied aud their lips SILENT ex
| cep; when the parllsm ntary JOS uniied one
| tha; they might clap applause through his ut
terance, or that they might chant servile
chorus to the com n anding tones OF his majestic
solos, must ioilow b,indiy wherever they were
! led. 4 beyond their parliamentary auiocrai
Was the great constitueney-the people of the
| Uni co Sgaies-and to that forum wonid be car
| ried this cause, which the majority stood ready
| to betray.
| Lace of Iowa favored the pending bill.
Pending further debate the committee rose
\ and the House adjourned.