Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-02-22
FlFTY-FlRST CONGRESS.
Senate,


WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-Senate holds no
session until Tuesday.
W~AsHrNGToN, Feb. Ex-senator Hoar in
troduced "a bill to prescribe, in part, the.
manner OF the election of members of con-
gress, and it was referred.
The senate then resumed consideration
of the bill TO provide "a temporary govern
ment for Oklahoma. Went over without
action.
The following bills passed The senate
bill appropriating 100000 for a public
building at Burlington, Ia, and 500, 600 for
a public building at Beatrice, Neb. The
senate bill for the relief of certain settlers
on public lands also passed. IL provides
for legalizing land claims fled during q
vacancy in the land offices.
Blair then resumed his address on his'
education bill.
Among the bills introduced and referred
in the senate were the following:
BY Senator MISUNDERSTANDING n
public school system I'm Utah; also prpvid-
ing for the inspection of meats for eSporta'
ton, prohibiting the importation OF adui'
terated articles of food or drink, and au-
thorizing the president to make u procla-
nation in certain cases.
BY Senator Pierce-To create an ngri-
cultural commission to investigate the
present depressed condStion of the agri
cultural interests of the country.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.--The senate unstn-
imously passed q resolution recognizing
the new republic of Brazil.
A resolution inviting the king OF the
Hawaiian Islands to seod a delegate no TIE
Pan American congress was also passed.
In executive session the senate I'm ally
confirmed the nomination of Morgan to be
commissioner of Indian affairs by a wore OF
. to 10.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.-Bills were placed
on the calendar for the establishme at and
maintenance of Indian industrial schools
in Michigan and South Dakota,
The senate bill appJopxiating S5O,O00 for
a public building at Portland. Ore, passed.
The senate then resusled consideration
OF the bill TO prove q temporary govern
ment for Oklahoma and the amendment to
include No Mans Land within re new
territory passed. Some further formal
amendments were agreed to and the bill
passed.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-In the senate 4
number Of bills passed, including the fol
lowing: This house bill for the relief of
the sufferers by the WI eek of the United
States steamers at Samoa; the bill appro
priating S25, 90 for the relief of the Sioux
Indians at Devils Lake agency, North Da-
kota; providing for an assistant secretary
of war at a salary Of $40 for the relief
of soldiers or sailors wlo enlisted OIL
stINth uhuti dSShiuct hohhNS W ~ NNh
the obstruction of ~navigable waters ana
TO protect works against tr,spass
or injury; to provide for the
disposal of the Fort Sedgwick
military reservation, in the States of Col
orado and Nebraska to actual settlers un.
der the provisions of the homestead laws
appropriating 5000 600 fora public building
at Eau Claire; to prevent the introduction
Of contagious diseases from one state &c
another: a concurrent resolution for inter
national arbitration.
The bill to declare unlawful trusts an
combinations in restraint of trade ant
production having been reached on the
caleraar, it was laid aside for the present,
Altogether there were sixty bills passed.