The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1890-10-04
Passed the House.

Passed the House.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-In the house to-
day, on motion of Payson of Illinois, the
senate bill was passed extending for n
year the time for the payment by settlers
on public lands in cases of drought.
TIE APPROPRIATIONS.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-The appropria-
lions made by the first session of the Fifty
first congress were 1851 ,S11, sos. The per-
manent annual appropriations for the year
1S90-91 amount to $lO1, 2S,453. making q
grand total for the year of $462, 9S9, 958. The
increase over the Fiftieth congress is
$4O,3 ,613.
The conference report on the tariff bill,
after debate in the senate, was laid aside
informally without action.
The conference report on the bill open
ing for settlement a portion of the Fort
Randall military reservation in South Da-
kOta, was agreed to.
OUR SENATOR'S SALARY.
Hoar, from the committee on privileges
and elections, reported a resolution (Which
was adopted) declaring that the senators
from North and South Dakota, Montana
and Wyoming are entitled to their COM
pensation from the date of admission of
| those states.
A conference was ordered on the house
bill to provide for the disposition of the
abandoned Fort Ellis military reservation,
Montana. under the homestead law.
Individual pension bills OF the calendar
were then taken up n passed IA il Is
minutes).
Senate bill granting right Of way across
the Fort Assinnab0ine military reserva-
ton to the Great Northern railway was
| passed.
A MONUMENT FOR THE NEGROES.
Representative Miller of South Carolina
to-day introduced a bill making an appro-
priation of $25O,0OO for the erection Of q
monument in some city to be selected by q
committee appointed for that purpose to
the negro soldiers who fought in the union
army during the late war.
He also introduced a bill apprOpriating
$1,OOO,0O for the erection of a suitable
home where disabled ex-slaves may he
cared for.
ARREARS OF PENSIONS.
Representative Owen of Indiana to-day
introduced a bill providing that all PEN
sions granted to soldiers upon applications
filed after the LIST of July, 1880, and which
have been granted In consequence of
wounds received in the line of duty. shall
commence and be paid from the date Of
honorable discharge. The commissioner
Of pensions is authorized to adopt such
rules for the payment Of arrears of PEN
siOns granted, and the secretary of the
treasury is directed to issue bonds of the
United State to the amount of S5O0.000y00O
per cent. interest, payable In thirty years
from date. Every soldier OF person who
may be entitled to receive arrears OF PEN
siOns under the law may elect to receive
vided.
The census bureau today announced the
population of cities and towns as follows:
Butte City, Mont, 1O,7Ol; increase, 1888.
Helena, Mont. 1884; increase, 1920. The
population Of the state Of Montana is 49,
769. In 1880 the population was $3.50, N
increase of $3.50, OF 1850 per cent.
THE WHEAT INVESTIGATION.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-The investigs-
ton into the charges preferred against
Postmaster Wheat still continues, and .
large number Of witnesses were examined
to-day. The testimony taken would tend
to criminate the postmaster and his son,
Walter.
PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE EXPENSE.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-The secretary
of state to-day sent . statement of the dis
bursements from the appropriation for ex-
penses of the late pan-American con-
ference. The appropriation was $125.O00
and The expenditures 8l24,e79.89, the bal
ance, SOIL, being turned into the treas
$$46,495 for tours Of inspection; 824.658& for
the pay Of various employees; $iS,290 for
sten0graphers' services, and $16,174 for the
expenses OF American delegates, Trescot's
expenses being the highest on the list,
$S,24O and C~arnegie's the lowest, $50.
Nihilism Again.
VIENNA, Sept. "a report Is current
here that q deliberate attempt wa made