Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-02-01
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
pocKERY's AarRNpMENr.

AlbcT long QleCuSSlOus du d14CAAAA~AS
proposed by Mr.. Dockery, of Missouri, was
adopted, prohibiting any United States
marshal, deputy or agent to prove Hsle or
hold any lot in Oklahoma
WORLDS FAIR COMMITTEE.
The speaker has appointed the worlds
far committee as follows: Messrs- Chand-
Ter of Massachusetts, HIT of Illinois, bow
den of Virginia. Belden of New YORK,
Frank of Missouri. Springer of ILLINOIS,
Hatch of Missouri. Wilson of West Virginia,
and Flower Of New York.
FEDERAL CONTROL OF ELECTIONS.
Senator Pasco addressed the senate upon
the paragraph in the presidents message
relating to federal control OF elections.
He said that no political party would nave
dared before the war, to enter on pohtl-
cal campaign with plank in its platform
c aiming the right to exercise control over
elections in ire state. 1t had been face
that since the war republican leaders had
treated southern states as inferior to north
ern states. The message of the president ne
said) had conta ned moth ng IN favor OF free
and honest elections, except as to the sup
preston of votes of colored people at the
south There was no evidence before the
country of any such suppress sion. None had
been communicated to congress. 1t was
simply a matter of inference.
Senator Chandler said there was one cit
izen of Florida who would not come north
to testify concerning political outrages.
That man was John Burr. colored citizen
of Madison county, Florida. who, in Octo-
her last. having been TO Jacksonville as
witness concerning political outrages, was
killed on his return to Madison county on
account of the testimony which he had
given. He also reminded MI. Pasco of
other political muir ers and outrages IN
Florida. going back as far as ISL IT there
was any one state that needed the benefit
of a federal election law, in connection with
the conpr ssional elections, it was the state
of Florida.
NEW HOUSE BILLS.
Among new bills in the house are: one by
Funston. of Kansas, to divide the state OF
Kansas into the northern and southern judi
cial districts; one by Kelly, of Kansas, (by
re luest) approprlatlng 100000 to the cree
ton of a monument to the negro soldiers
and sailors of the late war.
",ooNEsS."
The Oklahoma townsite bill is made as
explicit as possible, in committee of the
whole house. so as Enthusiastically to prohibIt
any party who was in the Oklahoma country
prior to the hour of opening. from the right
of taking or holding any town lot.
FORT HAYS SOLDIERS HOME.
The senate committee agreed to recon-
mend that two sections and half be set
apart for the Soldiers Home at the Ft.
Hays military reservation.
FARM MORTGAGES.
Senator Berry spoke upon his bill, which
had been adversely reported by the census
committee which directs the superintend-
emit of the census to ascertain what per
centage of the pc PIE own their farms, the
number of farms under mortgage and the
amount thereof. Senators Berry and Vest
discussed the measure, but no action was
taken.
APACHE PRISONERS.
The seuate passed the senate joint resolu-
ut,fhorifxy fnr rho raronvol nf
the Apache Indian pr soners and their fam
lilies from Alabama to Fort Still, l. L.
SNAIL CHANGE.
A bill was introduced in both the house
and senate to discontinue the coinage of
three-dollar and dollar gold pieces and
of three cents and nickels.
AGRICULTURAL COMM ssIoN.
Mr.. Funston, of Kansas introduced
bill for the creation of an agricultural COM
mission to investigate the causes of the
present depressed condition of the agricul-
tural interests.
ARKANSAS ELECTIONS.
Mr.. Kelley, of Kansas, presented to the
house as memorial a resolution recently
adopted by the Kansas legislature relative
to Arkansas election methods. The reSOlu-
ton alleges the grossest frauds in the cleo
tons in Arkansas, intimidation of repIbli-
cans, and cites the assassination of John
Nj. Clayton. The resolution lmplores con-
gress to enact laws which will secure honest
elections, even if it is necessary to place
the state under military rule.
MISSOURI RIVER sNAGs.
The senate JOINT resolution sppropriating
$3.50, 900 for the removal of snags from the
Missouri river, having been amended in the
house so as to make the amount s 5000,
the senate refused to concur. and a COM
mittee of conference was appointed.
FARM MORTGAGES.
The senate considered the bill providing
that there shall be included IN the census
statistics regarding farm mortgages, and
finally re- committed the bill to the commit
tee.
UNITED STATES PRISONS.
Mr.. Stewart, of Georgia, from the COM
mttee on the judiciary, repoi ted the bill au-
thorizIng the attorney general and the sec
rotary of the interio to purchase two sites,
one to be located north and the other south
of the thirty ninth degree of latitude, and
to erect thereon buildings for the confine-
ment of United States prisoners, at a cost
of 100000 each, and appropriating 100000
for workshops. This was sought to be
amended so as to provide three such prisons,
two east of the Rocky mountTns aud one
west: and with this amendment pending the
bill went over for later consideration.
CONTESTED SEATS.
The house elections committee is ready to
report upon the first OF the seventeen cases
of contest, that from West Virginia, II
VIII CHI the report will recommend unseating
jackson. and declar ng Smith, the republI-
can contestant entitled to the seat. But the
democratic members of the house will, if
poSs BILE, prevent any action upon contests
until the house has adopted rules for the
sess on. At present the house is governed
by general parliamentary law as construed
by the speaker.
DEPORTATION.
The senate took up Senator Buffers bill
to provide for the emigration of persons of
color from the southern states, and Senator
Ingalls, spoke upon it; the senate chamber
and galleries being packed full of people.
few paragraphs from his speech are
here given:
He said: ION the threshold of our second CEN
tury we are confronted with the most formidable
and portentious problem ever submitted to a free
people for solution-complex. unprecedented,
involving social moral and political considera-
tions, party supremacy and in the estimation of
many Though not 10 my own the existence OF
our government. Its solution has baftied the
statesmen of the past and must be solved BY the
present statesmen and those OF the future. 1t
should be approached with candor, with sol
emnity with patriotic purposes, with fearless
scrutiny without subterfuge and without reserve.
Fred Douglass, the most iQustrious living
representative of the negro race, greater, think
By his Caucasian reinforcement than by his Afrl-
fo md he fhOUOht