Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-10-03

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-In the house to-
day, on motion Of Payson of Illinois. the
senate bill was passed extending for one
year the time for the payment by settlers
on public lands in cases of drought. Z
THE APPROPRIATIONS.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-The appropria-
tions made by the first session of the Fifty
first congress were 1851, 311 ,5O9. The per-
manent annual appropriations for the year
189O-9l amount to SOL, 628, 1853. making a
grand total for the year of $462, 9S9, 1855. The I
increase over the Fiftieth congress is /
$4O,313,613.
The conferences 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 SENATORS 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 reservations, |
Montana. under the homestead law.
Individual pension bills on the calendar
were then taken up ana passed IA il 25
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 $250,000 for the erection OF a.
monument in some city to be selected by a
committee appointed for that, Sarpose to
commemorate the valor andS 92tism of
the negro soldiers who fous4 %Aelnnion
army during the late war.I
He also introduced a biz
81, O0O,0 900 for the erectiOsS
home where disabled eXAIa,-
cared for.
ARREARS OF PENSIONS. IT,
Representative Owen of Indiana to-day
introduced a bill providing that dill 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 $500, 900, 900
to pay the arrears of pensions. bearing 21&
per cent. interest, payable in thirty years
from date. Every soldier OF person who
may be entitled to receive arrears of PEN
Gl0nc 1n6ar tho Ia w ~ 01ont tn rannSryo&l
such portions thereof in the bonds pros
vided. n
The census bureau to-day announced thess
population of cities and towns as follOWs:B
Butte City, Mont, l0,70l; increase, 1885
Helena, Mont. 1884; increase, 1920. Thee
population of the state of Montana is 49,,
769. In 1880 the population was 80, l59, ant
increase OF $3.50, or 2S6. so per cent. q
THE WHEAT INVESTIGATION. n
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-The investgaI]
ton into the charges preferred a~gainstd
Postmaster Wheat still continues, and aN
large number of witnesses were examined
to-day. The testimony taken would tend
to criminate the postmaster and his son
Walter. >5 5%T1-
PAN-AMERICAN CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.-The secretary,
Of state to-day sent a statement of the dis
bursements from the appropriation for ed
penses of the late pan-American con
ference. The appropriation was $125,OO1
and 1he expenditures 1924, 979. 80, the bal
ance, $2011, being turned into the treas
ury. The principal expenditures were
$46,495 for tours Of inspection; $$24,558 FOL
the pay Of various employees; $l8,22O fol
stenographers' services, and $15,174f for thu
expenses Of American delegates, .Trescotl
expenses being the highest on the lis1
$S,24O and Carnegie's the lowest, $780,.
Nihilism Again.
VIENNA, Sept. ga report is .currMMa
here that a deliberate attempt was mi Z
upon the lives of King Alexander Of Se1$ :
and his father, ex-king Milan, at BelgraM
yesterday. The story that a bOmbswasM
~cidentally exploded under the royal&
rage is said to have been given tOER
authorities in order to minimize the
portance Of the affair. s3