Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-09-27
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The following bills, unobjected to,
on the calendar We're, among others,
passed: To confirm certain sales of the
Kansas Trust & Diminished Reserve
Lands in the state of Kansas; appropri-
ating $4,000 for public building at
Fergus Falls, Mimi; to provide addi-
of Puget Sound and rivers tributary
thereto, in the state of Washington; ex-
tending the privileges Of the free de-
livery of mails to towns having popu-
lation of 5000, or gross postal revenue
of $4,000; to amend section 837 of
the revised statutes relating to the
fees and emoluments of district at
torneys, marshals and clerks IN Oregon,
Nevada, Idaho, Montana, North and
South Dakota, and Wyoming; granting
right Of way through the Fort Douglas
military reservation, Utah, to the Salt
Lake City Railroad Company; also
House bill for the restoration of Tene-
dor Ten Eyck to his former rank in the
army, and to place him on the retired
list: Consideration of the House bill to
define and regulate the jurisdiction of
the courts of the United States from the
Judiciary committee, was resumed, An
amendment offered by Mr. Ingalls, was
adopted. Without further action the
bill was laid aside informally, and the
private pension bills on the calen dar
were taken up and eighty-fve of them
passed in fifty minutes.
MONDAY, Sept. 22.-Among unobiected
to bills passed by the Senate this morn
ing are the following Senate bills: To
change the boundaries of the Uncom-
rancho punta de la Laguna; to create
SUPPORT of entry and delivery at
Neche, n. d. Mr. Plumb offered res
olution (Which was agreed to- calling
on the secretary of the interior to re-
port whether the lands granted to the
state of California on certain conditions,
by the act of June 80, 1864, (the Yosem-
lite valley and Mariposa Big Tree grant,
have been spoliated or otherwise di-
verted from the public use contemplated
by the grant. The Senate then re-
sumed consideration of the bill to
define and regulate the iuris diction OF
the courts of the United u+otes-the
pending question being onoMr. Dan
lels' amendment offered last c,+urday
extending the jurisdiction ST. 90 41,o on,
preme court to all cases of VI ~ 81
felony, and to all cases VIII onV ~ 49, ~
ter in dispute is the right t. to personal
liberty or the right to the custody of
child. The amendment was rejected.
Mr.. Vest offered substitute for the bill.
1t proposes that there shall be three
divisions of the supreme court, to be
composed of three Justices each; that
the chief justice shall make as
slgnments to these divisions; that
all final decisions in either of these di-
VISIONS shall be considered by the
court in banc, and shall require the con-
of hot h0
chief Justice shall apportion the business
to those divisions. Mr.. Vest did not in
slst on vote being taken on his amend
ment, and the bill was then reported
from the committee of the whole to the
Senate. Without disposing of the bill,
the Senate went into executive session
and soon adjourned.
TUESDAY, Sept. 23.-Mr. Hale intro
duced joint resolution (which was re-
ferred to the committee on public build
lngs) for the erection, in the District of
Columbia, of memorial building to the
memory of U. S. Grant, which is to con-
tain military and naval museum,
etc, and in the inner court
OF which may be placed to rest
the mortal remains of distin-
guished Americans. A resolution au-
thorlzlng the select committee on rela-
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vestigations during the recess and the
next session, was reported from the
committee on contingent expenses and
agreed to. The following were passed:
House bill to provide for the disposal of
a portion of the United States military
reservation at Baton Rouge, La;
the Senate bill to refer to the court
of claims certain claims of the
Shawnee and Delaware Indians, and
the freemen of the Cherokee nation
went over without action. The House
bill to regulate the jurisdiction CO the
courts of the United States went over
without action. The Senate, in execu-
tive session to-day, reconsidered the
nomination of George B. Nancy, Of
Tennessee, to be minister to Uruguay
and Paraguay. 1t was concurred in by
two-thirds of the senators present. The
nomination of Mr.. Nancy was one of
the first sent to the Senate at this session
of Congress, but it has been held up I'M
til now by charges made against him
relating to his personal habits.
BLOODY FIGHT WITH NATIVES.
Erench TrOOns VictoriuuS After a DeSper-