Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-08-01
CONGRESSIONAL.

CONdhESS1ON
Nh. Plumb expressed the opinion that
the home for pOlygamous women in Utah
being maintained there by the government
was An utter failure, and said that he
found that to be the general view at Salt
Lake. He regarded expenditure for it as q
great waste Of public money.
Mr.. EdmundS stated the purpose of con-
| gress to be that of aiding the work of Chris
| tan women in Utah to save Mormon wo-
| men from the slavery Of pOlygamy. He
| admitted that not many Mormon women
| took advantage of it, but he said the build
| ing was an open invitation to them and
that he sho1ld be glad to have the people
Of the United States help the home for
| that reason alone.
Mr.. COckrell stated it as his belief that
there were no persons at the home except
those who were receiving salaries from the
United States.
Among the items of interest to the south
west in the general deficiency bill reported
to the house are the following: To carry
out the provisions of the Oklahoma town
site act S40, 600 for Haskell institute, Law
renee, Kan, S110; expenses Of the United
states circuit court in the Indian territory,
n, IA; for additional expenses incurred by
the government fish hatchefies at NeoshO,
Mo-, $4,000
The Senate will have up the tariff bill! for
final consideration this week. The Indian
appropriation will be considered also
which is the last but one of the apprOpria-
ton bills. The finance committee will
take under advisement several amendments
to the bill and will likely report upon them.
The Republicans may call caucus to con-
federal election bill to be taken up. The
managers Of the original package bill are
anxious to get a vote on it as soon as posi-
BILE and this may be reached by the last Of
the week.
The senate bill giving pension of 1000
year to Mrs. Jessie Fremont was reported
from the committee on pensions and placed
on the calendar.
The senate proceeded to the considera-
ton of the Indian appropriation bill.
Having disposed Of thirty-three pages Of
the bill Exactly One-half) the bill was laid
aside until tomorrow.
The house bill for the disposal of the
Fort Ellis reservation under the homestead
law taken from the calendar and passed
with an amendment. Also the house
bill granting certain lanes to Miles City,
Mont, for public park.
The house committee on merchant ma
rine has recommended that the senate bill
to place the American merchant marine
engaged in the foreign trade on an equality
with that of other nations be passed in
place of the bill already reported favOrably
by the committee of the house, as they are
almost identical.
The senate committee on pensions or
dered favorable report to be made on the
bill granting a pension of $1,000 to the
widow of General Mcclellan.
OF INTEREST TO wESTERNERS.
The house committee on Military affairs
has favorably reported Congressman Nor
rilrs bill for the relief Of Major John NJ.
Lang, Of LeavenwOrth, Kansas. A new
postOffice has been established at Enter
prise, Ch0ctaw nation, l. T., with W. c.
V. McCarty, as postmaster, supplied
special from Broken. DIR. John Ii. Hig-
bee has been appointed medical pension
examiner at Greensburg, Kans.
THE FISHERY CORRESPONDENCE.
The president has sent to the house the
official correspondence between the gov
eminent of the United States and the
government of Britain touching the seal
fisheries of the Behring sea. The cores
pOndence includes thirty-eight separate
papers beginning with a letter from Mr..
Edwards, first secretary of legation and
charge ID affairs after Minister Vests
IcCdll, anu anu last ltlttE OI
this mass Of correspondence, which would,
if printed entire, fill over twenty newspa-
per columns, was addressed by Mr.. Bl"ine
to Cir Julian POuncefOte from Bar HarbOr,
last Saturday. In it the secretary says:
81 am instructed by the president to say
that the United States is willing to con-
slider all the proceedings of April 16, 1888,
as cancelled so far as American rights may
be concerned. This government will ask
Great Britain to adhere only to the agree
ment made between Lord Salisbury and
Mr.. Phelps on the % of February, 1888.
That was an agreement made directly be-
tween the two governments and did not
Salisbury to adhere to the agreement of
February 25. We leave the agreement of
April Is to be maintained, if maintained
at all, by Russia, for whose cause and for
whose advantage it was particularly de-
signed"
THE ORIGINAL PACKAGE BILL. q.
The original package bill will 60 into
conference. The house conferees will be
E. B. Taylor, of Ohio, Stewart of Vermont
and Culberson of Texas. The senate con.
fereos have not yet been selected, but they
wiz be three members from the committee
on judiciary, probably EdmOnds of Yer
mort, Wilson of Iowa and West of Mis-
L uc ulUlCdllOuS DIT tutt tllt uOuSc
will recede from its amendment, the Reed
substitute. and that something like the
Wilson bill will be agreed upon. The
senate will be disposed to stand by its bill,
and many of the members of the house
who supported the Reed substitute now
believe that they ought to have voted for
the Wilson bill.
The dressed-beef people are very much
afraid of the Reed substitute, and the
ultra prOhbitiOnists are hardly satisfied
with its provisions. They say that it is
too general in its terms, and not specific
enough concerning liquor. They propose
that Il shall not only prohibit the sale of
liquor in communities, but also the trans
portatiOn. These two elements in the
house will no doubt be strong enough to
pass the Wilson bill. in case the senate
mss upon the adoption of that measure
through the conference committee.
PLUMB's PLAN.
Mr.. Plumb has introduced in the senate
a proposed amendment to tpe bill recently
reported from the committee on finance
$50 reduce the amount of bonds to be re-
auired of national banks and to restore to
the channels of trade the excessive dccu-
mutation of lawful money in the treasury"
A RECOUNT.
Superintendent Porter of the census
bureau, has written a letter to the secre-
tary Of the interior recommending a
recount of the population of ST. Paul and
Minneapolis. The superintendent states
that an organized conspiracy was detected
in Minneapolis to pad the census and that
a good deal of fraud was also discovered in
ST. Paul returns. For this reason the re-
count is recommended. The secretary of
the interior approved the recommendation
and the recount will be begun at once
SHORT STOPS.
Presidant Carnot is said to be the most
tastefully dressed public man in France.