The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-03-20
Epit0me of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
ElEIY.ElRSI CONGRESS.

FlFTY-FlRST CONGRESS.
MONDAY, March l0.-In tho Senate
bills were passed for taking tho cen-
;us in Alaska and to prevent the in
reduction of contagious diseases from
oDe State to another. The bill for in
spection of meats for expectation, pro-
1ibiting importation of aduiterated ar
ijcles of food or drink, was discussed.
In the House a resolution was adopted
20 investigate the workings of the Ma
ional and State Immigration laws. A
oill was passed increasing to 500 a
month the pension granted to General
Horace Houghton.
TUESDAY. March II. - The creden-
;ials of Senator Allison Qa.) for his
lew term, commencing March 4, 1891,
we're presented in the Senate. A
petition was presented from Florida
asking a duty of 81 box on foreign
oranges. The House bill making Co.
lumbus, O., a port of delivery was
passed. A bill was introduced for the
election Of Senators by the people. In
the House public-building bills involv-
ing total expenditure of 81, s45, 900
we're passed The bill for the admis-
sion of Wyoming was discussed.
WEDNESDAY, March 12.-In the Sem
ate the concurrent resolution for the
investigation of immigration matters
and the purchase of American industries
by foreign capital was passed. A resolu-
ton declaring the right of the Senate to
elect president pro tenn, who shall act
in that capacity at any time the presid-
ing officer may be absent was passed.
The Blair bill was then taken up and a
resolution adopted fixing the date for a
final vote at s clock p. m. March 20. In
tho House bill was passed appropri-
ating S6 100 for removal of sand bars at
tho entrance to tho harbor OF Milwaukee.
Tho afternoon was spent considering a
bill to provide government for the ter
ritorv of Oklahoma
THURSDAY. March IA number of
bills for public buildings were passed in
the Senate. A bill was introduced ap-
propriatin;, $500. 900 for an ordnance
factory on the grounds Of the arsenal at
indianapolis The Blair educational
bill was further discussed. In the House
the bill making Oklahoma Territory
was passed by voto of 160 to 25. The
bill establishes seven counties, with
county seats at Guthrie, Oklahoma City,
Norman. Lisbon Or King Fisher, Beaver
and Saltwater.
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Department of Agriculture re-
ported on Tie 10th go, 900, 900 bushels of
corn and l5i. 900, 900 bushels of wheat in
the hands Of farmers.
IT was decided by Secretary Window
ON the l1th that Chinese merchants
coming to this country for the first time
can not be permitted to land in the
United States.
TIE fire losses in the United States
and Canada during the month of Feb
ruarv were S7.:S1, ,O25, a decrease Of
about s., 900, 900 compared with the same
month of 1889.
THE President on the 11:h nominated
Lieutenant-ColonelW William Smith, of
Vermont to be Paymaster-General of
the army.
Ex-CONGREssMAN w. PRESTON TAUL-
BEE, of Kentucky. died in Washington
on the 1th from the effects of the wounds
inflicted by Charles e. Kincaid, news
paper man, on February %.
THE Treasury Department issued a
statement on the 18th showing that the
exports OF breadstuffs from the United
States in the month of February
amounted to 50. 9O3. T26.
THE EAST.
ON the Reading railroad special
train on the 10th ran from Jersey City
to Philadelphia, distance of ninety
miles, in eighty-fve minutes.
In New York over 1000 female shirt
makers struck on the 10th. They de-
mand a uniform rate of pay in all shops
and that the hours of work be reduced
from fourteen to ten hours per day.
TIE Rhode Island Republicans in
State convention on the 18th at Provi
dence renominated the present State
officers, with Herbert w. Ladd for Gov.
ernor. The platform indorses President
Harrison's Administration and Speaker
Reeds course in Congress.
AT Philadelphia on the 18th forty
women graduated as doctors from the
Women's Medical College of Pennsyl
vania-
On the 18th two laborers were blown
to pieces and two others fatally injured
by an explosion Of dynamite at the
water works at Rockville Center, N. Y
THE wholesale dry-goods firm of Har
rison & Loder, of New York, failed or
the 18th for $3.50 600.