The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-04-05
DOINGS Oh CONGRESS-

What our NATIONAL
Have Been Doing the
Past Week.
ENATE
The Sherman anti-trust bill Was taken up
In the senate and Mr.. George made e speech
in opposition lotion constitutiona grouna as
The senate bill ceding public lands to Cal
ifornia and other states in hid OF
OF dry and arid lands Yves reported back 20 tne
senatetrom the committee on publiclandsa d-s
verseIy and was indefinitely postponed.
Among the bills introduced and referred IN
the senate was one by Mr.. Faulkner to give
pension OF ~, 900 a year to the widow oiuen'
Crook.
The C~hicago's Worlds Fair bill passed by
a large majority in the house, and Mr.; Chan;
ler's amendment postponing the Fair until
1S93 was adopted without division.
The house committee on invalid pensions
authorized favorable report on the bill pro-
viding for disability pensions and 9 service
pensions to oil soldiers who nave reacnea ene
age of sixty-two years. The COMMITTEES a.,
SO authorized o favorable report on a Dill
to increase pensions in certain cases.
A bill was introduced in the senate which
makes q fairly heavy call on the national
treasury to carry out oil agreements that
have been made between the government and
the Sioux Indians in South Dakota. The
bill asks the following amounts:
Four hundred thousand dollars to pur.
chase 10, 1000 cows for the Sioux; $3SO,OO0
for horses, oxen and agricultural machin-
cry; 100000 to support schools; .S8o,-
600 to build thirty school houses on the res
ervation; $15O,0O0 to pay interest on In
dian funds held by the United States; $780,
900 to reimburse the tribes at Standing Rock
and Cheyenne agencies for ponies taken from
peaceable Indians ct the time all were dis
mounted by Gen. Crook; $197, O39 to pay
the Indians on the Grow Creek reservation
| for lands taken from them by reason of In.
accurate surveys; 100000 for beef and
| other ~rations and $50, 900 to purchase lands
for the Santee tribes who are short the reg
ular allowance
The house committee on agriculture has
| authorized O favorable report, with amend
ments, on O bill introduced by Representa-.
| tive Butterworth, defining "options" and
futures" and imposing special taxes on
dealers therein,
The Republican members of the ways and
means committee are busily engaged in hear
ing representatives touching the tariff bill.
1t will be some time before the bill is report
ed. e
The house committee on public lands fav.
ora bly, reported the bill creating q surveyor
generals district of both North and South
Dakota. This bill has already passed the
senate and will no doubt readily be accepted
by the house. The salaries of the surveyors
general to be appointed are fixed at $4,000.
1t is likely that B. II. Sullivan will be reap
pointed in South Dakota, while E. A Will
Jams has been agreed upon for South Dakota.
SENATE. 81 ~
The amendments to the antitrust bill, as
reported from the committee of the whole,
were considered. The first amendment dis
cussed was the one excepting from the pro-
hibitions OF the law the combinations of
workmen and farmers.
The dependent pension bill was considered.
Mr.. Plumb's amendment giving q pension Of
months or more and who are suffering from
mental or physical disability which incapacit-
ates them from the performances of manual
labor if the incapacity is total, was after some
discussion rejected.
The committee on Indian affairs appoint
ed Senator Pettigrew a subcommittee to ex-
anime and report upon the Sisseton and
Wahpeton bill and also upon the bill recon-
mended by President Harrison to carry out
the recommendents of the late Sioux COM
mission which were in the nature of promises
to the Sioux. The bill ~appropriates 81 $780,.
900 for the Sioux Indians or the reservation.
HOUSE.
The Wyoming admission bill was passed in
the house. Representative Dunnel of Min.
nesota voted against the bill.
1t was vigorously discussed and then pass
ed-139 to 1877. This was q strict party
vote, except that Mr.. Dunnell voted with the
Democrats. The bin was laid before the sen.
ate and ordered printed.
The members of the Minnesota delegation
hid han rinv nofnro tho rsporc and horhnvc
committee, but did not conclude their argu-
ments. Each membe has something special
to ssk, but they oil we're particularly anx,
ious for one project-the 500 canal.
In executive session a long and excited de-
bate took placein the senate upon the Flori.
da cases, but where a vote was called for
there was no quorum present, and the mat
ter went over without action. :
The senate committee on census concluded
the hearing upon what 10 known an the .sChi-
nese census bill, a delegation from the Pa.
cifc coast appearing in support OF the meas
ure.
Senator Davis, as chairman of the com.
mittee on pensions and having in charge the
dependent pension bill which IL now under
consideration in the senate, gave the senate
some valuable facts on the subject of PEN
sions, and discussed the pension situation in
a way that commanded not only the atten.
ton but the votes ofthe senator's as against
charges postponed TO the committee bill.
HOUSE.
The house COMMITTEES on elections passed
upon the election cases Of Waddell va. Wise
from Virginia and McDuf1e ys. Turpin from
Alabama, and in both cases by q party vote
decided to recommend the seating Of the
Republican contestant.
The ways and means committee decided
upon another shednle today, and fixed the
tariff on Irvine and cordage at one and one.
hall centa per pound. La Toilette, Gear and
Burrows had it established at halt q cent,
but the Irvine manufacturers brought about
the increase.
Senator Davis secured without any obisc-
ton or opposition the passage O his Bin.
making q total appropriation Of $5,4a2 ,970
for imProvingS St. Mary's river and Hay Lake
channel.
Mr.. Hale presented the conferences report
on theurgent deficiency bill audit was agreed
On motion OF Mr.. VOORHEES, the SENATE hill
appropriating S14.675 for the purchase 81
Capron collection of Japanese works of art
now in the National Museum, was taken
up and passed. In the course Of the discus.
sion Mr.. Hale satirized Mr.. VOORHEES, for his
advocacy of the measure as lift we're one On
behalf OF the formers OF the country. whose
depressed condition he had pictured to the
eenate last week. He supposed that ths
farmers of the West would be very much sat.
listed and pleased to know thar
was hunting up the old relics from japan
.For that reason he mr.. Hale would not vote
for the bill.
HOUSE.
After q discussion of two hours over q bill
granting right Of way through the Indian
Territory to the Pittsburgh, Columbus & IT.
Smith railroad, and without final action, the
house vent into committee Of the whole on
the Army appropriation bill.
On motion of Mr.. Blanchard, of Louisiana.
q joint resolution was passed authorizing i'm
president Of the Mississippi river commission