The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-24
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
FROM WASHINGTON.

1t Is expected that the contract OF A. l..
DagQet' for furnishing postal cards to the
postufice department will be terminates
on the goth inst. Ii is stated that Mr..
Daggstt is delinquent in three very impor-
tant particulars: First, as to the quality
OF the paper furnished; second, as to the
quantity, and third, AZ to hip Indemnity
bond.
The senate bill appropriatinR 100000
for q broDZs equestrian statue OF y. s.
Grant in the city OF WashiDgto On was reach
ei on Rs calendar in the senate ou the
18th Nat. Mr.. Hoar suggested that an
equestrian statue was hardly the proper
mode OF doing honor to Gen. Grant. On
motion OF Mr.. EdmundS the word 'eques-
trian" was struck out. and on Mr. Hoar's
motion the amendment Was increased to
100000. The bnl passed.
Representative Perkins Of Kansas intro
ducsd in the house on the 18th inst, a bill
providing that no state shall be held TO be
limited or restrained in its power to pro
hibit, regulate, control OF tax the sale or
transportation, "a an nr ticIe OF commerce
TO be delivered within its own limits, Of
any iefmented. distilled or osher intoxi.
eating liquids by reason 0f the fact that
they have been imported into the state
from hey ond its limits, whether a tax or
duty has been paid on the article.
The Indian bureau has come to a stand
still for time in it's work OF building a
school for Indians on the Fort Belknap
reservation in Montana. The estimates
approved some time ago for the cost were
Sl4, 900 and that amount WAS recon
mended. Bids have been opened and the
a a..
were at onA ubmitted to the secretary oi
the treasuryto ascertain II he would iav-
or the increased coat, and, II not, what
steps should be taken.
Il ia reported that Sergeant at Arms
Canada has informed Several Republican
senators that he intends to resign in a few
days, his resignation to take effect imme
diately. The friends OF William Leeds OF
Peunsy lvania, who is Senator Quay's can.
didate, apd ex-Represeptative Y. r. Val
eptine o7Nebraska, who is the candidate
of Senator Paddock. have been making a
close canvass OF the senate In the in
tsrest OF the gentlemen recently, and that
they expscYa change to occur in the future
The Montana senators IN congress do
not have much hope that the order aban
doning the Fort Maginnis military reser
vation will be recinded by the secretary OF
war. 8he policy OF the ernment is in
the direction OF dispensing with all the
forts that are not shown to be actually
necessary. An effort was made some time
ago to abonion Fort Klamath, but such
action was prevented by the united pro-
test OF the people in the vicinity, headed
by the entire delegation from that state.
Senator Pettigrew' 8 bill, which came from
the committee on Indian affairs come time
ago, providing for q settlement between
the government and the Sisseton and the
Wabpeton Indians, came up on the 18th
inst. and was passed by the senate. The
bill pro vides for payment OF back annui-
ties and for the purchase OF several thou
sand acres OF land, and to meet these de
mana IL apprOpriatas over 81 500, 600.
This KmOunt also includes the cost OF es-
tablIshipg schools and carrying out minor
provisions OF the agreement made by the
commission.
Messrs. Role and Hanks oil Great Falls,
Mont. while in Washington q lew days
ago made a strong effort to have land
Office established at that place. Upon Wis
iting the general land Office with the Mon
tAna delega tiOu it was found that there 10
little prospect at the present time OF secur
ing such an Office. Two new land districts
have been esta blished in Montana at this
session. Great Falls is only Cne hundred
miles from Missoula and the department
is OF the opinion that should q Rnd office
be established upon the line OF the Great
Northern railroad it would be located
farther east tnan Great Falls.