Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-01-16
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

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constitution adopted at Boise City for the
proposed state of Idaho. Referred.
SOLDIERS HOME.
Senator Plumb offered a resolution,
which was agreed to, directing the mana
gers of nstiOna, soldiers homes to consider
and report upon the advisabillty of estab-
fishing hospital at Hot Springs, Ark, to
| which all disabled ex-union soldiers shall
be admitted under proper IecorImenda-
tons.
POSTAL TELEGRAPH.
Senator pawes offered resolution, which
was agreed to. calling on the postmaster
general for information as to the proposed
connection of the postoffics department
with the telegraph companies, and as to the
probable cost of erection of a government
independent telegraph line between st.
Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia and New York.
PAY OF SUPERVISORS.
The senate then took up the amendment
to the census act to increase the pay of su-
pervisors from $500 to 81 ,O0l. Passed.
PENSIONS FOR The HELPLESS.
A bill to increase to S12 Ter month the
pensions of cert lin soldiers and sailors who
are totally helpless from in uries received
or from disease contracted while in the ser
vice OF the United States was uassed by the
senate.
NEW HOUSE BILLS.
The following bills were introduced in
the house:
To regulate and limit the charges of OK
press companies.
To create additional courts in the Indian
territory.
For the sale of the Fort Sedgwick mill
tary reservation.
Requesting the executive departments to
change the extradition laws with Great
Britain 20 that persons charged with grand
larceny and enlightenment may be extra
dlted from Canada.
By Lane of Illinois: To prevent the con-
traction of the currency: so for gradu-
ate income tax also to tax trusts; also to
ascertain thu amount of mortgage lndebt-
edness Of the farmers of the United States.
By Mr.. Springer, OF Illinois: For the ad-
m ssion Of Ari ona, Idaho, New Mexico
and Wyoming into the union as states.
BY MIR. Perk ms, of Kansas: For public
building at Parsons, han; also to divide
Kansas into two judicial districts; also for
the free coinage of gold and silver.
By Mr.. land, of Missouri: Looking to
the imposition of an income tax for the
payme MT of PENSIONS: also for the free coin
age of silver. also limiting the coinage of
the double eagle.
By MIR. SIN tn, of Arizona: For the adj
mission of Arizona: also for the reclama-
ton of desert lands.
By Mr.. Breckenridge, OF Kentucky: For
the erection Oh ulOuuuicut " <SdCh 10y =
lor.
OKLAHOMA TOWN SITES.
Mr.. Perkins, of Kansas, from the COM
mIttee on territor es, reported back the bill
proyidiug for townsite entries in Oklahoma
Printed and recommitted.
FAIGRaTio OF BLACKS.
Senator Morgan addressed the senate at
length on the bill introduced by Senator
Butter, to provide for the emigration of
persons of color from TIE southern states.
He favored the bill. He had reached the
conclusion that there was natural incon-
gruitv and an irrepressible conflict between
the races which nothing could cure except
negro race TO Africa was the final and
only solution to the problem. In the Congo
basin are found the best types of the Afri-
can race, and the American negro would
find there field for his efforts. There were
grand possibilities there for the American
negroes.
He saw no chance for change OF feeling
of aversion existing against the blacks in
this country: nor an opportunity for ad-
vancement open to them here. He looked
forward to the establishm mt of free re-
publican government in the Congo region
by the influence of American negroes who
would thus be the Iedeemers and regenera-
tors of their fatherlaud.
BLOCKS OF FIVE.
Senators Voorhees, and Edmunds dis
cussed a resolution offered by the former
on previous day, which called for inform
alton regarding the charges made against
W. W. dudley, of Indiana, of bribery in
the last federal election. The resolution,
as amended by Senator Edmunds, was
adopted, 81 to g.. 1t reads:
THAT the attorney general be and is here
by instructed to inform the senate what in
structions, if any. the department of justice
has given to S. n. Chambers, district attor-
ney for the district of Indiana, on the sub
ject of the arrest of W. W. Dudley CT his
exemption from arrest: and by what au-
thority of law any such instructions have
been given: and that copies of all such cor
respondence be transmitted to the senate. !"
The FIRST BILL PASSED BY THE SENATE.
The house considered the District of Col
umbia approprlat on bill in committee of
the whole, and after striking cut the clause
requiring electric light wires to be placed
under ground: also the clause authorizing
the commissioners of the district to impose
license fee of S:5 year against any per
son or corporation, for each telegraph or
telephone pole. the committee rose and the
bill was passed.
No INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN.
The wee president laid before the senate a
communication from Attorney General Mil
Ter in response to resolution. The attorney
general stated that no instructions, oral or
written, have heen given to District Attor-
ney S. n. Chambers on the subject of the
arrest of W. W. dudley, nor has any COM
muuication been sent by the department of
justice to the district attorney of Indiana.
nor has any been received by him with
reference to the subject. The cOmmunica-
ton was referred to the committee on the
Judiciary.
sSAGs IN THE MISSOURI.
On motion of Senator Vest joint reso-
luton was passed Apr priatlng 100000
for the removal of distractions to naviga-
ton in the Missouri river between ST. Joseph
and the mouth.
ADJOURNMENT.
The senate having adjourned from Thurs
day to Monday, January Ii, the house, on
Friday. adjourned for the day as a mark of
respect for William d. Kelley, whose death
was announced. His desk was draped. and
adorned with simple bOquet of white
flowers.
A witness before the ways and means
committee said in answer to the question: