The record-union., 1891-03-01
BILL TO REPEAL THE TIMBER CULT.
URB LAW AGREED TO.
The House Agrees to All the Senate
Amendments in the Consular
Appropriation Bill, Except the
Amendment Providing for Cable
Between San Francisco and the
Hawaiian Islands.
Special to the REcoRD-UN1oS.

prisons was made and entered.
The President laid before the Sem
ate communication from the family of
the late General Sherman, expressing
profound gratitude and appreciation for
the honor bestowed by the Senate upon
the memory of their father in its testi
monial of coincidence.
The privilege of the floor was given to
Claggett, claiming to be Senator-elect
from Idaho, pending the decision OF his
claim.
Various resolutions heretofore offered
were agreed to, including the following:
Instructing the Committee on Territories
to visit Alaska during the recess and in
quire into its resources and into all mat
ters relating to it's welfare; instructing
the Committee on Privileges and Elec-
tons 10 inquire and report at what time
the compensation of Senators from the
newly-aamitted States ought to begin.
The House amendment TO the direct tax
bill was taken up and agreed to. The
bill now goes TO the President.
The House bill giving a pension of
$3.50 a year to the widow of Admiral
Porter passed.
The Senate agreed to the conference re-
ports on the bills to establish "a United
States Land Court and define and regu-
United States.
The House substitute for the Senate
tonnage bill was laid on the table for the
present.
The House bill to provide for the re-
organization of the artillery force of the
army passed, with a Senate substitute.
The Substitute provides for the reorgan-
lzation of the artillery and infantry forces
of the army.
The Indian appropriation bill was
taken up, the pending question being on
Pettigrews amendment to Section 26,
making the settlement price of the Sisse-
ton and Wahpeton lands 81 25 instead of
y o0 an acre. Agreed to.
The question then was, as stated by
Dawes, to strike out all the provisions of
the House bill from page IS to page 125
and from page 137 to page l4S, relating to
six agreements with the Indian tribes,
and insert substitute covering pages 14S
to 2l3-the end of the bill.
Dawes declared that the House propo-
sltlon was nonentity. 1t began no.
where and ended nowhere. There was
not word IN II confirming any one of the
agreements with the Indians; and the
Senate substitute had been prepared with
care.
German said, for the first time in the
history OF legislation, seven or eight treat
les We're tackled on an appropriation bill
TO be ratified. All that was known of the
House proposition was that it ratified all
those Indian treaties, appropriated about
S6,000,0U0 and made provision for the dis
position OF between 5,009,0 900 and 6,000,000
acres OF public domain in q way which
he tGorman) could not explain.
While the question was being discussed,
Jones of Arkansas moved to add to the
Senate substitute a provision to pay the
Choctaws and Chickasaws S2,9al ,450, in
exchange for their lands in Indian Terri
tory now occupied by the Cheyennes and
Agreed to.
Allison moved to strike out of the SEN
ate substitute that portion relating to the
agreement with the Cheyennes and
Arapahoes.
y conference committee was appointed
on the sundry civil bill and the 1egisla-
tive appropriation bills.
The conference report on the bill to re-
peal the timber culture laws was pre-
sented and agreed to.
The substitute for the Senate bill for
the inspection OF vessels carving eSDort
cattle from the United States to foreign
countries was agreed to. The title was
amended to read: ''To provide for the safe
transportation and humane treatment Of
export cattle from the United States to
foreign, countries"
The Senate bill, granting to the Mis-
soula and Northern Railroad the right OF
way through the Flathead Indian Reser-
vatlon, in Montana, was passed.
Tho Indian appropriation bill having
been resumed, Allison's amendment was
disagreed to.
The following amendments were
adopted: BY Plumb-That the school
lands reserved in Oklahoma may be
leased for not exceeding three years for
the benefit OF the school fund of the Ter
ritory; by Dawes-To strike out the
House provisions in connection with the
six agreements with the Indian tribes
and substitute the Senate provisions
therefor; by Reagan-To pay S20o,0oO to
the friendly Sioux Indians during the
late trouble, for property lost ordestroyed
by obedience to orders OF the Govern
ment; by Carey-Providing for a COM
mission to negotiate with the Shoshone
Indians of Wyoming for a cesSion OF their
reservation.
Finally, at s o'clock, the Indian appro-
priation bill was passed and Il conference
committee appointed.
On motion of Mcconnell. the Senate
bill appropriating S100,000 for a public
building in Boise City, Idaho, was passed
The Postoffice appropriation bill was
taken up and temporarily laid aside in
order to pass the bills on the calendar.
number of minor House bills were
passed.
The House bill for the erection of
United States prisons, ETC., with the SEN
ate amendments. which passed few
days ago, was reconsidered and again
The Postofiice appropriation bill was
taken up. Several OF the committee
amendments were agreed TO, also one by
Plumb, increasing the number of in
spectorS to twelve and allowing $40. coo to
DE used to pay necessary travelling ex-
penses of the Chief Clerk and railway
postal clerks, travelling upon an order
direct from the Postmaster-Gene
Try moved to amend the bill by insert
ing a provision appropriating 81 100000
for the transportation of foreign mails,
and authorizing contracts for carving
mail on American steamships (being the
bill passed by the House with a few
notifications.
Daniel made a point of order that its
amendment was general legislation. and
not IN order on the appropriation bill
The presiding officer tPIattl overruled
the point.
Daniel appealed, and ne and Reagan
argued at length in support of the point
OF order, and against the decision OF the
chair.
Plumb proposed unanimous consent be
given to have n vote taken on Monday
without further debate.
Reagan objected. Pending action on
that question, an amendment by Mitchell
was agreed TO appropriating $4,000 for
he purchase of postal records of the Con-
federate Government.
Without making any progress with the
bill, the Senate at 1l:30 went into execu-
tive session.
When the doors We're reepened it was
stated by Platt that an agreement had
been made to proceed to the consideration
OF the shipping bill on Monday morning.
Stanford announced the death OF Sem
ator Hearst and offered appropriate reso-
lutions. Alter eulogistic remarks by