Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20
THE VETO OF THE GOVERNOR.
Mr.. Dorsey Thinks it Would Meet Any Bill
Against the Sugar Bounty.
CAPITAL THINKS BETTER OF NEBRASKA.
Row i'm the Idaho Dclegation-Ncarly
Thirteen Hundred Bills to go
over to the Next Session
OF Congress.

WASHINGTON BUREAU THE BEE,
5l3 FOURTEENTH STREET
WAsiINGToN, ID. c., Feb. 10.
Representative Dorsey says today! "If
the state senate should concur in the house
bill repeating the sugar bounty given by Ne.
braska the COVE ernor will, | am confident,
veto the bill. He should by all means. 1t
would be a disgrace to Nebraska to repeal
the sugar bounty law and would be a great
drawback to the interests of the farmers of
the state. 1 don't believe the state senate
will pass the bill under any conditions"
Mr.. Dorsey says the resolution passed by
the legislature, pledging itself against any
legislation which would injure foreign cap
ital invested in the state, is having pacific
effect upon eastern money; that If 1T had not
been adopted it would have taken but few
weeks to have frightened all outside capital
from Nebraska. 1t is not legislation so much
as fear of it, he says, that makes capital
wary and interest high. In the house today.
Mr.. Dorsey presented the resolutions passed
bv the Lincoln mass meeting on irrigation for
Nebraska. He says the entire delegation in
congress favors this move ment.
IDAuo's FAMILY ROW.
A family fight, in which the president is
being pulled and hauled, is now going on in
the Idaho congressional delegation. Judge
Beatty of that state was recently appointed
to the Idaho United States district judgeship
against the protest of a number of Idaho
men. They claimed that Beatty had not
acted squarely in the Idaho senatorial con-
test and presented a number of names to the
president, any of whom would have been sat
isfactory, but President Harrison closed
his seyes to the list ana appointed Judge
Beatty in spite of the Idaho men. 1t has
created q bitter feeling, and Senator-elect
Du Bois, the two senators, and others have
asserted that it would have the effect of Civ
ing the state to the democrats Judge Beatty
arrived on the scene today and will take a
personal hand in the conflict.
INCUBATGNG A HATCH BOOM.
Arrangements are being made to inougur-
ate Representative Hatch's boom for the
speakership of the next house, by having the
farmers all over the country pass resolutions
supporting him. A sort of bureau of petit
tions will be established for the purpose of
stirring up the farmers and receiving their
petitions and resolutions, twill be in charge
of Mr. John r. Weddeburn, who manipu-
lated the petition branch of the fight for the
Conger lard bill. Mr.. Weddeburn
can secure more petitions than any
man in Washington. He is an Off
Ger of the grange, and as such ad-
dresses the various grange organizations
through the country. He can get petitions
by the bushel on any agricultural subject,
and the Hatch boom will be conducted as an
agricultural one. Mr.. Weddeburn said today
that by the time the next congress assembled
he would have the most extensive expression
to congress which the, farmers OF the country
had ever made. Hatch has long been recog-
nized as the congressional exponent OF the
farmers, and, under the Cleveland admins
tration, he was talked of as commissioner of
agriculture. He is well known by the far
mers, and they are likely to make u good deal
of noise over him when the petition bureau
begins operations.
INDIAN AFFAIRS.
Senator Pettigrew today reported to the
senate from the committee on Indian affairs
his amendment to the Indian appropriation
bill, mentioned in these dispatches the other
day, respecting the Indians in South Dakota
and, since this is to go upon a regular appro-
priation bill, it will, without doubt become a
law. The amendment provides chat the
president shall appoint commission of three
persons to visit the Sioux reservation and
enter into an agreement with the Indians re-
siding upon the Pine Ridge and Rosebud
agencies for readiustment of the boundary
| line between those reservations, or for a
transfer of the Indians now drawing rations
| at Rosebud, but who reside upon the Pine
Ridge agency, to the rolls of the Pine Ridge
agency, and to also make such arrangement
| with the Indians drawing rationS at the
| Rosebud agency as will be satisfactory to
| them by which those of the Lower Brule In
| dians, who desire to be so, may be enrolled at
| Rosebud and allowed to take lands in sever
| atty upon that reservation south of White
river. 1t provides, further, that the princ-
| pal and interest of the permanent fund, re-
| ferred to in article II of the
| act of March 2, 1889, and in sec
tion 3 of the act of January 10 1891,
! making appropriations to carry out, in part,
| the provisions of the act mentioned, shall be
| apportioned and divided according TO tho
number of Indians receiving rations and
| annuities upon the reservations after the
| transfers authorized shall have been effected
| instead of in proportion to the mum ber
| entitled TO receive rations and annuities upon
| the separate reservations at the time the act
| of March 2, 1889, took effect.
| THEY MUST WAIT.
| When the present session ends there will
| be about thirteen hundred bills on the calen-
| dar of the house which have been favorably
reported by committees, but which fail from
| want of time for their consideration In the
| house. Many of these bills are of an insig-
| nihcant nature; some of them are important
| and all Of them are deserving of considera-
| tion, as they have the prestige Of a favorable
| report. Some of them are just on the verge
| of being passed and days moro time would
see them through, Some of the appropria-
tion bills will undoubtedly be signed within
the clock points to noon on
March 4, and 1T may be that the
| congressional clock will be turned back
in order to have all the bills signed as has
| been the case heretofore Many Of the meas
| ures are such as would certainly pass il they
| could get chance as there is 10 opposition
10 them, but the whole 300 will be barred
| out and will go over to load the calendar of
the next session of congress- when they will
be re-introduced and again considered by
| committees.
DEsPAIRs OF FREE SILVER.
The brief time which could be given the
subject in either house precludes all prospects
of the passage of free coinage at this session
| of congress and the most ardent friends OF
| the proposition will now say so with
out hesitation. Silver men in the city, ,includ
| ing representatives of the house committee
on coinage, weight and measures have aban-
doned the extreme measures and are anxious
to secure an increase Of the monthly pur-
chase. This could have been readily accom-
| plished last December but outside pressure
seemed to render it out of the ques
tion for representatives from sill
yer states to consider anything
short of unlimited coinage al
that time. Representative Carter of Mon.
tana, one of the foremost free coinage advo
Gates said today:
During the last session, finding that free
coinage could not be secured. / exerted my.
self to secure more liberal use