St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-01

as compromise on the amend
ment authorizing the construction
o. number of new vessels.
contract surgeons are done away with
and payments are prohibited to be made
by the government officers for trans
portation of troops over non-bonded
branch lines owned by the Pacific rail-
roads. 1t was decided in conference
that the provisions should not apply to
lines leased or operated. but not owned
by either the Central OF Union Pacific
railway companies.
The worlds fair was closed on Sunday
by paragraph in the sundry civil bill.
not yet passed.
A provision of interest to soldiers in
one of the bills makes the action of the
second auditor on all back pay and
bounty claims final. except that an
appeal may lie within six months
to the courts. Another pro-
vision abOlishes the Office of marshal in
the new court of appeals. Collection
of statistics relating to our expectation
by railroads is provided, no statistics
except coastwise statistics. being now
obtainable. so that our exports to Can
ada and Mexico are matters of guess.
In the Indian bill start is effected in
policy of supplanting civilian Indian
agents by army officers. In the river
and harbOr bill the policy embarked
upon in the preceding congress of per-
hitting contracts to be entered into for
the completion of some of the largest of
the public Improvements was mater
tally extended. In the legislative bill
provision was inserted which stops the
gaugIng of liquors coming out of recti-
Tying houses. 1t is always gagged as it
comes from the distilIery and the result
of this provision is expected to make an
annual saving of Sl5O,OOO. Money Or
derS reports are to be made only
monthly instead of at least once week.
as at present.
Among the bills originating in the
house which have become laws are the
following: TO appropriate $4,000 for
the preparation OF site and the cree
ton of pedestal for statue to the late
agriculture to the list of officers en-
titled to succession to the presidency;
for the opening of part of the Col
vile reservation in Washington; for
the investigation of mining debris in
California.
Among the bills originating in the
senate to become laws are: To author
ize the celebration of the 4O0th anniver-
sary Of the discovery of America to be
proclaimed general holiday; increas-
Ing to $50 the pensions of persons
totally incapacitated for labor, bnt not
totally helpless; to repeal the law re-
curing life-saving proJectiles to be car
rled on steamers, so far as concerns
vessels navigating the lakes, bays or
sounds exclusively.
Among the bills in conference are the
following: To promote the safety of
national banks by forbidding loans to
bank employees; to establish lineal pro-
motion i'll the army: to give claimants
the right to sue the United States TO OBJ
tain land patents, and to exclude beer
and malt liquors from the Indian coun-
try.
Among the house bills. other than
those previously mentioned. which are
before the senate, are these: To define
the crimes of murder In the first
and second degrees, the federal
law having no provision OH this
subject; to dispense with proof of
loyalty during the late war, as pre-
requisite TO being enrolled or admitted
to the pension roll; to protect title of
Donafide settlers on unsurveyed gov
ernment lands in cases where the lands
subsequently prove to be within rail
road land grant.
Among the bills passed by the senate,
but which have not yet finally got
through the house, are the following:
The grain classification bill; to in
crease the pension for deafness, also
for loss of limbs; a general bill for
the erection of public buildings in tine
city where the postotfice receipts for the
three years preceding have exceeded
$1,000 annually; for the construction of
two revenue cutters tor service on the
Pacific coast and two on the great lakes;
making large appropriation for the
improvement of the Mississippi river;
to declare lands containing phosphates
to be mineral lands and subject to entry
as such.
There were also number of other i'm
portant bills, such as the Torrey bank
ruptcy bill, which failed of considera-
ton i'll either branch of congress.