Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-03-12
he House.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-In the house tA
day the speaker announced the appoint:
ment of Hon. Barnes Compton as consult
ing trustee of the reform school for boys
In the District of Columbia.
On motion of Mr.. Smith, delegate from
Arizona, a bill was passed ratifying an
act of the Arizona territorial Legislature
providing for Arizona's exhibit at tho
World 8 Columbian exposition. The house
then went into IA committee of the whole
on Indian appropriation bills.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 90 There was a
large attendance OF members his morn
Ing with the speaker In the chair. A res
luton was passed authorizing the Joint
committee ON immigration TO iuve stigate
the operation of the immigration laws,
the Importation of contract labor and to
inquire particularly into the immigration
of persons affected with typhus fever INTO
the port of New York.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-The house as
sembled at noon with "a fair attendance
On motion of Mr.. Geary. of California, a
bill was passed providing for the sale Of
the klamath river Indian reservation in
California.
Mr.. Lapham, of Rhode island. reported
from the committee on military affairs n
resolution authorizing the loan of s~nsigns,
flags and other military regalia for decor
ating the streets of Washington at the
q. A. X encampment next September.
The hou a. went into committee of the
whole, Mr.. Bvnum in the chair, on the In.
dian appropriation bill.
WASHINGTON, March To-day r. Ii.
Taylor, of Ohio, reported n bill from the
committee on judiciary defining murder i'm
the hrst and second. degree, and man
slaughter, and providing punishment
therefor.
House calendar.
Mr. Wise, of Indiana, from the commit
toe nj com m An ran "a hilI 80 .al, T--I
Bluffs, Ia, "A port of delivery.
House calendar.
Mr.. Outhwaite, from the military affairs
committee, reported u resolution provid-
lug for the appointment of General W. ].
Sewell, General Martin, General Me-
Chell and Major-General Bonebrakc
as managers of the national home for dis
abled soldiers for the term commencing
April II, 1s92. The house then went into
u committee OF the whole on the District of
Columbia appropriation bill. Mr.. Richard
son, of Tennessee, In the chair. The bill
~appropriates A,ye5 ,555, "A reduction over
last year of 1889, l70, sl,7 Oslo less thar
the stimate OF the district commits
sioners and s6l4,569 less than the csti-
mates OF the secretary of the treasury.
Mr.. Dockery, of Missouri briefly ex-
planned the provisions of the bill.
MT Henderson, of Iowa, said the bill
would cripple the interests of the district
1t was a measure of pretended economy
encouraged for political purposes.
WASHINGTON, March 3-rhere was a
ripple Of excitement this morning when
the house assembled Mr.. Watson, of the
alliance, of Georgia. rose to y
question of personal privilege aud sent to
the desk a recent copy of the Atlanta
Constitution containing an article
written by X. w. Barrett, it's
Washington correspondent aud clerk to
Speaker Crisp, charging him (Watson)
with having voted with the republicans
In the Craig-Stewart election case for
financial considerations and the promise
OF money from the republicans to
aid him in his next campaign.
With considerable feeling Mr.. Watson
denounced the article as false in
every particular and the i~nsinuation
therein as %cowardiy. He had voted on
this case honestly after reviewing the tes-
timony and three democrats had also
voted for Stewart and against their party
because upon the testimony and the law IL
has a question on which lawyers could
honestly differ.
WASHINGTON, March An the house
today y resolution was passed calling mon
the secretary OF war for information re-
speeding the effect OF backwater from the
the Mississippi river. it, course and the
means OF preventing injury therefrom at
Clarendon ana the lower White river.
Ark. as directed in the last river aud har-
Dor bill. A bill was pas sed for the relief
or the inhabitants Of Ferron. Emerv
county, Utah Territory.
This being Friday, the house then went
Into committee of the whole to consider
bills on the private calendar.