Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-02-18
FIFTY SECOND CONGRESS

!. Mr.. Fitii4n. Of Illinois. offered resolution n
i the house directing the committee on ways arie
means report bill placing all agricultural
plemenfs On the free hst.
ne census dene-ency api,rolfialoa plll IN os-
p-le great e1traYsgance vas ellaIsei- II ses -
on the pay roll Of the census ccs al the dietatisn
q mernbers OF eonsress thus swelling me expense
Tended IN debata. II seems tha- an investigation
Of s tie eharges vii Be ordered -. 40. -.
/ appropriation bill It was 10 50 ansens i as to
provide an dpprQprlatlcn q SID, Il Tor the SUD
elstence OF the Sioux lnCtans.
The ways and means committee OF the house di-
rected that all private bills IN the hands OF the
committee BE- reported back TO the house for ref
erence 70 the various committees having jurisdle
Ton OF private Claims This IS understood 70 IN
I give consideration 10 private claims during TINS
IL ne senate judiciary committee spent much
time UPON the appoinment OF Judge nQcds OF
ana, WHOSE commentator IS oIte3Sed ~ oeIl5
etcsr VOORHEES, and others. Testimony was heard
beaFing upon the election fraud cases IN Indiana
EhitSn never came 10 trial
The house committee on rivers and harDors
heard ne egations in the interest OF improvement
Of WestlSEn rivers among them Dr. W. II. miller,
The slrosDosition TO cede arid lands, 70 states.
to BE rsclaSmed by them. carried % almost a
miftee on irrSsaiioa The method BY which the
transfer Of the lands is to be made and TIE proper
them 10 preyelt their diversion into the uses Of
settlers aFe mafteCs not Jet eeiesnined qIon. =,
provides that any IlSrson who has invented or dis
covered any new and useful plant liuil or mower
may patent the invention or discovery -
Mr.. Oris of Kansas, his IN reduced a bill for
the creation OF two hiliSCs OF collars Va treasury
is to be subject 10 the draft q state officers the
states TO gay 1 Fer cent az II and the stales 70
loan i al MT more than pei cent on fe'isOha1ls
security. -
Tie house discussed at great length the resoln-
tson ardering the COMMITTEES on t?roprlatlons 70
Investigate the Columbian e1Js.Ssilon, gather
facts concerning the expenditure o. former Appro-
An amendment was offered to place this work
in the hands Of the committee on Columbian ex-
and UPON this most Of the debate was osentered.
The amendment was lost; los to A.
Another amendment 70 create speclalN com
mlttee 70, do tbs invest eating, Was then voted
down, and tie resolution was adopted placing
The senafs committee on the quadro centennial
to attend to presidents of South American repuD-
lies, 10 governors of American colonies. TO the
of Columbus
Senator Gibson, of Louisiana. introduced a
JOINT resolution for the appointment of a commits
sion of f 81 senators, seven representatives and
three exF = to take evidence and inquire into
the depT espAeondinon OF agricultural interests
and the low Irlces Of agricultural prodpcts and
especially OF cotton; the causes thereof and
and whether they have been created can be
Temedied by legislation Referred to the commit
The house passed the bill introduced by Hatch,
Of Missouri, placing the secretary OF agriculture
IL NAlS LIZ
The house for the first tins went into commit
tee of the whole. The military academy appFO-
priatiOn was considered The bill appropriates
Si65.7s which was SIS. q less than the estimates
priated by the last congress. Consideration was
not completed.
ing pensions TO foreigners or nonreeidents. IL is
asserted that IN province of Canada over ,s00
| ton, and General Newberry himself estimates the
foreign benetciaries Of our pension laws 10 aggre
mr. Simpson. Of Kansas. introduced a bin for
relief Of settlers the Fort Dodge reseI saiOn IN
Senator sherman introduced bill to prohibit
/ the coming of Chinese into the United States.
/ The new features of the bin provide way and
means for detecting the presence of large class
OF Chinese persons VINO have sfnuggled themselves
| into the United States from across the border
The Bland free coinage bill Is now in the hod4e
and its friends viii press II TO vote within sixty
| days. and they believe it viii pass the house and
/ be sent to the senate in time for action upon it
| There was contention over the disposition of
the Bland bill some contending that as II involved
/ the Whole house while its friends demanded that
/ it go at once upon the calendar.
/ Speaker Crisp. after taking time 70 consider,
/ Just before adjournment, placed the bill on the
| calendar.
Mr.. Davis of Kansas, presented petition from
citizens of his district asking that the mortgage
| on the Union Pacific railway be foreclosed and
! that the government Immediately assume control
| Senator Perkins has introduced a bill to have
moneys due the POttawatomie Indians payable
| in Kansas inttead of in the territory.
| The house committee on territories heard ar
| guments from ex-Congressman Sidney Clarke,
| able action on the bill to admit Oklahoma and
| the Indian territory into the union as state.
| Colonel VIM. A. Phillips, for the Cherokees,
| and attorneys for other of the i've civilized
tribes are doing all they can TO defeat the bill.
| The senate continued consideration of the
| printing bill. Amendments were agued to in
crease the extra copies of the agricultural report
| from 10000 to half a millioni and to increase
the number of the report of the bureau of ami
| NAL industry from 10000 to 5000.
Resolutions TO increase the number of messen-
gers and assistant dOor-keepers for the house
| consumed much time IN their discussion but
| were all adopted During the discussion Mr..
| Simpson, of Kansas made speech elieting APP
| plause. he charged new kind of reciprocity
in the matter of making places for pets, between
members OF the old parties while the requests
OF members belonging to the new party with
Consideration of the military academy appro-
priation serves TO fill out the time OF the daily
A resolution has appeared in the house which
reads: Resolved, That the committee of ways
and means be instructed TO report bill repeal
ing the provisions of the law providing for the
payment of ell bOunties on sugar.
The only opposition developed in the majority
party the day the resolution was introduced
was from members representing sugar-making
districts and from those who considered that
this kind of Legislation should be handled by the
appropriations committee instead of the ways
and means committee, as it Is a question of a re-
ductiOn of appropriations rather than of raising
a revenue. 1t is likely to finally go TO the APP
preparations committee.
The senate received from the president the
4 nomination OF Rowland b; Mahoney, New York,
as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipoten-
The name Of Miss Laura GoodfelIow was also
sent 70 the senate by the president, as appointee
| of postmistress at Fort LeayenwOrth. She Is
the daughter of a deceased army officer.
NEWS BREvITIEs.
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