St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-06

lions, appropriating $4,000 and $4,000
for enforcing the Chinese exclusion act,
were approved Dec. Z, 1893, and April 4,
1894. As most of the appropriation bills
had not passed to the beginning of the
fiscal year, July l, II was necessary to
extend by resolution all appropriation
for the necessary operations of the gov
eminent for pensions and for the Dis
trict of Columbia. They were twice
extended. for thirty days from June 80,
and fifteen days from July 80, and a
resolution continuing for thirty days
the employment of mechanics and la
Dorers under the navy department was
passed under the same circumstances.
by resolution the secretary of the treas
ury was authorized to make
Partial Payments
on vessels built by contract, the amount
not to exceed rs per cent of the work
done, and to advance to the public
printer snms not exceeding fOur-flfths
of his bond to pay for work and ma
terials. Two special appropriation bills
for salaries of employees of congress were
necessary, and one for the expenses of
investigation ordered by the senate.
BY resolution the secretary of the treas
ury was ordered to receive from r. Il.
Wilson and place to the credit of the
Cherokee nation 6.740.000 for the Cher
okee outlet. BY resolution the secretary
of the interior was authorized to
settle the accounts of the agents
who effected the treaty of 1854
with the Delaware Indians. Special
acts were passed for rewriting the con.
sular regulation, for printing the agri-
cultural regOrt for 1893, for printing
history of the International arbltratiOns
to which the United States was party
and the report Of the committee on the
centennial celebration of the laying of
the corner stone OF the capitol. Among
the laws of benefit to merchant marine
Interests enacted was one to prevent
collisions at sea, prescribing a system of
signals, one to facilitate the ntry of
steamships by authorizing the customs
officers to permit the unloading OF
vessel of a regular established line ON
receiving from the master
A sworn Manifest
of the cargo, an act to extend the limits
of the port of New York to include The
city OF Yonkers; an act to establish
light and fog signal sutton near Butter
Flats, New Bedford. Mass; an act to
transfer the Norris island saving station
near Charleston, S. c., to Sullivans ISL
and; an act to establish port of deliy-
cry at Boomers Ferry, Idaho; an act 10
provide an American register for the
steamer Ell CallaO: resolution direct
ing the secretary of war to appoint a
commission of engineers to report upon
the cost of the harbors of Superior and
Duluth, and their entrances to all uniform
depth of twenty feet; resolution
directing the secretary of war to de.
termine if there is danger Of the MiSsis-
sippi river cutting through the space
dividing it from the st. Francis river,
near Walnut Bend, Ark. The acts per-
tanning 10 the judiciary of the United
States were: TO provide for two ad-
ditional asso ciate justices of the SUI
preme court Of Oklahoma territory; for
the division of the Eastern district of
Michigan, into the Northern and South
ern divisions, and for holding the
circuit and dis trict courts therein; to
provide that term Of the circuit and
district court of the district OF Vermont
may be held at Montpelier, that criminal
causes in the
District OF Minnesota
shall be brought and prosecuted in the
division of the district in which the Of
lenses were committed; to fix term Of
the district and circuit courts of the
Southern district of Mississippi to be
held at Meridian providing an addi-
tlonal circuit judge in the Eighth judi
cial district; to cha nge the boundaries
OF the judicial diStri cts of Florida; al
lowing the state cou rts of Maryland to
occupy the old U nited States court
house in Baltimore for five ears; 10
authorize the transfer of carpets and
furniture to the rooms occupied by the
United States courts in Chicago; to re-
qulre original receipts for deposits of
postmasters to be sent to the auditor of
the treasury for the posoffice depart
ment; to authorize the fourth
assistant postmaster general to approve
rpostmasters' bonds; to regulate the in
spectlon of iron or steel boiler plates
and their stamping by the United
States inspectors, and fixing the penal
ties for unauthorized use of the stamp.
Among the. territorial acts was one
fixing the limit of Indebtedness which
may be incurred by Salt Lake City at &
per cent of the value Of the taxable
property, and one authorizing the
county of COconino. Arizona, 10 issue
$4,000 in bonds to build a coun ty build
ing. The act establishing the Smiths
oman institute in Washington was
amended in some minor respects, and
resolution passed to appoint Andrew D.
White member of the board of direct.
orS. To redress
An Injustice
to certain graduates of the ANNAPOLIS
naval academy, an act to fill vacancies
IN the grade of assistant paymaster by
those discharged at the end OF their two
years cruise under the act of Aug. 5.
1882. was passed. For the purpose of
retaining the wreck of the Kearsarge
on ROncador reef, in Difference to the
sentiment Of the country and at the sug-
gestiOn OF Secretary Herbert, an appro.
prlatlon OF $4,000 was made, but the
attempt proved to be unsuccessful.
BY a joint resolution, officers and
enlisted men of both branches of
the service were authorized to wear
the badge of the regular army and
navy union on all occasions of cere-
mony. By resolution three members of
the board of managers of the National
Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers
were appointed: Messrs Charles NJ.
Anderson, of Ohio. Sidney q. Cooke, of |
Kansas, and A. l.. Pearson, PennsyI-
vania. The secretary of war was author |
lied TO restore to the state of Michigan
two flags of the Twenty-sccond regi- !
ment, Michigan volunteers, among The |
recaptured flags in the war department,
and to the state of Iowa the flag of the |
Twenty-secoEd regiment, Iowa vol
unteerS infantry, and to donate four |
obsolete gun carriages to the city of !
Marshalltown, Iowa. Much legislation |
relating to public lands was accom-
plished. One act extends to January,
1897, the time within which persons !
may purchase railroad grant lands !
forfeited to the government by the act
OF September 29th. 1SQO under tup COR. !