The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-08

sion OF pensioners from the rolls. a oues
| ton which has excited endless discussion
during this administration. 1t was for
pluueh 10 suspend them without 80 days
| notice and notification Of the charges
| against them
| FOUR GENERAL DEFICIENCY R1r1s
have been necessary this session Tho
| nrst one was signed Dec 81 1893 and ito
principal items were $127,5OO for the nav Of
assistant Janitors and custodians under the
treasury department, and 100000 for mile
age for members, the regular mileage an
| preparation for the first session hav bea,
used during the special session. The sec
ond deficiency bill, signed the same dav
included $4,000 for the treasury DEPART
ment. 100000 of it for the Gus
toms service. 100000 for the pen
sion service, 100000 for the census
sus and 100000 for public printing. The
third deficiency, signed March II, 1894 car
ried 100000 for the treasury department
half OF 1t for the enforcement of the Chi
nese exclusion act, with 1880 for treas
ury printing. 1000 for the department Of
justice and $4,000 for improvements TO
the gunboats Gastine and Machias. The
fourth. approved April a. carried about
S2l5,OV for the treasury, most of 1t for the
bureau of printing and engraving and for
United States courts 81 $4,000. The fifth
bill, approved June 49, carried sl65 OOO for
the public printing office and $185, 900 for the
customs service.
Two resolutions appropriating $4,000 and
$4,000 for enforcing the Chinese exclusion
act were approved Dec Z, 1893, and April a
1894. AS most of the appropria ton had not
passed to the beginning of the fiscal year.
July l. it was necessary to extend by reso-
luton all appropriations for the necessary
operations OF the government, for pensions
and for the District of Columbia They were
twice extended, for 80 days from June 30
and Is days from July go and a resolution
continuing for 30 days the employment of
mechanics and laborers under the navy de-
partment was passed under the same cir
cumstances
BY resolution the secretary of the treas
ury was authorized to make partial pay
ment on vessels built by contract the
amount not to exceed Is per cent of the
work done, and to advance to the public
printer sums not exceeding four-fifths of
his bond to pay for work and materials
Two special appropriation bills for salaries
of employees of congress were necessary
and one for the expenses of Investigate ton
ordered by the senate. By resolution the
secretary of the treasury ordered to
receive from r. T. Wilson & Co. and place
to the credit of the Cherokee nation S. 74O-
600 for the Cherokee outlet. BY resolution
the secretary of the interior was author
lied to settle the accounts of The agents
who affected the treaty of 1854 with the
Delaware Indians. Special acts were pass
ed for rewriting the consular regula ton for
printing a history Of the internal onal ar
bitrations to which the United States was
party and the report of the committee
on the centennial celebration and laying
Of the corner stone of the capitol.
Among the laws of
BENEFIT TO MERCHANT MARINE
interests enacted was to prevent col
lisions at sea, prescribing system of sig
nails, or to facilitate the entry of steam
ships by authorizing the custom officers
to permit the unloading of a 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 Yon-
kers.
An act to establish a light and fog sig
nal station near Butler Flats, New Bed
ford Mass; an act to transfer the Morris
island saving station near Charleston, S.
G., to Sullvan's island an act to establish
a port Of delivery at Bonner's Ferry Ida
no; an act to provide an American regis
ter for the steamer Ell Calao; a resolution
directing 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 a uniform
depth of 20 feet; resolution directing the
secretary of war to determine if there is
danger of the Mississippi river cutting
through the space dividing it from the ST.
Francis river near Walnut Bend, Ark.
The acts
PERTAINING TO THE JUDICIARY
of the United States were:
10 provide TOR two additional associate
justices of the supreme court of Oklahoma
Territory, for the division of the Eastern
district of Michigan into the Northern and
southern divisions, and for holding the cir
cult and district courts therein to provide
that term of the circuit and district court
OF the district of Vermont may be held at
Montpelier, the criminal cases in the dis
trlct of Minnesota shall be brought and
prosecuted in the division of the district
In which the offenses were committed; to
nix 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 judicial
district; to change the boundaries of the
Judicial districts of Florida allowing the
state courts of Maryland to occupy the old
United States Court House in Baltimore
Tor nve years; to authorize the transfer of
carpets and furniture to the rooms occu-
pied by the United States courts in Chicago;
to require original receipts for deposits
OF postmasters to be sent to the auditors
of the treasury for the postoffice DEPART
ment; to authorize the fourth assistant
postmaster general to approve postma sters'
ponds; to regulate the inspection of iron or
steel boiler plates and their stamping by
the United States inspectors and fixing the
penalties for unauthorized use of the stamp. |
Among the territorial acts was one fixing
the limit of indebtedness which may be in
Cured by Salt Lake City, at 6 per cent of
the value of the taxable property, and one
authorizing the county of Coconino, Ari- |
zona to issue $4,000 in bonds to build a |
county building.
The act establishing the Smithsonian in
stitution in Washington was amended in
some minor respects, and resolution pass
ed to appoint Andrew D. White a member
of the board of directors. To
REDRESS AN INJUSTICE
to certain graduates of the Annapolis Naval
Academy, an act to fill vacancies in the
grade of assistant paymaster to those dis
charged at the end of their two years
cruise under the act of Aug. S, 1882, was
passed. For the purpose of retaining the
wreck of the Kearsarge Roncador
Reef in Difference to the sentiment of the
country, and at the suggestion of Secre |
tary Herbert, an appropriation of $4,000 |
was made, but the attempt proved unsuc- |
cessful. BY a joint resolution officers and |
enlisted men of both branches of the serv- |
ice were authorized to wear the badge of |
the regular army and navy union on all |
occasions of ceremony.
Much legislation relating to
PUBLIC LANDS
was accomplished. One act extends to |
1897, the time within which per- |
sons may purchase railroad grant lands |
forfeited to the government by act of Sept. |
20, 1890, under the conditions of purchase in !
that act. The reservation of section Is |
in each township of the Cherokee outlet, |
Tonkawa eservation, and Pawnee reserva- |
ton lands in Oklahoma, for educational |
purposes, and of section 80 in each town
ship for public buildings, was ratified and
conditions fixed for the lease of the lands
by the territory. An act was signed pro-
vidine for the allotment of certain lands
on the reservation of the Confederate Otos
and the Missouri Indians of Missouri and