The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1895-02-01

eooiUn c4obeu with the fnpi
passage Of twenty-one pension bills
lhe bill for the transfer of port;o,
OF the exhibit of the department i
State at the Worlds Columbian Fv,,o
sltion to the Columbian Museum =
Chicago, was also passed. The erh;b;
transferred covers the La Rabida con
vent and the collection relating 70 \
After short executive session the SEN
ate at B o'clock adjourned.
HOUSE.
Inc Indian appropriation bill, which
mas been under consideration for iy,
Gays IN the house, was finally passed
to-day. II carried SO, 494, 500 wher
reported but as passed the total VISA,
considerably augmented, one amend.
ment alone Ito pay the first installment
ior the purchase OF the Cherokee out.
ietl carrying $1,666, 600. Several an.
important amendments were added n
the bin to-day.
A bill was passed to amend the arti-
cies OF the navy relative to punishment
ON conviction by court martial: also
on motion Of Mr.. Reed, Republican,
OF Maine, to grant an American regis
ter to the bark James II. Hamlin.
A bill offered by Mr.. Cooper, of
Texas, to authorize the appointment
before March 4, 1895, of cadet to the
naval academy from each congressional
district not actually represented there
created considerable opposition, and a
roll call was forced on the question of
its passing. The bill was passed l6I
to 57.
The conference report on the urgent
deficiency bill was adopted.
In the morning hour Mr.. Sickles.
Democrat, of New York, from the COM
mittee on military affairs, called up
and had passed the bill to establish a
national military park at Gettysburg.
1t provided for acquiring 800 acres
now owned by the Gettysburg Memo
rial Association of the requirement of
their lands of the battlefield and their
property marking, ETC., by commits
sioners. 1t carried an appropriation
of 800, 600.
The house then went into committee
Of the whole and resumed the consid-
GRAFTON Of the Indian appropriation
BILL which was passed, with several
amendment.
The house Thursday devoted al IFS
time to the consideration of the sundry
civil appropriation bill, with such sue
cess that at the hour of adjournment
it had completed the reading of the
bill, except for several controverted
paragraphs which were temporarily
passed over.
The case of Judge Kicks had an echo
in the adoption of an amendment offer
ed by Mr.. Ray, Republican, of New
York, making it unlawful for clerks Of
the United States courts to include in
their emoluments fees not acc Crued and
due at the time their accounts were rem
dered, and forbidding the allowance Of
fees not actually earned. The amend
ment excited no debate.
Several other amendments were
adopted, among them one appropriat
ing $500, 600 for printing the report of
the secretary OF agriculture; $44, 900
for printing rs, 600 copies of the famous
''Horse Book, and $25, 600 for print
ing for each member of congress a
complete set of the Union and Confed-
crate records.
The appropriation Of $3.50, 600 for
Hay Lake channel was stricken out
Gen. Casey, chief OF engineers, has adj
yised the chairman Of the appropria-
ton committee, that Col. o. M. Poe,
in charge of the work, had In an Off
cial report stated that the money al
ready appropriated was sufficient to
meet all expenditures to the end Of the
fiscal year ending July 10, 1895.
A long discussion followed In con-
nection With an appropriation Of $685.
600 for the Mississippi River Commits
sion, participated in by Mr.. Hepburn,
Republican, Of Iowa, on one side, Mr..
Democrat, Of Mississippi,
and Mr.. Money, Democrat, Of MlssIs-
sippi, on the other. The former con-
tended that in the case of the moneys |
expended for the government for lev
ees below Cairo, there was diversion
of the public funds for solely private
uses. and the latter defended the MIS-
sissippi appropriation.
Mr.. Cannon, republican Of Illinois, con-
cluded the debate by quoting the
words of the late President Garfield, IN
his letter Of acceptance, congratulatlng
the country on the progress Of great
national river waterways and improve
ments TO the Mississippi, river. which
drained territory in which dwelt 20
300, 600 people.
An amendment was agreed to, on mo
ton OF Mr. Sayres, providing lor tne
expenditure Of not exceeding $10O,QVO
,f the appropriation Of $758' 33S Tor
he Improvement from the. mouth OF
.he Ohio river 10 the mouth OF the
Missouri. for using movable lettles ana
,teel caissons: in removing bars ana
improving the low water channel of tne
river nr c4ooh
galo Democrat, OK Mississippi, 70 APP
,rorr;ate ,,.,N, 1000. 600 for the construction
] ] leveea "a the Mississippi river pe-
svaen the mouths OF the fazoo ana
2nd rivers for the protection o. tne
ands from overflow, fell under Po'n'
n order lam os.od the
.,..,sn 81 SATURDAY. 1t was under con-
;ds~o4;au but three days. AR passed.
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