Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-04-08
OREGON IN CONGRESS.


the last congress. He hopes to get fa-
Vorable action on some of them, and
expects that those which were favorablv
reported in the last congress will receive
early consideration in this congress.
One bill appropriates $3.50, 900 for the
public building at Portland, and fixes
that sum, with what has heretofore
been appropriated, as the limit of the
cost of the building. This will bring
the total cost of the building to 81, ,OOO,-
900. The bill provides that when the
building is completed it shall be used
as custom-house, for appraisers stores,
courtrooms, signal service offices and
Tor the United States surveyor general.
Anoter bill fixes the boundary of the
Warm Springs Indian reservation on
the northern side. 1t provides that
the boundary shall be the same as de-
fined in the treaty of 1855, and as found
by Commissioners Fullerton, Dufur
and Payne in 1891.
Other bills introduced by the Oregon
senator are as follows:
Admitting veterans of Indian wars
to the soldiers homes; removing the
charge of desertion from the name of
James K. Parker; to reimburse the
states of Oregon, California and Ne
vada for money expended in the rebel
lion, OF which amount Oregon would
receive $3O5, ,915; providing for quar-
antlne station at Astoria, and appropri-
atlng $50, 900 for the same; to establish
an assay office at Baker City; directing
the accounting officers of the treasury
to allow Orville T. Porter for all sums
stolen or appropriated by his deputy
while Porter was marshal for Alaska;
to pay William A. Starkweather SO, ITO,
the amount paid by him for clerk hire
while he was register of the land Office
at Oregon City; to pay Peter Grant
Stewart, of Gervais, $1,000 for land
taken by the government at the mouth
OF the Columbia river IN 1869; to pay
ii. w. Shipley So, ,4S7 for work done by
him in excess of his contract in con-
structing buildings at the Nez Perce
agency, in Idaho; to pay Avery D. Bah
cock and wife $4,000 for the use and
occupation of their land by the govern
ment; to pay d. j. Holmes, of Port
land, 1895 for money expended by him
on claim from which he was ousted
when it was found the land he occupied
was in the Warm Springs reservation;
to pay John w. Lewis 1921 balance
due him as salary as register of the land
office at The Dalles; to pension George
Hughes of Portland, at $50 per month;
to pay John Campbell 81, 165 for prop
erty taken during the war.
Senator Mcbride has introduced a
bill making Colonel George II. Men
dell, late of the corps of engineers,
brigadier-general on the retired list.
He recites in the bill the good work
that Colonel Mendell has performed,
and points out that when General Casey
retired Colonel Mendell was next in
line for promotion, but that another
was made brigadier-general instead.
Another bill by Senator Mcbride al
lows persons making claims upon pub
lie lands to make proofs before any off
Ger qualified to administer oaths in
homestead cases, whether the lands are
in the county or not. At present the
making of such proofs must be before
an officer in the county where the land
is situated
Another bill applicable to all public
land states the law to settle accounts
between the United States and Missis-
sippi, which allowed for school pur-
poses all lands embraced in reservations
which would have have been numbered
16 and &c., The states are to be al
lowed $1.25 per acre for the loss of
such lands.
Representative Ellis has introduced
a bill to prohibit the sale of intoxicat-
ing liquors in the capitol building.
This bill was passed by the house at
the last session of congress, and was re-
ported in the senate. No one, with
very few exceptions. wanted it passed,
but men did not want to go on record
as opposing it. The bill might have
passed the senate if it ever came to
vote, but Senator Hill, of New York,
would never allow it to reach that
stage. He was always ready to talk it
to death whenever it appeared. Mr..
Ellis may push it along, and it will no
doubt pass the house if it ever comes to
vote again.
All members of the Oregon delega-
ton indorsed Binger Hermann for com
missioner of the general land office.
His successor, Mr.. Tongue, and other
members of the delegation called per-
sonally upon the president and urged
his appointment. Mr.. Ellis went
among the members Of the house, and
especially those from the West, and got
their signature to paper in which
Hermann was indorsed for the place on
the ground that IL wonld he 10 thn In