The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-06

that district this congress): of Hopkins
vs.. Kendall from the Tenth Kentucky
district and of Battle VS.. Price from
the Third Louisiana district-all in favor
of the sitting.
The conference report on the military
academy appropriation was agreed 10.
o'clock, the evening session to be de-
voted TO private pension bills.
The house commerce commission to-
day favorably reported a bill approprlat-
all the aDDurtenances thereto at or near
Astoria, Or.
Mr.. Johnson Rep.. Ind) pre-.
sented the unanimous report %. OF
the elections committee No. 2 upon the
contest of Alex Benoit VS.. Charles j..
Boatner, from the Fifth district of Louis
lana. in favor of Mr.. Boatner Upon
contest for the seat subsequent 10 the
election in 1884, the seat was declared va
cant by the house and special election
t. fill the vacancy.
Mr.. Benoit again contested and the
committee find that he had no case.
Mr. Daniels (Rep., N. W presented the
report of elections committee No. 1 upon
the contest of n. II. Hopkins against Jo-
seDh NJ. Kendall from the Tenth Ken
lucky district in favor of Kendall.
(Rep.. n. CO dissented from the con-
clusion of the majority.
The house then entered upon the con-
sideration of private pension bills, when
of the whole.
A bill was passed granting pension
Of $50 q month to the widow OF the late
Major General Erastus B. Tyler.
A message from the president was re-
seived transmitting the final report or
The president of the board of commission.
srs of the Worlds Fair, the material OF
which filled five large boxes. 1t was re-
ferred to the committee on appropriations
The conference report on the military
academy appropriation was presented ana
agreed to. 1t reduces by $4,000 the total
amount of the bill as il passed the SEN
s., 900.
The report of elections committee No.
uSon the contest of Taylor Beattle
against Andrew Price from the Third
Louisiana district in favor of Price, the
sitting member was presented. Messrs-
Johnson CRep., Ind and Long (Rep,
Kan.) dissented and recommended that
the house declare the seat vacant
A bill was passed granting a pension
of $12 month to Amanda M. Way, now
resident of California, who. in the
years Immediately following the war was
a prominent temperance and female sur
fraeist worker in Indiana. Her services
were those of volunteer army nurse. Also
q bill granting a pension of $50 month 10
Hans Johnson, Twenty-seventh Iowa
volunteers. When the senate bill to PEN
sion the widow of the late General ana
Governor w. H. SLOVENIAN of California
had been passed with an amendment re-
ducing the rate from $50 to $50 month,
Mr.. Loud (pep., Cal.) called attention 10
the discrepancy between the terms OF
that bill and those of others pensioning
widows of brigadier geneSals. General
Stoneman," he said, was no Ordinary
general commanding a brigade, but served
with great distinction in cnarge of I'M
Dortant commands in the Army or the
Potomac. and later in the west trust
that when the bill gets into conference
the members of the committee on pen
sions will see that the measure of justice
is r,eted out to her that the committee
has accorded 20 the widows of other gen
e-al officers, many of whom we never
heard of before. To be sure General
Stone-can was Democratic governor OF
ny state but I hope that no political
bias has influenced the action of the
committee"
Mr. Thomas (Rep. MichO, acting CHAIR
man of the committee on invalid pensions
said he approved every word the gentle
MAJ. from California had uttered.
Sixty-one bills were disposed of when
the house took the usual Friday recess
until s p. m.