The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-01-24
Over a Hundred Passed in a Short
Space of Time.
A Resolution Offered and Agreed to
Calling on the Attorney General
for Statement of the Terms of
Settlement With the Union Pacific
Railroad and the Personnel of the
Reorganization Committee.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-The Senate
devoted itself to-day to the business of
clearing the calendar of pension bills
and of other bills to which no objec-
ton was offered. OF the former all
were passed, without a single exception.
There were 104 of them, and it took
only ten minutes to dispose of them
OF the latter bills there were some
thirty passed The Union Pacific Rail-
road compromise arrangement was the
subject of a resolution offered by Sena-
tor Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska, and
agreed to without objection, calling on
the Attorney-G General for statement of
the terms of settlement and of the per-
sonnet of the reorganization commit
tee. The President was requested
through another resolution offered by
Morgan Cd of Alabama to furnish the
Senate with copies of all cOrrespon-
dence relating to the Nicaragua canal
with the Nicaragua Government since
1881
There was a small attendance of
Senators when the proceedings of the
day began.
Allen (Pop) of Nebraska offered a.
resolution, which was agreed to with
out objection, calling ON the Attorney
General to inform the Senate whether
he had entered into an agreement or
stipulation with the reorganization
committee of the Union Pacific Rail-
road respecting the foreclosure of the
Government loan thereon. and the
amount to be bid in the event of the
foreclosure of the loan; also to send to
the Senate the full text of the agree
or 9r
names of the parties thereto. and of the
persons comprising the reorganization
committee, as well as the written au-
thorfty he may have for beginning fore
closure proceedings or entering into
any such agreement or stipulation.
Morgan Cd of Alabama offered q
resolution requesting the President to
furnish copies of all correspondence
and official communications relating to
the Nicaragua canal with the Govern
ment of Nicaragua since 1887. The
resolution was agreed to.
The consideration of unobjected bills
on the calendar was then begun, and
the following We're passed, the Nicara-
qua canal bill being laid aside informal
ly for the day:
Appropriating 5000 for the heirs
in Walsenburg, Col, in March, 1895.
To refund to Ames and DERRICK of
San Francisco drawbacks on grain bags
exported in 1882.
To reclassify postal railway clerks
and prescribe their salaries. The bill
divides these clerks into ten classes.
Glass 1 is to be paid $500 a year, class
, $500, class 3 $1,000, class S1,100.
CIo = oil ole
81 400 class s $500, class 9 81, 600
and class 10 81 800
Appropriating $40, 900 to owners of
Hawaiian bark Arctic.
For the examination and classification
of certain lands in Oregon.
To pay the heirs of the late John
Roach $3.50, 511 for labor and material,
dockage and detention and occupation
of yards and shops for the gunboats
Chicago, Boston and Atlanta.
Granting a pension of $40 a month to
the widow of General John Newton.
Increasing the pension of the widow
of w. w. Brunes to $50 month.
In inveighing against the difference
in amount of pension in these two bills
Allen (Pop) of Nebraska said that
there appeared to be something in the
atmosphere On w llldt Gil
outraged such invidiouS distinctions,
and he sometimes thought that the
man in the moon, as he crossed the
Capital should hold his nose to keep
out the stencil.
Granting a pension of $50 a month to
the widow of Bishop Perkins, Captain of
the Sixteenth Infantry formerly Unit
ed States Senator from Kansas).
All the pension bills on the calendar
being disposed Of the following were
passed:
House bill authorizing the construc-
ton OF a railroad bridge across the
Rio Grande river at FL Paso, Tex.
House bill extending the time of the
completion of the bridge across the
East River between New York and
Long Island to January /, 1900
House bill to prohibit the sale of in
toxicating drinks to Indians.
Senate bill appropriating $4,000 for
the establishment of quarantine sta
ton at Astoria, Or.
AT 1850 the Senate adjourned until
Monday.