Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-02-15
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The Senate suspended business at $50
o'clock Friday, according to a special or
der, for eulogies for Senator German OF
MARYLAND. Previous to this order many
bills of minor Importance were passed,
including one increasing the salaries OF
city mail carriers, making the first years
salary 5000, with an annual increase or
800 until q maximum of S1.2OO has
been reached. Other bills passed increase
the pension of all Indian war survivors
from IS to $40 per month and grant the
city of st. Louis an extension OF time for
one year to construct a bridge across the
Mississippi. The rivers and harbors bill
continued to occupy the attention of the
House. In the main the speeches dealt
with the proposed canal from Chicago to
st. Louis and the deepening of the Missis-
sippi river from st. Louis to the gulf to
fourteen feet, the speakers including
Messrs. Clark of Missouri. Rodenburg of
Illinois, Rainey of Illinois, C~rumpacker
Of Indiana, Madden of Illinois, Croft of
Illinois, Shackelford of Missouri. Chand-
Ter of Mississippi, Mahon of Pennsylva-
MIA and Carrot of Tennessee. Bills were
passed fixing the boundaries of lands adj
joining the Occur d'Alene Indian reserva-
ton in Idaho, permitting persons owning
lands in the Kiowa. Comanche and
Apache Indian reservations in Oklahoma
to commute them for townsite purposes,
and creating two additional and districts
in Alaska, located at Nome and Fair.
banks.
The Senate devoted most of Saturday
to the reading of the Indian a%ppropria-
ton bill for the adoption of committee
amendments. The Senate adjourned at
$50 o'clock out of respect to the men,
DRY of the late Representative William II.
Flack of New York. Two hours were
spent by the House in further considera-
ton of the river and harbor appropriation
bill, after which e~ulogies were delivered
OIL the life of the late Senator German of
Maryland. Out of respect to the men,
DRY of the late Representative William
II. Flack of New York, whose death was
announced. the House at 4 :0o adjourned
until Monday.
The Senate occupied the first two hours
Monday in perfecting the House bill per-
hitting the government to take an ap-
peal on points of law in crimina cases
similar to that against the meat packers.
Senators Hepburn INC Newlands spoke on
the Carter resolution aimed at the recent
Of der of the Secretary of the Interior
preventing the issuance of land patents
uatil after an examination on the ground
by a special agent, and Senator Bacon
made a Erief statement intended to show
that Senator Beverage had been in error
regal ding the operation of the child labor
law in Georgia. The House passed the
McCumber service pension bill, the ON
nibus lighthouse bill and the omnibus
revenue cutter bill. BY a vote of ITO to
So the Senate amendments TO the urgent
deficiency bill, loaning the jamestown eX-
position $~1,0O0,O0O, were concurred in.
Resolutions we're passed calling for ar in
vestigation by the Secretary of Commerce
and Labor of cotton exchanges and fuctn-
ations in cotton prices, giving a privileged
status to the bill codifying and consoli-
dating the patent and copyright laws, and
directing a report by the Secretary of the
Interior of the number of existing patents
granted to officers and employees OF the
UniSed States. Bills providing for the
protection of game in Alaska and author
izing a refund of certain taxes collected
under the war revenue act of s were
also PASSED.
The Senate spent the entire day Tues.
day considering the Indian appropriation
bill. The army appropriation bill, carry
ing SS1, 500, 900, an increase of $4,000,
600 over the amount voted by the House
was reported and will be taken up as
soon as the Indian bill is disposed of. The
Senate committee amendments include
81, 372227 for barracks and quarters
Sc, ,16O for promoting and extending
the efficiency of the artillery corps, and q
provision to exempt officers n men anC
their families from the provisions of the
rate bill and allowing them to accept free
or reduced rates of transportation. Sena
tor Heyburn introduced a resolution in
strslcting the Secretary of the Interior tt
issue patents on all lands and mining ap
plications where the law is complied will
and no protest is filed. Senator Kit
tredge reported the copyright bill and Sen
ator Smoot gave notice of a minority re
port favoring the House provision giving
manufacturers the right to adapt musica
compositions to automatic musical instru
ments. General debate on the rivers a n
harbors appropriation bill was terminated
in the House at 3 o'clock, when the read
ing of the bill was begun under the five
minute rule. The reading of twenty page
of the bill was completed before adjourn
ment.
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The Indian appropriation bill was AGAR
the sole topic of discussion by the Senate
Wednesday. The day was spent in a dis
cussion of the proposition to repeal thu
restrictions on the alienation of surplus
Indian lands in the Indian Territory. Th,
Senate agreed to House amendments t.
a Senate bill providing $65O,OOO for foul
new revenue cutters. The advocates O.
q 14-foot waterway from Chicago to st
Louis and the gulf met defeat when tn,
House, in committee Of the whole on thu
river and harbor appropriation bill, voted
to stand by the recommendation of thu
committee in opposition to the project
Mr.. Dalzeli of Pennsylvania presided
Speaker Cannon being i~ndisposed. After
completing seventy-two pages of the river
1nd harbors bill the House adjourned.
National Capital Notes.
Two appropriations Of $4,000 each ar
asked by the Postmaster General for tenn
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