Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1888 — Congress. [ARTICLE]

Congress.

The dependent pension bill was recoivrd in the House on the 10th inst. and referred to the Committee on Invalid Tensions. Mr. Hitt reported a bill authorizing the Government to negotiate with Mexico with a view of determining the boundary lino. A bill* was passed extending for two years the time of payment to purchasers of land on the Omaha Indian reservation in Nebraska. Bills were «lao passed to restore to the uublic domain part of the Uintah reservation” in Utah, and prescribing a penalty of fine andAimprisonSBMit for the unlawlnl cutting of-timber on Indian reservations. The bill for the allotment M lands in severalty to the united Peoria and Miami tribes of Indians in Indian Territory tUe to a good deal of discussion. Without taxing action on the hill the House adjssmsd. The Senate waa not in session.