Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1888 — THE SENATE AND HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

THE SENATE AND HOUSE.

NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING. , Proceeding* of the Senate and House oi Representative* Discussed and Acted On Gist of the Business. The general deficiency appropriation bill was passed by the Senate the 24th inst., after amendments appropriating nearly §1,003,000 had been added. Tlie principal new appropriations are 8184 142 to ro mburrie Chickasaw funds for men ys improperly disbursed therefrom ; #40,000 in furiher aid of t ie Industrial Christian Home Association of Utah, $77,038 for compensation of postmasters under the ac of March 3,1883; $144,092 for the New York Central Railroad Company, being the amount of a finding by the Court of Claims; #20,003 for a steam yacht for the collector at Key West. Fla., to enforce smuggling and quarantine law's ; §146,292 for Government transportations by Baltimore and Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad. Companies and the Hoboken 1 and Improvement Company : and' §270,0.0 for indemnity for Chinese outrages in the Territories. An additional section was also inserted in the bill extending all the criminal laws of the United States to "No-Man's Land" and placing that territory within the judicial district of Kansas. The Senate passed a bill allowing any person who has abandoned or relinquished homestead entry before the expiration of the requisite six months to make another entry not exceeding a quarter-section of laud. The House agreed to the conference report on the sundry civil appr priation bill except the Congressional Library Building feature. A further conference report was ordeusl. The La Crosse (Wis.) bride bill was passed by the House. The Senate passed all the pens ion bills on tho calendar, 114 in number, on the 25th inst. Among them was the bill granting a pension of $3,500 a year to the widow of Gen. Sheridan. Mr. Berry said he was opposed to the bill, but would content himself with voting “No” on its passage. Among other bills passed were those giving right of way through the Indian Territory to the Leavenworth and Rio Grande and the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroads, for the relief of settlers upon the old Camp Sheridan military reservation in Nebraska, and amending section 4474, R. S., as to penults for the use of petroleum in steamboats not carrying passengers. The bill to regulate the course at the Naval Academy was passed by the House, with an amendment making the maximum age for the admission of a cadet 21 years, and the minimum 16 years. A favorable roport was mode to the House on the Senate bill providing for tbe ascertainment of the amount due the Pottawatomie Indians of Michigan and Indiana under certain treaty provisions. Tbe Houso passed tho joint resolution requesting the President to negotiate with Mexico for the creation of an international commission to determine all questions touching the boundary line where it follows the bed of the Rio Grande and Rio Colorado. The Senate joint resolution appropriating $190,003 for the relief of the yellow-fever sufferers was amended so that tho money may be given to State organizations for use in the aid of the sufferers, and was passed in this form without objection on the 23tlj. The Houbo passed the Mcßae hill to forfeit the unoarnod land grant of the Northern Pacific Road. It provides that all the lands granted to tho Northern Pacific Railroad Company by the act of .July 2, 1804, except such as ure adjacent to and coterminous with roal constructed prior to July 4, 1879, with the right of way through the remainder of the route, including all necessary grounds for station bqildings, shops, depots, switches, side tracks, turn-tables, and, excepting also all lands included within the limits of any villago, town, or city, be and the same are hereby declared to he ler.’eitsd and restored to the public domain because of the failure of the company to perform the conditions on which the grant was made. ThefoiMture shall notoxteud to lands adjacent to and coterminous with completed road sold by said company prior to Jan. 1, 18t8, to bona-fide purchasers for value, but the title of such lands is confirmed to such purchasers tipon condition that tho v pi-esent their claims within one year. The Honse noil-concurred in the Senate amendments lo tbe general defi■cieMvv l>i'l si’d niffe-e o>* . n" '. The resolution offered by Mr. Chandler for an inquiry into the last Louisiana election, involving the choice of United States Senators, was taken up in the House on the 27th, and resulted in a heated discussion of a personal nature. No action was taken. The House amendment to tqe Senate bill, appropriating sluo,oUo in aid of the yellow-fever sutferers, having boen laid before the Senate, Mr. Edmunds said it missqd the point aimed at—the capacity to use the money in aid of those who were sick and in danger of starvation. In the hope that some hing better could be done, he moved that the Senate? non-concur in the House amendment, and ask for a conference, which was ordered. Both bouses of Congress agreed to the conference report on the sundry civil appropriation lull. A resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury to report whether the Treasury Department has information of any violation of the navigation laws, and if bo whether any steps have been taken to vacate the American registers of vessels commanded by foreigners, was adopted by the House the 28th. The House passed thirty-one private pension bills at itsevening session.