Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1892 — THE NATIONAL SOLONS. [ARTICLE]

THE NATIONAL SOLONS.

SENATE AND HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES. Oar National Lawmakers and What They Are Doing for the Good of the Country— Various Measures Proposed, Discussed.. and Acted Upon. * Doings of Congress. On the 4th, Senate hill to convey to the State of Kansas -a p rtion of the Fort Hayes military reservation (about 3,200 acres) for homes for old soldiers and their families, and to open the rest of the reservation to homestead Settlement was amended to, .make the Whole reservation Rply 'to soldiers,* and passed. The following 'bills Awerc passed: Creating two additional land districts in the State of Montana; House bill to authorize the construction of abridge across the Osage Elver between Warsaw and the mouth of Turkey Creek, Mo. Senate bill to authorize the constru® of a bridge across the Bed Elver of the North at Quincy, N. D. House bill tor the disposition and sale of the lands of the Klamath Elver Indian Reservation, Californfis: The House passed Its time considering the Chinese, and river aud harbor appropriation bills. The House spent the sth discussing the river and harbor appropriation bill. A letter was also received from the Postmaster General, urging the extension of the free delivery experiments to villages and farming districts. It, was accompanied by a batch of 472 newspaper opinions, taken from 326 different papers, all in favor of the propdHsd rural free delivery extension and eight against it. all that could be found. These have been sent In from all the States and Territories except Alaska, Indian Territory, New Mexico, and North Carolina. Senator; Mitchell, of Oregon, who has re-, ported from the Senate committee am amendment to the postoffice appropriation bill, appropriating 8200,000 to continue the! Postmaster General’s free delivery experi-i ments, said that he had every reason to believe that so far as the Senate was con-' cerned, at least, the amendment would be adopted. The Canadian Pacific Eailway has sent an agent here to ascertain whether; the administration is in earnest In the matter of retaliation as to the canal tolls. After disposing of some business of no general interest, the Senate, on the 6th,| took up the resolution heretofore offered 1 by Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, for payment toj the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations for their interests In the Cheyenne and Arapa-i hoe Eeservation (about 83,000,000) as thei unfinished business, and Mr. Hawes, Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, addressed the Senate In advocacy of the' resolution, but without finishing his address. Then Mr. Gorman offered res-: olutlons, which were agreed to, expressing regret at the death, in February, 1891, of the late Senator Wilson of Maryland, and suspending the business of the Senate to enable his associates to pay proper tribute of regard to his character and distinguished public services. There! was a large attendance of members in the House. The first business in order was the Sibley bill, but the House refused to; consider it and went into committee of the! whole (Mr. Hatch of Missouri In the chair) on ihe river aDd harbor bllL On the 7th the House, after the transaction of routine business, went into commit- 1 tea of the whole (Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, in the chair) on the river and harbor bill. The appropriation for the improvement ofi the Missouri Eiver between the foot of the great falls in Montana and Sioux City, lowa, was increased from $70,0001 to SIOO,OOO. An amendment was; adopted appropriating SIO,OOO for improving the Colorado Elver by the construction of a levee on the Gila Elver, near its junction with the Colorado The. committee then rose and reported the bill! to the House. Mr. Hlchnrdson, of Tennessee, moved to lay the bill On the table. This motion was rejected—the opponents of the bill not being able to muster sufficient force to order the yeas and nays. The amendments were agreed to in gross and the House adjourned In the Senate, the 9th, the House bill conferring an American registry upon the Inman steamships City of New York and City of Paris was passed by a vote of four to one, and a bill reported by the foreign relations committee conferring jurisdiction upon United States courts in cases of crime against State laws committed on aliens Btarted a lively debate, which was In progress at adjournment In the House, after two hours spent in considering amendments to the river and harbor bill to recommit It and curtail its powers, tbe measure was finally passed by a vote of 186 to 66.