Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The House Committee bn Indian Affairs have agreed to a favorable report on the bill introduced in the; Senate bv Senator Hawes to provide for the allotment of lands in severally to Indians.... The Senate Committee on Commerce has agreed to a favorable report on Representative James’ hill to; reflate oonimercinl-tmv-clers' sales of goods and merchandise. The bill, as agreed upon, reads ns follows; “That residents of each State and Territory may, within the other States and Territories and within the District of Columbia, solicit from dealers or merchants-ordere for gmids- and merchandise by sample, catalogue, card- pripe-list, description, or other representation without payment of any license or mercantile tax.” A special agent of the land office reports that 09 per cent, of the homestead and pre-emption entries ir Minnesota are made ns pretexts for obtaining the timber on the land, with no intention of permanent settlement. \ — By a close vote —fi to s—the Educational Committee of the House directed a favorv - - l :,* , . . able report on the Senate bill to provide for the study of the nature <if alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and of their effects upon the human system, in connection* w ith the several divisions of the subjects of physiology and hygiene by the pupils in the public schools in the Territories and the District of Columbia, and in the military and naval academies and Indian and colored schools of the Territories.. The President has signed the act authorizing the erection of a building for the Congressional library; also the Set for the construction of a bridge over the Mississippi River near Alton, 111., and the act for the construction of a dam across the Mississippi near Braincrd, Mum.