Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1888 — THE FIFTIETH CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

THE FIFTIETH CONGRESS.

In the ?emte, on tbo 29th, Mr. Berry talked of the tariff. Among the bills passed were the following: To amend the act of March 3, 1879, providing additional regulations for homestead and pre-emption entries of publie lands; for the disposal of the Ft Wallace military reservation a Kansas, appropriating $80,(00 for a public build ing in Helena, Mont. T.; changing the boundaries of the Yellowstone National Park and providing police and other regulations there; inor- asing the limit of expenditures for a public building at Ban Prineisco to 8880,000; appropriating $250, 000 for a publie building at Sioux City, la ; appropriating SBO,OOO for a publie building at Cheyenne, W. T.; to grant right sos way through the Indian Territory to the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company; to extend the. southern and western boundaries es the State of Kant as; House bill io ratify and confirm an agreement with the ®ros Ventre and other tribes of Crow Indians in Montana; for the relief of purchasers and other grantees of the United States in certain swamp and overflowed lands, and to reimburse and indemnify certain States; reining to the inclosnro of certain points of special interest on the battie-field of Gettysburg; for relief of the sufferers by the wreck of the United States steamer Tallapoosa; in aid of the centennial and memorial associations of Valley Forge, and to secure the Washington headquarters, mansion and grounds, occupied by the continental army oi 1777-8; appropriating 820,020 for the completion of the monument of Mary, the mother of Washington, at Fredericksburg, Va.; to have oopios of certain national medals struck off and delivered to certain departments and to the various States and Territories. The House tabled a resolution calling for tertain information relative to Canadian mails. The Indian appropriation bill was considered. The Senate was not in se-tsioa on the 80th. The House adopt® 1 a resolution appropriating $25,000 to enable the United States to participate in the international exhibition, to ba held in Barcelona, Spain, in April, 1888 Bills were passed granting a pension of 12,000 each to the widows of Gen. John A. and Wen. Blair. At the night session 24 pension bills were passed. The Senate, on the 81st, passed the House joint resolution accepting the invitation to the Paris International Exposition, with amendments increasing the appropriation from s'>oo,oo9 to 8300,090. Bills on the calender 'were passed making appropriations for public buildings at St. Albans, Vt., 859,008; Los Angeles, $809,000; Buffalo, N. Y., $250,905; Bay City, Mich., $200,900, and Lowell, Mass., $290 030. Also for the celebration at Washington in 1889 of the centennial of the constitution of the United States. In the House, a bill was reported limiting to seven years the time in which actions may be brought by the United States on the bonds of public officers? The bill to establish a United States Land Court, and to provide for a judicial settlement of private claims in Ariton-*, New Mexico and Colorado, was considered without final aetion. The river and harbor appropriation bill was reported. The Senate, on the 2d, passed the House bill giving a pension of 82,099 per year to the widow of Gen. John A. Logan; also authorizing the construction of a bridge over the Mississippi river at Memphis. In the House, Mills submitted the “Mills tariff bill,’ ' and McKinley submitted a minority report. Referred to committee of the whole.. No business of Interest was transacted.