"DOINGS IN CONGRESS.
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OJf IIKI'KISSESXA TI J'JUS.
flic Direct Tax lUciimiro Pan4 < > ft the
I.oxver Uoii.o by a Vote of 172 to 101
Heath of Senator Wilson , oflMnry-
land Tlio Agricultural Appropria
tion Kill The Urscnry Deficiency
JUcamire and Other Matters In the
Tire HOUIPB.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the senate on the 23d the confer
ence report on the bill providing for
* m allotment of lands in severally to
the Indians was rgreed to. Among the
papers presented and referred were
resolutions from the state senate of
Texas favoring an amendment to the
constitution limiting the tenure of all
federal offices to a reasonable term of
years. An amendment permitting the
secretary of the treasury to make tem
porary appointments of architects ,
skilled draftsmen and civil engineers
in the office of the supervising archi
tect was the text of a discussion on
civil service examinations. Mr. Gor
man criticised the civil service com
missioners for denouncing senators ,
representatives and cabinet officers as
hostile to the civil service law. Mr.
Allison explained that the architect of
the treasury had told the committee
that , in his belief , the plans for many
public buildings might bo made by ar
chitects outside of Washington and in
that opinion the committee generally
appeared. As the law now stood the
plans , specifications and details of
all kinds had to bo made in
the office of the supervising architects.
The discussion was still going on at 6
o'clock when the senate took a recess.
In the house the conference report on
the bill amending the act providing for
the allotment of land in severally to
Indians , was adopted. The house com
mittee on census this morning adopted
a report adverse to the claims of New
York city to a recount of the popula
tion of that city. The committee finds
that New York has not made out its
case. The house then went into a
committee of the whole on th'o deficien
cy appropriation bill. The clause ap
propriating § 50,000 for relief of citi
zens of Oklahoma was stricken out.
The amendment was adopted directing
the accounting officers of the treasury
not to withhold pay .for any retired
officer of the array , retired prior to the
act of March 30,1860 , notwithstanding
his acceptance of diplomatic or con
sular position. This amendment has
direct reference to General Sickles.
Without disposing of the bill the com
mittee rose. The postofiice appropria
tion bill passed and the house took a
recess.
In the senate on the 24th the com
mittee amendments to the sundry civil
appropriation bill regarding the
world's fair , the house bill to estab
lish United States land courts , and to
provide for the judicial investigation
and settlement of private land claims
in Utah. New Mexico , Colorado , Ne
vada and Wyoming , passed , with
amendments , and a conference was
asked. The sundry civil appropria
tion bill was taken up. After a long
debate the senate went into executive
session. When the doors were re
opened a disagreement on the District
of Columbia bill was reported and a
new conference ordered. Considera
tion of the sundry civil bill was pro
ceeded with , the world's fair para
graph soon being reached. Mr. Mc-
Phcrson referred to the large salaries
the officers of the exposition had voted
themselves and inquired whether the
committee on appropriations had taken
any position on that subject. Mr.
Allison replied that on the organiza
tion of the exposition commission a
$200.000 appropriation had been made
for the use of the commission , and the
commissioners had gone on in the ex
penditure of that money for the pres
ent fiscal year. The committee had
I'cporteu an amendment for a limited
appropriation during the next fiscal
year. It , was intended that the
machinery of the exposition at
Chicago would speedily adjust
itself to the proposed conditions.
The death of the late Representative
Watson of Pennsylvania was announced
and , after eulogistic address , the sen
ate adjourned. In the house the sen
ate bill passed granting pensions to the
members of Powell's , battalion of j
mounted volunteers of Missouri who
served in the Mexican war. The direct - ,
rect tax bill was then taken. Mr. Cas-
well of Wisconsin offered an amend
ment providing that no money be paid j
* ahy state or territory until the legis- '
laturc thereof shall have accepted by
resolution the sum appropriated in full
satisfaction of all claims against the
United States on account of the levy
and collection of the tax. Mr. Oates
of Alabama offered an amendment to
Mr. Casweli's amendment a proposi
tion to lest the constitutionality of the
cpton tax. Then , as a substitute for
boih amendments , Mr. Oates offered
an amendment reviving for one year
the right of action of the court ot'
ciairas'-atncer the provisions of 'cap
tured and abandoned pr'oporly. ' " etc.
This substitute was -ruled out-of order
and Mr. Gates' amendment was lost.
Mr. Casw-elL's amendment was adopted.
The urevious question was then ordered
on the bill yeas , 174 ; nays , 96. Mr.
Oates moved to recommitment. Lost
yeas. 84 ; nays. 277. 'The * bill Jhen
passed yeas , .172 ; nays , 10l.
: In' the senate on'the 25thno * business"
, *
was done , adjournment.taking place as
jijnark of respect to the late Senator
Wilson of Maryland. In the house the
immigration .bill was taken up , ( the
pending question being on ! the Oates' '
substitute , which was rejected. The
bill then passed. Theu hqusq. then
wc'utinto 'co.mmittee of'"the1"whole-on
the agricultural appropriation bill. In
the courno of the general debate Mr.
Funston of Kansas , in charge of the
bill , and Mr. Buttcrworth of Ohio had
a tilt which greatly edified the other
members on both sides. After consid
erable further debate the committee
rose without disposing of the bill. The
death of Senator Wilson was announc
ed , and after the appointment of a
coinmitlee to take action in regard to
the funeral the house adjourned. The
house held an evening session , making
for the second time in its history two
distinct legislative sessions in one day.
Mr. Dinglcy submitted a report from
the silver pool investigating commit
tee , and it was ordered printed , Mr.
Dingley giving notice that ho would
call it up as soon as possible. The
house then went into committee of the
whole on the agricultural appropria
tion bill. After considerable debate it
was passed and the committee of the
whole resumed the consideration of
the general deficiency bill. Adjourn
ment was taken before it was disposed
of.
In the senate on the 26th the house
amendment to the direct tax bill was
presented and laid on the table for the
present. Among the papers presented
and referred were numerous protests
from Nebraska against the neglect of
the government in the matter of dis
arming the hostile Sioux and asking
protection .from Indian depredations.
The legislative , executive and judicial
appropriation bill was reported. The
sundry civil bill was taken up and the
committee amendments disposed of.
Other amendments were agreed to ,
among them the following : By Mr.
Spooner , increasing the appropriation
for a public building at Burlington , la. ,
from $70.000 to $95,000 ; by Mr. Stew
art , $20,000 for collection and publish
ing information as to the best methods
of cultivating soil by irrigation ; by
Mr. Teller , $15,00 for the importation ,
care and preservation of reindeer for
the use of natives of Alaska. The bill
was reported to the senate , and passed
after the amendments were agreed to.
The legislative bill was finally laid
aside and Ihe conference report on the
military academv appropriation bill
was agreed to. The chair laid the Nic
aragua canal bill before the senate , Mr.
Paddock insisted on the pure food bill.
As no quorum was present the senate
adjourned. In the -house general de
bate was h'ad on the shipping bill , but
no final action taken. At the evening
session the housfi in committee of the
whole took up the general deficiency
bill. Mr. Sayers 'of Texas moved to
strike out the paragraph appropriat
ing the necessary amount for the pay
ment to Pacific roads for services per
formed for the government. Mr. Grain
opposed the amendment. Mr. Dalzell
supported it , speaking of the Central
Pacific especially as a fraudulently in
solvent company. Mr. McKenna of
California opposed the amendment.
The Union Pacific had been paid for
precisely the same kind of service.
Both roads were bankrupt : There
was nothing to justify the refusal.
In the judgment of the supreme court
a debt due could not be set off against
one not due. The motion to strike
out was agreed to and the committee
rose. The deficiency bill was passed
and the house adjourned.
In the senate on the 27th a message
was presented from the president re
turning without his approval the bill
to establish a record and pension office
of the war department , which was re
ferred to the committee on military
affairs. The house bill passed for the
relief of Henry L. Morley. Mr. Man-
uerson's resolution instructing the
committee on Indian affairs to ioquire
into the condition of the Indian tribes
of Dakota , Montana and elsewhere ,
and whether the care and control of
the Indians living in tribal relations
should be transferred from the interior
department to any other department ,
was agreed to. The legislative appro
priation bill was considered and passed.
The pure food bill was then taken up
and became unfinished business.
Among the bills passed were the fol
lowing : Amendment of various acts
relative to immigration , etc. ; to amend
the act of March 2 , 1889 , for the relief
of certain volnuteer and regular sol
diers of the late war and the Mexican
war ; for the allowance of certain
stores and supplies taken and used by
the United States army as reported by
the court of claims under the provis
ions of the Bowman act. The Indian
appropriation bill was considered butno
definite action was taken , In the
house the senate bill was passed amend
atory of the law providing for the se
lection of school lands. The house
went into committee of the whole , re
suming consideration of the shipping
bill. After discussion , amendment and
much confusion the bill passed , 140 to
120. Mr. Farquhar moved that a con
ference be ordered and , pending ac
tion , thehouse , at midnight , adjourned.
The shipping , bill , as passed by the
house , is radically different from the
senate measure. It merely authorizes
the postmaster general to enter into
such contract for not less than five and
not more than ten years with Ameri
can citizens' for carrying mails on
American steamships between United
States ports and foreign ports , Canada
excepted , as will subserve and pro
mote the postal and commercial inter
ests of the United States the mail ser
vice to be equitably distributed among
Atlantic , Mexican , Gulf and Pacific
Coast ports.-1 The vessels contracted
with must be of American build and
officered bv American citizens.
Keep Oft" the Strip.
WASHINGTON , F > eb. 27. In view ol
the statements that a largo number oJ
persons liave entered , or contemplate
entering , the Cherokee outlet contrary
to law , the secretary of the interior
'has issued a public notice that any one
'who attempts to do so before the landa
were opened to settlement will be per
emptorily removed and will'forfeit tha
rights , theymay - acquire * by d > is
obedience to law.
THE NEW LAND LAW.
COWKKKES ritACTICAT.T.T AGKItED
O.V T1IK MXAS
An I2uacmcnt tliut Will Change the
General Lund Syatcm of the Govcrii-
Tiicnt The Bill EHtabllfthlnsa I'rl-
, 'vatc Land Court .V Statement of the
ISamliigH of tlio Union Pacific The
Independent Order of Grangers A
Land Ofllcc Decinloii.
Tlic New Land Lair.
WASHINGTON , Feb. 28. The confer
ees on the bill for the repeal of the
timber culture law and amendatory of
the land laws generally have practic
ally agreed on an entirely new bill ,
which will bo brought forward at the
first opportunity. The bill agreed
upon will change the general land sys
tem of the government. In the first
place it repeals the timber culture act ,
with a reservation in favor of bonailde
claims heretofore initiated. Tlio peri
od of cultivation is to be computed
from the day of entry. If the neces
sary acts of cultivation are performed
within the proper time the persons
who comply with the provisions for
four years may prove up by the pay
ment of $1.25 an acre. The desert land
act is"amended , by requiring the filing
of a map , showing the proposed meth
od of reclamation and the expenditure
in work of reclamation of at least $3
per acre , $1 each year. After four
years title can be secured by the pay
ment of $1 per acre. The pre-emption
law is also repealed , except as to claims
heretofore initiated , and except as to
pre-emptions by counties under the
special law. Section 2,289 is amended
so that persons already holding 160
acres of land , or who abandon resi
dence on their own land , shall not
have the right to make a homestead
entry. The United States is stopped
from the vacation of any patent on
claims heretofore initiated , unless suit
is brought within five years , and on
future claims within six years. It is
provided that in Colorado , Montana ,
North and South Dakota , Wyoming ,
Nevada and Utah it shall be sufficient
defense in any prosecution for trespass
to show that a timber culture entry
was for agricultural , mining , manufac
turing or domestic purposes , and that
the timber was transported qut of the
state. This provision , however , is ont
to apply to railroads. Towns and cit
ies may make town site entries on min
eral lands , but this is not to interfere
with the working of underground min
eral claims. A provision is made for
grants of right of way for irrigation
purposes ; but reservoir sites must not
contain more area than is necessary
for the construction and maintenance
of the reservoir. The maximum
amount of land which any person may
acquire is limited to 320 acres. The
president is given the right to set apart
and reserve in any territory forest
lands as a public reserva'ion not sub
ject to be entered into.
Work of Committee * ? .
WASHINGTON , Feb. 28. The con
ferees on the house and senate bills
establishing a private land court have
reached an agreement , the house con
ferees agreeing to accept the bill passed
by the senate with several modifica
tions. The most important of these
modifications is that the court shall
consist of one chief justice and four
associate justices.
Among the changes and additions
made by the senate committee in the
Indian appropriation bill as it came
from the house are as follows : For a
commission to negotiate for the read
justment of the boundary line between
Rosebud and Pine Ridge agencies , or
for the transfer of Indians. $6,000 ; to
the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians , at
Devil's Lake , for lands excluded from
their reservations , $80,000. The com
mittee struck out the provisions of the
house bill authorizing the Indians to
lease allotments for raining purposes :
and a provision authorizing the com
missioner of Indian affairs to advertise
for contracts for supplies in the spring.
Union Pacific Earnings.
BOSTON , Mass. , Feb. 28. The De
cember statement of the Union Pacific
railway's entire system shows the gross
earnings to be $3,549,175 : decrease ,
$164,028 ; net earnings , § 767,797 ; de
crease , $292,892. For the year ending
December 31 , gross , § 44,538,201 ; in
crease , § 3,597,138 ; net , $13,902,274 ;
decrease , § 1,412,223. The statement
for the month of December contains
the results of the operations for that
month subject to a deduction of $253-
233 , representing the amount claimed
by the company for fast mail service
rendered for the government between
November 1889 and June 1890. The
amount due for this service constitutes ,
in the opinion of the company's offi
cers , a valid and proper claim against
the United States , but in the'prepara-
tion of the above statement it has been
provisionally withdrawn from the
yearly account only , though in fact the
reduction was necessarily made in the
accounts for'the month of December.
A New Order Promised Omaha.
WASHINGTON , Feb. 28. An evening
paper says : "Senator Manderson ,
Colonel W. F. Cody , Marshal Brad D.
Slaughter , William E. Annin and sev
eral others have been initiated into the
Independent Order of Grangers , of
which Senator WI J. McConnell of
Idaho is worshipful grand master. The
order is based upon .the. anti-Rugian
doctrine , which first had its exposition
at McCalma Hill , Cal.and jLs' a semi-
moral and beneficial organization , most
of whose , members are Masons.- Sen
ators McConnell , Shoup and DuBqis of
Idaho-Have been instrumental . .dis
seminating the doctrines of the.order.
Seuutor McConnellhas . - promised tot
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stop at Omaha on his way west , at the
request of Cononol Cody , and institute
a lodge of the Independent Order of
Grangers for Nebraska. Colonel Cody
was appointed by Senator McConnell
as deputy grand master for Europe
and Senator Manderson as sword bearer -
or for Nebraska. "
Money for the Indiana.
WASHINGTON , Feb. 28. The follow
ing amendment to the Indian appro
priation bill , submitted by Senator
Manderson , has been adopted by the
senate committee on Indian affairs :
"Tho sum of $200,000 , or so much
thereof as may be necessary , is hereby
appropriated , to be immediately avail
able for the prompt payment to the
friendly Ogallala Sioux and legal resi
dents on the Sioux reservation , for
property destroyed or appropriated by
the roving bands of disaffected Indi
ans during the recent Sioux troubles ,
to be expended under the direction and
control of the commissioner of Indian
affairs. "
Land Office Decision.
WASHINGTON , Feb. 28. The secre
tary of the interior has affirmed the
decision of Commissioner Groff , dis
missing the case of James S. King
against the timber culture claim o
Philo H. Allyn , for land in section 10 ,
township 15 north , range 21 west ,
North Platte ( Neb. ) land district. Ho
also affirmed a similar decision in the
case of John B. Shedd against Edwin
V. Hiscock , involving a tract of land
in section 12 , township 103 north ,
range 65 west , Mitchell ( S. ' D. ) land
district. Secretary Noble directed the
commissioner of the land office to have
published a new notice of the inten
tion of Sarah A. Larkins to submit
final proofs on her homestead entry
( soldier's widow pre-emption ) for the
southwest quarter of section 17 , town
ship 101 , range 108 , Mitchell ( S. D. )
land district. The proof was rejected
by the commissioner , but will now be
allowed if satisfactorv.
To lEoguIato Neb rustic a Stockyards.
LINCOLN , Neb. , March 1. The foi-
lov/ing is the Williams bill to regulate
stockyards , as amended by the commit
tee and passed by the house :
Section 1. All stockyards organized
or operated under the general corpora
tion laws of this state or by special
charter are hereby declared to be pub
lic markets.
Sec. 2. All persons , corporations or
companies dealing at such stockyards
shall have the same rights and privi
leges with all other persons , companies
and corporations , and no rights or priv
ileges granted or conferred to or upon
any person , company or corporation ,
cither directly or indirectly , shall be
withheld from any person , company or
corporation.
Sec. 3. There shall be a sufficient
number of persons appointed by the
governor of the state , upon the appli
cation of the stockyard company for
each stockyard , who shall be live stock :
inspector- , who shall determine wha
stock is unfit for market , and have the
same removed. The said inspectors
shall also have the power to determine
which are piggy sows and which are
stags , and also allow a dockage of not
to exceed thirty pounds for each piggy
sow and a dockage of not to exceed
sixty pounds for each stag , and all per
sons except those appointed under the
provision of this section are hereby
prohibited from acting as stock inspectors
specters , and they shall receive as
compensation the sum of 12 cents for
each car inspected , and no more ; to
be paid by the shipper.
Sec. 4. It shall be unlawful for the
owners or proprietors of any stockyard
within this state to charge a greater
price for yarding and weighing stock
therein than the following : For yard
ing and weighing cattle , 15 cents pel-
head ; for yarding and weighing hogs ,
5 cents per head ; for yarding and
weighing sheep , 3 cents per head.
Sec. 5. It shall be unlawful for the
owners or proprietors of any stock
yards within this state to charge a
greater price for grains and hay than
the following : For corn , oats , hay
and all other grains double the mar-
k3t price in village or city where said
stockyai-ds are located.
Sec. 6. It shall be unlawful for the
owners or proprietors of any stock
yards within this state to sell and de
liver at the rate of less than two thou
sand pounds for a ton of hay , and it
shall also be unlawful for any such
owners or proprietors to sell and de
liver less than seventy pounds of corn
in the ear per bushel , and less than
fifty-six pounds of shelled corn for a
bushel.
Sec. 7. It shall be unlawful for the
owners or proprietors of any stock
yards within this state to prohibit the
owner of any dead stock in such yards
to sell to any person or persons to
whom said owners may desire to sell
the same.
Sec. S. It shall be unlawful for any
persons' selling live stock out of any
stockyards within this state to charge
a greater commission for selling the
same than the following : For selling
cattle , $ S per car ; for selling hogs $5
per car , for single deck , and § 8 for
double deck cars ; for selling sheep , $4
per car for single deck and $7 for dou
ble deck cars.
QSec. 9. Any pei'son who shall violate
any of the provisions of this act shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor ,
and upon conviction thereof shall be
fined for the first offense not more than
$100for ; the second offense not less
than $100 , nor more than $200 , and for
each subsequent offense not less than
$200 nor more than ? 500.
' In digging the foundation for the
new Baptist church at Harrison , Ark.-
rich indications of zinc and silver were
fouud. suppose to be the .outcropping
of the rich mineral deposits further
north.
NEWS SU.n.lI.tIlY.
There is still plenty of wheat in Ne
braska elevators.
Glanders has appeared among the
horses at Mount Vernon , Ind.
In the Kansas house the bill to grant
female suffrage was defeated.
In the wreck of the Elizabeth off
San Francisco 18 lives were lost.
The next Congress , says a democrat
ic leader , should not attempt to do
much.
Mrs. William Graham , at Wichita ,
Kas. , found her babe after a search of
a year.
Julia Redman of Dubuque. Iowa ,
stayed in doors 12 years nursing her
invalid mother.
Iowa white caps made a newly mar
ried man leave town. He is back with
fire in his eye.
Fire in Evanston , Ind. . destroyed the
People's opera house and other proper
ty worth $100,000.
The president has approved the bill
granting a pension to General Na
thaniel P. Banks.
Chauncey M. Depew spoke on recip
rocity to the Rochester ( N. Y. ) Cham
ber of Commerce.
G. G. Fox of Kighland. Kas. . found
a box of Spanish gold pieces while
digging on his farm.
Ten thousand settlers are said to
have crossed over into and settled in
the Cherokee Outlet.
It is not believed that there will be
any radical railroad legislation passed
in Kansas this session.
Thomas Hall , the inventor of the
turbine wheel , was killed by a railroad
train in Rah way , N. J.
John Lacy was sentenced to three
years' imprisonment at Columbus , Ind. ,
for attempted murder.
East Elkport , a village of 400 in
habitants , in Clay county , Iowa , was
almost destroyed by fire.
The Kansas house , by a vote of 69
to 34 , reconsidered and passed the bill
granting female suffrage.
Senator Quay , it is said , will pro
ceed civilly and criminally against the
New York World for libel.
In the Indiana senate the world's
fair bill was passed with the appro
priation cut down to § 100,000.
Something over 200 persons left the
vicinity of Bloomington , HI. , in search
of homes in Iowa and Nebraska.
The Western Traffic Commissioners
have decided that the Union Pacific and
Northwestern contract is valid.
Maj. Anderson of New York has sub
mitted a scheme for an elaborate naval
display to the World's fair directors.
Thirty-live hundred dollars' worth
of diamonds were stolen from the dis
play window of a San Francisco pawn
shop.
Banker Imboden of Fort Worth ,
Tex. , was convicted of forgery and
sentenced to three years in the peni
tentiary.
Under the new apportionment of
Minnesota the democrats will elect four
congressmen , the republicans two and
the alliance one.
Rev. M. C. Harris of a circuit near
Sedalia has been deposed for giing a
female member of his congregation a
drink of whisky.
United States revenue officials made
a general raid on Chicago cigar dealers
who were counterfeiting the govern
ment import stamps.
An appeal has been issued for aid of
the families of the 119 miners who were
killed in' the mine disaster at Spring
Hill , Nova Scotia.
A bill has been introduced in the
Illinois legislature creating a state
pension agent to prosecute claims oi
citizens free of cost.
The affairs of the Consolidated Mu
tual Fire Insurance company of Chicago
cage , which are in a bad condition ,
are being wound > .ip.
Merchants of Ogallala are afraid
that trade will become paralyzed be
cause of the free goods being shipped
to settlers thereabouts.
Frank Babel , recently re-elected tax
collector of Texas township , in a Penn
sylvania county , has disappeared , leav
ing a shortage of § 22,000.
Chief Justice Horton of Kansas , who
headed the Kansas delegation at the
Sherman funeral , has become seriously
ill from the long march.
Parnell is considering the advisa
bility of sending a delegation to Amer
ica to collect money in opposition to
the McCarthy delegation.
Two men grabbed four mail sacks
at Burlington , la. , from the trucks at
the depot. They were discovered
while rifling them and fled.
Republicans about Columbus , Ind. .
are peiitioning Gov. Hovey to appoint
F. D. Miller of Greensburg as supreme
judge , vice J. G. Berkshire , deceased.
The merchants of Parsons , Kas. , are
indignant at the protest of the St. Louis
merchants against the removal of the
Missouri , Kansas and Texas shops from
Sedalia.
A bill has been introduced in the
Nevada legislature licensing bate
knuckle fights. It is intended to bring
the heavy weights there. The license
will be $500.
The Mexicans who killed Deputy
Marshal Russell near Raton , N. M. ,
lave been tracked by bloodhounds to
an adobe house , where they are pre
paring to fight.
Many persons have signed the peti
tion to Gov. Fifer , asking for the par
don of Calvin Holden and Albert Dun-
lam , sentenced to be hanged at Mon-
ticello , 111. , on March 6.
In a letter to. a tariff reform club of
3roockton , Mass. , ex-President Cleve-
and says that the cause of the demo
cratic party ought not to be separated
rom that of tariff reform.
Colonel Richard F. O'Bierne , colonel
nel of the Twenty-first infantry , United
States army , and lately in command at
ort Sheridan , died in New York on
, he 25th. He was east on leave of
absence.
New Immigration
WASHINGTON , March 2.
tativo Owens' immigration bill , which
is one of the most important measures
considered during the present session ,
passed the senate and only awaits the
signature of the president to make it
a law. The bill excludes idibts. insane
persons , paupers and persons likely to
become a public charge , persons suf
fering fronva loathsome or contagious
disease , felons , polygamists and alien
contract laborers.
One of the most important features
of the bill is the clause which gives
the immigration officers authority to
return emigrants to the country whence
they came at the expense of the steam
ship company having brought them ; if
it shall bo discovered at any time with
in a year after their lauding that they
have come in violation of a law. Un
der the present law when an emigrant
has once been allowed to land , there is
no authority for any action against him.
Another important feature of the bill
prohibits employers from advertising :
in foreign countries for laborers and
any emigrant coming in response to
such act shall be treated as having
come in violation of this law.
It otherwise strengthens the alien
contract labor law by closing every
loop-hole through which contractors
and labor importers have so sccessful-
ly evaded it. It also places the ad
ministration of the immigration laws in
the hands of the superintendent of im
migration , instead of leaving it to offi
cials of various states.
General Sherman' * Kntato.
NEW YOUK- , March 2. The piblio
has been awaiting with interest Jho
publication of General William T.j
Sherman's will , but in all probability
they will wait in vain. None has been' '
offered for probate and it is believed
that the general did not inako a will. '
It has been learned from a friend of
the dead hero's family that all efforts
to discover a testamentary paper have
been futile. Search has been made
through all of the general's private
boxes , desk and office , but nothing in
the shape of a will has been discov
ered. Further search will be made ,
and if the family is unable to find any , '
application will be made for letters ot
administration upon the estate. It is
said that the general was not a man of
large wealth , having little , if any , real
estate. His pension as a retired gen
eral of the army is believed to bo his
only source of income. His personal
estate is not large , but his war relics
and curios are highly prized by old
soldiers , friends and the family.
\VorIc.
WASHINGTON , March 2. The appro
priations committee of the senate were
at work the whole of yesterday getting
the appriation bills in shape. It is be
lieved the condition of business is such
as to make an extra session very im
probable.
Three appropriation bills , the post-
office , agricultural and general defi
ciency , have not yet passed the senate ,
but the first named is well advanced
toward final action , and the other two
will be reported to-day.
The condition of the others is as fol
lows : The army , military academv ,
fortification and naval bills have either
become laws or merely await thejn-es-
idcnt's signature to become laws ; the
consular and diplomatic pension , In
dian , District of Columbia , sundry ,
civil and legislative , executive and
judicial bills are in conference.
The copyright and postal subsidy
bills are in the conference stage of pro-
ceedure , and vigorous efforts will be
made to enact them into laws. Action
on the unfinished appropriation bills
and conference reports and on the ques
tions of copyright and subsidy will con
sume substantially all the time of the
senate between now and noon of Wed
nesday. X >
The work of the house is considera
bly further advanced than that of the
senate , and in
addition to acting upon
conference reports , it is very likely the
house will give some attention to the
Boarman impeachment resolution , and
the special report of the Raum invest
igating committee.
The Wircct Tax Bill.
WASHINGTON , March 2. Thedirect
tax bill , which has gone to the presi
dent , provides in substance that the
scretary of the treasury shall credit
each state and
territory with a sum
equal to all collections
, by set-off or
otherwise , made under the terms of the
direct tax act of
1861. All monevs
still due the United States under that
act are remitted. A sufficient sum of
money is appropriated , to be paid when
the legislatures shall have accepted the
sums in full satisfaction of all claims
against the United
States on account
of the direct tax levy. The money ap
propriated to meet individual claimsls
to be held in trust by the state author
ities , six years being allowed for the
reception of these claims.
President Sanderson.
WASHINGTON , March 2 A confer
ence of the republican senators was
held last night for the purpose of .se
lecting a president pro tempore in the
senate in the place of Mr. Ingalls.
Senator Sherman presided. Three
senators were nominated for the po " = i-
tion , Messrs. Frye of Maine , Hoar "of
Massachusetts and Manderson of Ne
braska. Six or seven ballots were
taken , and on the last Senator Mander
son received the nomination. On mo
tion of Mr. Frye the nomination was
maae unanimous.
Senator Hearat Dead.
WASHINGTON , March 2. Senator
George Hearst of California died Saturday -
urday night at 9:10 :
Senator Hearst has been ill cix
months , with a complication of dis
eases , kidney and heart troubles bein-
the worst He had been confined to
tne house for
two months
past ; and
been in a semi-comatose
state for sev
oral days.