Show SENATE AND HOUSE i Thursdays Work in the National Na-tional Legislature SIXTYONE BILLS PASSED The Women The Western Union i enlesTlde and Tidal Waves General New Notes SENATE WASHINGTON March 26DuW09 introduced in-troduced a bill to establish courts for i Indians on various reservations and to I extend the protection of the laws of the States and Territories over all Indians Referred Mitchell offered u preamble and resolution res-olution which went over instructing the committee on Territories to inquire into the validity of an act of the Legislature Leg-islature of Washington lerritory fixing tuu time for the next meeting of the Legislature 1 Berry addressed the Senate on the subject of the Preaideutd annual message mes-sage sageThe Senate then proceeded to the consideration of the bills on the calendar calen-dar Among the bills passed were the following I Appropriating 80000 for a public I bniluiiig in Helena Montana changing chang-ing the boundary of the Yellowstone Yellow-stone National Park and providing pro-viding police and other regala tio > a there increasing tbQ limit ot expenditure for public buildings in San Fraucico to 850GOO granting the right of way to the Denver d Rio Grande Railroad Company across the milarv reservation on the Cfucom paghre River in Colorado to authorize the Oh yenne Street Railroad Company to build its road on and across the Fort I D A Russell military reservation appropriating ap-propriating 80000 or public buildings build-ings at Cheyenne Wyo to authorize the Columoia River Bridge Company to construct and maintain a bridge across the Columbia river between Ore on and Washington Territory to grant aright a-right of way through IndianTeriitory to the St LouIs and dan Francisco Railroad Rail-road Company to extsnd the southern and western boundaries of the State of Kansas tho House bill to ratify and confirm an agreement with the Gros Veutre and other tribes of Crow Indians J in Montana an amendment having bjen made to this bill looking to a tr aiy for the removal of the Southern Ule Indians In-dians from Colorado a couimitue of conference was ordered and Senators Dawes Daniels and StocfebridKo were appointed in aid of the Centennial Cen-tennial and Memorial Association Associa-tion of Valley For e and to secure the Washington headquarters I mansion lad ground occupied by the Centennial Army of 17778 appropriating appropriat-ing 21000 for the completion of the 4 I monument to Mary mother of Washington Wash-ington at Frederioksburg Va to have copies of certain national medals struck and delivered to certain departments and to the various States and Territories Territor-ies The total number of bills passed 1 was sixtyone Adjourned till Saturday HOUSE Enloe reported adversely the resolution resolu-tion calling upon the PostmasterGen eral Information as to what instructions instruc-tions had been given subordinate officers offi-cers of the Postoffice Department tending tend-ing to prohibit American citizens from asin United States mails on the same terms as Canadian citzena living in the same vicinity and competing in business busi-ness Peters of Kansas wished to amend the resolution by striking out certain words which were considered to reflect upon the department but was not permitted per-mitted to present tae amendment The resolution was tabled yeas 125 nays 122 Randall moved to reconsider the vote Lost yeas 123 nays 127 The bill was reported to prohibit aliens from acquiring title to mining lands within the United States House calendar cal-endar Tue House then went into committee of the whole on the Indian appropriation appropria-tion bill and soon after adjourned |