Salt Lake Herald | 1890-12-14 | Page 1 | In the House

In the House WASHINGTON Dec 13In morning the House passed the Senate bill providing that in open tseam launches of ten tons or under one person may act in the double capacity of pilot engineer The Senate bill for the inspection of cattle and hogs and pr duct thereof which are subject to tha interstate commerce law was called up Mills of Texas oppsed its passage I characterizing it as one of the most ro markablo measures ever represented to Congress Stockbridge of Maryland advocating the measure said its object was to give the people meats in condition for human food and to take out of the markets those meats having a tendency to cause disease among customers The bill was referred to the committee on agriculture A resolution was reported from the committee calling on the postmaster general for complaints on inefficient postofhco service in Texas and other states The House then went into committee of tho whole on private land claims The bill establish a court to adjudicate private land claims in Colorado Wyoming Arizona New Mexico Utah and Nevada was taken up After debate the committee roo and the bill was agreed to with an amendment excepting Arizona from the provisions McKinley reported a joint resolution t correct tho punctuation of the tariff act relative binding twine Dunncll gave notice that Tuesday he would ask the House to consider the appropriation ap-propriation Adjourned Confirmations C A Dougherty Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania secretary of legation Mexico J B Prince postmaster at Healdsburg California A quorum of the House committee on merchant marine and fisheries today formally form-ally agreed to report the composite bill prepared pre-pared by the majority of the members of the committee as a substitute for the Senate Sen-ate subsidy bills The motion was carried by a party vote with the exception of Cummings of Ne jv York who voted by proxy for it Chairman Farquhar later reported re-ported the bill to the House The committee commit-tee appends to the report a letter from the commissioner of naviealion showing the total payments under the bill for the first year would aggregate 2103850