Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1883 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

DONXG3 OF CONGRESS. Mr." Harrison reported a bill. In the Senate, Jan. la, anthcrlzing the county of Yankton, Dakota, to issue bonds, but Mr. Garrison rave notice that the scheme would be fought hr three members of the Committee on Tert cories. An adverse repoi t was made on the bill to estal) ish in Kansas o home for indiL -ent soldiers and sanora. A joint* resolution was passed for tha purchase of r team launches for use in . the harbors of Mobile anrl Galveston. In the House, Mr. Moore, of Tenne see. introduced a Joint l caution proposing a constitutional amendi.ient grant Jig Congress power to provide by appropriate legislation for the legal enforcement of the ob.igaijon of contracts entered into by any Btate in the Union. The remainder of the day was devoted, in committee o t the who a, to the private calendar. The ite lublicam of the House held a caucus and agreed tr consider the Tariff bill Tuesday, Jan. iSi, and ihac it shall have preference over all other legislation, excepting the appropriation bills, until brought to a vote. The rostofflee Appropriation bill passed the Senate Jan. 20, with the provision for the reduction of letter postage to 2 cents end the appropriation of $185,000 for the continuance of the existing special mail I dlities between Boston, New York and i hicago. There was unexpected opposition to the proposition to reduce postage to 2 rents on the part of both Senators Edmunds ’ rnd Slieimam Their opposition did not ro so much to the reduction in Itself as to the principle of the enrolment of new legislation in ar prop-nation Lills; but the reduction was agreed to by the Urge vote of 40 to 15. The President sent to I'Ve Bena'e the following nominations: Thomas M. Dawson, of Colorado, to be United B a es Consul at Baranquilla; John G. Thomas, of Colorado, to be Register of the Und-Offlce, and Frederick J. Leonard, of Colorado, to bo Receiver of Public Moneys at Gunnison, Col.; George D. Perkins, of lowa, to be United States Marshal of the Northern Dis riot of Iowa; M. D. O’Connell, of iowa, to be United States Attorney of the Northern District of Iowa; John P. Hoyt, of Washington Territory, to be Associate Justiee of the Territory of Washington. The House, in committee of the whole, consumed the dav in debate on the Naval Appropriation bill Mr. Bayard presented a petition !n the Ccnnto, Jan: 22, for a law to prevent discrimination by railwaya Mr. Logm introduced a bill requiring telegraph companies to receive end transmit dispatches from any other line without favor. Mr. Platt submitted an act for the extension of the freedelivery system in postofflcea The Tariff bill consumed the remainder of fee session, the chief debate being on the lumber duty. In the House, Mr. Roeecrans introduced a bill empowering journalistic writers to procure copyrights and receive protection after the publication of articles. A joint resolution was passed appropriating $200,000 for the work of the Census Bureau Mr. Luna introduced a bill to giant pensions to the children of Kit Carsoii, now living in poverty at Las Yegaa The tariff again formed the subject of discussion in the Senate, Jan. 23. Mr. Mahone proposed a duty of $2 per ton 'upon ironore, but this and successive propositions to make the rat e $1,85 cents and 75 cents failed go throug i. Pending a vote on Mr. Camden’s motion to fix the duty at 60 cents per ton the Senate adjourned. In the House, Mr. Butterworth introduced a bill for the appointment of seven Commissioners to investigate que - tlons relating to railroad or steamboat tariffs for passengers or freight. Bills were reported to retire Rufus lugalls with the ran . of Major General; to place Representative Smalls on the retired list of the navy, and to send a special committee of three members to take testimony in the election contest in the Fourth Alabama district. In committee of the whole on the naval bill an amendment was adopted for the gradual abolition of the pay corps of the navy. A resolution was offered in the Senate, lan. 24, that hereafter reciprocity treaties be considared only in open session. The Tariff bill was taken up. A motion by Mr. Lliertn m to make the duty on pig and scrap Iron three-tenths o a cent per pound wa< rejected. Tha rate on steel rails waa fixed as seven-tenths of a cent per pound. The House went into committee of the whole on the Naval Appropriation bill. A paragraph was adopted to provide for the completion of one of the double turreted monitors, either in a navy-yard or on proposals from ship-builders The bill was reported to the Hou«c, and the amend euts were adopted in bulk, except the one provd ng hat Chiefs of Bureaus shall receive no additional pay. „ The House of Representatives passed the Naval Appropriation bill, Jan. 25, after rejecting an amendment to provide that chief s of bureaus shall receive no additional pax and adopting a «clause to give Asa Week, 1 $50.0U) for the use of his torpedo invention Tributes to the memory of Senator Hill were offered by Messrs. Hammond, House, Hooker Cox, when an adjournment was taken. The day having been'fet apart by the Senate foi sendees in honor of . the late Senate: HUI, Of Georgia, cu motion ol Senator Brown, immediately after the reading of the journal, remarks eulogistic oi the deceased weie begun. At the conclupion the.eof ihe Senate adjourned, and the Republicans resumed tlieir caucus on the tariff-. Thirty Senators were in attendance After considerable . discussion, the caucu adopted a ieso ution providing lor the dis enssion of the Tariff bill now pend ng in the Senate under the five-minute rule, and the pushing of it forward as early as possib e to a vote The Democratic [Senators, to the number of twenty, also held n confei ence. The discussion was confined to the general policy to be pursued in regard to the pending Tariff bill No attempt was made to reacn an agreement as to what act on should be taken touching any particular feature of the bill, or as to any amendments to be offered The general sentiment favored a curtailment, as far as possible, of speech-making, and the avoidance on the part of Democrats of fU bustering or purposely delaying the passage of the bill