Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1884 — NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. Congress bad a dull and uninteresting' session on the Bth Inst. The Senate passed bills to permit the bridging of the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass and Laredo, Texas. A bill was introducad for the deposit in the Treasury of the receipts of the money-order system, and the payment of its expenses out of the appropriations. After some debate on the naval appropriation bill. Mi. Hale gave notice of an amendment to set aside $1,750,000 for the erection of two factories for making guns from sixinch caliber to one hundred tons. The House of Representatives pastel bills for the appointment of a commission to run the boundary line between Indian Territory and Texas; declaring that the Supreme Court of each Territory shall consist of a Chief Justice and three associates; and providing that Governors of Territories must have been for two years residents thereof before their appointment. In the Senate on April 9, the whole time was devoted to debate on the naval appropriation bill, during which Mr. Vest created something of a sensation by charging that the Secretary of the Navy would allow his personal feelings and partisan bias to do tilings in a public capacity that the best interests of the country would not warrant. In the House a struggle arose as to wnich of the many pending special orders should obtain precedence in consideration. Mr. Dinglcy essayed to bring np the Shipping bill, but the effort was unsuccessful, the motion being defeated—yeas 76, nays 156. Mr. Reagan met with like fate, his motion to consider the Inter-State Commerce bill being voted down—yeas 101, nays 120. The Speaker ruled that the unfinished business was on the Oregon Central Land-Grant bill. Mr. Stock - slager, asked the House to consider the public building bills, and moved to go into committee of the whole for the consideration of such bills. The antagonists of these measures and the more prominent advocates of the Oregon Central bill united in opposition to the motion, but they were unsuccessful, and the House, by a vote of yeas 160, nays 61, went into committee of the whole, Mr. Wellborn in the chair. Bills for public buildings at Keokuk, lowa, and Waco. Tex., were passed.

A communication from the Secretary of the Navy, urging an appropriation of $175,000 fora new revenue cruiser for the waters of Alaska was presented to the Senate on the 1 Oth lust. A tavoraule report was made on the bill to authorize the bridging of the Mississippi at St. Louis. Bills were introduced to protect employes of railroads engaged in inter-State commerce, and to forfeit the land grant of the New Orleans and Vicksburg road. After prolonged debate on the Naval Appropriation bill, the Senate adjourned to the 14th. In the House, Mr. Eaton reported a substitute for the Senate bill gd*ernlng the election of President and Vice President. A joint resolution was introduced directing the Postmaster General to apply the most effective means to protect the mails on postal cars from fire. The House went into committee of the whole to consider bills for public buildings. Favorable reports were made on measures for ix>stoffices at New Albany, Pittsburgh, Chattanooga, and Augusta, Me., but the House adjourned without taking action thereon. The Senate bill offering a reward of 825,000 for rescuing or ascertaining the fate of the Chreely arctie expedition passed the House of Representatives on the 11th inst. The House adopted a resolution declaring the charges made by Mr. Keifer against H.V. Boynton not sustained by evidence. A bill for the forfeiture of the Northern Pacific land grant was reported. A message from the President was presented, urging the appropriation of $15,000,000 for armaments for sea-coast fortifica'.ions. An evening session was held for the consideration of tension bills. The Senate was not in session. In the House of Representatives, on the 12th, favorable reports were made on bills to permit fruit-growers to manufacture brandy •without the payment of tax, granting lettercarriers a month’s leave of absence each year, and for the acceptance of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. Eulogies on the late Representative Herndon of Alabama, were delivered by nine members. The Senate was not in

EASTERN. Two thieves drove boldly up an alley In Wheeling, at 4 o’clock in jthe morning, placed a ladder at a second-story window of a dry goods store, and carried off 810,000 worth -of velvets and silks while a clerk lay asleep beneath them. In front of Bunker Hill Monument, m Boston, in the daytime, Mary A. Ruggles was held up by a thief while his partner ran off with her shopping-bag. Two prominent citizens of Suspension Bridge, named Van R. Pearson and Thomas Vedder, brothers-in-law, drove over to Goat Island. The corpse of the former ■was shortly afterward discovered with a bul-let-bode in the head, but the only trace of the latter was a pile of clothing. The horse was found tied to a tree, covered with frozen spray. Pearson had of late become so much unbalanced in mind that preparations had been made to place him in an asylum. Vid<der’s body is believed to have gone over Niagara Falls. In a speech at Boston President Eliot, of Harvard College, called base-ball a wretched igame. •