Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1884 — NATIONAL LAW-MAKER [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL LAW-MAKER

Brief Nummary of tlie Pro<fl iugN of Congre**. H The bill to place Gen. U. S. Grant H retired list of the army, with full rank anH passed the Senate by a unanimous vote, H 13th inst. Majority and minority reprwfH made on the bill to pension Gen. Barnet, and Mr. Sherman presented a pfl to put Gen. Fremont on the retired list. munication from the Secretary of War asß appropriation of $20,000 to repair Jacksofl racks, at New Orleans. Mr. Logan aaveH that when the Mexican pension b 11 he will move to strike ont the amendment vitiing that no one shall have the benefit tH unless unable to make a living. Mr. H called up his resolution to appropriate S for a monument to Sir Walter Raleigh on ■ oke Island, and it was reierred to the Comfl on Library. A conference committee pointed on the shipping t ill. The IndiaH propriation bill was completed and pH The House of Representatives passed thfl ate bill providing fer c.vil government inß ka, as also a measure making the L -ti-i.iH Dakota consist of twenty-four members H Council and forty-eight 'members of the H TheTownshend bill, providing that no Tetß shall applv for admission to the Union nl has population sufficient for Congressional resentation, was laid on the table. fi The bill for the establishment of a Bl of Labor Statistics was take n up in the ffl on the 14th inst.. and Mr. Garland hum amend to have the work performed by t® reau of Statistics of the Treasury Depsrtß The matter went over. A bill was favorafcß ported to extend to August, 1886, the tfiH commence laying ocean cables. A bilfl passed to authorize the construction of a pofl wagon-bridge over the Mississippi near Dubß In the House of Representatives. resolrß were reported unseating Mr. McKinley,froß Eighteenth Ohio District, and Mr. Peelleß the Seventh Indiana District. A favoratß port was made on a bill for a mint at St Isl Mr. Springer asked unanimous consent isl on passage a bill authorizing the purciufl $42,000,000 in bonds with greenbacks held B Treasury, but Mr. Weller objected. Theofl lar and diplomatic appropriation bill was B ously debated in committee of the whofl motion by Mr. Robinson to abolish the offl Minister to Great Britain was lost. I Mr. Morgan offered a resolution ill Senate, on the 15th inst., directing the Flm Committee to investigate the national I suspensions in New York, with leave to sen persons or papers. A bill was passed to aB New Orleans exposition to the anfl of $1,000,000. A message was reel from the President recommending anl propriation to carry out the treaty with Ml as to the boundary line. Mr. Cullom intro cl a hill to prevent speculation by national banks. An adjournment to the llltfl taken. The House of Representatives passe™ to authorize the construction of bridges ova Rio Grande at Eagle Pass and Laredo, and the Missouri from Douglas county, Nebraska! consular and diplomatic bill was debated il House. Mr. Holman, Democrat, defended course of the committee in cutting I salaries of diplomatic represent* and Consuls to foreign ports, I Messrs. Hitt, Reed, and Hiscock. Republil advocated more liberal appropriations fed consular and diplomatic service, a d oti amendments to increase the various items,! which were voted down. | The House of Representatives passed a on the 16th inst. to authorize the constructtl bridges across the Wisconsin, Chippewa, ail Croix rivers in Wisconsin. In committee cl whole the river and harbor, the diplomatic! the army appropriation bills were den and favorably reported to the House. An a lng session was devoted to work on pen bills. The Senate was not in session. I Bills passed the House of Represented May 17, extending until Dec. 31, 1885, the n tion of the Court of Commissioners of Alall Claims; to change the Eastern and NortJ Judicial Districts of Texas and to attach pal Indian Territory to those districts; to rel the settlers on the Duck Valley Indian Res! tion, Elko County, Nevada; for the appl ment of two additional Associate Justices ol Supreme Court < f Dakota. The Senate ami ments to the Indian appropriation bill were I concurred in. There was no session of] Senate. ,1