Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1886 — CONGRESSIONAL [ARTICLE]

CONGRESSIONAL

The Work of the Senate and Honea of Representatives. The pension bill was laid before the Senate and discussed on the 18th Inst. Senator Coke addressed the Senate in support of the labor arbitration bill. Mr. Logan gave notice that he would offer a substitute for the House arbi-ra-ti on bill. The Senate confirmed the nomination of Gen. Rosecrans as Register of the Treasury. In the House Mr. Blount (Ga.), from the Committee on Postoffices and Post Roads, reported back the postoffice appropriation bill, with Senate amendments, and, it having been referred to tbe committee of the whole, the House went into committee for the purpose of considering the amendments. Mr. Blount confined his remarks to that clause which is known as the “subsidy amendment,” and made an argument - in opposition to it. The pension bill, which makes the minimum allowance four dollars per month, and grants a pension to every honorably discharged soldier “who is or shall become disabled from any cause not the result of his own fault,” passed the Senate on the 19th of May by a vote of 34 to 14. Mr. Logan presented in the Senate a substitute for the labor-arbitration bill which recently passed the House. It provides for the appointment by the President of a commission of arbitration, to consist of five members, one from the Democratic organization, one from the Republican organization, one who is not recognized as a member of either of the two parties, one thoroughly acquainted with railroad management, but who is in no way financially interested in any railroad or transportation company, and one who is identified with and thoroughly understands the conditions of laboring people. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate: Register of the land office at Olympia, W. T., John Y. Ostrander. Postmasters—WilliamFurlong, at Freeport, Pa.; Daniel Me- - Carthy, at Braddock, Pa.; James P. Moran, Jr., • at Waukegan, Ill.; James B. Looney, at Hancock, Mich.; William M. Green, at West Bay City, Mich.; Silas C. Bennett, at Georgetown. Col.; Anton Klaus, at James:dwn, D. T. In the House, a bill was reported from the committee on the electoral count, proposing a constitutional' amendment creating and defining the office of second vice president. It provides that in case of the removal by death or otherwise of both the President and Vice President the office of ' President shall devolve upon the Second Vice President, who shall be voted for in distinct ballots by the Electoral College. In case of the death or removal of the Vice President from office, or when he exercises tho office of President, the Second Vice President shall be the President of the Senate, and shall so act, but he shall have - no vote unless the Senate is equally divided. A bill which authorizes the Cheyenne and Noithern Railway Company to build a road across the Fort Laramie and Fort Russell militaryreservation passed the Senate May 2>. The Senate also passed a bill to permit the Baltimore and Ohio Road to build a bridge from the Jersey shore to Staten Island, to give it access to the port of New York. The House bill establishing life-saving stations at the following points was concurred in by the Senate on the 21st of May: Plum Island, Lake Michigan; South Manitou Island, Lake Michigan; Chicago, Ill.; Bois Blanc Island, Straits of Mackinaw; Duluth, Lake Superior; Point Adams, Oregon ; between Points Reyes and Diable, California; between Point San Jose and Point Lobos, California, and on Lake Ontario, New York, at or near the mouth of tho Niagara River. The Senate insisted upon its amendment to the postoffice appropriation bill for the benefit of the Pacific Mail Company, and appointed a committee of conference. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate. Hughes East, of Indiana, to be Register of the Land Office at Yankton, Dakota.. FirstLieut.Dan C. Kingman, to be Captain Corps of Engineers. Second Lieut. H. E. Wateiman, to be First Lieutenant Tenth Corps of Engineers. Charles F. Maron, of Virginia, to be Assistant Surgeon in tha army with the rank of First Lieutenant. Tho House passed the bill prohibing tho importation of mackerel during tho spawning season. Among a number of private bills passed by the House was one removing the charge of desertion from tho record of Franklin Thompson, alias S. E. E. Seelye. This is the case of a woman who for two years served in a Michigan regiment as a soldier without disclosing her identity. The Senate bill extending for two years the time within which the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company may complete its road * through the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian reservations passed the House May 22. Mr. Reagan, of Texas, from the Committee on Commerce, reported back the Cullom interstate commerce bill with a substitute therefor, and it was referred to the committee of the whole.