Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1886 — CONGRESSIONAL. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESSIONAL.

Work of the Senate and the House of Representatives. In the secret session of the Senate, on July 27, the nomination of Postmaster Rosette, d DeEolb, 111., was summarily and unanimously rejected. His offense was the writing and publishing of an obituary of Gen. Grant, in which the hero was alluded to as a tyrant, and compared with Jnlius Cesar. W. W. Porter was confirmed as United States Justice of the Supreme Court of Arizona Territory. The House of Representatives, in view of continued disagreements with the Senate on the river and harbor bill, voted to strike out the items for the Lake Superior Ship Canal, the improvement of the Potomac River, and the construction of the Hennepin Canal. The House concurred in the Senate's amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill for the issuing of silver certificates of small denominations by the Treasury in place of those of large denominations, the latter to be canceled. The House substitute for the Senate bill forfeiting the Northern Pacific land grant passed the lower body, and a conference was requested. The fortification bill, with important amendments, was passed by the Senate on the 28th nit The Senate adopted a resolution that it insist on its amendments to the river and harbor DiU, which the House demanded should be stricken out A conference committee was appointed. A conference committee of the two houses disposed of the legislative, executive, and judicial salary bill, which appropriates $20,654,436. The Senate Pension Committee presented reports recommending that the bills to pension Dudley Branch and James C. Chandler be passed over the President’s vetoes. The resolution in regard to the arrest and detention of American oitizens in Mexico was reported back by the Senate Foreigns Relation Committee and placed upon the calendar. President sent the following nominations to the Senate : Alvey A. Dee, now Third Assistant Secretary of State, to be Second Assistant Secretary of State; John S. Moore, of Delaware, to be Third Assistant Secretary of State; E. H. Spencer Pratt, of Alabama, to be Minister Resident and Consul General of the United States to Persia; Thomas ■ C. Bach to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Montana, and George G. Lorenz to be Postmaster at Toledo, Ohio. Secretary Bayard sent to the House the correspondence and papers in relation to the imprisonment and release of Julius Santos by the government of Ecuador. A favorable report was made to the Senate, on the 29th ult.; of the House bill providing that manufactured tobacco, snuff, and cigars may. be removed for export to a foreign country without payment of tax under prescribed regulations. The Senate and the House conferrees op the river and harbor bill were in conference all day. An effort was made to effect a com--promise on the Hennepin Canal amendment, by striking out the appropriation and insert-, ing a clause by which the Government: accepts thq Illinois and Michigan Canal. Tho Senate in executive session rejected the nomination of Henry Ward Beecher’s son to be Collector of Customs at Port Townsend, W. T. Beeeher was charged with some careless money transactions, which he endeavored to explain by putting' the blame on another man, George A. Jenks was nominated to be Solicitor General by the President. The House spent the day in committee of the whole (Mr. Hatch of Missouri in the chair) upon the Senate amendments to the general deficiency bill. There was no opposition made to the recommendations of the Committee on Appropriations as to concurrence or non-concur-rence in the amendments, and their consideration consisted chiefly in their reading. The House subsequently ratified the action of the committee of the whole, and a conference was ordered, Mr. Burnes, Mr. Leievre, and Mr. McComas being appointed conferrees. The Morrison surplus resolution was amended and passed by the Senate on the 30th ult. It provides for a treasury reserve of $100,000,000 and a working balance of $20,000,000, Whenever the surplus is $10,000,030 above those figures, the Secretary is to call that amount of bends. Trade dollars are for six months to be receivable for all dues to the Government or exchangeable at par for silver dollars or subsidiary coin. The Senate confirmed the nomination of George A. Jenka to be Solicitor General. These nominations were made by the President: Cornelius C. Watts to be United States Attorney for the District of West Virginia; Dabney H. Maury of Virginia, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Colombia. The House of Representatives passed the Reagan interstate commerce bill as a substitute for the Cullom measure. An attempt to pass over the President’s veto pension bills for the relief of Mrs. General Hunter and Mary Anderson was defeated. The conferrees on the river and harbor bill reported back the measure without erasing the appropriation of $300,00J to enlarge the Illinois and Michigan Canal and survey the Hennepin extension to the Mississippi River. Mb. Hoar’s resolution (from tho Library Committee) for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the expediency of and plan for celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Constitution and the 400th of tho discovery of America, was adoptod by the Senate on the 31st ult. The committee will report at the next session of Congress. The President vetoed bills for a public building at Springfield, Mo., and a bridge in Vermont. The Senate rejected the nomination of W. C. Matthews to be Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia. The President made the following nominations to the Senate: Nathaniel H. R. Dawson, of Alabama, to be Commissioner of Education: A. C. Bradiord, to be Register of the Land Office at San Francisco, Cal.; William M. Campbell, of Kentucky, to be agent for the Indians of the Uintah and Ouray Agency in Utah; George Hines, to be Collector of Customs for the District of Wilmington, Cal. The House of Representatives, by a vote of 19 to--135, refused to agree to a report of the Conference Committee on the river and harbor Dill, because of the retention of the Hennepin Canal and Sturgeon Bay clauses. By a vote of 209 to--6 the House passed a bill to prevent aliens from acquiring title to real estate in the Territories. On motion of Mr. Morrison of Illinois the Senate amendments to the surplus joint resolution were non-concurred in by the House, and a conference ordered. The Speaker appointed Mr. Morrison, Mr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, and Mr. Hiscock as conferrees. Mr. Payson, of Illinois, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported back the alien-landlord bill. It provides that no non-resident alien, or foreigner, nor any resident alien or foreigner who has not declared his intention to become p citizen of the United States, nor any corporation nor association where, at most, one-tenth of its Btock or right of property is owned or controlled by aliens foreigners, shall acquire or own, hold or posstss, nv right, title, or descent accruing hereafter, anv’real estate in the Territories of the United States ; provided, that tho provisions of this act shall not apply to the real estate necessary for tho construction and operation of any railroad. The bill passed—yeas 209 r nays 6.

Dn. Waldo, of the Yale Observatory, New Haven, recently delivered an address on the “Mechanical Art of American Watch-Making,” which is published in the Jeice ers’ Journal , of Chicago. The address clearly demonstrates that the first conception of watch-making, by •machinery is .due to. Mr,-A. L. llennison, formerly of Boston and now of Manchester, England, and that the practical success of applying the system logically and thoroughly, to all the details of watchmaking iW. due to Mr. Royal E. Robbins, of Boston, owner 1 of the great Waltham Company. There are now ten facforie^Succ essiully making watehes by machinery in the United States, and nine more are in process of organization.