Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1886 — CONGRESSIONAL. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESSIONAL.

Work of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Senate passed, over the President's veto, on the 3d inst, by a unanimous vote, the House bill granting a pension to Jacob Romisor, after Senator Wilson had explained that the President had acted under a misapprehension, he having been informed that no application had been made to the pension office, while, in fact, an application had been made. The bill granting a jiension to Mary J. Nottage failed to pass over the veto- by a party vote, except that. Senator Wilsen (Md ) voted in the affirmative. Senator Hoar, in objecting to the consideration of a resolution providing for an adjournment, said lie thought the bill reported by him providing for “inquests under national authority” should first be considered. He referred to tho massacres in the Southern States during the last few years, and said that so far as shown by the press a negro and a Republican was the victim and a Democrat and a wh.te man the aggressor. Senator Kenna protested anainst tho introduction of a bloody-shirt campaign document into the closing hours of Congress. Senator Giuson said tho bill was un indictment against the entire population from the Potomac to tho Rio Grande. He compared the peace and quiet of his own State with the turbulent state of society in Chicago and the country adjacent to it. These nominations were rejected bv the Senate: Adelavd Guernon, to be Collector of Customs for Minnesota; George P. Sanford, to be Postmaster at Lansing, Mich.; and H. H. Porter, to be Postmaster at Dowagiac, Mich. Frank J. Mott was nominated for Register of tho I,and Office at Denver, and Thomas Cooper to be Revenue Collector for tho Eighth Illinois District. The House of Representatives, by a vote of 122 to 95, passed tho river and harbor bill, as agreed upon by the conference committees, omitting all provisions for canals except for the survey of the Hennepin sciieme, for which $15,030 was appropriated. The Senate has also adopted the measure. The House agreed to the conference reports upon the deficiency appropriation and sundry civil measures. The Morrison surplus resolution, after being stripped of the clause providing for the reception or redemption of trade dollars, was adopted by both houses of Congress, on the 4th inst. In the Senate the House bill to restrict the ownershijj of real estate in tho Territories toAmericon citizens was taken up and passed, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. A conference was asked. The Senate adopted a resolution accepting from W. H. Vanderbilt and Julia Dent Grant various articles presen.tod .to Gen. Grant by foreign governments. A bill extending the system of immediate delivery to all articles bearing an immediate-delivery stanp was passed by the Senate. The following nominations were made by the President: William G. Bowman, of Illinois, to be Surveyor' General of Utah. Postmasters: Leonard W. Chambers, at Jacksonville, Ill.; William Carter, at De Kalb, 111. Edward Hawkins was confirmed as Marshal for Indiana. The nomination of H. A. Beecher to be Customs Collector at Port. Townsend was withdrawn by the President. The House took up the resolution requesting the President to renew the demand for the release cf A. K. Cutting by tho Mexican Government. Mr. Hitt, of Illinois, of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said he had signed tho report on the bel es that the Moxican Government had refused to release Cutting on tho demand of our Government. Since then he had read tho correspondence, which showed that the Moxican Government had shown every spirit of compliance. Cutting, he said, had refused to be released on bail, declaring that his case was now an international affair. This was the work of our mischief-making Consul, who made speeches to crowds in the streets about vindicating tho rights of his country. Messrs. Crain, of Texas, and King, of Louisiana, defended Consul Brigham. Pending further discussion tho House adjourned. Congbess adjourned sine die at 4 o’clock p. m. on Thursday, Aug. 5. Senator Plumb, from, the conference committee on the bill for, therepeal of the pro omption and timber-cul-ture acts, reported a disagree ment. The usual resolution of thanks to the President of the Senate (Senator Sherman) was. unanimously passed. Ci nsideriuion of the bill to prevent Congressmen from acting as counsel lor subsidised raiiwaja was fixed for the second Monday in Dt cember. The House bill for the lelief of certain dishonorably discharged sol tiers of the Tw lith Michigan Yolunteer Infantry wes amended and passed. About forty nominat.ons were left unacted uponi by the Senate. A largo number wre confirmed in tho closing hours. The Houbo adjourned with .uc taking any act on upon tho resolut o’us iu regard to the case of Editor Cutting. Tlio Democratic leadtrs seemed to have decided not to permit the matter to become the subject of a partisan debato on tho last day of the session, when it would not. bo possible to discuss and determine with proper deliberation what, if any, action was desirable to be taken by Congress. The State Department had not requested any action by Congress. Mr. Bayard bad simply submitted the correspondence, aud it was generally felt that the statement of facts presented in the correspondence submitted to tho Senate and House did not show that the case had arrived at the point where the interference of Congress was either necessary or prudent. Congress having adjourned sine die, the whole matter now rests with the State Department. Bills passed the Ho iso appropriating an additional sum of $35,000 for the selection f a site for tho Congressional Library, seo, 00 for completing the publicbuilding at Fort Sjoit, Kan., and $150.300 for a public building at Los Angeles, Cal. The President did not sign the “surplus" resolution before adjournment, and the probability is that it will not bo allowed to go into effeot. The committee appointed by the House toinvestigate the labor troubles in’the West was given permission to sit during tho recess of Congress. The fortifications bill, after passing both bouses, failed in conference. A brief summary of the work of the session is as follows: It was in session 241 days ; 13,202 measures wereintroduced, 10,328 originating in the House and 2,984 in the Senate ; 1,101 passed both houses, 241 being Senate bills and 860 House measures; 806 became laws with the President’s approval, 181 becnm9 laws by limitation, 113 were vetoed, and one failed by reason of adjournment without action bv the Presi ‘ent.