Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1886 — CONGRESSIONAL. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESSIONAL.

Work of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The biU for repealing the tenure-of-office law gave rise to an extended debate in the Senate on the 24th inst. Mr Edmunds opposed and Mr. Hoar advocated the repeal of the law. The House amendments to the electoral-count bill were non- oncurred in and a conference ordered. The Committee on Finance reported back favorably a bill for the retirement and recoinage of the trade dollar. Bills weie introduced for the amendment of the oleomargarine law, and to increase the pensions of those who have suffered disabilities equivalent to the loss of a foot or a hand A memor al was received from the German Aid Society of Wisconsin. suggesting the enactment of a uniform naturalization and suffrage law. The House of Representatives killed the scheme for a railroad through the northern part of the Yellowstone National Park, alleged to be nseded as an outlet for a mining district, and spent the remainder of the day in considering the sundry civil appropriation bill. The bill to repeal the civil-service law reported adversely by Senator Hawley from the Committee on Civil Service during the first session of the present Congress was reintroduced by Senator Vance on the 15th inst. Senator Cullom offered the conference report cn the interstate commerce bill and gave notice that he would call it up Tuesday, when it might goover the holiday adjournment for discussion. Senator Conger favor bly reported the bill recently passed by the House to extend the treedelivery system to towns of 10,000 population. Senator Platt’s resolution for open executive sessions was laid on the table by a vote of 33 to 21. A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of War for information as to the proposed bridge rcrcss th? Arthur Kill, between New Jersey and Staten Islnnd. Mr. Beck called: up the bill prohibiting 8 nators or Representatives from acting as attorneys for subsidized railroad companies. Mr Beck denounced it as indecent for Senators and members to sit and vote upon measures affecting great railroad companies to the amount of hundreds of millions while having the money of those companies in their pockets. Public right, common decency, and the honor of every -Senator and Representative were involved in having the world to understand that no man was sitting in either House as the or the retained attorney, or the agent of any, of these subsidized railroad corporations. The House of Representatives devoted the day, in committee of the whole, to the consideration of the sundry civil bill. Senaiok Van Wyck’s resolution calling on the Secretary of War for information as to how the Missouri River Commission apportioned the money appropriated by the last river an l harbor bill for the improvement of the Missouri River, was adopted by the Senate on the 10th inst. A bill granting a pension to Mrs. Barbara Fuchs, the stepmother of a soldier, was passed. A bill was introduced fixing the salaries of the Commission, rs of Education and Labor at $5,000 each. Senator Plumb introduced a bill providing that no railr ad or other company or corporation engaged in the interstate commerce shall have or keep an office lor or otherwise provide tor or permit the transfer upon the books of said corporation of any portion of the capital stock of the same at any placeoutside the State by or under the laws of which the said corporation was incorporated, and all transfers of the stock of any such corporation, at any point or place outside the limits of the State by which such corporation was incorporated shall be void. Petitions were presented from tobacco manufacturers from St. Louis, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Lynchburg, Durham, N. C., and other cities, protesting against the passage of the House bill in reference to the p eking of cut tobacco. Senator Spooner introduced a bill for a public building at Milwaukee at a cost for site and build ng not to exceed $1,200,00). The House of Representatives passed the Senate bill for the allotment of land in severalty to Indians, upon whom are to be conferred the rights of citizenship. The measure does not affect the tribes in Indian Territory. Another Senate bill was passed for the ret reinent of Admirals Rowan and Worden, on their own application, with the highest pay of their grade. The urgency deficiency bill was passed. Bills authorizing the o instruction of bridges across the Cumberland River near Nashville, across the St. Louis River between Minnesota and Wisconsin, and across the Mississippi River at Memphis, Tenn., passed the Senate Hee. 17. The Senate then took up the bill to repeal the tenure-of-office act, and without further discussion it was passed—yeas 30, nays 2?—as follows : Yeas—Beck, Berry, Blackburn, Butler, Call, Chace, Cockrell, C Iquitt, Eust’s, Geo-ge, Gibson, Gorman, Gray. Hampton, Harris, Hoar. Ingalls, Maxey, Mitchell (Oregoni, Morgan, Payne, Pugh, Ransom, Saulsbury, Vance, Vest, Voorhees, Walthall, Whithorne, and Wilson (Md.) — 30. Nays—Aldrich, All so ), Blair. Cameron, Cheney.'Conger, Dolph, Edmunds, Frye, Hale r Hawley, McMillan, Manderson, Mitchell (Pa.), Morrill, Platt, Sawyer, Sherman, Sneoner. Stanford, Williams, W Ison (lowa)—22. The Senate also passed bills to retire anl recoin trade dollars, to extend the free-delivery syst em of the Poito fice Department, to sell the Custom House lot at Eastport, Maine, and erec ba $100,1)00 building on anew site and to allow the bridging of the Mississippi at Memphis and the Cumberland at Nashville. The House of Repres mtatives passed the sundry civil appropriation bill, and a bill directing the Quartermaster General toad iu st the claims of the.McMi inville and Manchester Railroad. A resolution was mtroluced and referred to the Foreign Affairs Committee, authorizing the Pr sident t> appoint a commission to take testimony in relation to the losses and injuries indicted since December 1)1, 1835, by Br tish authorities, imperial or colonial, upon citizens o’ the United States en .'aged in the fisheries on the northern coast of British North America. Mn. Dibble, of South Carolina, in the House of Representatives, Dec. 18, asked unanimous consent to put upon its passage a bill appropriating $5-0,000 for a public building at Charleston, S. C. Mr. Hepburne objected on the ground that, in view of the recent experience of that city, this was not the time to appropriate $500,000 for the erection of a new bu Iding. Mr. Dibble remarked that if the bill were not passed the Government would have totransact its business in the open air. The House then went into committee of the whole on the Oklahoma bill. Pending action the committee rose and the morning hour expired. Instantly a hush fell over the House, and the noisu in the galleries ceased. All eyes were turned upon Mr. Morrison, who, arising in his seat, said: “Mr. Speaker, I move that the House resolve itself into the committee of the whole on the state of the Union for the purpose of considering revenue bills.” Mr. McKinley, of Ohio—And on that I demand the yeas and nays. During * the roll-call absolute < silence reigned in the House, and many members, with pencil in hand, were figuring up thfe vote. Messrs. Morrison and Randall were apparently among the least interested members, each leaning back in his chair within a few feet of each other, while now and then a pleasant remark was exchanged between them. The mition was lost—yeas 149, nays 154. The announcement was received with some applause on the Republican side, but it wiis. quickly suppressed. The following Democrats voted against Mr. Morrison’s motion: Messrs. Bliss, Boyle, Campbell (0.1, Curtin, Frmentrout, Foran, Gay, Geddes, Greene, (N. J, I, Irion, Lawler, Lefevre, Martin, McAdoo, Merriman, Muller, Randall. Seney, Snowden, Springs, Stahlnecker, >t. Martin, Wallace, Ward (Ill.), Warner (O.), and Wilkins The following Republicans voted in the affirmative: Hayden, Ni Ison, Stone (Mass.), Strait, Wakefield, end White (Minn.) A steam barge has been built at Suffolk, Va., which is 167 feet long, 22 V feet beam and eight feet depth of hold. It will carry 20'J,000 feet of lumber on six feet draught, and has two masts, schooner rigged, to be used as auxiliary power when wind is favorable.

London and its vicinity consume over 3,250,000 pounds of eels a year, worth $650,000. The larger proportion of these eels come from Holland, only a small quantity being taken from English waters.