Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1888 — A Day in Congress. [ARTICLE]

A Day in Congress.

The legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill was reported to the House by Mr. Randall on the 14th inst The bill for the relief of soldiers and sailors who enlisted and served in the army and navy during the rebellion under assumed names'was placed on the calendar. The Senate biJi to relieve purchasers of and to indemnify certain States for swamp and overflowed lands was referred to the committee of the whole. Bills were reported and placed on the calendar for the erection of public, buildings at Stockton and Fremont, Neb. The bill granting increased pensions to soldiers who have lost both hands, and tne bill granting pensions to cx-soldiers and sailors who are iucapaciated for manual labor and providing pensions for dependent relatives of deceased soldiers and sailors weia both referred to the committee of the whole. Tho bill declaring the lowa River below Wapello not a navigable stream was placed on the calendar. The Senate was not in session.