Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1888 — A May in the House. [ARTICLE]

A May in the House.

The Breckinridge copyright bill was reported to the House by Mr. Collins from the Judiciary Committee on April 20. The Dunn free ship bill was also reported to the House by the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. It is identical with the bill reported to the last Congress with the exception of two amendments limiting the business of the foreignbuilt vessels admitted to American registry to the foreign trade and expressly prohibiting them from engaging in the coastwise trade of the United htates. The majority report is also similar to that which accompanied the bill when it was reported during the last Congress. A minority report was also presented.' The House spent the day on the river and harbor bill, and the committee, proved that it had the House under food control, for as each item was read the member from the district in which the work wm located got up and moved the appropriation, after explaining that that particular item was quite exceptional and ought to be increased fcr reasons tlrat did not apply to any other item, and regularly the House voted down the amendment and sustained the committee.