Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1888 — CONGRESSIONAL. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESSIONAL.

Work of the Senate and House of Representatives. Mb. Grat made a speech in open executive lession of the Senate on the 11th inst. in favor of he ratification of the fisheries treaty. At tha ilose of Mr. Gra-y'e speech Mr. Hoar obtained tha loot and further consideration es the treaty wae, >n motion of Mr. Shermau, postponed till Monlay, June 25. The Senate Appropriations Cumnittee reported the postoSice and District of Columbia appropriation bille. The poitiffice bill htu been increased $1,J49,KX) by the committee. An appropriation •f $1,000,000 is made to carry out the eight-hour aw with respect to letter-carriers, the Postnaster General estimating that 1,600 additional ■arriers will, be necessary. Mr. Chandler has ntroduced, by request, a bill appropriating >150,000 for the development and encouragement >f silk culture in the United States. In the Souse Mr. Woodburn, of Nevada, made a bitter jersonal attack on Mr. Cox, of New York, taking or his text extracts from Mr. Cox’s tariff speech n which he characterized Nevada as a “rotten torough, ” and ridiculed its representative in the Bouse. Mr. Cox replied in a humorous vein, vhich kept the House iu a roar during the delivery of the speech. Mr. Dougherty, of Florida, introduced a resolution inat'ructng the Ways aud Means Comnittea to report bills repealing all laws providing 'or internal-revenue taxation ; providing for the evy and collection of a graduated tax upon all ncomes; and providing that all articles or iroducts not manufactured or produced in the United States shall enter the ports of the United States free of all import duty. Senator Cullom, of Illinois, addressed the Senate on the 12th inst., in advocacy of the bill x> amend the Inter-State Commerce law. Mr. Chandler offered a resolution refeiting the crelentials of Senator Gibson, of Louisiana (for his lew term), to the Committee on Privileges and Elections and instructing that committee to injuite into all tho facts of the Louisiana senatorial election. The resolution was laid over. The Senate a heated debate on Mr. Stewart’s solid-purchase resolution. The House devoted he day to the consideration of the Mills tariff Dill, and the Republicans resorted to some filibustering. A motion by Mr. Bynum, of Indiana, xj strike from tlie free list flax, hackled, known is dressed lene, was agreed to. Mr. Kelley moved o strike from the free list hemp, manila, and. >ther like substitutes for hemp. Lost—s 4to 76. Mb. Stewart's resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement of the purchase of bonds since April, 1888, with names >f parties offering them-, etc., was adopted by ho Senate on the 13th inst. Mr. Hale called up he Morgan fishery-treaty resolution and made ui argument against its adoption. He declared hut tho New England fishermen all opposed ;he adoption of the treaty, and much preferred ;he old conditions, bad as they were. Fur;her consideration of the resolution was then postponed to June 25. Mr. Blair made an effort x> secure consideration of the Senate bill for ;bo adjustrm-vxnv>i the luxmiutoat laborers anjl mechanics arising under the eight-hour law. No luorum, however, voted on the motion, and ifter several motions to go into executive session and useless roll-calls, the Senate adjourned. The House resumed consideration of the Mills lariff bill. A motion to place jute bags for grain an the free list was adopted. Motions to strike rom the free list sunn, sisal-grass, and other regetable substances and machinery for the manufacture of cotton bagging were rejected. The concurrent resolution authorizing tne President to negotiate for international arbitration passed tlie Senate on the 14th inst. The Senate amended and passed the Agricultural Department and postoffice appropriation bills. A. bill was also passed appropriating 8275,000 for the reconstruction of the Government dam at the Rock Island Arsenal und for the construction of a temporary dam. The Senate adjourned to the 18th. Tlie House managed to dispose of forty-five lines of the tariff bill. Tlie motion to strike tin plate from the free list was rejected, as were also several motions to modify the paragraph. Glue, gelatine, and liquorice juice were stricken from the free list, end fish glue or isinglass was restored to the existing rate of duty. The House Military Committee repotted the bills providing for c.n Assistant Secretary of War und to retire Gen. Alfred Fleasonton. Thebe were many vacant seats on both sides of the chamber when the House settled down for business on the 15th inst. About eighty Republican members hod left for Chicago. Mr. Townshend was defeated in an effort to have the army appropriation bill considered, and afterward took his revenge by blocking all other business (or half an hour, which he was enabled to do by reason of the light attendance, which mode it in the power of any member to raise the point of no quorum. A resolution of sympathy for tho German nation in the loss of their beloved Emperor was adopted. The Senate was not in session.