Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1888 — CONGRESSIONAL. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESSIONAL.

Work of the Senate and House of Representatives. The river and harbor bill was finally pas sod by the Senate on the 2d inst., with the waterway and Hennepin amendments included as they were'adopted by the committee of the who’e It appropriates *22,474,783, an increase of *912,1 000 over the amount appropriated by the measure as it passed the House. Judge Turpie addressed the Senate on the President’s tariff message. The President sent to the Senate the following nominations ; Peter F. Knight to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of Flor.da, and Charles D. Blanc o? Louisiana to be United States Consul at Puerto Cabello. Among tha bills introduced and referred in the House was one by Mr. Anderson of lowa providing for the control and regulation of railroads acquired by the United States undsr judicial foreclosure or forfeiture. It is a long measure and Mr. Anderson demanded its reading in order to consume time and prevent as long os possible the offering of a motion for the passage of the Union Pacific funding bill under suspension of the rules. The Mills tariff bill occupied the exclusive attention of the House on the 3d inst. The only changes made wero to strike out the clause fix* ing a duty on polished plate glass unsilvered, thus leaving the present duty in force; restoring the present rate of 45 par cent ad valorem on steel slabs and billets, and fixing the duty on iron or steel, flat, with longitudinal ribs, for tenting, at 4-10-cent a pound. After completing four pages of the bill, the House adjourned. The senate was not in session. A bill to make the manufacture, preparati on, or sale of adulterated articles of food, drink, or medicine a misdemeanor punishable oy fine and imprisonment was introduced in the Senate on the sth inst. by Mr. Wilson of lowa. The Senate Nava! Committee made a favorable report on the bill to authorize the appointment of an Assistant Secretary of the Navy. The session of the House was mainly taken up with a discussion of the land-grant forfeiture bill. The bill was put upon its passage, but failed to go through on account of the absence of a quorum. The President sent both houses a message vetoing a bill granting a ptnsion to Mary Anne Doherty. The President sent to the Senate, on the Cth inst., messages vetoing the bills granting pensions to Nathaniel D. Chaoe, Harriet Cooper, William M. Campbell, Jr., and Julia Wolsn. In vetoing the Cooper bill, the Presideut says : "The husband of this beneficiary served as Major iu an Illinois regiment from Sept. 3, 1862, to April 1, 1853, when his resignation was accepted, it having been tendered on account of business affaiis. It is admitted on all hands that Maj. Cooper drank a good deal, but the committeeallege that they cannot arrive at the conclusion that death was attributable to that cause. There is some medical testimony tending to show that death was caused from rheumatism, but one puysician gives it as his opinion that death resulted from rhournatism and chronic alcoholism. The physician who last attended tho soldier testifies that the cause of death was chronic alcoholism. This should be the most reliable of all the medical testimony, and, taken in connection with the conceded intemperate habits of the deceased, and the fact that the brain was involved, it satisfied me that the rejection of tl • widow’s claim by the Pension Bureau, on the ground that the cause of dea'.h was .mainly intemperance, was correct.” The other acts are vetoed on the ground that they are without merit. The tariff debate was again taken up in the House and the remainder of the sections preceding the sugar schedule were disposed of, motions mode by the Republicans being rejected without division. The only changes made were to restore the present duty on wood screwß. pen-knives, and razors, and fixing the duty on new printing type at 15 per cent, ad valorem.