Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1888 — THE SENATE AND HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

THE SENATE AND HOUSE.

NATIONAL LAW-MAKERS AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING. . Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives Discussed and Acted On Gist of the Business. The debate on the tariff bill was begun in the Senate the Bth inst., and will occupy several days. The Senate confirmed the following nominations : John H. Oberly, Commissioner of Indian Affairs ; L. W. Crofoot and C. F. Templeton, Associate Justices of Dakota; E. D. Sinn, Collector of Customs, Salura, Texas. The Senate passed the joint? providing for a commission to inqnire into the Washington aqueduct frauds. Among the bills, and resolutions passed by the House ware the • following: Providing for the disposal of the Fort Wallace Military Reservation in Kansas ; to provide for the warehousing of fruit brandy; to constitute Lincoln, Neb., a port of delivery; authorizing Gen. Absalom Baird to accept the decoration of the Legion of Honor from France. A biU appropriating $500,000 to establish camps for yel-low-fever refugees was favorably reported to theHouse.

The Senate resumed consideration of thetariff bill and was addressed by Mr. Hiscock oil the 9th inst. He was followed by Mr. Bate. The Senate passed the bill to make Lincoln, Neb., a port of delivery. The resolution for an inquiry Into the assassination of Joseph Hoffman, a witness before the Committee on Privileges and Elections in the investigation into political disturbances at Brenham, Tex., was adopted by the Senate. The House bilTto authorize the building of a bridge or bridges across the Mississippi Biver at LsCrosee, Wis., was passed by the Senate with amendments. Both houses of Congress passed the bill supplemental to the act providing for the meeting of Presidential electors. It provides that the certificates shall be forwarded to the - President of the Senate forthwith after the second Monday in January. The House passed a. bill appropriating SSO,UUO to enlorce the Chinese exolueion act. The conference report on the bill allowing persons who have relinquished homestead entries to make another entry was agreed to by the House. The Senate bill appropriating $75,000 to secure to the Cherokee freedmen their portion of certain proceeds of lands under the ■ act of March 3, 1883, was passed. The discussion of the tariff bill was continued in the Senate on the 10th, by Mr. Bate. A resolution was adopted instructing tho Foreign Re- - lations Committee to report an arrangement by which Amer.can cattle for export may be saved the delay imposed by Canadian quarantine regulations. The Senate passed the bill to pay the widow of Chief Justice Waite the sum of $8,4,5, being tho balance of his year's salary; also the House bill for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota, also confirmed the nominations of James F. LeseSne of South Carolina as Consul General at Melbourne;. B. F. Coates, Receiver of Public Money at Wichita, Kan.; S. E. Carroll, Postmaster at Adel, Iowa; ± . M. Trumbower, Postmaster at - Muncie, Ind. A message from the Presidentwas presented and read vetoing a bill for the relier of the executors of Joseph Maddox for payment on account of losses and damages sustained by the seizure of tobacco during the war. Referred. The House, having agreed to the conference report on the deficiency bill and transacted some routine business, adjourned. This is the last of the general appropriation bills. Consideration of the tariff bill waß resumed in the Senate on the 11th inst., the first speaker being Mr. Cullom, who denounced the Mills hill. He was followed by Mr. Platt. The Senate passed the House bill appropriating $50,000 to enforce the Chinese exclusion act. The House was not in session. The only really important development in the ■ tariff discussion in the Senat9 on the 12th inst. was the statement by Senator Allison that the Finance Committee had become convinced that it made a mistake in putting slack or culm of coal on the free list. He said it was difficult to • distinguish between coal and coql slack, and at the proper time the committee : * would propose an amendment putting all coal on the dutiable iist at - the present rate of 75 cents a ton. The Senate agreed to the conference reports on the Fourth of July, claims bill and the bill to retire General Pleasontoh with the rank of Major. Liltle business was transacted by the House. Half a dozen more leaves of absence were granted. Mr. Lawler succeeded In securing the passage of a bill for the payment of back bounty to P. C. . McQueeuy, of Chicago. The report of the Stahl--necker investigating committee exonerating Mr. Stahlnecker from charges of misconduct in connection with the now library building was - adopted without discussion, as was also the report of the conference committee on the bill toretire General Alfred Pleasonton with the rank. of Major.