Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1888 — THE NATIONAL SOLONS. [ARTICLE]

THE NATIONAL SOLONS.

WORK OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Our National Law-Makers and What They Are Doing for the Good of the Country —Various^,;leasures Proposed, Discussed and Act?? On. The message of the President vetoing the pension lill of Mrs. Sarah Woadbridge, on the ground that her second husband is still living and that such a precedent ought not to be established, was laid before the Senate the 15th inst. The bill and message were referred to the Com i ittee on Pensions. The Senate aet down the first Tuesday in December for a discussion of the Pacific Railroad funiingbill. subject to tho tariff bill. The discos ion of the tariff bill wag continued. In the House Mr. Wheeler of Alabama offered a series of resolutions denouncing the Senate tariff bill, and after some discussion as to the propriety of the resolution it was referred to the Committee on Rules. The debate on the tariff bill was continued in the Senate on the 16th. ' The Senate confirmed J. A. Moore as United States Marshal for Nevada. The Honse agreed to the Senate amendment to the La Crosse (Wis.) bridge bill. Mr. Oates (Ala.) called up his adjournment resolution in the House and made a vigorous effort to secure its passage. After a long discussion, consideration of the resolution was postponed. In the Senate, at the beginning of the morning business, on the 17th, the Republican aide of the chamber was represented by eight Senatops and the Democratic side by ten On motion of Mr. Morgan, the C ommittee on Foreign Relations was authorized lo sit during the recess in Washington or New York in the investigation of the La Abra claim against Mexico. The House bill granting to the Aberdeen and Northwestern Railroad right of way across a portion of the Sioux reservation in Dakota was passed. Consideration of tho tariff bill was resumed. In speaking on the tariff Mr. Teller criticised the administration for putting New York bank men at the head of the Treasury Department and for conducting the financial policy of the Government in the interest of Wall street to the entire disregard of the great interests of the people. He referred to the attempts of the administration to suppress the silver dollar coinage, upbraided the Democratic Senators and Representatives for their failure to oppose them, and charged that they hRd been silenced—he would not say by administration influence. He characterized the course of the Treasury Department in not using the surplus for the purchase of the 3 per cent, bonds as “imbecility of the grossest character,” and in the interest of the bondholder, and said that more money had been lost in that way than would have paid every vetoed pension bill for more than I>o years. Mr. Morgan referred to the Allison recess resolution as a piece of finesse to cover up the death of the Senate substitute. He said the Senate had been deserted for woeks by those who claimed to be the only capable tariff-reformers, for the purpose of delaying a vote on the measure. The fact was that the Republican senators did not intend to pass the bill now or hereafter. And yet the Senate bill was a triumph for the Democracy, because it was an admission that the people needed and demanded a relaxation of high taxes. At tho conclusion of Mr. Morgan's romarks the Senate adjourned. The House agreed to the conference report on the bill granting lauds in severalty to the united Peoria and Miami bands of Indians. A BESontmoN for final adjournment at 1 o'clock the 20th was adopted by the Senate on the 18th inst. The House afterward concurred in the resolution. The subject came jip in the Senate on the resolution to take a recess, and Mr. Allison said that he Senators generally were in favor of an adjournment until the first Monday in December. Mr. Brown thereupon offered a resolution lor a final adjournment of this session at 1 o’clock the 20th. He said that he did not believe that the passage of the tariff bill would be facilitated by a prolongation of tho session. Mr. Allison, who had the matter in charge, after some debate accepted Mr. Brown's resolution as an amendment to the - one already yarding," and a vote was taken. A major ty of the Democrats voted in the affirmative, a majority of the Republicans voting nay. Thero was no demand for a division, and the resolution was declared carried. The’ tariff bill was taken up and briefly debated, and a resolution was offered by Mr. Allison authorizing the Finance Committee tocontinue its investigation into tariff matters. Mr. Gray read a memorial or five hundred Connecticut workingmen and farmers in favor of thelMill bill and the admission of raw materials —pfSticularly wool, salt, lumber, tin plates, etc. free of duty. Tlie confertnce report on tho bill for the allotment of lauds in severalty to the United Peorias and Miamis in the Indian Territory was presented and agreed to. Mr, Hudd of Wisconsin called up a bill in the House gianting the right of way to a water company across an Indian reservation in Arizona, and asked consent to non-concur in Senate amendments. Agreed to. On motion of Mr. Forney of Alabama a resolution was adopted authorizing the Committee on Appropriations to sit during the vacation. The following Senate bills were passed: Granting the use of certain lands to Tacoma, W. T., for a public park; to prevent army and navy bands from entering into c-ompa-tition with civilian musicians; to estabisn a land office at Folsoin, N. M. Nothing was done by Congress on the 19th inst. Only a handful of members wero present in each house, and the proceedings were almost entirely devoid of interest. The only relief to the dull monotony of waiting for the hour of adjournment was a discussion in the Senate of the question of freeing spirits used in the arts and manufactures. Mr. Cockrell presented several letters of the Internal Revenue Commissioner in reference to' the facilities for fraud in connection with methylated alcohol. Mr. Allison contended that every safeguard suggested by the Commissioner was contained in the Senat9 tariff bill, and that if the present law was sufficient to prevent illegal distillation the same law would prevent the redistillation of methylated alcohol; but all objections were met by the fact that Great Britain and Germany allowed methylated alcohol to be used in the arts and industries. The regulations adopted were not difficult of enforcementand could be enforced here.