Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1889 — 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 ibwtnAv. Mb. Cockrell, from th? Committee on Military Affairs, reported to the Senate, on the 21st. Inst., the Senate bill to authorize the Omaha, Fort Dodge and Southern Railway Company to build its road across the military reservut on in Kansas, not exhaling oja hund.-ed feet in width, and on motim of Mr. Plumb the bill was passed. The Sena.e occupied the balance of toe day consider.n; tue tariff bill, lu the House Mr. Payson (Id.), by introducing incouseqw ntiai bills end demanding their reading iu full, succeeded iu the double object of forcing t*ie friends of the Oklahoma bill to yield to certain atueridments he desiied to bavo incorjiora ed in the bill, and in extracting from the friends of the Union i’aci 1c funding bill a promise that they would not call up that measure. Mr. Bower (N. C.) introiuced a bill for the repeal of the tobacco tax and moved its reference to the Committee on War Claims. The yeas and nays were ordered, and results 1: Yeas 100, nays 126—50 the motion was agreed to. and the bill was referred to the Committee on Wavs and Means. The call of States was concluded, and then Mr. Warner (Ohio) withdrew his pending motion to suspend the rules and ] ass the Oklahoma b 11, and in lieu thereof moved to suspend the rules and adopt a resolution providing for a final vote on that bill on Thursday next, with permission to Mr. Payson (Ill.) to order an amendment to the section relative to town sites. Agreed lo—yeas 165, nays 76. J. D. Tayior (Ohio) introduced for reference a preamble and joint resolution directing the Government officials in charge of any building which may be used for tbe inaugural ball not to permit wine, beer, ale, or other intoxicating liquors to be sold or served to any person on the occasion of the ball. The Senate passed the substitute for the Mills tariff bill by a strict party vote, on the 22d inst. The day’s proceedings were largely devoted to disposing of various amendments. When these had been exhausted the vote w*B taken, first on agreeing to tbe substitute, and then on the passing of the bill. Both votes were identical yeas, 32; nays, 30-* as follows : Yeas—Aldrieh, Blair, Bowen, Cameron, Chance, Chandler, Cullom, Davis, Dewss, Dolph, Edmunds Evart 8, Farwell, hrye, Hawley, Hiscock, Hour, Ingalls, Jonet (Nev.', Manderson, Mitcnell, Morrill, Paddock, Palmer, Platt, Pin mb, Quay, Sherman, Spcoaer, Stockbridge, Teller, Wilson (la.i —32. Nats—Bute, Eustis, Payne Berry, Blackburn, Brown, Butler, Call, Cockrell, Coke, Colquitt, Daniol, Jb aulknor. George, Gibson, Gorman, Gray, Harris, Jones (Arg.), Morgan, Pasco, Pugh, hansom, Reagan, Turpie, Vance, Vest, Voorhees, Wsltuall, Wilson (Aid.) —3O. Mr. Hiddlebei-ger said that he had voted right along with the Republican party and with the Fin an e Committee for the bid. but there was nothing in the bill which would hate justified him in voting for it after the adoption of the amendments of the Senator from Kansas (Mr. Plumb; presumably the customs-commis-sion provision). Therefore, if he had not beeu pairet and had not loir under an obligation to preserve that pair, he should not have voted for the bill. The House refused to consider the Smalls-Elliott election contest, and took up the. river and habor bill. On Mr. Cutcheon's motion, t e appropriation for continuing the improvements at Portage Lake, Michigan, was increased from 816.0J0 to 820,000.

The concurrent resolution for the counting of the electoral vote was passed by the Senate on. the 23d inet. It provides that the two houses of Congress shall assemble in the hall of theHouse of Representatives on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 1889, at 1 p. m.; that tie President of the Senate shall preside; that twotellers on the part of the Sei.ate anl two on the part of the House shall make a list of the votes its they shall be declared ; that the result shall be delivered to the President of the Senate, who shall announce the vote and the persons elected to the two bouses, which shall be deemed a declaration of the persons elected President and Vice President of the United Stales, ani, together witu a list of the votes, shall Le entered on the journals of the two houses. The Senate passed the Honea I ill for the relief of the State National Earn, of New Orleans, formerly the Louisiana State Bank, after amending it Boas to read “the proceeds of cot on alleged to belong to said bank.” An amendment providing that it must be made to appear to the court of Claims that the managers Of the Louisiana. State Bank were at tue time of the purchase of the cotton in fact loyal to the United Mates and had not been In fact engaged in the rebellion, was rejected—yeas 17, nays 35. Ths bill allows the bank to prosecute a claim for the proceeds of the cotton seized by the Government. Senators Platt and Edmunds opposed the bill ou. the ground that the Louisiana State Bank was the fiscal agent of the Confederacy. Senator Hoar championed the bill, holding that whatever may have been the charac .tr of the State bank the national bank was loyal, and it was from the hitter that the cotton had been taken. The vote on the passage of-the bill was: Yeas, 32; nays, 20. A committee' of conference was appointed. A bill granting the right of way to the Big Horn Southern Railway through the Crow reservation in Montana was passed. TheHouse, in committee of the whole, continued the consideration of the sundry civil bill, and a heated debate occurred over an amendment tofix a royalty on every thousand impressions made by steam presses.

Both houses of Congress adopted suitable resolutions, on the 24th inst., on the death of Representative James N. Burnes, of Missouri,, and then adjourned as a mark of respect to his memory. A joint committee consisting of Senators Vest, Teller and Coke and Rspresentative i Mansur, Stone, Wade, Sayers, Bynum, Hender- ' son and Perkins was appointed to accompany the remains to St. Joseph, Mo., where the funeral took place. The body was in ci ar/e of thecoinmittes, and was taken over the Pennsylvania Road. In the Senate, on the 25th inst., Mr. Allisonmoved that the Senate insist on its amendment to the tariff bill, and asked for a conference with the House on the bill and amendment. Themotion was agreed to without objection. The District of Columbia appropriation bill was taken up, amended, and passed. One of the amendments appropriates $200,000 for a zoological park near ihe city of Washington. Gonferrees were appointed on the part of the Senate and then the following bills were passed : Toprovide for the sale of land alotted ami patented to certain members of the Bluek Bob bond of Shawnee Indians. For tho presentation of suitable medals to the survivors of the "Forlorn Hope Storming Party,” of Port Hudson, on the 15th of June, 1803. The Senate bill to establish two additional land districts in the State of Nebraska. To authorize the'construction of a bridge or bridges across the Mississippi at, LaCrosse. Wis. Among the thirty bills passed was one (a Senate billi increasing the pension of the willow of General Rousseau to SIOO a month. The Ho ‘se wont into committee of the whole on the sundry civil appropriation bill. The appropriation for repairs of light-houses was increased from $300,(500 to $335,(0). Theappropriation for the sala>ies of light-house keepers was increased from s6uO,(X)i toss - ,003. The appropriation for tho pay of assistant custodians and janitors of public buildings was increased from $460,000 to $4:10,00). Mr. RandaJ, from tho Committee on Appropriations, reported a joint resolution making mi appropriation of $5 X).00) for payment to l lie legal representatives of J. B. Eads, Referred to thecommittee of tho whole.