Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 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 <",* Representatives Discusses! and Acted On Gist of the Business. ! The credentials of Mr. Coke fer hia new Senatorial term were present d to the Senate on tbe ■ Dth inßt., and place 1 on file. Mr. Dawes presented a petition Irom one hundred and twenty Indian students at Hampton, Va., against the continuance of the "ration system to Indians as an encouragement to id.eness and recommending tneir equivalent in farming implements and stock. Tno petition was so referred. Iu -ecrec sess on the Smite parsed tbe following bill to enable the President to protect the interests of the United States in Panama: j tie enacted, etc., that there bo and is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otnerwiss appropriated the sum of 3,000 to enable the Prtsidentto protect the interests of the United States and to p ovide for th-> security of the persons and property of citizens of tho United States at the TstJQmas of Panama in such manner as he may deem expedient." Nominations confirmed by the senate: Joseph C. Beckenridge, Inspector-General; S.dney u. Wilson, Pension Agent at Washington; Thomas J. All- - Associate Judge of the Sup erne Court of Utau. In the House a conference was ordered on the direct tax bill. Tbe Senate bill was passed authorizing tie construction of a bridge acrois tho Missouri River at Leavenworth, Kan. The Houso decidedyeas, 131; nays, 89—to consider the Smalls-El-iio.t election case. Mr Crisp, of Georgia, de- ; fended the South Carolina Returning Board, and Mr. Rowell, of Illinois, advocated the claims of Small 3to the seat. Pending further debate the matter wont over. The Speaker appointed Messrs. Caswell, Seney, and Oates as conforrees on the direct tax bill. | Among tbe S mate bills reported from committee and placed on the calendar in the Senate, on the 12th inat., was one to provide for the enforcement of the quarantine laws and regulations of the United States an 1 for tho es. tablishmeut of a National Board of Health. The following Houso bills were taken from the calendar and passed: To authorise the Court of Claims to hear, determine and render final judgment upon the claim < f the "old settlers” or Western Cherokee Indians ; to pavj s 8 to Charles F. Swain, master of the barx i Phibna, of New York, for going to and rescuing ! shipwrecked seamen from an uninhabited (island near Capo Horn; granting ri'hn of way to tho Pine Laud and j Water Company across Fort Loweli Military Reservation, iu Arizona. The Senate resumed consideration of the naval appropriation bill. An amendment was adopted appropriating $50,000 for testing tbo Hurst guns, and. then the bill was passed. A hi 1 was, reported favorably in the bouse appropriating for a lighthouse and fog signal on tho easterly end of the outer breakwater in th r harbor of Chicago. There was also reported favorably a bill for the erection of lighthouses and fog signals, as follows: lighthouse at Eleven Foot Shoal, off Point Peninsular, l ake ( Michigan, at a cost not exceeding $00,09 1 ; light- ] house and fog signal at Squaw Island, Lake j Michigan, to cost not exceeding s‘2s, 00; lighti house at Old Mackinac Point, Michigan, to cost 1 not exceeding $2 ; ,0 0; for signal and range lights j on the end of the west pier at Ashtabula, to cost not exceeding $7,003. ■ Mb. Evarts made a speech in the Senate on I the 13th inst., in support of liis resolution instructing the Committee 011 Elections 10 revise the laws governing Congressional olec;ions. The Senate confirmed the nomination* of Norman J. Colman of Missouri lo be Secretary of Agriculture, and Ira M. Krutz of mdiauapolis to be Register of tbo Land Office, Nonli Yakima. W. T. Tho Houso, after one of ills liveliest debates of ihe session, settlo.l the South Carolina cent st c so by giving tlie seat to Elliott, the sittm- member. The minority report, seating bnialls, was rejected by a party vote of 12u 10 i 43, except that Messrs. Wilson (Minn. l and Russell (Mass.j voted with I tile itepublica s. The majority report was adopted without a division. The House j Judiciary Committee reported favorably a bill to amend tlie na uraliziuion laws The bid, iu brief, linii s the classes of foreigners, | who shall ba eligible to ci.izensuip (including I Indians adopting civiliztd liie); prescribes tide I form of app.icauoii ; requires mat the district ! attorney snail defend the Government against ; improper uppliccuions aul that applications shall be corroborated upon the point, of resij deuce; restricts jurisdiction to high State courts and Federal courts; preserves the righls of aliens who have already declared their intention; allows tho right of bona-fide applicants to make homestead entries and to ! receive patents after naturalization, and requires that would-be citizens bliull have resided five years in the United bta.es and bo nblo to read the Constitution in English. The Senate and House met in joint convention ante counted the electoral vote, and formally doj dared General Hitirisou elected President and 1 Levi P. Morton Vice President. Of tho 401 j electoral votes they received 2.13: necessary to ( a choice, 201.

M«. Wilson (Iowa) made a speech in the Senate, on the 14th inst., in favor of Frye's bill allowing State laws relating to the sale of liquors to extend to imported liquors. Tho measure was adversely reported from the Judiciary Committee last Marcn. _he nomination of Carrol! 11. Wright of Boston to be CommisS o;jer of Labor was confirmed. The report of the Election Committee was discussed. An amendment to the resolution was ottered instructing the committee to so frame legislation on the subject of elections that io shall not, apoly to any State whose c. nsiitution and laws provide ample security for the honest exercise of the right to vote and for the just and impartial counting snd return of the votes. Mr. Jones, of Nevada, reported favoiably, with a request for immediate consideration, Mr. btewart’s resolution authori-iug tho appointment of a committee to investigate and report ou tho irrigation and reclamati.m of Western arid Jand. Tho resolution was agree 1 to. Twope.itlons fromci.izens of Albuquerque, N. M., were presented to the Senate denouncing as misleading and false the allegations contained in a memorial recently presented to the Senate protesting against the admission of the Territory as a State. The Housep ssed the bill to divide the Sioux Reservation in Dakota into a number of smaller reservations ior the various tribes, and to grant lanls in severalty to such Indians as desire. Tho House voted to insist, on its amendments to the Senate bili for the admission of the State of soutn Dako.a, and ask for another conference, the conferrees having reported a total disagreement. Mr. Baker (N. Y.) then offered a resol ntio i instructing the Hous s conferrees, but afterward accepted an amendment offered by Mr. Cox making them read ar, follows: To exclude the Territory of New Mexico from the bill. To amend the bill so as io provide for the admission of South Dako.a by proclamation of the President under the Sioux Falls constitution, etc. Mb, Voobhees in.roduced in the Senate or, the loth inst. the following as a proposed' amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill: “Sold ers and sailors in the war of tho rebellion who wore honorably * discharged from the military or naval service of tho United Stats and the widows and children of deceased soldiers shall be eligible to appointment, transfer, and promotion, subject only to such examination as may be prescribed by the heads of departments and without competitive examination.” Forty-one pension bills were passed in twelve minutes. The bill placing Gen. Ko6eeruus on tho retired list was passed. Senator Spooner introduced a bill providing for a system of farmers' institutes as a part of the new agricultural department. The Senate passed a bill ratifying tho agreement, with the Creek Indians, opening to settlement unassigned lands in the Indian Territory, the consideration being .8 ,281,8.)?. The House passed the resolution instructing the House conferrees on the territorial bill, and the bill was again sent to conference. Tho resolution instructs the conferrees to exclude New Mexico from the bill, so amend th.s bill as to provide for the admission of- South Dakota under tho Sioux Falls constiiution by proclamation of the President without a now" vote being taken ou the question of division, and to provide for the admission e 4 North Dakota, Montana, and Washington by proclamation. The instructing clause was ngieed o by a vote of—yeas, 14U; nays, 101. The Senate bill appropriating #230,000 for the proteciion or American interests in Panama was passed. Tho Wills tariff bill and the Senate substituie were reported to the House by Mr. Mills from the Ways and Means Committee, and wero referred to th» committee of the whole. 1