Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1890 — DOINGS OF CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

IMPORTANT MEASURES CONSIDERED AND ACTED UPON. At the Nation’s Capitol What Is Being Done by the Senate and House Old Matters Disposed of and New Ones Cons dered. Congress reconvened on the 6th inst. No business of special importance was transacted. A large number of bills were introduced in both, houses. Congressman Bynum, cf Indiana, introduced a resolution for the appointment of & special committee to invegtigace the coarse of the United States District Attorney at Indianapolis, especially with reference to the Dudley cases. In the Senate, on the 7th inst., Mr. Voorhees offered a preamble and resolution reciting the newspaper report that Mr. Chambers, the United States District Attorney at Indianapolis, had interfered in his official capacity to prevent the arrest of W. W. Dudley on a charge of feloniously violating the election laws of Indiana at the last Presidential election, and directing the Attorney General to report what instructions the Department of Justice had issued to Chambers on the subject, and to furnish copies of the correspondence. He asked that the resolution go over one day, when he would submit some remarks upon it, which was agreed to. Mr, Morgan addressed the Senate on the subject of the bill heretofore introduced by Mr. Butler to provide for the emigration of persons of color from the Southern States. He closed by declaring it to be the duty of this nation, which once brought the negro in the chains of slavery from Africa, to assist him to return there and aid in building np the civilization, enlightenment and wealth of his native land. The Senate than went into executive session and shortly after adjourned. In the House Mr. McComas, of Maryland, offered a resolution that the House resolve itself into committee of the whole for the consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill, the committee to be governed by the rules of the last Congress. Mr. Breckinridge raised the question of consideration against the resolution. The Speaker ruled that the question of consideration could not be raised against the resolution because the resolution was in the nature of a motion regulating the business of the House. Mr. appealed from the decision, and floor to Mr. Carlisle, of Kentucky, who vigorously attacked the Speaker’s ruling. After several other speeches had been made a vote was- taken and the decision of the Speaker sustained—yeas, 135 ; nays, 124. All the Republicans voted to sustain Speaker Rood’s ruling and all the Democrats against it. The House then took up the District of Columbia bill and spent the- remainder of the afternoon on its consideration and then adjourned. After some routine business in the Senate on the Bth inst., Mr. Voorhees called up the resolution offerod by him the previous day in relation to the alleged interference by Mr. Chambers, the UniieJ States District Attorney at Indianapolis, to pfevent the arrest of W. W. Dudley on a charge of violating the election laws of Indiana, and proceeded to address the Senato. ne spoke of the crime as having inflicted an indelible stain upon the memorable election and impeached the integrity of the political result that followed. It was high time, Mr. Voorhees said, that this episode should be fully understood by the whole people, and that the proper degree of responsibility should be assigned to the instrument by whom it was perpetrated. Mr. Voorhees sent to the clerk’s desk and had read the notorious “blocks of five” letter At the conclusion of Mr. Voorhees’ speech a number of unimportant measures were considered, and the Senate then went into executive session and made the following confirmations: Owen A. Luckenbach, Postmaster, Bethlehem, Pa.; John D. Delille, Consul to Bristol. In the House the Speaker laid before that body a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury recommending that the estimated appropriation of $450,000 for the public building at San Francisco be made in a deficiency ap7«v>priation bill. The House then went into conl'nittee of the whole, Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, taking the chair, for the further consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill. The afternoon was spent in the discussion of the bill, and that portion of it relating to the laying of overhead electric wires underground was passed, and the House adjourned. In the Senate on the 9th inst. the Vice President presented a communication from Attorney General Miller in response to the resolution adopted by the Senate the previous day. The Attorney General declares that there have been no Instructions given to District Attorney Chambers on the Bubject of' the arrest of W. W. Dudley, and that no communication whatever has passed between the Department of Justice and the District Attorney in relation to the matter. The communication was referred to the Judiciary Committee. The Senate then went into executive session and confirmed a long list of nominations. Among the more important were the following: William P. Hepburn of lowa, Solicitor of the Treasury; Charles S. Zane, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah; J. G. R. Pitkiu of Louisiana, Minister to the Argentine Republic ; Clark E. Carr, of Illinois, Minister and Consul General to Denmark ; Richard G. Lay of the District of Columbia, Consul General to Ottawa. Consuls —James F. Hartigan of the District of Columbia, at Trieste; Aulick Palmer of the District of Columbia, at Dresden; Edward A. Dimmick of Massachusetts, at Barbadoes. William W. Bates of New York, Commissioner of Navigation. Samuel V. Haliiday of Pennsylvania, Commissioner of Customs. District Attorneys—lsaac N. Alexander, Northern Ohio ; Eugene G. Hay, Minnesota. Collectors of Internal Revenue—Albert B. White, West Virginia ; John Stukee, Eourth District of Michigan. In, opening tho House proceedings on the 10th inst. the Chaplain referred feelingly to the death of Congressman Kelley. Immediately after the reading of the journal O’Neill, of Pennsylvania, announced the death of Mr. Kelley. It was the saddest duty, h) said, that had ever devolved upon him. Judge Kelley’s death was a personal loss to him and a great loS) to the nation and the world. He presented resolutions expiesßing the deep regret and sorrow and providing for appropriate service to be held in the Representatives hall at noon on the 11th and for the appointment of a committee to attend the funeral in Philadelphia. The resolution was adopted and the following committee appointed: Representatives O’Neill, McKinley, Cannon, Banks. McKenna, Carlisle, Mills, Holman, and Mutchler. An adjournment was then had as an additional mark of respect to the deceased. Vice President Morton appointed Senators Sherman, Cnmeron, Mandersou, Butler, und Colquitt to represent the Senate at the funeral of the late Representative Kelley.