Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1890 — 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. In the Senate oh the 18th inst. Mr. Sherman, from the Committee pn Finance, reported asubstitute for the bill against “trusts" in restraint of production, and it was placed on the calendar. Immediately after the morning business the consideration of the urgent-deficiency bill was resumed, and after several minor amendments had been agreed to the bill aas passed. The Senate then took up the Blair bill. Senator Hawley spoke in opposition to it and Senators Moody and Chandler in its favor. The following Senate bills for public buildings passed: Spokane Falls, Washington,. $1W.OOO; Walla Walla, Washington. $30,000;. Saginaw, Mieh., $250,000; Sioux Falla, S. D, $250,0J0; Tacoma, Washington, $100,038; Deadwood. S. D., $200,000; Seattle, Washington, SIOO,000. The Senate then adjourned. In the House considerable time wag devoted to the consideration of the appropriation for the payment of invalid pensions for the coming year. The resultwas a political debate, In which Mr. Peters, of Kansas, waxed eloquent over the virtues of Corporal Tanner. The House adjourned with provision for two and a half hours’ additional debate before the final vote will be taken on the: question. In the Senate, on the 19th inst., the resolutionoffered by Mr. Voorhees several days before, as to agricultural depression, was taken up, and Mr. Vooihce? addressed the Senite in relation to it. He bj.o <e of tho deep, strong current of anxiety, discontent, and alarm prevailing in the tormina communities, and said that he proposed to aid them in the icquiry ns to the ia". set of' the existing depression. Mr. Wilson, of lowa, replied, and read a letter showing the comparatively low prices of farm products and the high price of manufactured goods before the war--* The Blair educational bill was then taken up, and Mr. Pierce spoke in opposition to it. Mr. Evarts and (Mr. Call addressed) the Senate in. support of the bill. The Senate bill appropriating $200,003 for a public building at Norfolk, Neb., was reported and placed on the calendar. Mr. Allison, from the Finance Committee, reported back, with amendments, the House bilb to simplify the laws in rela ion to the collection of the revenue and it was placed on thecalendar. Adjourned. In the House Mr. Cooper, of Ohio, a member of the Committee on Elections, called up the Maryland contested case of Mudd against Compton. Mr. Lacey, of lowa,, opened the discussion with an argument in support of the claims of the contestant.* Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Greenhalge, of Massachusetts, advocated the case of the contestant, and the case of the sitting member; was upheld bv Mr. Moore, of Texas, aud MrGibson, of Maryland. Pending a vote the' House adjourned.

In the Senate on the 20th Inst. Mr. Cockrell 1 presented the protest of the Pork Packers* Association of St. Louis against the bill for inspection of meats, declaring the •bill to be un- . necessary and injurious to the stock raising and curing interests —more injurious even than, the German and French prohibition. The education bill came up as unfinished business. After debate the Senate proceeded to vote on. the bill and amendments. The first vote wagon offered by Mr. Moody (S. D.) that the illiterates among the Indians shall: be included in the calculations. Mr. Hawley tin opposing the bill read a table of appropriations to be made for the next fiscal! year, showing an aggregate of expenditures of $523,000,000, against an estimated revenue of $450,003,000, making a deficit of $73,000,000. Mr. Moody’s amendment was agreed to. The Senate then proceeded to vote on the third reading and engrossment of the bill. When the vote was concluded and it wag. know that it had resulted against the bill. Mr. Blair changed his vote from yea to nay so as to make a motion to reconsider. The result was then announced as yeas 31. nays 37. Mr.. Blair made a motion to reconciler the vote,, which motion was entered, and after an executive session the Senate adjourned. In the House, Mr. Henderson (Iowa) presented a resolution of the General Assembly of lowa urging; legislation aga'nSt the adulteration of lard. Referred. On motion of Mr. Gear (Iowa) a Donate bill was passed (with an amendment strikingout the appropriation clause) for a building at Burlington, lowa, at a limit of cokt of $103,000. The House then resumed the consideration of the Mudd-Compton contested-election case. Mr. Moore (Tex.) offered a resolution declaring: Compton entitled to the seat. This was defeated—yeas, 145; nays, 155. The majority resolution, declaring Mudd entitled to the seat, was adopted—yeas, 159; nays, 145. Mr. Mudd then appearedand took the oath of office amid much applause from the galleries. Mr. Morrow (Cal.) moved tnat the House go into committee of the whole for the further consideration of the pension-appropriation bill. Mr. Morrow’s motion wag then agreed to, end the committee immediately rose end the House adjourned. In the Senate, on the 21st, after the introduction of numerous petitions and memorials, on motion of Mr. Sherman the bill to declare unlawful trusts and combinations in restraint of trade and production was taken up for consideration. The substitute reported by Mr. Sherman from the Finance Committee on the 18th instant was read; also an amendment that was offered by Mr. Reagan. Mr. Sherman then addressed the Senate. He said that he believed that trusts and all combinations of a like nature were injurious to the people, who were compelled by them to pay advanced prices for articles in which they dealt. He had no doubt of the constitutional right of Congress to deal with this class of subjects and to prevent combinations of this sort. Mr. -Allison followed Mr. Sherman in favor of the bill and Senators Vest and Hiscock spoke against it. The Senate adjourned with the understanding that a vote on the trust bill would be taken early in the week. The House, in committee of the whole, considered the pension appropriation bill. The bill was finally reported with a few slight amendments and passed. The House also passed the bill retiring John C. Fremont with the rank of Major General, aud the bill for the relief of Albeit G. Emoiy. Also the bill reported by the ’Committee on Military Affairs, appropriating $25,0J0 for the purchase of 2,503 tents for the use of families driven from their homes by floods along the Mississippi River. The House then adjourned, and nt the evening session passed private pension bills.