Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1890 — 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 CountryVarious Measures Proposed, Discussed and Acted On. Is ,the Senate, on the 7th Inst., the Honseamentiment to the joint resolution for the removal of the naval magazine from Ellis Island, New York, was concurred ip. The House bill to allow the erection of a bridge across the lowa River at Wapello, lowa, was reported and passed with an amendment in the way of a substitute. The Montana election case was then taken up, and Mr. Vance, a member of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, made an argument in support of the minority report declaring Clark and Maginnis (the Democratic claimants) entitled to the seats. Mr. Vance was followed by Mr. Spooner, who spoke in favor of Powers and Saunders, the Republican contestants. At lu:15 o’clock the Senate wept into executive session and adjourned at 5 .-20. In the House, Mr. Morrill of Kansas, moved to suspend the rules and pass (with a substitute) the Senate bill granting pensions to soldiers and sailors who are incapacitated from the performance of labor, and providing for pensions to minor children and dependent parents. Mr. Morrill briefly explained that the substitute provided a service pension of .$8 a month to soldiers who have reached the age of 62 years or who are dependent. He thought the same principle which ha 1 been applied to the veterans of the war of 1812 and tne war with Mexico should be applied to the veterans of the war of 1861. The Senate bill would require an annual expenditure of 830,010,000 and the House substitute 839,003,000. A vigorous opposition was developed to the motion to suspend the rules because it did not afford time enough for the discussion of so important a measure, and the vote resulted: Yeas, 169; nays, 87—not the necessary twothirds in the affirmative. The army appropriation bill was then taken up. The Committee on Appropriations reported the legislative appropriation bill, carrying an appropriation ot s2l- - The Committee on Railways and Canals reported the bill for a ship canal around Niagara Falls. In the Senate, on (he Bth lust., Mr. Spooner concluded his argument in the Montana election case, and was followed by Mr. Pugh, wbo, owing to indisposition, yielded the floor after speaking a short lime. The Senate then took up and passed the anti-trust bill as reported from the judiciary Committee with amendments by a vote of 50 to 1, Mr. Blodgett being the only Senator who voted against it. In the House bills were passed: I’roviding that persons settling on the second indemnity plat of the Northern Pacific grant between August, 1887, and January, 1889, may transfer their entries from that tract to ocher Government land subject, to entry; to cause certain land at the head waters of the Mississippi, St. Croix, Chippewa, and Wisconsin Rivers, set apart for reservoir purposes, tobe restored to the public domain ; lor the disposal of abandoned military reservations in Wyoming Territory; authorizing the city of Buffalo, Wyoming, to purchase under the town Bite law a strip of the McKinney military reservation; authorizing the entry of public lauds by incorporated cities and towns for cemetery and park purposes ; granting right of way through various Indian reservations in Wisconsin to the Duluth and Winnipeg Railroad Company; granting right of way through the Col wile Indian reservation to the Spokane Falls and Northern Railroad Company; to prevent the enlistment of aliens in the naval service ot the United" States. Mr. Adams, of Illinois, called up the motion to reconsider the vote by which the House defeated the bill making an appropriation to supply the deficiency caused by ihe Silcott defalcation. The motion was then reconsidered and the bill was passed. The House then went into committee of the whole (Mr. Butterworth, of Ohio, in the chair) on the naval appropriation bill The bill was taken up by sections ; but without completing its detailed consideration the committee rose and the House adjournsd. In the Senate, on the 9th inst., Mr. Pugh finished his speech on the Montana election case in, favor of Clark and Magianis.the Domocra'.icicontestants, and was followed by Mr. Turpie, who spoke on the same sile. At the conclusion of Mr. Turpie’s remarks an effort was made to secure a vote upon the case by the Republicans. This, however, they were unable to do as the Democrats stated that several other on their side of the chamber desired ta be heard upon the case, but that no one was ready to lake the floor just then. The Senate then, on motion of Mr. Hale, took up the Chinese census enumeration bill and discussed it as amended bv sections until 6 o'clock, when an adjournment was taken without oc.ion. In the Houso.on motion of Mr. Wade, of Missouri, the Senate amendment was concurred in to the House bill to admit free of duty articles int .nded for the St. Louis Exposition in 1890, which may be imported from the republic of Mexico and other American republics and ihe Dominion of Canada. Among the bills reported fr-m the commitWs and placed on the calendar were the following: House bill for a public buildiug at Galesburg, Ill.; Senate bill to amend the third section of the interstate commerce act. The House, after arguing on the Senate amendments to the Rock Creen Park bill, which provides tnat the Government shall pay the entire cost of the park, took up the naval appropriation bill and spent the remainder of the afternoon upon its consideration. A bill was reported from the War Claims Committee appropriating $3,500,000 for tho payment of the claims of citizens of Pennsylvania for damages to property by Union troops during the war. In the Senate, on the 10th inst., among the bills reported from committees and placed on the calendar were the following: Senate bill appropriating $2,438,000 for the improvement of Columbia River, Oregon, expenditures not to exceed $703,00J in one year; House bill to aid vessels disable l in the waters co-torminous to the United States aud Canada; Senate bill to revive the grade of Li m tenant General of the army. The Montana election case was again taken up. Alter debate and without action the Senate adjourned. The House went into committee of the whole, Mr. Butterworth, of Ohio, in the chair, on the naval appropriation bill. After debate Mr. Holm fin, or Indiana, moved to strike out the paragraph providin ’ for the battle-ships, but leaving in the provision for an armed cruiser. Agreed to —98 to 70. Mr. Mr. Adams, of Illinois, oflered an amendment providing for three-free-board coast and harboi defense vessels of ihe monitor typo, of eighteen feet drat, with twin screws and a sea speed of not less than seventetn knot#, at a cost not to exceed $2,500,000 each. Lost. The bill was then favorably reported to the Heuse, but no final action was taken and the House adjourned. In the Senate, on the 11th inst., a number of bills were reported from committees, after which consideration of the Montana election case w’as resumed. After a debate in which Senators Evarts, Morgan, Sherman and Gray participated Mr. Hoar gave notice that on Monday lie should ask the Senate to remain in session until the Montana case was disposed of. Mr. Hawloy, from the select committee on the quadri-centennial celebration, reported back with amendments the House bill for the World’s Fair at Chicago, and said that if anything were to be done in the matter it should bo done at ouco. After an executive session, the Senate adjourned. In the House, Mr. Lacey (Iowa) called up the contssted-tleccion case of Waddill vs. Wise, from the Third District oi Virginia. Mr. Enloo (Teim.) raised tho question of consideration. The House decidedyeas, 124; nays, 113—to consider the election case, and Mr. Lacy took the floor with an argument in favor of the claims of tho contestant. After considerable debate, and without disposing of the matter, the House took a recess, the evening session to be for the consideration ol private pension bills.