Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1890 — THE SENATE AND HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

THE SENATE AND HOUSE.

RATIONAL LAW-MAKERS AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING. Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives Discussed and Acted On—Gist of tlie Business. Ik the course of the debate in the Senate on the 10th ingt., on the silver bill, Mr. Teller became very much excited on the subject of freecoinage, which he said was imperatively demanded by tho people. Mr. Morrill presented the conference report of the two houses upon the bill providing for the erection of a suitable 'postoffice building in the city of Washington, and requested that the Senate agree to the conference report, which, after some little discussion was done : After the conference report had been agreed to, on motion of Senator Edmunds the Senate had a brief executive -session and adjourned. The appropriation bill for the expenses of the postoffice dr partitiont for the coming fiscal year was passed by the House. An act to amend an act ior the relief of settlers on railroad lands was then taken up and passed ; also an act for the relief of settlers on public lands to protect them in actions brought bv land-grant companies, etc.; also a bill gi anting the right of way through the Fort Clarke Reservation, Tex., to the Fort Clarke and Rio Grande Railroad Company. Petitions wore received and referred to the irrigation committee, asking jor appropriations for irrigation purposes. An act to reorganize the customs collection district at Puget Sound and appropriating amounts for the salaries of collectors was then passed, and the House adjourned. Is the Senate, on the 11th inst., Mr. bill to prohibit monopoly in the transportation of cattle to foreign countries was passed, Mr. Vest having consented to the amendment offered by Mr. Hale, iusertiug the words; “Noc already contracted for, in good faith, by persons or parties having cattle for transportation at the date of such contract sufficient to occupy such storage room.” The Senate joint resolution in regard to the export trade In cattle was then taken up and adopted, it requires the President of the Unitrd States to cause correspondence and negotiations to be had with the authorities of Great Britain for the purpose of securing the abrogation or modification of the regulations now enforced which require cattle imported info Great Britain from the United Suites to be slaughtered at the port of entry, and prohibiting the same from being carried alive to other places in said kingdom. The Senate bill to provide for the inspection of live ea tie and beef products intended for export to loreign countries was then taken up and passed. It requires the Seccretary of Agriculture to cause to be made a careful inspection of all live, cattle and beef products intended for export to foreign countries from the United biates, with a view to ascertain whether such cattle and beef products are free from di&oasa. - The Senate hill tor the establishment of a port of delivery at Rock Island, 111., was passed. The folloriug bills were also passed: Senate bill for a public bdilding. at Racine, Wis., cost not to exceed $100,OOu; House bill increasing from $150,000 to $275,000 the limit of cost ior the pc blit building at Duluth, Minn.; extending the criminal jurisdiction of the Circuit and District courts to the great lakes and their connecting waters. Adverse reports were made from the Finance Committee on • Mr. Stanford’s bill ior Govorhuient loans on liens of real estate and on the bill to atolish metal money, and the bills wereiadefinitelv postponed. In the House thojconference report on tne Senate dependent pension bill was presented by Mr. Morrill, of Kansas. Mr. Morrill explained that the committee bad struck out the dependent feature of the Senate bill and the service feature of the House bill. The measure as determined upon was not exactly what he would desire, but it was the best that he could obtain. It would distribute $35,000,000 among the poor soldiers of the nation. Mr. Springer protested against the manner in which the bill was brought bofore the House, and he asked that it go over in order that it might be printed in Tiu Haoord. Mr. Morrill objected and tho previous question was then ordered, the vote being yeas, 115; nays. 27. The conference ccmmittee on the Sherman trust bill then reported, and after a debate extending over two hours it was laid over. At 4 :40 o’clock the House adjourned. In the Senate, on the 12th inst.. Senator Allison reported the legislative, executive aud judicial appropriation bill, which, as it passed the House, carried a total of $23,842,447. The Senate committee added $313,470, making a total of $21,115,917. The bill for the year 1889-’9O appropriated $20,853,725, and tho estimates for the ensuing year were $11,027,250. The bill was placed on the calendar. The silver bill then came, and speeches on the Bubiect were made by Senators Evarts, Vauce and Morgan. Mr. Evarts had a most attentive audience of a majority of the Senators throughout his sieech, notwithstanding the fact that he spoke for over two hours, and the silver question had claimed the attention of the Senate for so long. Among the bills reported from committee and placed on the calendar were two Senate bills 1o amend the polygamy laws, and tho House legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill. The House bill for the establishment of new harbor lines in Portage Lake, Mich., was reported aud passed. In the House, the conference report on the Sherman trust bill came up and after some discussion, on motion of Mr. Stewart, of Vermont, a new conference was ordered with instructions to the conferrees to strike out the bill and report the measurs as it came from the Senate. Mr. Spooner, of Rhode Island, presented and the House aereed to the conference report on the military academy appropriation bill. Mr. Henderson of lowa, from tho Committee on Appropriations, reported an urgent deficiency bill, appropriating $3,708,000 for the payment of pensions and $3,075,000 tor expenses of the eleventh census. Passed. Mr. Morrow, of California, presented the conference report on the pension appropriation hill. The report, which is a disagreeing one, was adopted, and a further conference was ordered. The House then went into committee of the whole for the cousideration of the agricultural appropriation bill. The commitiee soon rose and the bill was passed. The House then took a recess, and the evening session was devoted to the consideration of bills reported from the Com.mittee on Commerce.

In the Senate, on the 13th Inst., the resolution offered the previous day by Mr, Edmunds ap-. pointing Edward K. Valentine Sergeant-at-arms, of the Senate, was taken up and agreed to—an amendment offered by Mr. Karris, substituting the name of Henry W. Wall, of Tennessee, hav-. ing been first voted down. The Senate silver bill was then taken up and finally it was agreed, by unanimous consem, that the Senate bill should be laid on the table; the House bill, as amended by the Finance Committee,substituted for it; the general debate to extend till 3 o’clock. on Monday. Mr. Daniel next addressed the Senate. Without concluding his speech, Mr. Daniel yielded for a motion to go into executive session., and after a brief secret session the Senate adjourned. The Houso went into committee ■ of the whole on the sundry civil appropriation bill. Mr. Cannon said that the amount of appropriation carried by the measure was, in round numbers, $26,000,091. The fourteen regular appropriation bills, as reported to the House, aggregated an expenditure of $306,000,000, an excess of $15,000,000 over the appropriations for tne current year. The excess was nearly all accounted for in three bills—pension, $18,000,000; . postoffice, $12,000,000 and naval, $2,160,000. The other $3,000,000 resulted from the expansion incident to the growth of the country. Mr. Cannon then gave a statement of the attitude of the appropriation bills. The following amendments were adopted: Appropriating SIO,OOO for a public building at Cedar Rnpidß, Iowa; appropriating SIO,OOO for an elevator in the public building at Peoria, Ill.; appropriating $30,000 for a public building at Martiusburg, W. Va.; . increasing from $35,000 to $40,000 the appropriation for the public buiidiug at Winona, Minn. .