Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1890 — THE NATIONAL SOLONS. [ARTICLE]

THE NATIONAL SOLONS.

SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. . 4 Oar National Law-Makers and What They Are Doing for the Good of the Country— Various Measures Proposed, Discussed, and Acted Upon. Among the bills reported from committees and placed on the Senate calendar on the 14th were the following: House bill for the disposition of the abandoned military post at Fort Ellis, Montana. Senate bill appropriating #50,000 for a memorial structure at Marietta, Ohio, commemorative of the settlement of the Northwest Territory. The Senate proceeded to the consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill. Mr. Spooner moved to increase the limit of cost of the public building at Milwaukee, Wis., by $400,000. Agreed to. The Senate bill to extend for one year the time for beginning the construction of bridges by the Houston, Central Arkansas and Northern Railway Company in Louisiana was reported and passed. The Senate bill to lurcher suspend for ten years the statute in relation to gnano islands, the House bill opening to settlement a portion of the Fort Randall military reservation in South Dakota, and the Senate bill to provide for the disposal of the Fegoea Springs military reservation in Colorado to actual settlers under the homestead laws were passed. The House was without a quorum, and no business of importance wntransacted.

The President sent to the Senate the following nominations on the 15th inst.: Charles T. Stanton, of Connecticut, to be Collector of Customs for the District of Stonington, Conn.; J. J. Peterson, of West Virginia, to be Consul of the United States at Merida. Mexico. Withdrawn—Herman Nickins, of North Dakota, to be Consul of the United States at Barranquilla. Senate bill granting to the State of ■Washington a section of public land for a Soldiers ’ Home and as a training ground for the State militia was taken from the calendar and passed. The Senate Finance Committee ordered a favorable report on the nominations oi tho five members of the General Board of Appraisers recently appointed by the President. The only discussion was over the names of Messrs. Sharp and Jewell, of New York, against whom there was some feeling on the part of the Democratic and Republican members of the committee, respectively. The House, after routine business, went into committee of the whole on the bill appropriating $636,189 for additional clerical force for the Pension Office, after agreeing to a motion that the general debate be limited to two hours. Mr. Dockery (Mo.) criticised the majority of the Committee on Appropriations for not reporting a bill making an appropriation to pay the pensions which would be granted under the dependent pensibn bill and intimated that this failure was attributable to political reasons. The appropriation would not be made before the November elections. Mr. Cannon said that tho money would be appropriateed and paid just as rapidly as the pension certificates wero issued. After further debate of a rather heated nature the committee rose, the bill was passed and the House adjourned. The President sent to the Senate nominations as follows on tho 16th inst.: Allured B. Nettleton, of Minnesota, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; James Russell Soley, of Massachusetts, to be'Assistant Secretary of tho Navy. Receivers of Public Moneys —Jacob R. Welly, of Washington, at Olympia, Wash. ; John B. Catlin, of Montana, at Missoula, Mont.; Geo. W. Cook, of Montana, at Lewiston. Registers of Land Offices—John Anderson, of Montana, atMfissouli, Mont.; Charles A. Berg, of Montana, at Lewiston, Mont. Mr. Teller introduced a bill granting a pension of $2,009 a *year to the widow of General Fremont. Mr. Sawyer introduced a bill prepared by the Postmaster General to establish a limited postal and telegraph service. The House bill to establish a national military park at Chickamauga battlefield was taken from the calendar and passed. The Senate in secret session confirmed nominatians as follows: Charles A. Ham, of Illinois ; James A. Jewell,of New York; George H. Sharpe, of New York ; George C. Tichenor, of the District of Columbia, and Joseph B. Wilkinson. Jr., of Louisiana, as members of the General Board of Appraisers. The House was without a quorum. Nominations wore sent to the Senate by the President as follows on the 17th inst.: Eugene S. Neal, Register of the Land Office at Bismarck, N. D.; Asa Fisher, Receiver of Public Moneys at Bismarck, N. D.; Edwards I‘. Leeds of J-jwa, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico. General Appraisers of Merchandise—J. Lewis Stackpole of Massachusetts, Hendenson M. Somerville of Alabama, Ferdinand N. Shurtleff of Oregon. The Senate resumed consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill, the pending question being on the amendment to add to the appropriation of 8300,000 for topographic surveys a provision that one-half of that, sum should be expended west of the 101st meridian, and that the act of October, 1888, reserving irrigable lands be repealed. The weather is beginning to l ell on the old men in the Senate. Several of them, particularly Senators Edmunds and Morrill, are seriously affected by the heat, and there are a number of others who have not sufficient strength to endure it much longer. The House, immediately after the reading of the journal, wont into committee of the whole on the land graut forfeiture bill. Messrs. Mcßae of Arkansas, Cobb of Alabama, and Payson ot Illinois, discussed the measure, but owing to the intense heat in the hall of the House a majority of the members repaired to the lobbies and but; little attention was paid to the discussion." Mr. Holman moved to recommit the bill with instructions to the Committee on Public Lands to report it back with a proviso forfeiting all lands not earned within time limited in the granting acts. Lost—yeas, 84; nays, 107. The bill was then passed. The bill, which is a Senate bill with a House substitute therefor, forfeits all lands granted to aid in the construction of a railroad opposite to and coterminous with the portion of any such railroad not now completed. The Secretary of War transmitted to the Senate, on the 18th, the petitions of a large number of officers of the United States army, praying that the number of appointments at large to tho United States Military Academy be increased to twenty, and that such appointments be restricted to the sons of officers and soldiers and to the lineal descendants of officers of volunteer forces of the late war. The consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill was resumed, the pending question being the irrigation provision in the like bill of Oct. 3, 1888, and Mr. Reagan continued his speech against the amendment and in favor of the irrigation scheme initiated by that act. The House Committee on Invalid Pensions authorized a favorable report on the House bill granting a pension of $2,000 per year to the widow of Gen. Fiemont. The original package bill was taken up and E. B. Taylor, advocating it, said that no such blow had been given to State sovereignity and State rights as by the ascertainment that under the Constitution the citizen of a foreign State might take into another State any property that was a subject of commerce and sell it without liability of taxation. The Elections Committee of the House decided two of the four remaining contested elections cases on the docket by party votes in favor of the contestants, both Republicans. The cases are those of Goodrich vs. Bullock, from the Second District of Florida, and of McGinn'S vs. Alderson, from the Third. District of West Virginia. There were contests in three out of the four Congressional districts in West Virginia, and the Elections Committee has decided in favor of the Republican contestant in each case.