Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1890 — THE SENATE AND HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

THE SENATE AND HOUSE.

WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. Proceeding* of the Senate and House of Rep resent a — Important Measures DiicassM and Acted Upon—Gist of the Instead of taking ap the tariff bill, a* it was expected the Senate would on the -21st, Senator Gray got up the bill to transfer the revenue marine service to the navy. The bill does not, a* many suppose, pot the revenue' Service directly into the navy or place it* officer* in the line of promotion "to be admirals and commodores. It simply makes the service a distinct branch of the navy in the sense that the marine corps is a distinct branch. Revenue officers will »till do duty on revenue ships and not in war vessels, and vice versa. The only advantage the revenue officers will get is that it will give them naval rank and pay and - the right of retirement under present laws." Mr. Comstock, of Minnesota, introduced a bill into the Honse authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to establish uniform grades for*all kinds of grain bought, handled, transferred or shipped from one State or Territory of tne United States to any other State or Territory, or from any place In the United States tt> any foreign country, which shall be known as Jwinerioan grades," the Secretary to publish the same In his reports and special bulletins. At 12:15, as a mark of respect to the memory of Mr. Walker, of Missouri, deceased, the House aljourned. At the conclusion of morning business the Senate, on motion of Mr. Dawes, took up the Indian appropriation bill on the 22d. The Committee on Pensions reported favorably the bills to pension the widows of Gen. John C. Fremont ana Gen. George B. McClellan at the rate of $2,000 per annum each. The House began voting on the “original package" bill as soon as the reading of the journal had been concluded, and the substitute for the Senate “original package” bill, as amended, was passed by a vote of 176 to 88. Following Is the substitute: “That whenever any article of commerce is imported into any State from any other State or Territory or foreign nation and thero held or offered for sale, the same shall then be subject to the laws of such State; provided that no discrimination shall be made by any State in favor of its citizens against those of other States and Territories in respect to the sale of any article of commerce, nor in favor of its own products against those of like character produced in other States or Territories ; nor shall the transportation of commerce through any State be obstructed except in the necessary enforcement of the health laws of such State." A favorable report was ordered on a House bill for the relief of soldiers of the late war who were mustered out or killed before their names had bejm placed on the rolls of the army. After unimportant business, the Senate resumed consideration of the Indian appropriation bill on the 23d< A paragraph appropriating SB,OOO to Indians in Minnesota (full and mixed blood) heretofore belonging to the Medawakanton band of Sioux Indians, and who have severed thotr tribal relations, gave rise to a discussion, in the course of which Mr. Dawes gave an interesting history of these Indiaus. He said tney had given notice to the whites of the intended Sioux massacre in Minnesota in 1862, and had aided in protecting the white women and children on that occasion. 3he President sent to the Senate the following nominations : To be Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of the United States pursuant to act of Congress approved July 14, 1890: Thomas H. Anderson, of Ohio (now Minister Resident and Consul General at La Pas), to Bolivia ; Clark E. Carr, of Illinois (now Minister Resident and Consul General at Cophenhagen), to Denmark; John D. Washburn, of Massachusetts (now Minister Resident and Consul General at Berne), to Switzerland; John L. Stevens, of Maiue (now Minister Resident at Honolulu), to the Hawaiian Islands; George Maney, of Tennessee (now Minister Resident at Montevideo), to Paraguay. The House resumed consideration of the bankruptcy bill. Mr. Lacey (Iowa) submitted the report of the Committee on Elections in the West Virginia contested election case of McGinnis vs. Alderson. Tho report, which, finds in favor of the contestant, was ordered printed and laid over. The President sent to the House of Representatives, in answer to the resolution of Representative Hitt, the official correspondence between the Govern- . inent of the United States and the Government of Great Britain touching the seal fisheries of the Behring Sea. The correspondence includes thirty separate papers, beginning with a letter from Mr. Edwards, First of Legation and Charge d’Affaires after Minister West’s recall, dated Aug. 24, 1889, and closing 1 with one from Secretary Blaine to Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Minister, dated July 19, 1890. In his accompanying letter of transmittal to the President, Secretary Blaine, under date of Bar Harbor, July 19, regrets the delay In transmission which the President directed on the 11th, and says that the correspondence is stiU in progress. The Senate passed the following bills on the 2lth: House bill for the construction of a bridge across the Savannah River ; Senate bill for the construction of a bridge across the Willamette River at Albany,'Oregon; Senate bill to provide an American register for the steamer Marmlon. Consideration of the Indian appropriation bill was then resumed. The amendment appropriating SIO,OOO for the prosecution of a suit in North Carolina to enforce certain rights of the Cherokeelndiansinthat State was modified so as to merely appropriate $5,000 to pay the legal expenses already incurred in the suit. Agreed to. The House proceeded to vote upon the committee amendments to the bankruptcy bill. In view of the fact that the bill had never been read in the House, Mr. MCMillin (Tenn.) demanded a separate vote on each amendment, and much time was thus consumed. The amendments are principally verbal and informal in their character. On motion of Mr. Reilly (Pa.), an amendment was adopted enforcing the laws of the States giving wages for labor a preference. The Torrey bankruptcy bill was then passed with unimportant amendments —yeas, 117 ; nays, 84.

In the Senate, oh the 25th, Mr. Aldrich asked that the formal reading of the tariff bill be dispensed with, and that the bill be read by paragraphs for consideration. Unanimous consent was given, and Mr. Vance proceeded to address the Senate. Senator Call introduced a resolution, instructing the Interstate Commerce Committee to inquire and report to the . Senate whether any arrangements have been made between the persons owning elevators and the transportation Companies in any Of the Western States -which will have the effect, ox which . .are , intended to have the effect, of preventing the storage of grain and of compelling the farmers to sell their grain at such prices as may be offered. They are also to inquire if such an arrangement has been made .in any of the cotton-pro-ducing States. The” resolution instructs the committee to report a bill which will require elevator companies and others engaged in thestorage of grain to accept such grain when offered to the extent of their storage capacity. The House went into - committee of the whole for consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill with Senate amendments. The Postoffice Committee agreed, upon a substitute in lieu of a number of pending bills adverso to lotteries, aud ordered it to be reported to the House. The substitute prohibits lottery circulars aud tickets, lists of drawings, money or drafts for purchase of lottery tickets, or newspaners containing lottery advertisements ' or drawings from being carried .in the mails or delivered‘ by carriers ; and a penalty of a fine not exceeding $5,000 and imprisonment not exceeding one yoar is to be imposed upon auy person depositing such matter in the mails. General is also to be authorized upon evidence : of the existence of a lottery or gift enterprise to cause registered letters directed to the company to be stamped "Fraudulent” and returned to the senders, and he may also forbid the payment of money-orders addressed to a lottery or gill-enterprise company.