Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1892 — THE SENATE AND HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

THE SENATE AND HOUSE.

WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. Proceedings of the Senate and House of Representatives Discussed and Acted Upon—Gist of the Business. The National Solons. The House spent another monotonous day in the discussion of the rules on the 3d inst., but it was marked by the adoption of an amendment Which provides that all Senate amendments to House bills, othe- than appropriation bills, shall be considered as soon as laid before the House by the Speaker. In the Senate the joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to marriage and divorce S as referred to the Judiciary Committee. The Senate bill for the creation of a fourth judicial-district In the Territory of Utah was passed. The bill appropriating 1350,000 for an extension of the public building at Los Angeles, Cal., was passed, also-the bill to pay the State of West Virginia the sum due It under the direct tax law. The bill for post-' office buildings in towns where postoffice receipts are $3,000 a year was discussed and went over without action. The public printing bill then came up and was amended by adding the words, “but the provisions of the eight-hour law shall apply.” Without disposing of the bill the Senate adjourned. In the Senate, the 4th, Mr. Brice introduced a hill for the erection of a monument at Put-In Bay, Ohio, to commemorate the battle of Lake Erie in 1813. Referred. Mr. Peffer offered a resolution, which was agreed to, changing the day for holding special services in memory of the late Senator Plumb to Thursday, Feb. 18. The report of the Committee on Privileges and Elections in the case of the Florida Senators (declaring Mr. Call entitled to the seat) was taken up for i action, and the report was read, closing with the sentence: “The appointment of Mr. Davidson was an act of mere Irrelevancy, which it is not necessary further to notice. ” After a long debate the resolution was agreed to without a division. The Senate then adjourned till the Bth. The House agreed to the code of rules. Mr. Dickerson, of Kentucky, offered a resolution directing the Committee on Judiciary to make an investigation and report whether Congress has the constitutional authority to appropriate money for the World’s Columbian Exposition. Adopted. On motion of Mr. Goodnight, of Kentucky, a Senate bill was pafesed to provide for the creation of a Fourth Judicial District in the Territory of Utah. In the Senate, on the Bth, a hill was reported and placed on the i alendar for the construction of a boat railway at The Dalles and Celito' Falls and Ten Mile Rapids of the Columbia River and for the improvement of Three Mile Rapids (appropriating $2,860,356). Mr. Sawyer, from the Committee on Commerce, reported a bill to repeal the act requiring life-saving appliances on steamers, so far as it applies to the carrying of line projectiles and the means of propelling them ou steamers plying exclusively an auy of the lakes, hays, or sounds of the United States, and it was passed. The Senate then went Into executive session. When the doors were reopened the Senate resumed consideration of the bill providing for the public printing and binding, and tho distribution of public documents. Without disposing of section 77, which had given rise to a good deal of discussijn, the Senate adjourned^