Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1892 — THE NATIONAL SOLONS. [ARTICLE]

THE NATIONAL SOLONS.

SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Dor National Lawmakers and What They Arrf Doing for the Good of the Country— Various Measures Proposed, Discussed* and Acted Upon. Doings ot Congress. In the House, the 9th, the tariff debate began, and will continue for some time. In the Senate, Mr. Hale from the Naval Committee, reported back Ills bill to further Increase the naval department, with an amendment appropriating {530,000 for experiments In the development of torpedoes and In the procurement of torpedoes. Placed on the calendar. Mr. Squire moved to reconsider the vote by which the Senate passed tho bill In relation to the collection district of Puget Sound. The motion was entered. Mr. Morgan introduced a bill In the Senate declaring that all laws and parts of laws are Inoperative,' which exempt from the payment of duties all articles of commerce which are not on the free list, entered In the custom houses of the United States, for transportation through the United States, to or from any British possession. Among the bills Introduced and referred was one with the following curious title, presented by Mr. Cullom (by request): “To test and try the science of spelling, and to provide for establishing 100 schools for that purpose: and to establish a spelling school In the World’s Columbian Exposition, to be held in Chicago In 1893.” The pure food.' bill was then taken up. and after the adoption of several slight amendments It was passed without division. After an execu-| tive session of nearly three hours the Senate adjourned.

On the 10th. the time of the House was entirely occupied by the tariff discussion. In the Senate several bills were reported frgm committees and placed on tho calendar. The agricultural meat Inspection deficiency bill was taken up Rnd passed. The following hills were passed: To sur-' vey and mark the boundary between the Sates of Nebraska and South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Indian reservations Making Laredo. Texas, a sub-post of entry. The “unfinished business” was taken up. being the Senate bill to provide for the erection of public buildings for postofflce3 In towns and cities where the postoffice receipts for three years preceding have exceeded $3,000 annually. No action was taken on the bill, and after a brief executive session the Senate adjourned. In the House on the llth, Mr. O’Neill of Pennsylvania presented for reference a petition of citizens of the Second Congressional District of Pennsylvania urging Cougress to pass a law to prevent the landing of criminal and pauper immigrants, to revise the naturalization laws, and submit a constitutional amendment providing that no State shall grant the right of suffrage to any person not a citizen of the United Stales. The balance of the session was devoted to tariff talk. Among the bills introduced and referred to committees of tho Senate was one by Mr. Stewart proposing a constitutional amendment that after 1807 no person who has held the office of President shall be eligible to that office within four yoars after the expiration of his term of office. The urgent deficiency bill was then taken up and passed and the Senate adjourned till the 14th.- fit , On the 14th, among the pajers presented lathe Senate and referred was a protest by the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church against 1 the enactment of further oppressive legislation against the Chinese people as tending to crluple missionary work In China through rotallatbry 1 measures. The Senate joint 'resolution authorizing the Librarian of Congress to exhibit at the World’s Columbian Exposition such books, papers, documents and other articles from the library of Congress as may relate to Christopher Columbus and the discovery and early history of America, was reported by Mr. Pettigrew from the Committee bn theQuadricentennlal, and was passed. Senate bill to authorize the construction of a combined railroad, wagon, and foot passenger bridge across the Missouri River at Yankton, S. D., was taken from the calendar and passed. The Senate resumed the consideration of the Postoffice Building bill. It finally passed * yeas, 24; nays, 2L The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President transmitting a communication fr m the Secretary of the Interior submitting the agreement concluded between tho Commissioners of the UnitPd States and the Cherokee Nation for the cossion of the Cherokee outlet, and stated that It would be referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. A bill was passed to establish a part of delivery at Council Bluffs, lowa.