Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1892 — DOINGS OF CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

MEASURES CONSIDERED AND ACTED UPON. . At the Nation's Capital—What Is Seine Done by the Senate and Bouse—Old Hatters Disposed Of and Now Ones Considered. * The Senate and House. In the House on the 16th, on motion, of Mr. Richardson of Tennessee, a concurrent resolution was agreed to for the printing of 45,000 additional copies of the special report on the diseases of the horse. Mr. Joseph of New Mexico, from the Committee on Territories, reported a bill for the admission of New Mexico as a Btate of the Union. Placed oh the House calendar. Mr. Smith. of Arizona, from the same conv mlttee, reported a‘bill for the admission of Arizona. Same order. In the • Senate House bill ratifying the act of the Arizona. Legislature appropriating $30,000 in aid of the exhibition at the World’s Columbian Exposition was reported and passed. Mr. Hale, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, reported a bill for the construction (by contract) of three battle ships of from 7.500 to 10,000 tons displacement, two armored coast defense 1 vessels, five gunboats of 800 to 1,800 tons displacement, and eight first-class torpedo boats. Referred. Mr. Peffer Unreduced (by request) a bill with the following comprehensive title: “Creating a fund for the payment of pensions and for setting our army of idle laborers at work on extensive public improvements, for the removal of the strongest incentive to crime among the poor and to vice among the rich, for protecting the American from the Influx of undue alien competition; and for other purposes.” The fund contemplated in the bill is to be furnished by a graduated tax on Incomes and real estate. Referred.

The tariff debaters In the House had a large gallery audience up to adjournment the 17th. The debate thrashed over old straw and was on the whole uninteresting. Payne, of New York; Rayner, of Maryland, and Ellis, of Kentucky, were the speakers. In the Senate Mr. Fry reported the Senate bill making Council Bluffs, lowa, a port of delivery, and it was passed. Mr. Hawley reported a bill to amend the statute relative to certificates of merit to enlisted men of the army (the amendment being to change the word “privates” Into the words “enlisted men”), and It was passed. Mr. Peffer introduced a bill establishing an electric experimental station for the purpose of investigating and determining whether electricity can bo profitably used and applied as a motive power in the propulsion of farm machinery. Referred to Committee on Agriculture. The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of executive business, and soon adjourned. In the Senate, on the 18th. on motion of Mr. Allison, the bill establishing a port of delivery at Des Moines, lowa, was taken from tho calender and passed. Several bills were made special orders for next week, to come in after the West Virginia direct tax bill. In the House, Mr. McMillln, of Tennessee, from tho Committee on Rules, reported a resolution ; calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information as to what sum of requisitions for payment under contract, otherwise for the various branches of the public service, were presented between the 3d and 29th of February, for which warrants or drafts were not issued for payment prior to March 1, 1892. Adopted. The Springer free wool bill was then'* taken up. A controversy sprung up between -Messrs. Williams and Walker, of Massachusetts. relative tb A personal attack of the former on the Matter contained in a speech printed In the journal, but never delivered In the House. The matter was finally disposed of by referring the subject to the Committee on Printing for investigation, and the Houso proceeded to the consideration of the private calendar. In the Senate, the 21st, the following bills were reported and passed: To regulate tho terms of the Circuit and District Courts of the United States for the Eastern District or Wisconsin at Milwaukee on the first Mondays es January and October, and at Oshkosh on the second Tuesday of June; House bill to authorize the appointment of a clerk for tho Circuit and District Court at Texarkana; to change the name of the customs collection district and port of Wilmington. Cal, to that of Los Angeles; to amend the statutes so as to prohibit tho in-, troduction and Sale of intoxicating liquors into the Indian country; authorizing the Velasco Terminal Railway Company to construct a bridge across the Brazos River, Texas; appropriating $59,000 for a public building ut Joplin, Mo.; making Velasco, Texas, a sub-port of entry; appropriating $75,000 for a public building at Laredo, Texas. In the House, the army appropriation bill was amended so that no money appropriated for army transportation shall be used in payment for the transportation of troops and supplies of the army over the non-atded lines owned, controlled, or operated by the Union Pacific Railroad Company or by the Southern Pacific Company over lines embraced In Its Pacific system, and passed.