Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1892 — THE SENATE AND HOUSER [ARTICLE]

THE SENATE AND HOUSER

WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAW-i

MAKERS. Proceedings of the Senate and ot! Representatives Discussed and Acted Upon—Gist of theBusiness. * The National Solons. ( In the House, the Bth. the time alloted! Mr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, to speak] upon the tariff, three times extended.; Mr. Breckinridge was accorded an ovationi when he closed, and for fully five minutes, the House suspended business while mem-, bers from both sides of the chamber crowd—' ed about him to_ congratulate him on the! eloquence add force of Ills speech.* Before; the Senate, the Russian Minister. Struve, said that the Russian Government would, ever ho d the p opie of the United States) and this Government in grateful remem-; trance for the magnificent manner in which they ha I come ;to the front in this! disrresstul moment fir the peasants who; werj suffering from a ioss of crop.;; that the Russian Government hud al -I loid.vcbnt ibuted 1110,000,000 for the aile-! ' iat o i of l.er peasants. and that the char-] sty directed by our-pebple toward them was] 1 eing earo 1 for persona Jy bv the Czar and! Czarina. He said ’he suffer ng had not) lean half described to this country, and tl at ou- coetr.but’ons were never more ad-; vantaseOurly made. In the 11, use. the 7th. after the transact on of routine business, the free wool bill! was called up, ami after a short debate thebill passed. Ayes. 11'2; noes. 80. The House then tvent into committer of the, whole (Mr. Bl- tin", ot Georgia, in the ch-ilr); o i the Turner cot on bagging oil!. After] a sin rt debate lire committee r. se end the House adjourned. In the) Sta te, a resolution was offered by] Mr. Teller and agreed to. calling on the Secretar y of the Tro sury for a statement as to tire amount of silver offered to the; Government each month, since the passage] <,f the act of July 14, 1890. by whom and at what prices, the amount ot silver bullion purchased each month of that time. fr< m "Whom and at what prices,,, ami niiniler ot days given the sellers In which to deliver the silver. During the riNr usslon ot the District appropriation bill,’ the bill to place wool on the free list and to reduce the duty on woole r goods was rec ived fnrnl the House, and after the District bill was laid as do th i wool bill was' laid before the tcnito by the Vice President and was referred to the F.ounce Committee.

Mr. McCreary in tire House, the Btb. intro Juced’for Mr. Springer a bill tj authorize tiro holding of an intern at ion al mone-, tnry conare-s in Chicago, Aug. 3. 1893.! .Twenty-one delegates are to represent the United States, seven to be chosen by the I .resident: seven by the Pres'tic i; o.’ the, Semite, an 1 seven by the Speaker of tho House The Pres dent’s appointees a-e to bo c.tizens not holding, o. lice; the others a-e to l>o Senators and 1 Obresentative;.' The iippCi:itmmi>H are to h 3 divided as, equally as possible bet w,>< n the political; parties This Sect o'ary ot State and the .Director <ft he Mint rtre to be additional delegates. Tire President it authorized to invite foteign governments to] send representatives, each government to determine the number ot its representatives, but t > be e titled io only one vote. Tire Secretary cf ht rte 1< to call tlie Congress to order, and is to r reside un- • lil a permanentjoftb-er it elected. In tho. Senate, an appropriation out of the Treasury of the United States ot 8100.000 for the' subsistence and quarters of the visiting old soldiers attending the National Encumpmentwiis agree I tp —yeas. 41; nays. 10. In the Senate, the 11th, after the routine morning business, the House bill to place cotton Hot on the free list was laid before the donate and referred to the Finance Committee. Mr. Stewart offered a resolution lulling on the fccr rtary cf the Treasury for information c mnected with the purchase rind coinage ot sliver, and gave notice that ire would O’cupyabmt fifteen m’nutes. the 12th, in calling attention to the monthly statement of the Secretary of the Treasury as t > the finances. The bill heretofore introduced by Mr. Gullinger for a commission to select a site for a sanitarium for pulmonary patients was taken up. and Mr. Gallinger addressed the Senate. At the close of his remarks the hill was referred to the Committee on Epidemic Diseases and then, on motion of Mr. Cameron, the Senate proceeded to executive business. In the House, on motion of Jjr. Durborow, ot Illinois, a bill was passed repealing the jo'nt resolution passed In the Fifty-first Congress, which authorized the Se rotary of War to lease the government pier at the mouth ot the Chicago River to the Illinois Central Railroad. A few local measures were passed and the House adjourned.