Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1892 — DOINGS OF CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

MEASURES CONSIDERED AND ACTED UPON. At the Nation’. Capital—What Is Being; Done by the Senate and House—Old Matters Disposed Or and New Ones Considered. The Senate and House. The 27th, the House went Into committee of the whole (Mr. Oates, of Alabama. in the chair) on the diplomatic and consular appropriation bilk Mr. Hitt of Illinois moved an amendment, having for its effect the separation of the missions of Colombia and Eucador, which the pending bill consolidates in one mission. The amendment was rejected. Mr. Hitt several efforts to prevent .the consolldation of missions and the reduction of salaries of ministers to the South American republics, but his efforts were of no avail. He then offered an amendment to restore to ,500 the salary of the'Mlnister of Venezuela (the committee having eut It to 85,000). No quorum voting on the amendment, the committee rose and the House adjourned. In the Senate, after routine business, the army appropriation bill was taken up. the question being on striking out the House proviso which prohibits payment of transportation of troops and supplies of the army ov er any of the bonded lines owned, controlled, or operated b/tfie Union Pacific Bailway Company (Including the lines of the Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway Company), or by the Southern Pacific Company over lines embraced in its Pacific system. After a long speech by Senator Morgan the House proviso was struck out; yeas, 26; nays, 20. The bill was then passed, and the Senate adjourned. The House transacted no business the 20th, except that the Sibley tent bill, which has been clogging the wheels of private legislation for the past- two months, was finally laid aside with a favorable recommendation, after having been amended so far as to refer the claim to the Court of Claims for adjudication. The Senate Is discussing the different appropriation bills. It is stated by some Senators that Congress will probably be in session in September. On the 2d, the House passed the bill putting binding twine on the free list. Numerous petitions were presented in the' Senate against legislation for the closing of the World’s Fair on Sunday; also a petition from a Methodist Church In New Hampshire urgently protesting against further adverse legislation against the Chinese. The House also passed the free ship bill. This bill admits only two existing ships to American registry, the City of New York and the City of Paris. But it provides that the company at once build two similar vessels in this country to sail under the American flag.