Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1892 — THE SENATE AND HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

THE SENATE AND HOUSE.

WORK OF OUR NATIONAL'LAWMAKERS. of the Senate and Honu of Representatives Discussed and Acted Upon—Gist of the Business. The National Solon*. In the House, the iith, the appropriation of $620, COO for the purchase of a site aad commencement of anew building for u new mint at Philadelphia was struck from thesundry civil bilL This was done upon motion of Mr. Holman. The Vice President, having gone to New York to act as pallhearer at the funeral of the late Mr. Astor, hU chair was occupied by Mr. Manderson. President pro tern., who laid before the Senate the resolution of tbe general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church assembled at Omaha, Neb. (representing 2.500,000 members and 10,00’,000 adherents),' heartily approving the World’s Pair appropriation bill. expressly that it be conditioned on 'closing the Exposition on Sunday.” Tie following bills were passed: House bill to proviue for a term' of tbe United Slates Circuit and District Court at Evanston. Ma House bill authorizing tho construction of a wnven and motor bridge over the Missouri River at Bt. Charles, Mo. Approp: latlug $103,000 for a public building at Pierre. S. D. The presiding officer laid before the Senate a message from the President of the United States transmitting the seventh annual report of the Commissioner of Labor. After an executive session the Senate adjourned. In the House, the 12t.h, a resolution for tne investigation of the Pinkerton agency was adopted after a sharp debate, the conference report on Ihe bill for the sale of the Klamath River Indian Reservation was also adopted. The House then went into committee of the whole (Mr. Lester of Georgia in the chair) on the sundry civil appropriation bill. Among the bills Introduced In the Senate and referred were the following: Authorizing the President to proclaim a general holiday, commemorating the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America, Oct 12. 1892: to endhurage American shipbuilding, extending to the steamship China the same privileges as have been extended to tbe City of Paris and City of New York. The China is a steamship of 5,000 'tons, built in Glasgow in 1889. She plies between San Francisco and China, on the Pacific Mail line, but flies the British flag. The message of the President on the subject of an International conference on bimetallsm and the naval appropriation bill consumed the rest of the time. In the Senate, the 13th, the river and harbor bill was reported back from the Committee on Commerce with amendments. The consideration of the naval bill was resumed. Mr. McPherson offered an amendment appropriating $250,000 toward the construction of a dry dJck at Algiers. Louisiana. It was rejected. Mr. McPherson, from the Naval Committee, offered an amendment to the Senate amendment providing for three harbor defense double turret ships of the monitor type —instead of one ship. Mr. Gorman spoke at length on lines of economy, but not against enlarging the navy. After further debate and without action on Mr. McPherson’s amendment the Senate adjourned. In the House, the Sibley tent claim bill again came to tbe fore on a report from the committee of tbe whole referring the claim to the Court of Claims for final adjudication. To this substitute there was pending an amendment providing that the reference should be merely for inquiry, and report to Congress. The amendment was lost. , While the sundry civil bill was under discussion, the 16th, the free silver question came to the front again In the shape of an amendment offered by Bartine, of Nevada, but a point of order was made against it and the matter went over for the present without a decision. After the approval of the journal the Speaker laid before the House a communication from Vice President Morton announcing tho death of Senator Barbour and inviting the House to attend in a body the funeral ceremonies to be held In tfce Senate chamber. When the committee resumed its session Mr. Culberson, of Texas, moved to strike out the appropriation of $25,000 for detecting persons guilty of violation of internal revenue laws. Agreed to. The clause for the recoinage, reissue and transportation of minor coins having been reached, Mr. Tracey of New York made a point of order against It He also raised a point of order against a free-silver amendment offered by Mr. Bartine of Nevada. Both points went over for the present without decision. The Senate,did no business.