Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1892 — DOINGS OF CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

MEASURES CONSIDERED AND ACTED UPON. At the Nation’s Capital—What Is Being; Done by the Senate and House—Old Matters Disposed Or and New Ones Considered. The Senate and House. The postoffice appropriation bill was upin the House the Ist. nearly the whole day being consumed in discussing point* of order. andonly.one page of the measure was 41sposed of. In the Senate It was agreed that no vote should be taken on the free coinage bill until after the l*th of June, The new senator from Virginia. General Eppa Hunton, took his oath of office. David BHill cast his first direct vote on a financial question, and it was recorded with the free silver men. The conference report on the bill in relation to the lands of the Klamath River Indian Reservation was presented and agreed to- : In the Senate, on the 2d. bill* were passed as follows: For holding terms of court in the District of Montana; providing for two additional Associate Justices of the Supreme Court for the Territory of Oklahoma, and, creating two additional land districts in Montana. The Senate then adjourned until the sth. Mr. Hatch reported the agricultural appropriation bill to the House. In committee of the whole the postoffice appropriation bill was farther considered. Mr. Hooker asked unanimous consent for consideration of a joint resolution appropriating $30,000 for the relief of the Mississippi flood sufferer*, but Mr. Lonz, of Texas, objected, and the House adjourned. There was no session of the Senate ,on the 3d, the chamber having adjourned until the 7th. The House further considered the postofflee appropriation bill in committee of the whole. An amendment was adopted prohibiting the Postmaster General from making contracts hereafter under the provisions of the act to provide for ocean mall service between the United States and foreign ports. Mr. Hatch's anti-optijn bill was passed by the House on the 6th, by a vote of 168 to 46. Bills admitting New Mexico and Arizona to Statehood were also passed by the House. Conferrees were appointed on theriver p.nd harbor and naval appropriation bills. The bill appropriating $50,000 for a pedestal for a monument to General -William T. Sherman passed. In the Senate the consular diplomatic appropriation bill was laid aside and Mr. Vest addressed the Senate on the resolution recently introduced by him to discharge the Finance Committee from the further consideration of the bill to place wool on the free list Without action on tho matter the Senate adjourned.