Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 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 Of and New Ones Considered. The Senato and House. Confcrrees on the river and harbor appropriation bill have failed to agree. Fortification measures were discussed at length in the House the loih. Senator Morgan spoke to the Senate in behalf of free silver. Conjrassman Shively Introduced his tinplate bill in the House. Senator Pester has presented a petition to the Senate from colored citizens of Kansas, protesting against Southern outrages. In the Senate the 16th. Mr. Morrill spoke, in opposition to free coinage. The Hatch anti-option bill was referred to Judiciary Committee. In the House the time was passed in debate upon tin. Not a singleappropriation bill is vet s gnod, and the majority of those bills are yet in the hands of the committee". Many hours were wasted over the Sibley claim in the House, on the 17th. They failed to agree on the river and harbor bill report, and a further conference was ordered. Chairman Durborow, with but one dissenting vote in committee, reported to the Honse a bill for the issue df. 10,000,000 silver half dcliars, to .bo used as souvenircoins in aid of the World’s Fair. On the ISth the House adjourned until the 22d. at noon. Congressman Bowers of California defended the McKinley bill im the tin-plate discussion in the House. Senate joint resolution recommending a.. Presidential proclamation for the observance of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America has been agreed to in the House. All of the appropriation bills except the general deficiency bill havebeen passed by the House.