Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1892 — THE SENATE AND HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

THE SENATE AND HOUSE.

WORK of; OUR NATIONAL. LAWv MAKERS. FraeMdln** or tho Sonata and Hoaao at Kepre*eataMv*« Dl.cu.Bod and Acfod Epon-GUt of ths Busina**. Tbo National Solon*. On the 3d, President Harrison vetoed the bill to give the Cebrt of Claim* Jurisdiction over'land-patent case*. 'ln .the House nothing was done except filibustering and making motions to kill time. . CW ?° UB °* *he Democratic members of the House It was decided to take the motion to reconsider the World’s Fair appropriation, send the sundry cldl bill to tne senate In conference and In the mean—time take up In the House the Durborow pm amended so as to make a *8.500,000 gift to the World’s Fair. In the Senate a resoii waß lntr °ducod and referred to have all the courts .martial of tho last ten yearsreported to the Senate. In the Senate, on theAt h. the approprlatlon extension was auroffil ft. but. the Senators did net ask • for a conference on the sundry clv-ll .bill In. the -House it was voted to extend the Civil appropriations until Aug. 15 the 86,000.000 appropriation and‘ "send the sundry civil bill to the Senate for conference. The Durborow bill was considered in committee of the whole, ~, r At 11 p. m., t the iitju.ihfi United States Senate and House qt Rbpfesentatlves adjourned sine die. President Hurrlson as soon as Congress finally adjourned left for Loon Lake to join Mrs. llarrison. Unanimously the House Committee on Ways and Means reported adversely on the sub-treasury scheme, holding it to be unconstitutional. The Durborow bill, giving $2,500,000 to the World’s Columbian Exposition, passed by the Fenate without a division, and by the President’s signature became a law. *