Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — THE NATIONAL SOLONS. [ARTICLE]

THE NATIONAL SOLONS.

SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRE-1 SENTATIVES. Onr National Lawmakers and What They: Are Doing for the Good of the Country—j Various Measures Proposed, Discussed, and Acted Upon. rs. ——«zDolngs ot Congress. A very strong presentation in favor of the claimant In the famous McGarrahan case was made in the Senate Thursday by Mr. Hunton (Va.). The morning hour expired before the argument was concluded and the bill went over, without action. Mr. George brought to a close his three-day speech In favor of the antj-option bill, and Mr... Washburn made a determined but fruitless effort to have a day fixed for a vote upon It The Senate adjourned until Monday. The House agreed to a resolution for a holiday recess from Thursday before Christmas until Wednesday after New Year’a A bill relative to bills of lading was passed. A bill was passed to ratify and confirm an agreement with the Kickapoo Indians In Oklahoma Territory. The House adjourned until Saturday. Few of the very few members in attendance In the House Saturday paid any at-; tention to the proceedings. The Commit- 1 tee on Military Affairs succeeded in passing a few bills of minor importance. The day was consumed in the consideration of a Florida claim bill.and the House adjourned without action upon it The Florida bill involves an appropriation of $500,000, but only ten members took enough interest in the matter to voto,on the question of sending it to the committee of the whole. The claim is for exponses incurred in the Seminole war, 1855-’57. According to Mr. Dingley, there were but ninety-six Seminoles engaged In the outbreak. Congress had already paid to the persons who had put down tbo outbreak SBOO per Indian, and now proposed to pay them $2,000 per Indian additional. The attendance of Senators in the Senate Monday was ■ very small, not more than forty being in the chamber when the opening prayer was offered by Chaplain Butler. The desk and chair recently occupied by Mr. Gibson, of Louisiana, were draped in black. As soon as Thursday’s journal was read Mr. Gorman; of Maryland, pronounced a eulogy of Senator Gibson and closed by offering tho usual resolutions expressive of the Senate’s profound sorrow at the death of Mr. Gibson and for the appointment of a committee to attend the funeral at Lexington, Ivy, The resolutions were adopted and the Senate, as a further remark of respect, adjourned. In the House the unoccupied seats far outnumbered those that were occupied. There came up from last session the bill for the relief of William L. Win an s of Baltimore. the inventor of the spindle-shaped ship; the motion to pass the bill was lost. Mr. Wilson (Dem.) Missouri, called up the Senate bill increasing the pension of pensioners of the Moxican war from $8 to sl2 a month; the bill was passed, Mr. Culberson (Dem.) Texas, moved to suspend the rules and pass a bill limiting the jurisdiction of the Circuit and District Courts of the United States. [The bill prohibits suits in United States courts by or against corporations oxcept to tho courts of the legal domicile of the corporation in cases where jurisdiction depends upon the citizenship of the parties.] Tho motion was agreed to, and the House then adjourned.