Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — SENATE AND HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

SENATE AND HOUSE.

WORK OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS. Proceeding* of the Senate and House of Representatives Discussed and Acted Cpou Gist of the Business. The National Solons. The amendments to the Iron schedule Wednesday were overwhelmingly defeated In the House, and iron ore remains upon the free list. The remainder of the afternoon was spent In the discussion of amendments looking to the free admission of machinery used In the manufacture of cotton goods Just before the House adjourned the advocates and opponents of the income tax on the Democratic side were arrayed against each other, but nothing definite was dona The Hawaiian question came before the Senate again and after an boar's discussion went over. The result of the debate was to show that there is division both in the Demo-* cratie and Republican ranks as to the wisdom of adopting the resolution reported by the Foreign Relations Committed The bill repealing the Foderal election laws Came up as unfinished business. Senator Lodge to:k the floor in opposition to the bill. Whoa the Senator concluded bis remarks tho Senate went into execu-s. tiro session. At 3:15 the doors were reopened and Senator Coke, of Texas, Called up tbe bill authorizing the Gulf, Beaumont & Kansas City Railroad Company to bridge the Necbes aud Sabine Rivers in Louisiana and Texas was passed, several minor amendments being first adopted. The hill extending the time for tho construction of the bridge across tho Calumet River, Illinois; the Senate hill authorizing tho issue of a patent to the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions for certain lands on the Omaha Indian reservation for school purposes, and the House bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to reserve from sale certain land in tbe abandoned Fort Cummings military reservation were passed. The nearest approach to anything of interest in the House Thursday was the repeated attempts of me.mbers of the New York delegation to filihusler against the possible introduction of an income tax amendment to the tariff hill. The amendment was not offered and it seems there was no intention of offering it, so their efforts were wasted. There were a great many amendments to the tariff hill offered, hut only ono of importance, that taking crude opium off the free list and imposing a duty of $1 per pound. This, liko all the other amendments approved by the Ways and Means Committee, was adopted. At 4:40 the House took a recess in order to permit the holding of a Democratic caucus to consider the income tax hllL Tho Senate did nothing of importance. The only amendment ’to the tariff hill adopted by the House Friday was one increasing the duty on cut stones unset to 30 per cent, ad valorem, and taking rough or uncut stones from free list and placing them on the dutiable list at 15 per cent, ad valorem. An attempt to place tin plate on the free list was unsuccessful Tho session of the Senate was devoted to a discussion Of Senator Call’s public land resolution and a general colloquy over the Federal election hills. A strong appeal was made • by Senator Call in favorof the homesteaders of Florida, who, he alleged, were being deprived of their rights by land-grant railroads without authority of law. He succeeded in having his resolution referred to the Judiciary Committee for a careful Inquirv into the legal rights of the question. The Senate adjourned until Monday.

Debate on the Internal Revenuo hill. Including the provision of the income tax, began in the House Monday. Mr. McMillin (Dem.) of Tennessee. Chairman of the sub-committee on Ways and Means on internal revenue, offered as an amendment to the provision imposing a tax of $1 per thousand upon cigarettes, the entire Internal Revenue bill. Mr. McMillin was recognized to open the debate in favor of the amendment, hut as he was about to begin Mr. Tracey (Dem.), of New York, asked to reserve all poluts of order against the amendment Messrs. McMillin and McCreary contended that it was too late to mako a point of order, debate upon the amendment having been entered upon before thepoint was made. The Chair sustained this position and overruled the point of order. Under the call of committees for reports in the House. Mr. McCreary. Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, reported his resolution expressing the sense of the House on the Hawaiian situation. The minority were given leave to submit their views. The greater part of the time in the Senate was occupied by Mr. Teller in a speech favoring annexation of Hawaii. Mr. Call introduced a resolution inquiring into the influence of railroads and other corporations on the civil service and the press. The bond question came up in the Senate again Tuesday, and. after a long debate, went over by unanimous consent until the following day. 'I he significant feature of the discussion was tho firm stand taken by Senator Sherman in favor of tho authority of Senator Carlisle to issue tho bonds. Arguments for and against the Income tax occupied the time in tho House.