Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — THE NATION’S SOLONS. [ARTICLE]

THE NATION’S SOLONS.

SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Oar National Law-Makers and What They Are Doing for the Good of the CountryVarious Measures Proposed. and Acted Upon. Doings of Congress. In the House, on Wednesday, the motion to pass the seigniorage bill over the President's veto Was defeated. In the contest between Messrs. Hilborn and English for a seat from California, Mr. Hiltorn was beaten. The Senate continued its debate, with the tariff bill as the subject The Senate Thursday considered, without final action, several minor matters, and continued 'the tariff debate The urgent deficiency bill, appropriating something over (1,000,000, passed by the House James Trier, elected to succeed Mr. Brawley as Representative of the First South Carolina District took his seat The Senate bill to give effect to the award of the Paris tribunal, prescribing regulations for the protection of fur seals In Behring Sea, was passed. Bills were passed authorizing lhe construction of bridges across the St Louis River between Wisconsin and Minnesota at Duluth and G.osse Point Afier the deficiency was disposed of the consideration of the postoffice appropriation bill was resumed. The Senate does not appear to relish its own pudding, for on Friday the tariff debate was delayed by lack of a quorum. The House went ahead with appropriation bills again. First, however, a bill authorizing the city of Hastings, Minn., to construct a wagon brlge across the Mississippi River was passed. A bill to Increase the amount of lands in the Yellowstone Park Reservation now leased for hotel purposes from ten to twenty acres was passed. Mr. Headers >n sent to the clerk’s desk and had read an appeal to Congress against the further extension of secondclass mail privileges. More than 250.000.000 pounds of second-class mall matter was carried by the malls last year, it said; 5.402 news publications were started last year, and the efficiency of the mail service was crippled by the limitless quantities of second-class mall matter carried. Mr. Loud, of California, opposed the amendment on the ground it would swamp the department. It would cost the United States, he declared. $10,000,000 annually. Mr. Loud offered and advocated au amendment to increase the appropriation for railroad transportation from $25,500,000 to $20,900,000 on the ground that the former sum would prove inadequate. It was defeated. The evening session was devoted to pension bills The Senate Monday resumed consideration of the Wilson bill. Mr. Walsh was sworn in as Senator from Georgia to serve out the term of the late Senator Colquitt. The House was depopulated. Threefourths of the members were at the Senate listening to Senator Hill’s speech. Those who remained were occupied with District of Columbia affairs. 'I be bill to allow bookmakers to operate at the meetings of the Washington Jockey Club met with such opposition that It was withdrawn. Only one bill of any Importance, providing for Si gas in the District, was passed. There was a small attendance lathe galleries when the Senate convened Tuesday and there was scarcely a quorum of., Senators visible. The bill Introduced some time ago by Senator Peffer for the improvement of public roads was reported back adversely by Senator Kyle. Mr. Quay’s resolution that the Senate should hear a committee of the organizations of the workingmen of the United States in opposition to the tariff bill April 21 was objected to, and a resolution ty Senator Allen requesting the Secretary of the Interior to Inform the Senate of the names and postofflee addresses of those whose pensions had been suspended or cancelled since March 4, 1893, and the reason for such suspension or cancellation vent over without action. The Wolcott resolution for the coinage of Mexican dollars at V n,ted States mints was finally agreed to, and the Wilson bill came up again. In the House bills were passed for the protection of game in Yellowstone Park and for the punishment of crime in the park by the extension of the laws and jurisdiction of the Wyoming United States District to its territory, to grant chief justices in Territories power to appoint commissioners to take proof of land cases. The House then went into committee of the whole and resumed consideration of the postoffice appropriations bill