Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1894 — THE NATION'S SOLONS. [ARTICLE]

THE NATION'S SOLONS.

SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRE-s SENTATtVES. Oct National Law-Makers and What They Are Doing for the Good of ths Country— Various Measures Propcssd. Discussed end Acted Upon. Doings of Congress. The Senate proceedings were rather dull Wednesday, most of the afternoon being consumed by Senator Squire, ot Washington, who made a carefully prepared speech in general opposition to ihe tariff. Before the tariff bul was taken up Mr. Hoar tried to pass (his antPloltery bill, but it ultimately went over without action. The Home at 12:35 to ik up the bill to improve the mot beds of aceuunting in the Treasury Departuient. and u wus agreed that general debate on the b.ll should be limited '-o two nours. The House went into committee of.tuo whole, with Mr. Hatch, ot Missouri. ip the chair. At present the offices affected by the bill employ 759 clerks at u cost 'of 81.0G5.7G0. Under the pending bill there will be 624 clerks ttati annual, cost of SSSii.OtiO. Mr. Wauger. of Pennsylvania, moved to amend tbe last, paragraph by changing the date for the bill to go Into effet from July 1. 1804, to Ju y 1. .1895. Tho amendment was disagreed to. The , committee rose and the bill was passed without amendment The House again went Into committee of tbe whole to consider apnroprlation bills, and Mr. Ca ching called up the river and harbor appropriation bill. Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, opposed 'he pas. sage of a bill carrying i early 59.030.000 without some further explanation. At 5 o’clock the c mmlttec r >se anil the House adjourned without taking any action on the bill. The Senate listened Thursday to two installments of two unfinished speeches on the tariff, tried to go into executive session. failed because of lack of a quorum, and adjourned. No business was transacted in the morning hour in the House, the regular order being demanded when It was sought to obtain considers Io i of a bill. The time of the House from 12:24 until 4 o’clock was taken up in the eonsideratl< nos tbe rivet- and harbor hill. Si eeches were made by Messrs Cannon. Wei-dock. Ellis. Hepburn and Rty. At 4 o’clock Mr. Catchings sought to have general debate close at 5 ’ o'clock. Some opposition was developed when Mr. l atchings mo.-ed to ch se debate in twenty minutes, and on this denia-Klod the previous question, which was ordered. ;>nil hts motion was agreed to Discussion was resumed, and Mr. Boatnet-opnosed the method of improving the lied River in J ouistattu according to the present plan. At 5:30 the House adjourned. The House Friday wont into committee of the whole, on motion of Mr Catchings, for tbe purpose of considering the river and harbor bill, with Mr. Hatch In the chair. The appropriation for the outer harbor at Michigan City. Mich., was reduced from $16,030 to SII,OOO. and the sum taken from this appropriation was added to the appropriation for t,lie inn'-rharbor at lhe same point, making ItfiO.MO Mr. linen offered an amendment apnropriatingSlO.OOO for a survey’of the Red River of rhe North, which was defeated. An amendment was agreed to appropriating SS,OOO for the rectification of the channel of tho White River in Arkansas. Mr Ellis offered an amendment increasing the appropriation tor rebuilding lock No. 2 in Green River. Kentucky, from $85,000 to $105,006. The consideration of the bill without action being taken on any further amendments was continued until shortly after 6 o’clock, when the cornmftiee of the whole rose, reported the bill to the House and it was passed. The Senate continued its tariff debate. The Chinese treaty "as debated for six hours in the Senate. Monday, yet no definite action was taken. Tbe House began business by making some committee provision for tho newly e ectel members of the House. The New York' att'd New Jersey bridge bill was passed under a suspension ofthe rules, on motion of Mr. Dunphy. It meets the objections ot the President to a pier in the river by referring tbe question to a comrpission of engineers, one to be an engineer officer and f-iu.r to l-.o bridgebuilders, all to bo appolnicd by the President. whose duty it shall be to determine thequestlon of the pructicabil ty of building a bridge of a sin-rle span. A special order was adopted making the bills for the erection ot a new Government printing office and a new hall ot records in the city of Washington the business of the House until they are disposed of. The printing office bill was discussed until 5:07 o’clock, but long before that hour the debate degenerated into a tariff discussion. At 5:12 o'clock the House adjourned.