Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1894 — DOINGS OF CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

MEASURES CONSIDERED AND ACTED UPON. At the Nation'* Capital —What la **l» Done by the Senate and Honae—Old Matter* Disposed Of and New Ones Considered. The Senate and House. The Senate eortjHetcd the ci ns Identic, of the free list Wednesday afternoon, and then taking up the administrative features of the bill, omitted about a dozen sections and promptly passed all the remainder but the last ten sections. The omitted sections provided for new regulations governing the customs appraisers, consular officers and foreign manufacturers and shippers of goods to be Imported. Upon these points the law will not be changed and this much time is thus saved in the Senate 'lhe Income tax will be next taken up The antioption bill occupied the attention of the House on Friday after the morning hour. Bteeches were made against'the bill by Representative* Goldziert Yfafker and Harter, wlitle Mr. Richardson, of Michigan, spoke In favor of It. The Speaker was still confined to bis room by sickness, Mr. Bailey performing the duties of Speaker pro tem. In the Senate Thursday Senator Hill spoke at length against the Income tax. followed In the same line by Mr. Hoar. Mr. Aldrich moved that the date on which the Income tax should cease be Jan. I, 1898. The amendment was defeated—23 to 3ft Mr. Hill, who was present. did not vpte. The Finance Committee amendment fixing the time limit during which the lax was to run at Jan. 1. 1909, was then agreed to. Mr. PefTer then offered an amendment he gave notice of to levy a graduated Income tax, which was defeated. In the House Beveral bills and resolutions wero passed. There was some delay In taking up the anti-option bill, and au agreement was entered Into extending tbe time for debate for two nours Friday, to be consumed under the five-minute rule, after which Mr. Batch will be allowed ap hour for hfs closing speech. Speeches were made hy Representatives Grosvemr. Wheeler. Stockdale. and Berry In support of the bill, and by Messrs. Covert, Bartlett, Qulgg. gnd Boatner in opposition to It, Mr. Pence spoke on the silver question. At 5:45 o'clock tbe House adjourned. Tne tariff and income tax were the subjects of Senatorial discussion Friday. Excepting a quarrel between Hill, of New York, and Harris, of Tennessee, nothing of interest was evolved. The anti-option bill passed the House by a vote of 149 to 87. Mr. Hatch received a bad scare In the morning when tbe House in committee of the whole, by a vote of 81 to 74 adopted an amendment offered by Representative 0. TV. Stone, of Pennsylvania, exempting thirty-day options from the provisions of the bill. It was an unexpected move. Mr. Hatch aud others, amid great confusion, raised the point of no quorum. Mr. Hatch said the amendment. If adopted, would destroy the bill On a demand for tellers the vote on the Stone amendment was 921*> 92, and it was lost by a tie. Immediately after the passage of tbe bill the general deficiency appropriation bill was taken upi After a few minutes spent In explanation o 1 the bill by Mr. Sayers, who is lu charge of It in place of Mr. Breckinridge, the committee rose, and at five o’clock a recess was taken until eight o’clock. The night session was devoted to private pension bllla Both houses of Congress adjourned Monday after adopting resolutions of svmpatby with the people of France In their bereavement. The Senate Tuesday entered upon the thirteenth week cf tariff debate, devoting Its attention to the Income ta>. Mr. Hill withdrew the amendment offered on Saturday to strike out the provision exempting the interest on United States bonds from the operation of the tax. Another legal holiday has been added to the list of those now existing so far as Congress has the power to do an, as on motion of Mr. McGann the Senate bill making Labor Day a national holiday was passed by the House. House bills and joint resolutions passed as follows: A bill authorizing the Minneapolis Gas Light Company to lav a submerged gas main across the MUsssslppl River. BUI to give the samo weight and effect to the oaths of privates and noncommissioned officers In pension cases as is given to the oaths of commissioned officers. Considerable discussion was precipitated by amendments offered to the paragraph to pay Indian depredation claims. As the bill finally came out of the committee of the whole this paragraph carried an appropriation of *IOO,OOO for the payment of certain Indian depredation claims In lieu of the 86,000 for the examination of those cases by the Attorney General as originally provided In the bill. The House retained the amendment, and as amended It was passed.