Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1895 — NATIONAL SOLONS. [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL SOLONS.

REVIEW OF THEIR WORK AT WASHINGTON. Detailed Proceedings of Senate ar.d Houae—Bills PaMsed or introduced in Either Branch—Questions of Moment to the Country at Large. The Legislative Grind. The Senate plunged into real business Tuesday. Naturally the President’s message attracted the main attention of the day. but aside from this there were stirring resolutions on tire Monroe doctrine and the Cuban relrellion, and after that the usual deluge of bills and resolutions. The message was given the closest attention. At its conclusion Mr. Lodge, of Massachusetts, offered a resolution, vigorous in terms, reaffirming the principles of tite Monroe doctrine and presenting them in such form as to permit their enactment as a permanent law rather than an expression of the policy advocated by President Monroe. In the same line was a resolution by Mr. Culloni, of Illinois, and another by Mr. Alien, of Nebraska. There were 272 bills and sixteen resolutions introduced in tlie Senate altogether but a large majority of the bills were reprints of measures which failed to pass last session. Many of these, as also a large proportion of the new bills, were for private purposes. There were also several for the modification of the pension laws. Senators Peffer, Stewart, and Squire reintroduced their bills of last session pertaining to silver coinage. Senator Pettigrew introduced a bill to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy and reintroduced his bill of last session to prevent the extermination of the furbearing animals of Alaska. Senator Vest reintroduced his bill of last session to prohibit monopoly in the transportation of cattle to foreign countries, and also his bills for the compulsory education of, Indian children and the settlement of private land claims. Senator Chandler reintroduced his bill for the exclusion of alien anarchists and also his bill for the regulation of immigration. Senator Frye introduced a bill providing for the amendment of the tariff laws, so as to admit free of duty all material used in the construction or equipment of vessels built in the United States. He also presented several other bills for the encouragement of American shipping and American shipbuilding and general bills to amend the laws relating to navigation and to prevent discrimination against American trade. Among the large number of bills offered by Mr. Peffer (Pop.. Kan.) were those limiting the President’s term to six years without re-election, repealing all laws permitting the issuance of bonds, the limitation of the power of injunction. The Cuban situation received attention, from both the Florida Senators. The Cali resolution and the Monroe doctrine will receive early attention. At the brief executive session the nominations of Mr. QJney as Secretary of State and Air. Harmon as Attorney General were confirmed, and that of Rufus W. Peckham to the Supreme bench referred to the Judiciary Committee. In the House a large number of bills and joint resolutions were introduced, many of them measures that failed during the last session. The session of the House was, however, brief and consumed almost entirely by the reading of the President’s message. This was listened to with fair attention, but the features of the document' received no signs either of approval or disapproval from the members until the conclusion of the reading, when several Democrats created a slight demonsration. When it was finished the House immediately adjourned until Friday. The Senate worked Wednesday, hut most of the business transacted was of a routine character. Mr. Hoar offered a resolution denouncing the recent atrocities in Turkey and assuring the executive branch of the cordial indorsement by Congress of a vigorous course for the protection of American citizens in Turkey and the suppression of the barbarities against Christianity. The first formal speech of the session was made by Mr. Allen, of Nebraska, on Cuba and tbc Monroe doctrine. Air. Alien urged the recognition of the Cuban insurgents, the annexation of Cuba and a strong foreign policy. The influx of bills continued. Among them was one increasing all pensions granted under the act of 1890 to sl2. The session of the Senate was brief Thursday. Its only feature beyond the introduction of a bill by Mr. Chandler for the free coinage of silver when England, Franco and Germany enact similar legislation, and a resolution by his colleague, Air. Gallinger. declaring it to be the sense of the Senate that it was unwise and inexpedient to retire the greenbacks, was a short Speech by Air. Call in favor of the recognition of the Cuban revolutionists as belligerents. In the Senate Alonday a speech by Alorgan of Alabama opposing the settlement of the Behring Sea claim was the event of the day. The Senate in executive session confirmed the following nominations: Elmer R. Adams of Missouri to be district judge for the western district of Missouri: Rufus H. Peckham of New York to he associate justice of the United Stateg Supreme Court. The House held a short session and devoted most of its time to discussing the appointment of House officers. The first business proposition brought forward in the House was a bill by Air. Hopkins to amend the statute fixing the customs district of Chicago so that the district would embrace all of tile States of Illinois and Indiana. The bill was passed by unanimous consent. A resolution was passed for the appointment of three new assistants to the superintendent of the document-room.

Onr Gold. The Governor of Arizona says that Territory will produce this year $lO,000,000 in gold, against $4,000,000 last year. If the- gold resources of this country should be capitalized on the Kaffir basis millionaires would be reckoned small men and give place to the billionaire.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.