Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1896 — WORK OF CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

WORK OF CONGRESS.

THE WEEK’S DOINGS IN SENATE AND HOUSE. A Comprehensive Digest of the Proceedings in the Legislative Chambers at Washington Matters that Concern the People. Lawmakers at Labor. The opponents of four battle ships sustained defeat in the House Tuesday on the proposition to accept the Senate intendment to the naval appropriation bill, reducing th * num!>er to two. Senator Hill added another day—the fifth—in opposition to the bond resolution in the Senate. Some progress was made on the river and heritor bill by taking it up is the hour. The only changes made were those restoring the authorization of contracts of $1,403,000 for Sabine Pass. Vex., and S!>S7,OOO Tor Savannah, Ga . harbor. A large number of pension bills were passed. The Senate again put in n day Wednesday debating the subject of investigation of recent bond issues. The House served notice on the Senate and the country that it had transacted its business and was ready for the final adjournment. ■l'he report on the contested election case of Thompson versus Shaw from the Third North Carolina District, which was unanimously in favor of the sitting member, Was adopted. A bill granting the widow of Secretary Gresham a pension of SIOO per month was passed. By a vote of 51 to C> the Senate Thursday inaugurated ai investigation, to be conducted by the Senate Coramittc-e on Finance, into the facts and circumstances connected with the sale of United States I bonds by the Secretary of the Treasury ! during the last thre_* years. In addition I to some minor business, the bill was passi e( I extending the tome for building a railj road by the Dennison and Northern Rail- ! way Company through the Indian territory. Also the bill to sand to the Court of Appeals the ease of “book agents of the Methodist Episcopal Church, south.” . The House Friday voted to give each member SIOO a month for recess clerk hire. A bill was passed to appropriate $5,000 for the deportation of the Canadian refugee Oree Indians from the State of Montana. There are about 500 of these Indians. They have been in Montana since the close of the Riel rebellion. The pension bills favorably acted upon at the last Friday night session were taken up and passed. The river and harbor bill was completed in the Senate with the exception of the item for a deep sea harbor on the Pacific coast. A bill was passed authorizing the Sioux City and Omaha Railroad Company to construct a railway through the Omaha and Winnebago reservation in Thurston County, Nebraska. Both houses adjourned until Monday. In the Senate Monday the Santa Monica deep water harbor fraud was debated most of the afternoon. The heat was so terrific that early adjournment was taken. The House lias practically finished its work, and did nothing of importance.