Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1897 — NATIONAL SOLONS. [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL SOLONS.

REVIEW OF THEIR WORK AT WASHINGTON. Detailed Proceedings of Benate and Honae— Bills Passed or Introduced In Either Branch—Questions of Moment to the Country at Large. The Lecialative Grind. Mr. Lodge (Mass.) made an effort in the Senate Monday to secure an immediate vote upon his immigration bill, which is substantially the same measure that was passed by the Fifty-fourth Congress and vetoed by President Cleveland. Mr. Allen (Neb.) objected to an immediate vote and suggested that the.final vote on the amendments and the bill he taken on Monday, Jan. 17, at 3p. in. This suggestion was accepted by Mr. Lodge and the OTder for vote at that time was made. Mr. Gorman, chairman of the Democratic steering committee, presented an order which was adopted, rearranging some of the committee assignments of some of the Democratic members, made necessary by the incoming of new members. Mr. Pettigrew (S. D.) called up the hill granting to settlers the right to make second homestead entries. He made a brief explanation of the measure. It gave ail persons who were not at the time owners of land under the homestead law the right to make second homestead enfries. Each person would be entitled to acquire 160 acres of land. The bill was passed. A bill providing for the erection of an addition to the public building at Los Angeles, Cal., to cost $250,000, was passed. Mr. AA ilson (Wash.) presented a resolution directing the civil service commission to transmit to the Senate a statement by fiscal years since 1890 showing the total number of persons examined, the total number passed and the total number appointed in the several branches of the Government service at the beginning of each of those fiscal years. The resolution was agreed to. The Senate then adjourned. Excepting the reporting of the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, the House did no public business Monday. The entire session was consumed in adjusting a personal dispute between Air. Hepburn of lowa and Mr. Norton of Ohio, which grew out of a controversy that occurred during the debate on the pension bill. The point at issue was a* to whether a certain word used by Mr. Norton, but which ho afterward disclaimed any intention of using, should appear in the permanent record. The House by a party vote, 136 to 121, sustained Air. Hepburn. On Tuesday the Senate, on motion of Senator Hoar, adjourned as a mark of respect to President McKinley, whose mother was buried that day.