People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1893 — The News Condensed. [ARTICLE]

The News Condensed.

Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL. Second Session. In the senate no business was transacted on the 12th owing to the funeral services over the remains of the late Senator Kenna . In the house a bill was increasing from one to two dollars per barrel the internal revenue tax on fermented liquors. A recees was taken to attend the funeral of the late Senator Kenna. In the senate a bill was introduced on the 13th to extend to the North Pacific ocean the ©revisions of the statutes for the protection of fur seals and other fur-bearing animals. A resolution was adopted calling on the secretary of the treasury for a copy of the opinion of the law officer of the department under which he is disbursing the 5,000,000 souvenir coins in aid of the Columbian exposition, conditioned on Sunday closing.... In the house filibustering against the consideration of the private war claims bill resulted in nothing being 'accomplished. In tjie senate on the 14|h the Nicaragua ship canal question was discussed....ln the house a bill to ratify an agreement with the Cherokee cation of Indians was considered and a bill to admit Utah as a state was introduced. On the 16th speeches were made in the senate against the McOarrahan bill; in favor of a constitutional amendment limiting.the presidential office to one term, and in defense of the constitutionality of the anti-option bi11....1n the house a resolution calling upon the executive departments fqr information as to the number and amount of w* claims allowed or disallowed by departments was adopted. A motion to suspend the rules and pass a bill to settle the claims of Arkansas and other states under the swamp land grants failed to s.ecure the necessary two-thirds vote and was defeated.