Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1882 — CONGRESSIONAL. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESSIONAL.

SENATE. Washington, August 6.—The senate conferees on the naval appropria tion bill reported an agreement. The report was accepted and the bill passHouse bill paying the employes of the government contractors on the Fox riv&r improvement, in Wisconsin, $7,185, was passed. The tax reduction bill then came up as unfinished business, but was laid aside informally, and house bill extending the fees of certain officers over the territories of New Mexico and Arizona was passed. Mr. Logan, from the conference committee on the bill to relieve certain soldiers of the late war from the charge of desertion, reported. The agreement was agreed to and the senate considered the annual house post route bill. HOUSE. Washington, August s.—Senate amendment to'the joint resolution for the establishment of diplomatic relations with Persia was concurred in. Pending a recess the speaker laid before the house a message from the president transmitting the report of the secretary of state respecting the cases of American citizens under arrest in Ireland. Deferred. The secretary of state says the only persons claiming to be American citizens still imprisoned in Ireland, are O’Mahoney, McSweeney, Slattery and Gannon. That Mcßweeney and Slattery produced regular certificates of naturalization, Gannon established a claim to American birth, and O’Mahoney was irregularly naturalized on the ground of services in the navy. The report further states that it appears by a note from Minister Lowell that her majesty’s government does not entertain at present any intention of bringing these persons to trial, but it has offered them a discharge on condition that they leave Ireland for America, which was reftised. Lowell has again been instructed to urge a speedy trial of the prisoners. SENATE. Washington, August 7.—The following bills, Ac., passed: House bill )ensioning, the widow "of the ate Brigadier General Ram sey louse bill repealing the section of he revised statutes which imposes an export tax on tobacco. Senate joint resolution allowing per diem employes of the senate an extra month’s P ilouse resolution instructing the secretary of the navy to convene a court of Inquiry to investigate as to the loss of the steamer Jeannette and the death of Lieutenant Commander DeLong was passed. House joint resolution for a joint select committee upon American ship building and the ship owning interest was passed—4o to 13. Mr. Blair, chairman of the committee on education and labor, called up the resolution directing an investigation during recess into the labor strikes. [This is to be made by the committee on education and labor, and is to include the subject of relations between capital and labor, wages and hours of labor, condition of the laboring classes in the United States, and their relative condition and wages, as compared with similar classes abroad, with causes and agencies producing strikes. The committee is to recommend legislation to remove or modify such causes and provide against their recurrence, and is impowered to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths, and visit by sub-committees different parts of the country. The resolution was adopted with the amendment offered by Mr.' George, directing an inquiry into the division between labor and capital and of their joint productions in the United States.

HOUSE. Washington, Aug. 7.—Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, reported a resolution appropriating $5,000 to enable a select committee of nine members to examine into the works now in progress for the improvement of the Mississippi river below Cairo and the methods employed in making such impiovement. The committee to be also authorized tq inquire into all matters pertaining to the Outlet and Jetty system and report the result of the inquires at the next session. Adopted. SENATE. Washington, August B.—The bill to transfer the property of the soldiers and sailors orphans home to the Garfield memorial institute, passed. An analysis of the vote to adjourn sine die shows that all the votes against adjournment came from the Republican side. The Democrats voted to adjourn, and Messrs. Cameron, of Wisconsin, Chicott, Plumb and Sawyer, with Mr. Davis, of Illinois, voted with them. The senate appointed Messrs. Anthony and Bayard to notify the president that congress would adjourn today, and at 1 o’clock went * into executive session. Mr. Pendleton offered a resolution, which was adopted by a unanimous vote, tendering that ks to Ron. David Davis, president of the senate, for the uniformly able, courteous and impar tial manner in which he has presided over the deliberations of the senate.® When the hand of the clock indicated 8, the presiding officer formally terminated the session in a brief speech. He said: Senators—After, a very long and very laborious session, in which the senate has performed its part of the Kublic duty faithfully, we are about > separate. My thanks are given to each and every member for the generous consideration and for the friendly support in the chair. Wishing you all health and happiness, I now de-

dare the senate adjourned without day. HOUSE. Washington, Augusts.—After the reading of the journal Mr. Hiscock moveuto take a recess for an hour. Mr. Atkins remarked if the house was to be delayed by recesses from hour to hour he preferred to adjourn for three days. The hour of three having arrived, Speaker Kiefer addressed the house as follows: This house is about to terminate its first session. It has been an important one to the country. With thanks for the generous and kind treatment on the part of the house and with my best wishes for all its members, regardless of party, I now, as authorized and required by the concurrent resolution of the senate and house of representatives, declare this house adjourned without day. [Loud applause.] * After spending about half an hour in hand-shaking and taking leave of each other the members left the hall, many of them going direct to the depot.