Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1886 — CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESS.

What Is. Being Done by the National Legislature. . ; - ( ■■ /- I Guneiial Lqoan'k army bill was again the subject of debate on the fjtb inst. General .Logan and Mun<b>rsou 7 jtpolte in favor of and Messrs. Hale ahd Teller in opposition to the measure. Mr. Blhir presented a.memorial from ' the Aformon women of Utah, complaining that , tlie Edmunds law has bpeu so construed ’US, to bring its penalties to hear on tne uincc >nt, and lias inflicted iqion the women unprecedented indignities and immeasurable sorrow. Ate. B d{r reported favorably, without amendment, from the Coin-'" mlttee of Education and Labor the arbitration bill recently passed by tho House of Representativea. The postoffice appropriation bill passed the Honso after amendments to increase tho appropriations for postal clerks and thq transportation of foreign mails had been rejectee!. During the debate of the measure Mr. Phelps attacked Postmaster General Vilas, calling him the Pooh - Bah of the administration, who usurpod the functions of tbe President and of Congress to defeat the laws. ' Messrs. Holman and Randall defended Mr. Vilas. Mr. Lawler, of Illinois, from the Committee on Labor, reported hack to the House a resolution for a Congressional investigation of the causes underlying the differences existing between employers and employes on railroads, and It was referred to tho committee of the whole.l Gen. Logan’s bill for an increase of the army was defeated in the Senate on tho 7th inst. by a vote of 31 to 19. A bill appropriating ?'200,00j for a public building at San Antonio, Ter , was passed. Mr. Blair introduced a bill to provide that eight hour* shall constitute a day’s work for all lofter-carrters, and that their salaries shall not be reduced by reason of the decrease in the hours of labor. 'Tho President sent to the Senate the following nominations: John A>. McClernand, of Illinois, member of the Board of Keqistiat on aiul Klection in tho Territory of Utah; ObKdiah W. Cutter, Collector of Cußtoms for the District of Niagara, N. Y.; Edwin Wuifluid, Surveyor of Customs at Baltimore ;Tlii mils G. Hayes, Unit'd States Attorney, District of Maryland ; Gcorgo H. Caimes, United States Marshal, District of Alarylaiul; Cyrus P. Shepard, Register of the Land Offico at Worthington, Minn.; Edmund Janies, receiver' of public moneys at Carson City, NeV. ; Samuel I. I.oraii, receiver of public moneys at Central City, Col. ; C. S. Lake, pension agent at Des Moines • Charles W. Johnston, register of the land office at Roselmrg, Oregon; William T. Barney, regist?r of the land office at Oregon City, Oregon ; Charles It. Hauser, of Ohio, agent at Yakima Indian Agency, Washington Territory; James I. David, of Michigan, agent at Osage Agency. Indian Territory. The House did nothing worth 10-iording, the business transacted being purely routine, ami relating to matters of no interest. The Washington Territory bill was placed before the Senate on the Bth inst,, and Mr. Yoorhees spoke in advoeauv of his amendment, which consists of an enabling act for the admission of Aiontana Territory, but the amendment was voted down by a party vote—yeas 19, nays 23—the Democrats voting in the athrmative, the Republicans in the negative. The Senate passed a hill granting to the Kansas aud Arkansas Railway Com jinny right of way through Indian Territory, and tho Ifmse measure to erect a building in Washington for the Congressional Library at a cost of nearly $3,000.0)0. By a vote of yens 84 1 1 nays 201 the House Of Representatives defeat«l tlie amendment offered by Mr. Dibble of, South Carolina, suspending.... the further coinage of silverumler tlie Bland act ___ after July 1,1889. The House also defeats 1 the free coinage bill by a vote of yeas 120 to nays 103. The Judiciary Committee authorized Mr. Culbertson torejiort I is bill ielat'ngto captured and abandoned property,(involving over $10,000,000, with the recommendation that it be passed. The bill to admit Washington Territory was before the Senate on the -9th inst., the pending question being on the proposed amendment o* Senator Eustis limiting the right ot suffrage in the proposed new State to qualified male electors only. After a aome.wUat .protracted debate the amendment was rejected—yt.au 12, nays '2>. The yeas were: Messrs. Beck, 'Berry, Coke, Eustis, Gorman, Gray, Ingalls, Jackson, Alaxey, l’ugh, Satllshury, and Walthall. Aiming the Senators voting against, Air. Eustis’ amendment was Air. Edmunds. Mr. Ingalls intro luced a bill for the appointment Of a beard of arbitration to settle differences between railroad companies and their employes. George Hearst was sworn in as Senator from California. The following nominations were sent tcrttarSenatu'BjrtEe President: Law-. ~rence-Harrigfl.ii to be appraiser of merchandise for the port of St. Louis," AIo.; William H. Watty, of Michigan, to be a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners. In the House of Representatives Mr. Forney; of Alabama, asked unanimous consent for the jiresent c< nsideration of tho joint resolution making an apiiropriation for the relief of suf-f-rers from the floods in Alubnma. Mr. Beach, of New York; objected. The House then went into connuittea of the whQlo on the private calendar. Several hills were agreed to, when the committee ran-against a snag in the shape of a lull directing the Quartermaster General to settle with the McMinnvills and Alanchester Railroad Company of Tennessee. The amount Involved in the hill is $240,000, nud a long discussion ensued upon the measure, but no action w as taken. Tin? hill authorizing the formation of a new State to be conijjosed of parts Washington and Idaho Territories, to ho known as the State of Washington, passed the Senate on tho 10th inst. by a vote of 30 to 13. Senators Butler, S. C.; George, Miss.; Jones, Ark.; and Morgan, Ala., voted with thli Republicans in the affirmative. Senator ; Hearst, Cal., cast his first vote with his jiarty in the negative. The President sent fifty apjiointinents to the Senate. They include the successors of “suspended" officials.whose terms have expired since their names wcre originally presented. They are now sent in to fill “vacancies." The House passed a hill authorizing the establishment of sixteen new life-savng stations. Bills were passed authorizing the C(nstructiou of bridges as follows; Across the Afississipjoi River near Alton, Ill,; across the west channel of the Detroit River, to connect Belle Isle Park with the main land; across! he Tennessee, Ftiver.'hy the Nashville, Jackson and Memphis Railroad ConTpnay; across the Mississippi near Keithsburg, Ill.; across the Illinois and Dos Moines, by the New York uwP Council Bluffs Railroal Company; over Bayou Barnard, Mississippi; acrosß Red River near Brown's Ferry, Te*as ; across the St. Croix at some accessible point between Prescott, Wht., and-Tayler's Falls, Minn. ; across the Mississippi at Winona, A 1 inn. ; across the Missouri at St. Joseph, AIo.; across the Missouri at Council Bluffs; across the- Missouri at Saline City, Mo.; across the Kansas by the Interstate Rajiid Transit Company; across the Missouri in Clay or Jackson Counties, Missouri; across the Missouri above St. Charles, Mo. ; across the Yellowstone in Afontana; across the Mississippi at lteifWing, Aliim.; across the Missouri near Atchison, Kan.; across the Tombigee, Warrior, Tennessee, and other navigable rivers iu Alabama, by the Gulf and Chicago Air-Line Railroad Company; across Young's Bay. Oregon; across tiie Missouri near Chamberlain. Dakota; across the Missouri at Pierre, Dakota.