Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1886 — CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESS.

wnat is Being Done by the Na- r tdonal Legislature. ' • r f ( ;/ . Senator Fryk-'b - resolution, stating that, in tho opinion of the Senate, the appointment of a commission in which, the Governments of the United States and Great Britain shallherepI resented, charged with the consideration and settlement of the fishing rights' of the two Governments on tho coasts of the United States and British North America, ought not to bo provided for by Congress, was adopted by . that body an the Senator Frye refiorted favorably from the Committee on Commerce an amendment intended to he proposed to the postofflee appropriation bill. It increases tho appropriation for trantportaEitm of foreign mailsfrom $330,000 to $1,(XX), 000, and provides that this amount shall include cost of railway transit across the ißtninuß of Panama. The President sent the following nominations to tho Senate’: Postmasters*—Edward Dolan, n-t Troy, N. Y.; Geo W. Langdon, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; Lathrop 8. Tavlor, at Clyde, N. Y.; C. F.Coliner, at Baht New York, N. Y.; Samuel H. Wagener, at San Jose, Cal.; William E Baker, at Fairbury, Ill.; Charles H. Brown, at Sterling,'Kan.; Marshall Birdsall, at Emporia, Kan., and P, B. * Gavin, at Coming, lowa. The President withdrew the nomination of H. P. Albert to be postmaster at Stuart, -Gutlirio County, lowa. The House spent the day discussing the Ohio contested case of Hurd vs. Rounds. Mn. Coelom, of Illinois, called up and explained the provisions of his Inter-State Commerce BiU to the Senate on the. 14th inst. Mr. Palmer, of Michigan, also spoke in favor of the measure. Mr. Butler, of South Carolina, addressed the Senate in advocacy of open executive sessions of that body. In the House of Representatives, the Ohio contest of Hurd vs. Romels was decided by a majority of 62 in favor otoßomeis, tho sits ting member. The score stood 103 to 168 on a resolution declaring that KometH was entitled to "the seat. Messrs. Hatch, Green, of North Carolina and White, of Minnesota, were appointed a sub-comrnittee of the House Committee on Agriculture, to draft a bill regulating the sale of oleomargarine. Thr Venezuelan treaty was-ratified by the Senate on the loth inst. The consideration of the treaty with Hawaii was postponed for two weeks. Bills were reported to accept from the Vanderbilt heirs and Mrs. Grant certain objedtß of art presented by foreign governments to General Grant; to establish a sub-treasury at Louisville, and to organize the Territory of Oklahoma. Mr. Logan made a speech supporting the motion for open executive sessions. He declared that there was not now and never had been any necessity for secret sessions. The Hoar electoral-count bill was reported to the House with several important amendments. Senator Dolph (Oregon) made"® speech In the Senate on the 16th Inst, on his Indian depr«h ’ d&tions hill and a bill appropriating $5,006/060* to compensate citizens for losses suffered by them through such depredations. Senaton Wil- , son reported from the Judiciary Committee the House biU closing up the business and paying the expenses of the Alabama Claims Court, with an amendment providing for increasing the principal sum of the Geneva award by the amount of all the interest received thereon by the United States, although that interest was received on bonds of the United States. Senator CaU (Fla.) offered a resolution providing for the restoration to the roll of Senate employes of R. A Finelle, a Democrat, removed by the Sergeant-at-arms to make a place for a Republican; and also providing that the Democratic minority be allowed the same number of employes, with tho same proportion of salaries, as were allowed by the Democratic majority to the Republican minority in 1879. Senator Voorhees (Ind.) made a speech In . opposition to the Weil-Labra treaty in the executive ■ session, of the Senate. Senator George (Miss,) was appointed a member of tlie Judiciary Committee to succeed Senator Jackson (Tenn.), resigned. President Cleveland nominated John C. Rciley £ot Postmaster at Cincinnati, and Mrs. Virginia C. Thompson for a similar position at Louisville. He also named as Government djeectors of the Union Pacific Road Franklin TtacVteagh, at Chicago, and J|mues W. Savage, of Omaha. The House of passed the S::nate bill empowering the Secretary of the Treasury to sell the Chicago Bridewell property, after its appraisal by three commissioners, to the Great Westemjßailway Company, and with: the proceeds purchase a site and erect a building for the Appraiser of Customs. The House adopted the Dingley resolution calling on the President for information concerning the alleged exclusion of American sjrfM horn Canadian ports. ; The House of Representatives, at its session on the 17th inst., passed a bill to authorize the establishment of export tobacco • manufactories and to allow them drawbacks on imported materials. There was a spirited exchange of sentiment on the bill to appropriate $150,000 for the relief of sufferers by tlie overflow of rivers in Alabama, but no action was taken thereon. The Senate held no session. . The Jews in America Americans. j.’* It is a mistake and a blunder to make Judaism in America anything but American. Maintain it as Polish, Ger- , man, Portuguese, Hungarian, or Bussian, according to tlie.ideas oi-foreign rabbis and laymen who continue foreign, and you alienate young IsraeL Young American-born Jews and Jewesses, as a rule, will never sympathize with a foreign phase of their faith. There may be a certain pietat for their parents’ sake, but warm conviction and enthusiasm will be lacking. Here, on American soil, we propose to drop i what is local and provincial. We shall carve out as good a record as our ancestors in 6ther lands. We do not wish to concern ourselves with foreign ’ shibboleth. We shall maintain Jewish essentials, but we shall think for ourselves and act for ourselves; for Europe has little to offer toward the solu- ; tion of problems which it, too, finds of profound difficulty. American conservatism should not allow itself to be measured by the foreign rule. —Jewish Messenger. ' ,