Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1886 — CONGRESSIONAL. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESSIONAL.

Work of the Senate and the House of Representatives. | In the secret session of the Senate, an July 27, the nomination of Postmaster Rosette, of DeKalb, IH., wae summarily and unanimously rejected. His offense was the writing and pub- J. listing of an obituary of Gen. Grant, in which the hero was alluded to as a tyrant, and compared with Julius Caesar. W. W. Porter was confirmed as United States Justice of the 8uSreme Court of Arizona Territory. The House of .epresentatives, in view of continued disagreements with the Senate on the river and harbor bill, voted io strike out the items for the Lake Superior Ship Canal, the improvement of the Potomac Blver, and the construction of the Hennepin Canal. The House concurred in the Senate’s amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill for the issuing of silver certificates of small denominations by the Treasury in place of those of large denominations, the latter to be canceled. The House substitute for the Senate bill forfeiting the Northern Pacific land grant passed the lower body, and a conference was requested. Thk fortification bill, with important amendments, was passed by the Senate on the 28th ult. The Senate adopted a resolution that it insist on Its amendments to the river and harbor Dill, which the House demanded should be stricken out. A conference committee was appointed. A conference committee of the two houses disposed of the legislative, executive, and judicial salary bill, which appropriates $20,654,436. The Senate Pension Committee presented reports recommending that the bills to pension Dudley Branch and James C. Chandler be passed over the President’s vetoes. The resolution in regard to the arrest and detention of American citizens in Mexico was reported back by the Senate Foreigns Relation Committee and placed upon the calendar. President sent the following nominations to the Senate: Alvey A. Dee, now Third Assistant Secretary of State, to be Second Assistant Secretory of State; John S. Moore, of Delaware, to be Third Assistant Secretary of State; E. H. Spencer Pratt, of Alabama, to be Minister Resident and Consnl General of the United States to Persia; Thomas C. Bach to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Montana, and George C. Lorenz to be Postmaster at Toledo, Ohio. Secretary Bayard sent to the House the correspondence and papers in relation to the imprisonment and release of Julius Santos by the government of Ecuador.

A favorable report was made to the Senate, on the 29th ult., of the House bill providing thjit manufactured tobacco, snuff, and cigars may be removed for export to a foreign country without payment of tax under prescribed regulations. The Senate and the House conferrees on the river and harbor bill were in conference ail day. An effort was made to effect a compromise on the Hennepin Canal amendment by striking out the appropriation and inserting a clause by which the Government accepts the Illinois and Michigan Canal. The Senate in executive session rejected the nomination of Henry Ward Beecher’s son.to be Collector of Customs at Port Townsend, W. T. Beecher was charged with some careless money transactions, which he endeavored to explain by putting the blame on another man. George A. Jenks was nominated to be Solicitor General, by the President. The House spent the day in committee of the whole (Mr. Hatch of Missouri in the chair) upOn the Senate amendments to the general deficiency bill. There was no opposition made to the recommendations of the Committee on Appropriations as to concurrence or non-concur-rence in tjie amendments, and their consideration consisted chiefly in their reading. The House subsequently ratified the action of the committee of the whole, and a conference was ordered, Mr. Bumes, Mr. Letevre, and ,Mr. McComas being appointed conferrees. The Morrison surplus resolution was amended and passed by the Senate on the 30th ult. It provides for a treasury reserve of $100,000,000 and a working balance of $20,000,000, Whenever the surplus is 810,000,0J0 above those figures, the Secretary is to call that amounvof bonds. Trade dollars are for six months to bp receivable for all dues to the Government or exchangeable at par for silver dollars or subsidiary coin. The Senate confirmed the nomination of George A. Jenks to be Solicitor General. These nominations were made by the President: Cornelius C. Watts to be United States Attorney for the District of West Virginia; Dabney H. Maury of Virginia, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Colombia. The House of Representatives passed the Reagan interstate commerce bill as a substitute for the Cullom measure. An attempt to pass over the President's veto pension bills for the relief of Mrs. General Hunter and Mary Anderson was defeated. The conferrees on the river and harbor bill reported back the measure without erasing the appropriation of $300,000 to enlarge the Illinois and Michigan Canal and survey the Hennepin extension to the Mississippi River. Mb. Hoar’s resolution (from the Library Committee) for the appointment of a committee to inquire into, the expediency of and plan for celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Constitution aud the 400th of the discovery of America, was adopted by the Senate on the 31st ult. The committee will report at the next session of Congress. The President vetoed bills for a public building at Springfield, Mo., and a bridge in Vermont. The Senate rejected the nomination of W. C. Matthews to be Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia. The President made the following nominations to the Senate: Nathaniel H. B. Dawson, of Alabama, to be Cpmmissioner of Education ; A. C. Bradford, to be Register of the Land Office at San Francisco, Cal.; William M. Campbell, of Kentucky, to be agent for the Indians of the Uintah and Ouray Agency in Utah; George Hines, to bo Collector of Customs for ‘ the District of Wilmington,. Cal. The House of Representatives, by a vote of 19 to 135, refused to agree to a report of the Conference Committee on the river and harbor bill, because of the retention of the Hennepin Canal and Sturgeon Bay clauses. By a vote of 209 to 6 the House passed a bill to prevent aliens from acquiring title to real estate in the Territories. On motion of Mr. Morrison of Illinois the Senate amendments to the surplus joint resolution were non-concurred in by the House, and a conference ordered. The Speaker appointed Mr. Morrison, Mr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, and Mr. Hiscock as conferrees. Mr. Payson, of Illinois, from the Committee on Public Lands, reported back the alien-landlord bill. It provides that no non-resident alien, or foreigner, nor any resident alien or foreigner who has not declared fils intention to become a citizen of the United States, nor any corporation nor association where, at most, one-tenth of its stock or right of property is owned or controlled by aliens or foreigners, shall acquire or own, hold or possess, by right, title, or descent accruing hereafter, any real estate in the Territories of the United States ; provided, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to the retl ■ estate necessary for the construction and operation of any railroad. The bill passed—yeas 209, nays 6.

Dr. Waldo, of the Yale Observatory, New Haven, recently delivered an address on the “Mechanical Art of American Watch-Making,” which is published in the Jewe er s’ Journal, of Chicago. The address clearly demonstrates that the first conception of watch-making by machinery is due to Mr. A. L. Dennison, formerly of Boston and now of Manchester, England, and that the practical success of applying the system logically and thoroughly to all the details of watchmaking is due to Mr. Royal E, Robbins, of Boston, and principal owner of the great Waltham Company. There are now ten factories successfully making watches by machinery in the United States,and nine more are in process of oggMHtfatjeih. —————— In New York the iron pillars which support the elevated roads have been pre-empted by the English sparrows, and there, in the midst of an almost constant din, thousands of little sparrows have been hatched. . ■ Success rides op every hour ; grapple it and you may win; but without a grapple it will never get near you. A country paper heads the marriage of a bachelor of fifty-seven years, “Another Old Landmark Gone.”