Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1886 — THE NEWS CONDENSED. [ARTICLE]

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

FORTY-SIXTH < «\(.U»>S. Mr. CxnA.au called up the conference report on tbe interstate commerce bill in the Son ato Deo. Si. and stated that he would defer calling for action on the matter until after the holldava There were presented to the Bonato a oommuuioalion from toe supervising architect of the Treasury showing the neccss.ty of additional vaults for the storage of silver, and a petition from sixty ministers of tho Nebraska Conference in favor of the Chinese indemnity hill. A bill appointing James H. Angel, of If ichigan, member of the Hoard of ltegrnte of the Kuiithsonisn Institution passed the Senate. The House of Representatives refu«e<l to consider a Presidential veto of a private pension bill. A RKsonmos instructing tho Committee on Finance to inqulro Into and report what specific reductions can l>o mode In the customs duties and internal taros that will reduce tavra to the nect asary and economical expenses of tho flovemment, without impairing the prosperity of home industries or the compensation of homo lelmr, was taki nup and adopted u the Senate Dec. 28 Senator Hlair introduce 1 a hill making coii prchenllre rhsngei tn the prueton laws. 1 lie bill prseth ally removes tbe limitation of the sircars of pcuslopract and makes the fact of enlistment in the service of tho Vnlted States evidence of physical soundness at tbe time of enlistment. It enlarges the classes of persons to lie entit led to the benefit* of tho pension laws boss to include all who may have boon disabled while actually encaged in tho service of the Vnlted States, whether they were mustered or not. It also grouts a jiension to all female nurses in the lots, war who shall have arrived at the age of 59 years, and are without ttie means of conrfottilde support. It provide* that there shall lie two cla-ses of pentiouable disabilities —viz., specific and non-spe-cific Non-specific disability is defined as one the nature and dorreo of which cannot bo determined without the aid of evidence or of medical examination. Tho pensionable disabiliti s arc graded from one to twenty, according to the degree of injury received. In the House of 1 iepresrrrtattvr s, n bill relative to tho construction and maintenance of telegraph , lines by land-grant railroads was reported from the Committee on I’ostofHc s and l’o*t HMfcle by Mr. Warner, of Ohio The object of the tin a-live is to compel subsidized railroads to maintain tbeir own Telegraph lines. Both houses of Congress adjourned until Tuesday, Jan. -i.