Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1887 — CONGRESSIONAL. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESSIONAL.

t Work of the Senate and the House of Representatives. A nESoIiCTIoN offered uy Me. HJar, instructing the Committee on Rrivileges and Elections to investigate tips allegations made by three reside.its of Washington COUuty.' Texas, as to thejr being driven from choir homos, comp died to abandon tneir property, aud deprived of tire right of sudr.cg.) id t.i it county, cumo Up iu the Keiiatri Jan. zG. aud g„ve rise to a warm debate. Mr. Coke protest id i tout‘the pr. nosed investigutiun was into a subject outside the jurisdiction of Cuiigre'ss. Too State of Texas had btato autonomy Her constitution and laws were in full foroe and Operation, bile could redress ail grievances, psreon&l, or otherwise, occurring within- her b rdeis. Tne subject was ono iieeuliorij within the jurisdiction of the State, and the resolution was au intermeddling with sometuing belonging whdly to the State, and outside of the jurisdiction of the General Government He gave a history of the case, to tho effect that a respectable white Democrat had b en shot by a colored mail at the polls near Brenham, Texas; that three colored men had been arrested and placed in Jail, charged with that crime ; that a mob had taken teem out of jail and hanged them, aud that tho throe petitioners, Hackworth, Moore, and Schult.’.e, who had been prominent in infiuencing and deluding’the negro population there, had supposed their lives to be in danger and had fled the country. Ho had reoeived a telcgra.ru fr. m D, C. Giddlngs, of Brenham, formerly a Representative iu Congress from Texas, say*ing that the three petitioners were of the worst type of scalawags; that they had been mainly instrumental in stirring up strife between the races, and were charged with investigating tne murder referred to; that they wero hot driven from their homes nor were their livos threatened,% but that their own guilty consciences had eausol them to leave tho country for the country’s good Mr. Hoar said thh three petitioners represented themselves to bo men of property and wealth; that they had boon earning their living in peaceful, lawful, and honorablo ways; and that they had been driven out from their homes on American soil. Mr. Hoar, referring to the speeches on the fisheries bill, askoil whether the right of an American citizen was loss sacred in the eye of the American Congress when it happened to bo violated on American soil. Mr. Eustis (a member of tho committee) opposed the resolution as a “waving of tho bloody shirt a little in advance of the usual season.” Mr. Evarts ia member of the committoe) sustained the resolution and argued that now, when there was an opportunity to prove, under tho authority of the Senate, that this was a mere “waving of the bloody shirt.” it should do so. The resolution was adopted—3l to 2j. By a vote of 17 to 31 the Senate rejected the nomination of J. C. Matthews, a colored Democrat from Albany, as recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia. The Senate fisheries bill was laid before the House, and on motion of Mr. Belmont it was referred to tho Committee on Foreign Affairs, and leave granted the c< m nittee to report at any time.

The agricultural experiment station bill passed the Senate, Jan. 27. It directs the establishment in connection with the agricultural coll ges of a department to be known and designated as an ‘Agricultural Experiment Station.” Whore there are two such colleges in one State the amount appropriated to each State and Territory tor this purpose (#15,000 a year) is to be equally divided between them unless the State Legislature shall otherwise direct. The object and duty of such experiment stations is: To conduct .original researches or to vorify experiments on the physiology of plants and’animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject and the remedies therefor; and chemical composition of useful plants ; the compaiativo advantages of rotative cropping ; the capacity of new plants or treos for acrlimation ; the analysis of soils and water; the chemical composition us manures ; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants ; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domesiic animals; the scientific and economic quostions involved in the production of buttor and cheese, and such othor researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States as may be deemed advisable. Tho Senate also passed the House bill for tho relief of dependent parents and of honorably discharged soldiers und sailors now disabled, A resolution was adopted directing an investigation by tho Engineer Bureau of the alleged obstructions to cem.merce in the Columbia River by salmon traps and wheels. Senator Qlngails introduced a bill to amend the Revised Statutes so as to provide that no person shall bo engaged in or carry on the business of rectitier, wholesale or retail; liquor dealer,wholesale or retail dealer in malt liquors, or distiller, nor shall the Collector of Internal Revenue receive from any such person any money in payment of special taxes or for revenue stamps, until the dealer has first made a sworn statement that he has fully complied with all the laws concerning his business of the district in which the business is to bo conducted. A resotion, previously offerod by Mr. Hoar in executive session, declaring that after the Senate has refused its advice and Consent to the appointment of any person to office, it is contrary to the spirit and intent of the Constitution to designate tho same person to the same oiSce immediately thereafter, was taken up by the Senate and reforred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. Tho House passed tho river and harbor bill—yeas, 151; nays, yl—in the exact form in which it was reported from the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. The House Judiciary Committee rep >rted adversely a joint resolution providing for the oloction of United States Senators by the people of the States, and it was placed upon the calendar. M«. Kdmi nps, in presenting to the Senate, on the 28th ult. a memorial from manufacturers and business men in Vermont for a repeal or reduction of internal revenue taxes, said he wished to urge on the Financo Committee the importance of the subject of reducing, if not altogether re (Sealing, this remnant of the unpleasantness of twenty-five years ago. Mr. fiahone presented numerous petitions from Virginia manufacturers of and dealers in tobacco, for the abolition of the tobacco tax. Messrs. Evarts, Teller, Spooner, Pugh, and Eustis were selected as the Senatorial Committee to investigate the alleged Texas outrages. The President sent in a message vetoing the bill granting a pension to Benjamin Obekinb. “The bill,” he says, “directs tnat tho beneficiary named therein be placed upon the pension roll subject to the provisions and limitations of the pension laws. In July, 1884, the person named in this bill was placed upon the pension roll at a rate determined upon by the . Pension Bureau pursuant to the provisions and limitations of the pension lawß, and it is entirely certain that the -special act now presented to me would give the claimant no new rights or additional benefits.” The President also vetoed the bill for the relief of H. K. fielding, who was a mail contractor in Minnesota in 1860. The measure is vetoed because the President thinks the evidence in the case gives rise to a strong presumption that the claim is entirely fictitious. Edward F. Mealey, of Maryland was nominated to be Consul at Munich. The House of Representatives passed the Washington cable-rail-way charter and agreed to a conference report on the bill making an auuual appropriation of S4Od,W for the ofinipuimt of the militia torees. Tin: bill exts nding the limits of the Yellowstone National Park on the east and west, and diminishing them by two miles on the north, passe 1 the Senate on the 2Jth inst. The Senate by a vote of 24 to 20, placed at the foot of the special orders the Judiciary Committee's substitute for the Beck railroad attorney lull. Mr. Beck, with some show of anger, gave notice that the measure must be voted on, and he should call it up from day to-day. ‘The House of Representatives passed a bill seiting aside t-l ,4 6 b-r a sp'---ial qistrrbuit on of seed in Texas by the C. uiuiiss oner of Ag i ul-tu.-o. The postoJlo.) appropriation bill, in. wi.ich thare is art ißcroaso of y in.OJJ over- last year’s figures for tin investigation of mail depredations in fourth class qiosto(flees, , was passed. The com niitee on alleged violations of the rul ? regulating admissions to the floor recommended that the rules ho so far amended as To admtototbe door only sttvh ex-meinocrs as arc not interested personally or as attorneys or spouts in any claim or bill pending before Concress. ... 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