Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1890 — NATIONAL CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL CONGRESS.

In the Senate, Monday, the lease to the Alaska Seal Fur Company was discussed. . The death of Mr. Kelley was announced, and the Senate adjourned. In the House, Monday, Mr. . Adams, of the Silcott investigating committee, submitted a report accompanied by a bill appropriating $75,000 to cover the deft ciency caused by Silcott’s defalcation. Minority reports were -submitted by Messrs. Hemphill and Holman. All were ordered printed and recommitted. Cummings introduced a joint resolution for the .. exaction of .a statue to Sumnai s Tilden, “nineteenth President of the United States, elected but not seated.” Several bills were introduced. Tbe bill to provide for town site entry of lands in Oklahom was considered. The interesting feature of the proceed ings in the Senate, Tuesday, was a brisk debate between Senators Call and Plumb j on the Florida swamp lands resolution. ; Among the executive communications presented to the Senate, Tuesday, was one from the President recommending the erection of consular buildings at Bangkok, Siam. | In the House, Tuesday, Mr. McKinley : reported a bill to simplify - the collection of tbe revenue. A number of other bills were introduced and referred to. Mr Adams called up |the Silcott report, ao companied by a bill appropriating d 575,000 to reimburse members for losses incurred through the Silcott defalcation. Tho matter was debated at length, with no ao tion on the bill. | The Senate Wednesday, after presentation of petitions and introduction of bills, took up Morgan’s resolution recognizing the United States of Brazil as a free, inde pendent and sovereign state, and Mr. Turpie delivered a speech in support of it. i The following bills were passed: Relating to homestead enteries in the Indian Territory ; for the settlement of claims of the state of Missouri on account of payments made since April, 1882, to militia forces which served during the war of the rebellion ;to authorize the construction of a | bridge across the Missouri river within , one mile of the mouth of the Kansas river; ■ appropriating $300,000 for the purchase of a site and erection of a building in Wash- j ington for a hall of records, j The House, Wednesday, defeated the bill ;to reimburse members who lost by the ' Silcott defalcation, by yeas 126, nays 142. All the Indiana members voted against the | bill. No other business was transacted. There was little business transacted in either Senate or House Thursday. The Senate debated Butler’s negro emigration bill. Mr. Hale ..from the census committee, reported back adversely the Ibill to require the Superintendent of the Census to ascertain what percentage of people own their farms, the number of farms under mortgage and the amount thereof. The Secretary of the Treasury was requested to postpone action in leasing the seal islands in Alaska until after Feb. 20. A bill in relation to deserters was passed. The House devoted the entire day to the discussion of a World’s Fair location, j In the House, Friday, a select committee was appointed to consider the World’s Fair matter. The bill to provide for town site entries in Oklahoma was considered.