Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1890 — NATIONAL CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL CONGRESS.

In the Senate on the 17th Mr. Voozheea offered tho following: Whereas, The deep and wide-spread depression and deoay of the agricultural interests of the American people, the enormous and appalling amount of mortgaged indebtedness on agricultural lands? the total failure of the home markets to furnish remunerative prices for farm prod ucts,the palpable scarcity and insufficiency of money in circulation in the hands of the people, with which to transact the business oftne country and effect exchanges of property and labor at fair rates, are circumstances of the most overwhelming im portau ee to the safety and the well being of the government; therefore, be it Resolved, That It is the highest duty of Congress in the present crisis to lay aside all discussion and consideration of mere party issues, and to give prompt and immediate attention to the preparation and adoption of such measures as are required for the relief of the farmers and other overtaxed and underpaid laborers of the United States. Laid over. The educational bill was considered. Several bills, resolutions and petitions were offered. The House passed the following bills. A joint resolution requesting the President to invite the King of the Hawaiian Islandsto select delegates to represent his kingdom; in the pan-American congress; a bill ap-. propriating $13,500 for the construction of! a road to the National Cemetery at Port Hudson, La.; a bill to transfer the revenue cutter service from the Treasury Depart j ment to the Navy Department; a bill creating the offices of assistant general superintendent and chief clerk of the rail way mail service; several public building appropriation bills; a bill authorizing the* Superintendent of the Census to enumerate the Chinese population in such a manner' as to enable him to make a ccpplete and ! accurate descriptive list of all Chinese! persons who are in the Uuited States at* the time of the taking of the census, and to I give to each person so enumerated a cer- 1 tificate containing particulars necessary to : fully identify him, and such certificate j I shall bo the sole evidence of the right of! the person to bo and remain in the United ! States. - ‘ Tho Senato«on the 18th passed the urgen- i cy deficiency bill and considered the Blair j bill. A large number of public building; bills were passed. The House debated tho pension appropriation bill. : : : ' = The Senate on tho 19th heard a lengthy address by Senator Voorhees on the resolution offered by him two days previous. He argued that the condition of the fanners! was due to the tariff. Tho House on the 19th considered thej Mudd-Comptcm contested election case. In the Senate on the 20th,a private bill was: passed. The Blair bill was defeated by | yeas 31, nays 37. In opposing the bill Mr. j Howley read a table of appropriations to be * made for the next fiscal year, showing an, aggregate of expenditures of $533,000,000 against an estimated revenue of $450,000,000; —making a deficit of $73,000,000. Following are the figures in detail- Estimated revenues, $450,400,000; probable appropri-. ations,exclusi ve of deficiencies,s323,ooo.ooo; permanent appropriations, including sinking fund, $101,600,000*; probable deficiency, $31,000,000; total, $455,600,000. Proposed appropriations reported to the Senate and not included in “probable deficiency": Direct tax, $17,500,000; Blair bill, $7,000,000; French spoliation claims, so far as reported, $1,742,000; naval ships, $7,000,000; increase pensions, $35,000,000; total, .$68,342,000. Recapitulation: Probable appropriations $455,600,000; proposed appropriations, $68,•242,000; making a total of $523,842,000“ revenues ,$450,400,000; excess of estimated appropriations over revenues, $73,442,000. The following was the vote: TEAS. Republicans—Messrs. Allen, Allison, Chandler, Guiloxu, Dawes, Dolph, Edmunds Evarts, Higgins, Hoar, McMillian. Mand erson, Mitchell, Moody, Morrill, Pettigrew Platt, Squire, Stanford, Stewart, Stock bridge, Teller, Wilson of lowa. Democrats—Messrs. Barbour, Colquitt, Daniel, George, Hampton, Hearst, Pasco NATS. Republicans—Messrs. Aldrich, Blair, Davis, Dixon,FarweU, Frye,Bale, Hawley, Hiscock, Ingalls, Jones of Nevada, Pierce, Plumb, Sawyer, Sherman, Spooner, Walcott. --■ - . - ■ * _ ■■ ■ —= Democrats—Messrs. Bate, Berry, Blackburn, Blodgett, Cockrell, Coke, Faulkner, Gorman, Gray, Harris. Jones of Arkansas, Kenna. Morgan, Payne, Reagan, Turpie, Vest, Voorhees, Walthall, Wilson of Maryland.

The House unseated Compton,* Dem., and seated Mudd, Rep., in the contested case from Maryland. Ayes, 159; nays, 145. In the Senate on the 21st, numerous petitions and memorials were presented fora law against the employment of aliens on government work, somo for the free and unlimited coinage of silver, one from Nebraska against the extension of time for the payment of the Pacific railroad debts to tho government, and from California for the removal of duty on jute and jute bagging. The bill declaring trusts and combinations unlawful was taken up, and Mr Sherman delivered a speech in its favor, followed by Mr. Vest. The remainder of the day was devoted to debate in the bill. It will come up again Monday. The House considered and passed th lupropriation bill. The discussion was long and warm, and assumed a pronounced political phase. The bill appropriates 198,000,000. The bill to retire Gen. Fremont with the rank of Major general passed. At night fifteen private pension bills wore passed. /