Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1890 — NATIONAL CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL CONGRESS.

In th° Senate on the 11 tb adverse reports were made from the finance committee on; Mr. St anford’s bill for government loans! on lie. is of real estate and on the bill to abolish metal money, and the bills were; indefinitely postponed. A bill extending' the criminal jurisdiction of the circuit and* district courts to the great lakes and their, connecting waters, was taken from the calendar and passed. The silver bill was debated. ‘The bill to prohibit mouoply in the transportation of cattle to foreign countries was passed. The bill to .‘provide for the inspection of live cattle and bee* products intended for export was passed. It requires the Secretary of Agriculture to cause to be made a careful inspection all live cattle and beef products intended for export to foreign countries from the] United States, with a view to ascertain whether such cattle and beef products are free from disease; and for this purpose he may appoint inspectors, who shall be au thorized to give an official eertificate clearly stating the condition in which such' animals and beef products are found, and iio clearance shall be given to any vesse * having on board cattle or beef product ! for exportation to a foreign country unless, the owner or shipper of such cattle has a 1 certificate from the inspectors stating that! said cattle and beef products are sound and free from disease. Seventy-hve private pension bills were passed." I The House took up and considered the dependent pension bill. Mr. Morrill, in} explanation of the report, stated that the conference committee had struck out the; dependent feature of the Senate bill and) theservice feature of the House bill. The, measure, as determined upon, was not ex-j actly what he would desire, but it was the' best that he could obtain. It would distri -j bute $35,000,000 among the poor soldiers of the Nation. Mr. Poder, of Ohio, protested' against the conference report, holding that it ignored the demands of the soldier, left his prayers unanswered, and buried in the* basement of the Capitol his petition for a per diem rate of pensions. Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, favored the bill on the ground that it would place on the pension ro 11s 250,000 names, ana would increase the pension of 50,000 men now on the rolls, other menbers made statements and the report was adopted by ayes 145, nays 56. Iu the Senate on the 12th Mr. Davis presented the conference report on the dependent pension bill, after explaining which, the discussion of the silver bill was continued.

Iu the House the anti-trust bill was passed with the following amendment: “Every contract or agreement entered into for the purpose of preventing competition in the transportation of persons or property from one State or Territory into another, so that the rates of such transportation may be raised aDove what is just and rea* sonable, shall be declared unlawful within the meaning of this act. And nothing in this act shall be deemed or held to impair the powers of the several States in respect of any of the matters in this act mentioned.” The agricultural appropriation was passed; also a few unimportant bills. The President returned to the House without his approval the bill for the erection of a public building at Tuscaloosa, Alb- la his veto message the President said: “In the present uncertain state of the public revenues and expenditures resulting from pending and probable legislation, there is, to my mind, an absolute necessity that expenditures for public buildings should be limited to cases where the public needs are very evident and very imperative. It is clear that this is not suoh a case.” In the Senate on the 18th the Senate sliver bill was taken up, and after a short discussion it was agreed, by unanimous consent, that the Senate bill should be laid on the table and the House bill, as amandi ed by the finance committee, substituted for it. The House went into Committee of the Wbolo on the 13th and discussed the civil appropriation bill. Among the amendment# adopted was one appropriating SIO,OOO for an elevator in the public build? lng at Peoria, IIL