Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1890 — CONGRESSIONAL. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESSIONAL.

The Senate debated the Federal election" bill, on the.9th. Senator Pluml* introduced j a free coinage bill. Several measures of' interest to agriculture were reportedSenate bill appropriating $20,000 for the; erection in the Smithsonian grounds of a 1 statue to Robert Dale Owen, of Indiana,as. the member of Congress who introduced the bill for the organization of the Smith-' sonian Institution, and who was chairman of its first regents, was passed. The House defeated the bill, ayes 152, nays 82, providing for the removal of the remains as Gen. Grant from Riverside to Arlington. Public building appropriations were passed as follows: Youngstown, 0., $75,000; Rock Island, 111., $75,000; South Bend, Ind., $75,000; Madison, Ind., $50,000; Lima, 0., $60,000; Bloomington. 111., SIOO,000; Kansas City, Mo., $1,200,000; Akron, 0., $100,000; Rockford, 111., SIOO,OOO. The Senate on the 10th, after the transaction of routine business, debated the election bill. Several public building bills were passed. The House did nothing of importance. The Senate, on the 12th, engaged in a warm political dabate over the rights of negro suffrage in the South. The House consumed nearly the whole day in discussing the permits of a bill for the relief of John L. Rhea and Joseph R. Anderson, of East Tennessee. Notwithstanding a vigorous fight in its favor by Mr. Stone of Kentucky and Mr. Houck of Tennessee, the House, in committee of the whole, recommended its recommittal to the committee on war claims. The committee having risen, the recommendation was agreed to, and bills were passed for the relief of AR»rd & Crozier, Samuel Fels the legal representatives of Peter Lyle Matilda Cook. James A. Gregory, the estate of F. M. Murray and Warren Hall. A bill was introduced in tho Senate Jon the 13th to establish a record and pension office in the War Department. Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, spoke against the elections bill. In the House, notice wis given that Htewpportionment-bilh would J Be called up next Tuesday. A report was made from committee favorable to tho establishment of a merchant marine, A memorial was presented to Congress urging the immediate passage of the Torry bankruptcy bill as a .♦lief to the commercial Interests of the country.