The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1838-12-26
NEWPORT.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 26, 1898.
DOINGs In CONGRESS.

I DOINGS IN CONGRESS.
t In SENATE, on Monday, the bill to post
-, ponc the payment Of the fourth instalmen
Of the "surplus" reyenuel was taken up
!. and Mr.. Clay's amendment, naming the Is
I Of January, 1910, as the period to which i
: should be deferred, was disagreed to, yea.
II, nays 26. The hill was then ordered to
be engrosscd without n division. A repor
from the committee Of Finance, to whom
was referred the bill for the graduation o
the price of the public lands, to he cousid-
cred in its financial bearing, was pre-
sented. II presents much valuable statisii-
cal information, and takes the ground that
the reduction Of the price of the public
lands will, by increasing the sales, much
aid the revenue. The bills to prevent the
counterfeiting of foreign coin, and for the
punishment thereof, and to punish certain
offences against the United States, were
ordered to be engrossed.
In the IloUsE, the following resolution
was passed, being submitted by Mr.. Frey,
of Pennsylvania. Before its adoption, the
rules of the House being suspended, long
debate was gone into, principally among
the Pennsylvania delegation, who fought
the Harrisburg battles over, for the amuse- :
ment Of the House. When adopted, it was
with the addition Of tho second clamse, Of
tered by Mr.. Gushing, of Massachusetts:
Resolved, that the President Of the Unit
ed States be requested to communicate ia
this House Cf not incompatible with the
public interesl) whether, since the com
uencement of the present session of Con-
gres,, any call has been mnde upon the
Executive Department Of this Government,
bv the Governor of Pennsylvania, for an
armed force of United States troops, aud
what (ofiicia) correspondence (if any) has
taken place between him and the Governor
of said State in relation to said call; and
whether any arms, powder, ball or buck
shot, or other munitions Of war, have been
furnished by the United Safes to any Of
the troops in Pennsylvania, recently called
out by order of the Executive of that State.
"And whether any officer Of the United
States instigatcd or participated in certain
late riotous proceedings in the State of PEN
sylvania, as alleged in the proclamation
of the Governor Of said State; aud what
measures, if any, the President has taken
to investigate aud punish said acts and
whether such officers still remain in the
service of the United States.
The indefaiigabIe abolitionists smuggled
some abolition before the House, in the
shape of petitions for opening commercial
negotiations with Hayti. One was laid
over as giving rise to debate another MIR.
Wise objected to; Mr.. Adams took The
floor in defence of the right Of petition /;
Mr.. Wise insisted that these petitions were
part and parcel of the abolition movements,
to prove which he read the one Mt length
which was hefore the House, from Nam
tucket. Il was found TO embrace also
petition for the abolition of slavery ia the
District of Columbia, The non admission of
any new state, &c. &c. Before the aues-
ton of reception was taken, the House od-
Journed.
ln SENArs, on Tuesday, after the morn
ing business u bull from the House, appro-
priating certain sums for the mileage and
perdicm of members was taken IN. Mr..
Wall of New Jersey offered an amendment,
appropr'sting two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars for the payment of the pensions
due on the first Of January. This gave rise
to a debate on the pension system, which
was not concluded when the Senate ad-
journed.
In the House The only business done was
The reference to the Committee on Foreign
Affairs of petition praying the establish
ment of International relations with the Re-
public of Hay,i. Messrs. Wise. Lerare
and others warmly opposed the reference
with some warmth.
In the SENATE, on Wednesday. Mr.. Bu-
chanan offered resolution ins,rue,;,s the \
Committee on Naval Affair. to inou,re
into the expediency Of providing for the con-
s'tuci'on of one or more steam vessels of
war. " steam ships Of war should ,r,,e /.
to be ss cflicicn, for attack and defence n.