The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-04
Arrival of the Distinguished Party at
Washington.

tITiFh VI tHc DISTINGUISHED EdIty al
Washington.
RE Wall Street Wrangle.-The Bulls
and Bears Darker the financial
Sky with a Profuse Dis
pensation of Fur.
Congressional Summary.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 25--SESATE
The credentials of John Sherman, SEN
were read and filed.
at the conclusion of the morning bust
ness the senate took up the agricultural |
bill. In committee of the |
whole the bill was read and the amend |
ments of the senate committee acted up
on as reached. The amendment strik- |
ing out the proviso for the completion |
and publication by the chronological |
of the data already obtained |
by Them, etc, was rejected, and the com
mission continues. The remaining |
of the committee were |
agreed TO without debate. The bill was |
then reported to the senate and passed. |
HoUsE-The hours rolled by without
business of any kind being transacted.
At ) :45 q. m. Mr.. Cox again rendered
the Republican side vote on every num-
Der they desired. He knew the men on
his side of the house had been panied at
hearing the sad news of the death of
senator Carpenter. He proposed now to
take vote on each number from 319
down or from 293 up, and in addition
he stated the amendment, fixing the
basis of representation at 81, would be
withdrawn.
Mr.. Conger declined to agree to
withdraw the previous question.
AT 6 40 Mr.. Hawley took the floor to
make . suggestion that each side of the
house select five gentlemen, who should
meet and agree upon some plan of set
Element. The house then could take re-
cess until 1920 and business could be
proceeded with This proposition met
with universal approval and was unani-
mously agreed to. The members of the
respective sides then grouped together,
and after a few moments caucus, Mr..
Robson announced that the Republicans
had agreed upon the following gentle
men to reprent them: Conger, Sherman,
Lapham, Anderson, and Shellenberger.
Mr.. Springer announced that the Demo
Gratis had agreed upon Messrs. Cox,
Thompson of Kentucky, Reagan,
House and Morrison.
At II O'Clock the session of Friday
began. While the house was waiting
for a report from the committee appoint
ed last night to come to some agree
ment upon the appOrtionment bill, the
senate bill passed for the sale of the re-
mainder of the reservation of confeder-
ate Otoe and Missouri tribes of Indians
in Kansas and Nebraska.
The senate bill was passed, requesting
the president, in the name of the United
States, to invite all foreign governments
| to take part in the international exhibit
ton in New York in 1888, provided the
United States shall not be liable, directly
or indirectly, for expenses attendant on
the exhibition.
The house then went into committee
of the whole on the sundrv civil bill,
pending the discussion of which an ad-
| journment was made till tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, Feb. &C. SENATE -
House bills for the relief of settlers upon
the Shawnee lands of Kansas, and author
iZing charge for melting and refining
bullion, when at or above the standard,
were passed.
Mr.. Vance introduced bill for the
purchase by the secretary of war of pri.
| vate papers of the late confederate gen.
erals, Bragg and Polk, relating to the
war of the rebellion, and an appropria.
ton of 5000 for the same, referred.
The senate proceed to consider the
river and harbor bill, and the amend
ments of the committee were agreed tC
: in the committee as reached.
HoUsE.-The journal of Thursday ana
Friday having been read. Mr.. Weaver
asked leave to offer a resolution grant
ing F. W. Fortzche, member of thu
German Reichtag, use of the hall of tit
house this evening, for the purpose o
delivering lecture on the present con
dition of the German people. Objcc
ton was made, and the house went int
committee of the whole on the sundr,
civil appropriation bill. All debates OF
the pending amendment, the appropria
ton of 100000 for the establishment
9 of naval and coaling stations on tn
/ Isthmus of Panama, were limited t.
/ twenty minutes. After considerable d.
D bate Mr.. Goodies amendment was adop
( ed, 80 to IS. Mr.. Blunt gave notice h
I would call the roll by yeas and nays i
D the house.
t On motion of Mr.. Springer the amend
: ment was adopted appropriating $50
e for the purchase of Mr.. Ingalls, portra
of the late Thomas Ewing.
!. WASHINGTON, d. c., March 1.-SEl
4 ATE-Senator Eaton, from the commit
p tee on foreign affairs reported back SUI
o dry bills and resolutions recommendin
q the construction of ship canals or raj
e ways across the Isthmus. He said th
/. committee asked to be discharged frol
d the consideration of all these subject
> thinking the time had not arrived whe
/: congress should express an opinion
IS regard to any particular route. TIL
e request of the committee was compile
= with
D The house bill to dispose of the Osag
le Indian lands in Kansas was passed.
o. The Japanese indemnity funding hi
q came up, and pending debate upon
IF the conference report on the river ar
harbor bill was agreed to without discu
D. sion.
:. HoUsE-The conference report on Il
to river and harbor bill was agreed to, ye
" 162, nays "a.
.r Pending debate upon calling up Il
IT funding bill, the speaker declared Il
regular order to be the appOrtIonme
bill.
Mr.. Cox called attention to the ia
that the insincerity of the other side ".
shown in the fact that they did not wa
in either the funding or the apportionme
bill.
A vote was taken on the question
consideration, and by a vote of yeas !
nays 145, the house refused to consid
it. Upon reaching the funding bill, NJ
ST Mcmillan moved to concur in the sc
OF ate amendments.
MI SOukCl I0loCO - POAub Oh bAS VI
CT that the senate amendments must nj
N be considered in the committee of q
* whole.
re The point being overruled Mr.. Co
N ger raised similar point upon Z
ne amendment increasing from Il to Is
10 one per cent, the expense which may
ID incurred in disposing of bonds al
q treasury notes. This point was al
81, overruled and Mr.. Conger's appeal la
1T on the table Yeas, ia, nays, 90.
Ut Mr.. Tucker moved for a recess, statil
ne that lie would press the consideration
IL the bill to a final passage.
ne A recess was then taken.
81 81 From Mentor to Washington.
II MENTOR, O., Feb. 2S.-The day
~, which Gen. Garfield set out for his joI
y ney to Washington dawned bright a
u cheerful, with the heavy mud of the p
y ceding day dried or frozen, so that I
IN passage fiom Lawnfeld TO Mentor dep
~ a distance of a mile and half, "
- easily made in carriages or on fot
y which latter was the method of LOGON
ton chiefly employed by the gentlem
of visitors. There were fakes of snow
Va the forenoon, but at 10 80, the time fix
- for the departure of the tram, the {
8 was crisp and clear, and almost the {
p tire population of Mentor and the neig
boring villages, with many visitors fro
neighborinC towns, friends OF the far
- lily from distant cities and newspal
y men were on hand to bid God speed
the President-elect. A large excursi
20 from Ashtabula and Painsville were
nb the depot. The route as announc
M by General Manager J. D. Laying, of I
III III Pennsylvania road, is as follows: T
:. train will go by the Lake Shore road
Ashtabula, thence by the Pennsylvar
company's line through Ware
Youngstown and Pittsburg, arriving
oT the latter city at z 80 p. m, and reaC
en- r,ss .a;r - r e e o,s T'adt mr., .
manned by the Pennsylvania compan
a Although il was understood that {