The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-08-11
THE WORLD'SDOINGS.
A SUMMARY Of the Daily News.
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.

CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.
THE bill granting q pension Of ST .
month to soldiers who lost an arm at the
shoulder passed the House. Also joint
resolution authorizing Lieutenant Com
mander Sigsbee to receive decoration from
the Government of Germany. and Joseph
r. Hawley, President of the Centennial
Commission to receive decorations from the
Governments Of Spain and Japan.
BOTH Houses of Congress passed the
River and Har5or bill over the Presidents
veto-the House by vote Of 122 to 60, and
the Senate by Al to 16.
REPRESENTATIVE BROWN, of Indiana, has
introduced resolution providing for the
investigation of the Soldiers Home at
Hampton, Va. Serious charges are cited
against Superintendent Woodfin in the pre-
amble to the resolution.
THE President vetoed the River and Har.
Dor bill. While he was in favor of many Of the
items Of the bill as of national importance,
he returned the bill without his approval.
His principal objection to the bill was that
it contained appropriations for purposes
not for the common good or general wei.
fare, and which did not promote COM
merce among the States. These provisions
ON the contrary are entirely for the benefit
of particular localities in which it Is pro.
posed to make Improvements. He regard
ed such appropriations Of the public funds
as beyond the power given by the Coastitu-
ton to Congress and the President.
ADVERSE action was taken by the Senate
Finance Committee upon the House bill to
authorize the Secretary Of the Treasury to
issue 500, 00O, 200 of two per cent bonds to
be exchanged for other bonds bearing
higher rate of interest. The bonds under
the provisions Of the bill being of conven-
lent denomination, would readily circulate
as currency and the committee failed to
recognize any necessity for increasing the
volume of paper currency by issuing inter.
est bearing notes.
THE Judiciary Committee of the House
with only one dissenting vote, a
resolution recommending all lands granted
the Texas g. Pacific Railroad Company,
under an act of Congress approved March
3, 1871, and acts alnendatory or supple
meutory thereto, be declared forfeited, and
that the whole of said lands be restored to
the public domain and made subject to
sale and settlement under the existing laws
of the United States.
In the Senate, August 4th, the conference
report on the bill for the sale of part of the
Omaha reservation in Nebraska was con-
Cured in. The House bill for the estab-
lishment of diplomatic relations with Per-
STA, and authorizing the appointment of q
Consul General to that country, with
salary of 5000, passed. The House bill
to relieve certain soldiers of the late war
from the charge of desertion passed, so
amended as to exclude from its benefits
those who served less than twelve months
or who Intentionally deserted. The tax
reduction bill was then discussed until ad-
journment.
In the House Mr.. Hutchins offered res
olution proposing Constitutional amend
ment providing that it shall take two.thirds
of the members of each house 10 pass bill
over the Presidents veto, instead of two
thirds of the members voting as at present.
Mr.. Robinson presented conference re-
port upon the Naval Appropriation bill,
stating that an agreement had been reached
on all points in dispute except that relative
to closing navy yards.