Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-03-30
CONGRESS.

In the United States Senate, w edneS
day, the Life-Saving Service bill was
discussed but laid aside without action.
The Diplomatic Appropriation bill pass
| ed with the following amendments: Al
lowing 100000 for contingent expenses
of the Department of State; and requir-
! ing hereafter that all commercial agen-
cies, whether paid by fees or otherwise,
be specifically enumerated, with the
compensation in each case, in the annual
estimates of the Secretary of State. ,l
In the House, resolution Was adopt
ed calling on the Secretary of War for
information as to what further relief
was necessary for sufferers from the
overflow of the Mississippi. The Chinese
bin was taken up, and Mr. Washburne
spoke in its favor, claiming that the
continuance of Chinese immigration
would bring about the greatest of all
dangers degradation of labor He
contended that there wasno analogy be-
tween immigration from Europe and
4hat from China. Mr.. Kasson offered
an amendment limiting the time of sus-
pension to ten years.
Inthe Senate on Thursday, Mr. George
| from the Committee ON Agriculture, re-
ported the original bill to make the De
partment of Agriculture an Executive
Department. A bill was introduced for
the admission of Washington Territory
Into the Onion as State. The reselu-
tion declaring for a reciprocity treaty
with Mexico was referred to the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations. The Tariff
Commission bill then came up, and Mr..
| Garland made speech favoring a ref
erence of the subject of the tariff to
members of Congress rather than to eX-
perts appointed by the President. Mr..
| Vance moved an amendment to the bill,
directing that in the selection of Com
missionerS the President shall give a
representation to the agricultural and
manufacturing industries in proportion
Ito the capital invested and number of
persons engaged therein. The bill then
went lovers The Indian Appropriation
bill was reported with amendments in
| creasing the sum appropriated for pur-
! poses of support and education.
The Chinese bill was discussed at
length in the House, and finally passed
in exactly the shape in which it came
from the Senate, by vote Of 167 to So.
Mr. ,Kasson's amendment reducing the
period of suspension to ten years was
rejected yeas 100, nays 131. Mr.. But
terworth's amendment limiting the pc
riOa to fifteen years was lost by a viva
yoce vote. .yJI3go1q sDf, sj
] The; ainGwork, in the Senate Friday,
was the passage Of the Life-Sayihg Ser
vice; bill. .TheF joint resolution for the
prirtisglof sMr. iBlaine's eulogy Of the
4 late President, Garfield passed The Tar
| iff Commission hiiha WIS takenIup and
4 Messrs. Miller, Morgan and Sherman
spoke upon it. rs . s2AiIIElI s8J W.
y The House was. engaged mostiof the
l day on the private calendar. The bill.
| referring ito the Court of Claims. the
4 claim of the eaptors of the ram Albe-
marie, was provocative of Il long discus
sion. 1t was. finally reported to 1.-the
House from the Committee of the Whole
and passed. An evening sessionwas held
for the consideration of pension bills ON
the private calendar. Rhirty-seyenb bills
were passed and5 the House adjourned
till Monday. I'll ~ ~. BIO ncff asilm
+ In the Senate Monday, a ljill Was re-
ported to establish tire Eastern Judic
.District9of Kentucky Bi4l passed grant
! ing pensi ons to the widows of Presidents
Gariiuld.j Tyler and Polk. The tariff
commissions bill MIS- discussed, and the
agricultural appropriation bill, with
amendments, was reported back.
In the House the PostOilice apprOpria-
ton bill was reported back. and referred
to Committee of the Whole. Mr.. King
offered a joint resolution to authorize a
committee of five Senators and ten Rep
resentatiyes to go tOs.the Mississippi
Valley and investigate damages by
floods. MIR. Gaswell introduced a bill to
issue $25,000.000 in postal currency.
Much important business was introduc-
ed, but nothing determined. si ls