The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-02-16
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PROCEEDINGs OF CONGRESS.

PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRBSSs
In the Senate the 5th, Mr.. Van Wyck offered
aresolutdon directing the Committee on Pen
sions to inquire whether claim agents in Wash
fngton are practicing extortton for their ser
widows or orphans. After the Executive Ses-
sion the Tariff bill was taken up and the lutte
schedule discussed. The debate took wide
articles. A motion to strike jute from the
schedule and put it on the free list was finally
adopted, "a 10 %. After further debate on jute
goods reached, when the Senate adjourned.
In the House a motion was made to suspend
the rules and pass the bill establishing the Ter
y Of sna Ss
refused to suspend the rules. The Tariff de-
bate was resumed when the motion was sec
onded that on the 18th day of February, or on
my day thereafter, the Committee of the
Whole. having consideration Of the House
Tariff bill, Is hereby empowered to order the
bill and amendments thereto reported to the
House for Its action, and on that day motion
made in the Committee of the Whole to rise
and report the bill to the House shall take pre-
cedence OF q motion to amend.
On the 9Th the President laid before the
Senate O memorial of the Wisconsin Legisla-
ture, stating that the piers of railway bridges
across the Mississippi arc dangerous to navi-
booms as soon as possible. Resolutions were
agreed to instructing the Committee on PEN
eions TO inquire whether any claim agents in
tempt was made to take up the Postoffice APP
propriation bill but failed, and the Senate re-
fumed the Tariff bill, the wooden schedule be-
ing under consideration After the trans
House went into Committee of the Whole on
the Tariff bill. Pending consideration the Com
mittee rose, and public business being sus-
pended. appropriate resolutions upon the life
and public services ofthe late Representatives,
Updergraff, ofohio, and Hawk, of Illinois, were
adopted, and the House adjourned.
Consideration of the Tariff bill was resumed
N the Senate the 7th. and the subject was
further discussed by Morrill,, Davis, Beck, Al
erich and others. When the schedule, books,
papers. ETC., was reached Mr.. Ingalls, said he
would move to put books, on the free list
There was no reason for the 20 per cent duty
laid upon them here: It would be direct tax
upon knowledge and the means of education,
1nd ought to be struck out, and motion to
strike out the paragraph, 80 as to let books,
pamphlets and other printed matter go upon
THE House went into Committee of
the Whole on the Tariff bill, the pending
amendment being that offered by Mr.. Kelley,
manganiterous iron ore, also dross or reeidum
from burnt pyrites from so to Is cents per ton.
Mr. Anderson, of Kansas, offered an amend
ment to come in after the headline of the
schedule consisting of the metal schedule as
agreed upon by the Senate. He submitted that
il it was intended to pass any Tariff bill this
session it could only be done by meeting
schedule. If that were done the country could
get tariff legislation. If not it would get no tariff
legislation. This called forth an exciting col
loquy between Messrs. Anderson and Page of
California After long debate the Tariff was
left as at present.
On the Sth the President laid before the
Senate a memorial of the Legislature of Kan
eas in reference to the pluro-pneumonia in
cattle. After a brief Executive Session, the
Senate took up the Tariff, and consideration
vaIs TO nut hooks en the free iist WAS adonted
by % to p. After completing the free list
and some further unprofitable debate the Sem
adjourned. In the House Joint resolution
passed to admit free of duty a monument to
George Washington to be imported by the
Philadelphia Society of Cincinnati, Ohio. The
House then went into Committee on the Tariff
bill, the pending amendments being those fix
Ing the duty on steel rails. After a discussion
of some length the Committee fixed the duty
on steel railway bars and bars made in part of
steei weighing. more than twenty-fve pounds
sion the House went into Committee of the
Whole upon the Legislative Appropriation bill.
In the Senate the 9th, the bill to relieve
ships and other vessels from compulsory pilot
fees was reported favorably. Mr.. Edmunds
reported favorably joint resolution providing
Washington treaty. Mr.. Hale reported the
naval bill 1t appropriates s,434. The
Senate committee added $5lS0 to the aggre-
gate of the bill as it passed the House, and the
total amount exceeds last years bill about
$4,000 the addition being due to items forthe
Increase of the navy, including the sum for the
completion of monitors. The Tariff bill was
then taken up and debated until adjournment.
..... In the House Mr.. Bedford. from the Com
mittee on Coinage Weights and Measures, re-
ported resolutions declaring it inexpedient to
discontinue the coinage of silver under the eX-
listing law. The conference report on the Mil
itary Academy bill was submitted and agreed
20. The House went into committee on the
Tariff bill.