Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-15
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. NATIONAL LAWMAKING. What Congress Has Done
 and is Doing. MUCH WORK REMAINING ON HAND. A Slim Chance For the Tariff
 Bill. A HOLOCAUST IN RUSSIA. Three Hundred Lives Lost By
 Fire.
A HOLOCAUST IN RUSSIA.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
 The Labors of Congress-Natters That Must be Disposed oE-A Vast Amount Of Important Legislation Still on Hand-A Poor Outlook for the Tariff Measure. WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-The talking dispo-
 sition which seems to have got hold of our national lawmakers, and which gets full vent on Saturdays, seemed to have sway again yesterday. at least in the, Senate. There, l after good deal of oratory, an executive | session was ordered, in which the treaty with Mexico (providing for retrial of the Veil and La Abra claims) was discussed until the
 hour of adjournment, when it was left in 1 abeyance, no vote being reached in the mat 1 ter. The House, however, did something in
 the way of legislation by passing the pension appropriation bill, the fertilization bill and l the bill relating to the adjudication of claims for pensions The first as passed provides ::
 For army and pensions, $S5, ,oo0; for l navy pensions. $10, 900, Oo0 for fees of sur- geons and medical men, $575.oO0; total, $95, 575, 900. The fertilization bill appropri- ates for repairs $175, 900; for armament, in- sluding the conversion of smooth bores into rifes $1o0,0oo; for torpedoes $50, GOO; a total of $325, 1000 against sn aggregate of $375, 1000 for the current year. The estimates of the War department were $1, ,OOO, 1000. The latter bill gives for the loss of one eye SIP, of both eyes $5C, for total deaf
 ness $25, with an equitable propor-
 ton when the deafness is partial
 Beginning with tomorrow the Senate will
 meet at Il a. m. The intention during the
 remainder of the session is to devote two
 hours to routine business and the calendar.
 At o'clock the internal revenue and tariff
 bill will be taken up. The Ben Halliday claim is antagonizsd by the department of agriculture bill. Both may be disposed of to morrow. The tariff bill, according to the present rate of progress in the Senate, will not be finished for two or three weeks The House yesterday passed the pension and for tifcation bills with but little delay, and the shipping bill having been disposed of the way is pretty well cleared for action on the tariff bill whenever the Ways and Means committee report that measure. Monday, after the call of States which at this season of the session does not occupy much time, it will be in order for committees to move 8 suspension of the rules and pass bills by two-thirds vote. As defeat under these cir cumstances does not affect the status of the bill there are usually enough bills whose friends are willing to test the House on a two-thirds vote and Mondays session will probably be consumed in this way. But f0rty-one working days of the session renaain and of these three Mondays are given up for motions to sus- pend the rules. Two more, January 25 and hox7a haar rnnl &~-- ,I~-,s
 ofh and Houf this fea7ne but thirty-fve practical working days. With the most important appropriation
 bills, the tariff and internal revenue
 the presidential count and other important
 measures to be acted upon, minor matters,
 of which the calendar is full will obviously
 have but slight chance this session. With
 the tariff question stasing the House and
 Senate in the face and heavy calendar of
 private and general bills awaiting action, it is
 pretty safe to presume that the work of the committee aside from the Ways and
 Means, the special Mississippi and Appropria-
 tions in the House, and the Finance in the
 Senate, will be very light during the remain
 der of the session. There is no certainty in
 fixing day upon which the tariff bill will be
 reported to the House. It may be completed
 by the middle of this week and it may be in
 the room of the committee week hence, and according to the expressed opinions of several distinguished members of the committee it matters little when the bill is reported. They say it will not become law by the grace of this Con- gress, that conference cannot be secured that will agree to report it in satisfactory shape and so much debate will be provoked by it's complications that it will be pending on the 4th of March. More than this, they say, the President will not call an extra session of the House to complete it. It is probable that all the remaining appropriation bills will be re- ported to the House this week. The special Mississippi river committee intend to com pIete the hearing of witnesses this week and then commence work upon their report with a view of reporting it to the House on the 29th- It is said on good authority that majority will report against the river com mission and probably in favor of the outlet system, while the minority will report in favor of the commission.
 The name of John F. Olmstead for Com missioner of the District of Columbia has been withdrawn by President Arthur at his (Olmstead's) request.
 The friends of A. M CIapp who was the public printer during Grants administration, feel confident te night that he will be nomin- ated for the District commissionership by the President.
 B. W. Hewens, of Kansas, and A. Drennin, of Kansas City, representing cattle interest "OA OA p4OsOOO,UOO HI b16 4uOle1u 1GTEltOEy. arrived here to-day to confer with Secretary Teller regarding an order re- gently issued from the Interior department directing the destruction of all fences that have been erected in the Indian Territory by cattle men. They will endeayor to secure revocation of the order. The Secretary of War, who was called upon for men to carry out the order, says such work does not come under the powers of his depart ment. It is said the Cherokee Indians are willing to lease their lands to cattle men, but the delegates now here say they will take no steps toward securing the consent of the Sec retary of the Interior to lease lands. Secreta- ry Teller is being subjected to great deal of annoyance on account of the fence lease problems now disturbing the people in h. dian Territory.
 The members of the Senate Committee on Territories say there is no probability of | report being made on the bill to admit a DOT ton of Dakota as State this session. The | House Committee oD Public LandswiIl report | 8 bill this week creating new land districts in | Dakota.
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