The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-03-01
AT WASHINGTON
rottg.seVonlh Congressional session
ae..TH

SGT ted tho credentials OF ME- DOlpni hH
successor as senator from oregon.
Mr.. Garland, from the committee on iu'
dlclny y, reported the bill 10 punish false
personation of officers and employees o.
the United States, by fine not more than
$1,000, or imprisonment not longer than
three years, or both in the discretion 81 the
court, The bill passed.
The resolution was adopted REQUESTING
the house of representatives 10 return ,he
tariff bill in order that certain clerical
errors in II might be corrected.
House bill to prevent the importation OF
adulterated or spurious tas, passed;
The committee on education ana LABOR
was authorized to continue its INJURY mo
the relations between labor and capital,
etc, and to print the testimony.
MIR. Van Wyck called up the resolution
requesting tire president to communicate
any information in his possession touching
the alleged agreement OF the ministers OF
Great Britain, France and Italy, at Lima,
to make a / int effort to bring about peace
between Chill and Peru, and to inform the
senate whether the minister OF the united
States has been instructed to accept the
mediation of the ministers OF European
powers in settling purely American ques-
lions. :.
Mr.. Van Wyck made long speech in
support of the resolution, and it was adopted
without dissent.
Mr.. Vest csled up his resolution for the
appointment OF q committee OF hive senators
to examine into the condition OF the iel-
lCWstone park. In the course OF his re-
marks he had read a letter received by HIM
from the secretary sof the interior, which
saws 81 have determined not to take any
action in the matter of the lease to Hatch &c
Co. until congress shall take action on
your BILL at least, not until the close OF the
session. If congress shall take no action on
the subject, l shall feel inclined to execute
a lease in strict accordance with the views
expressed by your committee in the report
made TO the senate.
At the request of Mr.. German, the list of
directors OF the Yellowstone National
Park improvement company, were
Hatch, Roscoe oonkling, Hugh
John Il. Brady, A. J. yanderpeel and
Frederick E. Church, all of New York.
The morning hour expired while Mr..
Vest was speaking, and he proposed that
the unfinished business should be set aside,
in order to dispose of his resolution, which,
he said, would take but little time.
Mr.. Window said the resolution would
probably take more time than the senator
from Missouri supposed. There were two
sides to the question, and he proposed to
demonstrate that the secretary of the
interior had acted wisely in undertaking to
make lease; that that was the better way
OF preserving the park, and that parties nov
making improvements there were acting m
accordance with their contract with the
secretary of the interior.
Mr.. Cameron insisted on proceeding with
the unfinished business, the bill to pay
Fourth of July claims, and it was taken up
and passed.
Mr.. Edmunds moved to take up the
Utah bill.
Mr.. Mitchell moved to proceed with the
consideration of the pension bill on the
calendar. Agreed to-.
Several bills granting pensions to indi-
viduals Were passed, among them bills
widows of Rear Admiral Beaumont and
the late MAJ or-General Warren.
Mr.. Mitchell moved to take up the house
bill granting pensions to one-armed and
one legged soldiers
Mr.. Williams moved to take up pleuro-
pneumonia bill, bill, he said, in which
the people generally were more interested
than in any other bill before the senate this
session.. Hostages, II; nays, 20.
The Increased pensions bill was then
trhhdn, up.
Mr. lPiumb reported from the committee
circumference on the post-otfice appropriation
bill, tfSat they had failed to agree. Nj.
p
the appropriation of $1S5,000 for special
mail facilities, and the change proposed in
the charters of Pacific railroads.. A new
conference committee was appointed.
With the pension bill pending, the senate
went into an executive session, and soon
aftet-adjourned.
The senate amendments to the District OF
Colunlhia as,proppiatiosa i-iil ul.u 20 the leg
islativs bill were not concurred in' and .
conference committee appointed.
Caswell submitted the conference report
on the postofilce appropriation bill and ex-
planned that the conference committee had
retained the appropriation OF $lS,5OO ior
specialtmal faci titles, and had struck opt
the clause limiting compensation 70 De palu
for mah transportation to substitute ROADS,
and fixed October /, 1888 as the date when
the twC-cent postage shall 70 into effect:
These were the only important items o.
disagreement.
The epgrossed copy of the senate amend
.nent TO the internal revenue bill was re-
turned to the senate for correction.
The house then resumed consideration OF
the conference report on the post-ollce
appropriation bill.
Anderson said the senate was taking the
position that it would defeat the post-oftice
bill rather than that the light OF little DIT
of God Almighty's justice should nash
down on these railroad companies. lie
hoped Tie conference report "ouI0 " fOtes
=, down. and the senate conferees informed
that they had to back down or they would
get no post-office appropriation bill.
f Dunn opposed the report, and expressed
The hone that the headlight of the locomo-
tive would not always continue TO be a lamp
o the iootpads of conference committees.
He trusted the time would come when the
people could have congress which could
lind how to serve them.
The motion to adjourn TO report was lost
yeas, 11i; nays, l33, and further confer
ence was ordered.
Hiscock, chairman of the committee en-
Appropriations, reported the deficiency APP
preparation DILL. Ordered printed ana re-
The pound rule then went into opera
nv ~ Robinson, Of New York--A resolution
calling on the secretary OF state for inlorms-
ton as 10 whether officers oil the, BRUSH
steamship Republic, within e. Jays haa
an immigrant under arrest until they sent
for fhe british consul and held pretended
trial before the British consul within terri
tory of the United Ststes before Allowing
said immigrant 10 land. ~,
Alec a Joint resolution for the relief OF
England, the benefit OF Ireland. ana tne
cloTv of the United States. Ibaughterl IL
Tecifes AZ length the present condition OF
Ireleud. declares Der people are painting To-
rsnublicauism asserts that Ireland n more
Necessary 20 the United States than much
OF her present territory, and would rirai
DE great state Of New York In wealth, ID
,eiiigeuce and culture, and requests the
,,re,ideut 20 open communication WITH tue
Government Of Great Britain 20 obtain its
consent Tor the accession Of ireland 70 the
Tnited States by purchase or otrerTlse-
Rice. under instructions rom the com
ruiftee on foreign afairs, called up me
sersts iaiut resolution, providing for the
terrnfDefinn Of articles numberei ron ~
~ 15 and article 30 Of the treaty between
The Uni,ed s,stes and Crest Britain Co, eon-