The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-27
FORTY EVENTH CONGRESS.
Very Little Work Accomplished in
the Senate Yesterday.
The House Spends the Day in Fruitless
Debate and Dilatory Motions
the Reed Rule.
THE SENATE.


Unfinished Business and the Pension Bill
Action Taken.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-Mr. Grover presented
the credentials of Mr.. Dolph, his successor, as
senator from Oregon.
Mr.. Garland, from the committee on Judiciary,
reported bill to punish false PRESERVATION of
officers ami employees of the United States by n
fine of not more than 81 900 or imprisonDl eat
for not longer than three years bot in he
discretion of the court. The bill passed.
A resolution was adopted requesting the House
of Representatives to return the tariff bill in
order that certain clerical errors in it might be
corrected.
The Jeanette board adjourned subject to
orders from the Secretary of the Navy. When
Bartlett and his companions return from Siberia
they Will be examined in reference to the De
Long-Collins difficulty.
The House bill to prevent the importation OF
adulterated or spurious teas passed
The committee on education and labor was
the relations between labor and capital, ETC.,
and print the testimony.
Mr. Van Wyck called up the resolution request
ing the President to communicate any informa-
tion in his possession touching alleged agree
ment of the ministers of Great Britain, France
and Italy at Lima to make joint efforts to bring
about peace between Chilli and Peru, and to in-
form the Senate whether the minister of the
United States has been instructed to accept the
mediation of the ministers of the European pow
ers in settling purely American question. Mr..
Van WycR made a long speech i'll support of the
resolution, and IL was adopted without dissent.
Mr. Vest called up his resolution for the ap-
pointment of a committee of five senators TO eX-
anime into the condition of Yellowstone Nation
nj Park In the course of his remarks lie had
read "A latter received by him from the Secretary
of the Interior, which SAYS:
81 have determined not to take any action in
the matter of lease to Hatch & Co. until Con
gress shall take action on your bill-at least not
until the close of the session. If Congress shall
take action the subject, shall feel in
ellned to execute IL lease IN strict accordance
with the views EXPRESSED by your committee in
the report made to the Senate"
At the request of Mr. German, list of direct
ors of the Yellowstone National Park Improve
ment Company read, among whom are
Rufus Hatch, Roscoe COnkling, Hugh j. Has
tings, William Fullerton, John 4. Brady, A. j.
Vanderpool and Frederick L. Church, all of
New York.
The morning hour expired while Mr.. Vest was
speaking, and lie proposed that unfinished bust
should be set aside in order 10 dispose of
his resolution, which, lie said, would take but
little time.
Mr. Window said the resolution would prob
ably take more time than the senator from Mis-
souri, supposed. There two sides to this
question, and he proposed to demonstrate that
the Secretary of the interior had acted wisely in
undertaking to make a lease That was a better
way of preserving the PARK, and the parties now
making improvements there were acting in ac-
cordanee with their contract with the Secretary
of the Interior.
Mr. Cameron insisted upon proceeding with
unfinished business-the DILL to paw the Fourth
of July claims, and IT was taken up and passed.
Mr.. Edmunds moved to take up the Utah bill
MT. Mltcheii noVeu 10 pfoceou 70 cohslueratloh
of the pension bills on the calendar. Agreed to-
Several bills granting pensions to individuals
were passed, among them bills granting PEN
sions of $50 per month to the widows of Rear
Admiral Beaumont and the the late Major Gen
eral Warren.
Mr.. Mitchell moved to take up the House bill
granting increased pensions to cne-armed and
onelegged soldiers.
Mr. Williams moved to take up the pieuro-
pneumonia bill, bill, lie said, in which the peO-
pie generally were more interested than in any
other before the Senate this session Lost-yeas
II, nays 90
The increase of pensions bill was. then taken
up.
Mr.. Plumb reported that the committee of
conference on the postotfice appropriation bill
failed agree. Mr.. Plumb SAID the disagree
ment was mostly upon the Appropriation OF
Sl95000 for special mail facilities and the
change proposed in the charters OF the Pacific
raj roads. new conference committee APP
pointed, and with the pension bill pending the
Senate went into executive session and soon ad-
journed.