The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-02-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WASHINGTON AND CONG REss1oNAL.


on the tariff -
Mr.. Blair introduced in the Senate last week a
Dill 10 prevent the use OF convict labor upon
works of the United States
In the House of Representatives, last wednes-
day hr. Butterworth made an earnest effort 10
secure an hour for the consideration of the bond
ed whisky bill, but was beaten. Mr. Joyce declared
during the session.
| President Arthur has nominated Arthur L.
Thomas, OF Pennsylvania TO be Secretary OF
Utah; and George N. Pritchard attorney for
There is evidently majority in Congress favor.
able 70 high protective duties ON iron, STEEL wood
glass, silg, cotton. wool and sugar. The pro-
| tectionists have been forced to give way some
what on Quinfne. steel rails aud beer bottles
Friends of the tariff hope TO get the Senate bill
before Committee of conference as the basis for
an adjustment of differences between the two
branches. The House last Wednesday refused 70
place lumber on the tree list
| In the Senate. Thursday, Mr.. Cockrell presented
petitions fr0m the officers of severed educational
institutions In Missouri for the appointment OF a
| Naval Observatory. Mr.. Morrill, handed in a re-
monstrance against any reduction OF the tariff on
books below p per cent, signed by Oliver Wendell
| Holmes, 7. B. Aldrich aud John e. Whittier. In
executive session, Mr.. Edmunds offered resolu-
zion to admit TO the floor only such private secre-
tar1es as are engaged in the performance Of duty.
In the House of Representatives last Thursday
| MI. Williams submitted a conference report on
| the japanese indemnity fund.- TO return the $751;
zoo received, to pay sl40Ooo to the ofcere of the
| wyoming aud 1akiang, and cancel the bonds
| composing the indemnity fund. This was agreed
| TO.
Secretary Lincoln, in answering the request of
General Hazen for a Investigation of the Signal
service Bureau by the.Senate, points out the diff
ferent kinds OF blunders contained in the propO-
sition, and quietly suggests that the articles Of
| the Army.
The House of Representatives took I'D the leg
islative appropriation bill Friday, amended IL by
increasing the hours of work for Department EN-.
| enue COLLECTION Districts 10 eighty-two and then
passed it. Bills were introduced TO appropriate
s:OO and $500 900 for the relief of the sufferers
oy the HOOD along the Ohio and Mississippi.
The House of Representatives has called on the
Secretary of War for information as to the dam.
age done at Plum Point on the Mississippi.
The House Ways and Means Committee has
agreed to bill reducing the tax on tobacco and
cigars which will reduce the revenue s37 SEQ 600
The Congressional delegations from Kentucky,
ONO, Indiana and lllionis do not favor National
appropriations for the sufferers from the flood
THE STATE LEGISLATURE
The following is a brief summary of Legislative
matters since our last issue
of the rules spproprarDg $780, 600 for the relief of
the Indiana sufferers by the overflow of the
White, Wabash, and Ohio Rivers. The vote Ia
Honsa on lhe measure was 80 to and in the
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary,
and Treasurer of the State the custody of the
fund. aud directs them to dispose of IT in what
manner may seem to them best The senate
finally passed the Brown bill reorganizing the be-
neyolent institutions the Hilligass bill TO allow
county commissioners 70 purchase toll roads, aud
the Benz bill re-enacting the road law repealed
last session. The Yancey bill, preventing the
running at large of all kinds of stock.
was defeated on account of the lack
of Constitutional majority-yeas %:
nays 81. The House ordered engrossed
the bill providing for an appellate Court, with a
mcmillan QmQn6mhOt nriOfn llr
vided that the Court should consist OF three DEM
ocrats and two Republicans but to-day Mr.
in the Assembly offered an amendment that one
OF the Judges should he a Greenbacker which
was carried by vote of 63 to 80.
reducing the price of Supreme Court reports from
8. to $3.50 per volume, and appropriating So,
600 for the construction of sewer from the
County superintendent's bill, which proposed
that the officials be elected by popular vote came
up for discussion. A motion by Mr.. Jewett TO lay
to 81. 1t may therefore, be accepted as solid that
the Office OF County Superintendent will not be
interfeIed with by the present Legislature. Mr..
troductiyn of bill making a further appropria-
ton for The relief Of the sufferers ia the flooded
districts OF 100000 in addition to the $4,000
part of the House to wait until
come more definite information as to the
vanced %oon to refer it to she Vans a mo-
Means Committee was adopted. 1t was passed BY |
the House finally on Friday. Mr.. Tuley moved |
preparation by Congress for the relief Of the |
sufferers in the flooded districts along the Ohio
River and throughout the entire valley, which |
Committee has agreed to recommend a change in
the system of keeping the accounts OF receipts |
and purchases at the Southern Prison, and the |
adoption OF the same plan OF keeping the board |
ing house at the Southern Pfissr as has been
adopted at the Northern, vesting the Directors |
with the sole power TO make purchases OF sup |
plies, and instructing them to buy In the lowest
ms MT Huston Of the Committee. moved |
mat msroep hoWaro should De severely centured |
for neglect OF duty, and that the Directors be |
urged 70 remove him at once. The motion was |
not acted upon. but Towards friends were suf- |
fciently alarmed to telegraph HIM to come here |
at once.
TIE Senate considered the .Magee bill, which |
abolishes the present Statistical Bureau and re- |
present Statistical and Geological Department. |
The bill had received the Endorsement OF the |
Democratic caucus. and 1t was determined that |
sion. This was done after Mr.. Spann, on the |
Republican side, had been allowed TO express his
sentiments. He opposed the bill because the |
only object Of 1t was TO legislate Republicans out
Senators would point out one act of dishonesty |
on the part of any one connected with the Sta |
tstical Bureau or the office OF the State GeoogiSt
he would vote for the bill. Mr.. Msgee arose at |
the close of Mr.. Spann's remarks and stated he |
had on previous occasion stated that the Bureau
of Statistics had been run as an adjunct to the |
Republican state Central Committee. He had |
been informed since that such was not the case. |
He therefore wished to Withdraw the statement |
he had made. The bill is said to grow out of |
scheme concocted by combination of anthem |
perance Republicans and Democrats to rebuke |
Captain Conner Chief Of the Bureau, for the |
collection of some information on crime |
ard incidentally these facIs show up i
some OF the ugly features OF the liquor traffic |
and its relation 70 crime. These facts were |
nnh in 10 HI
iican city politicians were incensed at this and |
said IL would hurt them at the election In this |
city aud County. One of the Republican city /
dailies would not publish the statistics for this
reason and the other one was roundly cursed for /
doing so. Mr.. Bell, from msjority of the Com
mittee on Elections, submitted report signed by /
himself and Messrs Fletcher, Sayres, Spann and /
Lockrldge that ell specifications in the contest of
Johnston VS.. Overstreet, except the charges of |
bribery, are not sustained by sufficient evidence
to entitle the confession 10 seat In the Senate,
and that the legal effect of the evidence to the
charge of bribery is not such to sufficiently
tain the direct charge of bribery, ard believing
the contest was made In god faith, the re- |
port recommends that the confession be al /
lowed per diem and reasonable expenses. Mr.. |
Mccullough. Chairman, reported with the ma |
jority as to all charges but bribery, but that the
charge of bribery is made out and sustained by |
the evidence. aud 1t sets out such facts as are |
cumstantial evidence adduced before the Com |
mittee. This bribery consists OF Overstreet pay
ing the expenses OF Rude, the Greeuba candi- |
date up 70 the time he withdrew from the con- |
test The general appropriation bill was under
consideration, and the attack of the Greeks upon
President White. of Purdue University. was
successful by a large majority. The appro- |
priation for the Institution was increased |
from sl2 600 to $4,000 coupled with
should Ia ,sad nntfl the tions MEM