Connecticut western news., 1884-02-20
UNITED STATES CONGRESS.
SENATE.

SENATE.
 The Committee on Naval Affairs reported ia vornbly Q bill for the relief of the survivors of the Jeanncttr expedition and of tho widows and children of those who perished.
 Mr. Riddlcborger's resolution providing for q joint committee to inquire into removals and appointments of Senate and House employee was the subject of long debate.
 A message was received from the House un- uouncing that that body was still unable to agree to tho Senate amendment to the Greedy Relief bill. requiring that the men sent on that expedition should be volunteers. After soma debate the Senate reccdcd from it's amendment by vote of 2J 10 22.
 Mir. Hale, from the Committee on Maya Affairs, reported favorably the bill 10 authorize the construction of additional steel vessels for tue navy.
 A bill was introduced by Mir. McPherson to uspend the coinage of the standard silver dol lar until 1SS6, and providing that the trade dul- lar shall be received in sums up to 50 at value cuunl to that of the standard silver dollar, i'll exchange for postal and revenue stamps, and shall he immediately sent to the Treasury and toined into bullion; that gold and silver bars goO-lOOO fine manufactured at the hints. shall be legal tender to their full stamped value Tn payment of public obligations.
 Mr. Voorhees, introduced a bill making fl q misdemeanor for officers and employees of the tnltDU StNteb IO Ci'n TlDUIt ulOHtN lpl Dollttul purposes. MT. Hawley opposed 1t as infringing on inc liberty of the citizen, and Mir. Harrison lecause tho Democrats conducted themselves nadly when in power.
 Mir. Voorhees, offered resolution directing the Secretary of the Interior to withhold ap- proyal of selections of lands made by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company within cer- tain indemnity limits
 Mir. McPherson's banking bill was considered and Mr. Bayard delivered an address in its support.
 The Senate passed joint resolution reap pointing Noa Il Porter one of the regents Of the Smithsonian Institution.
 The bill making all public roads and high ways pest routes was passed.
 Mr. McPhersons National Bank Note bill was discussed and also the proposed amend ments to it. Mir, Sherman's amendment, pro viding that if any of the bonds deposited bore interest higher than per cent additional notes should be issued equal to one-haf the interest in excess of the 3 per cent. acoruing before maturity, was voted down, 42 to ' and the Senate adjourned.
 HOUSE.
 Mir Townshcnd Dem., III. offered resolu lion proposing a constitutional amendment providing for inc election of 0 President ant Ncc-President by the direct votes of the peo pie. Among the bills introduced were these
 Providing that the Staten Island Rapit Transit Company may build bridge a. or neal Elizabeth, N. J., and Northtield, N. r., for thC passage of pedestrians, wagons and railroad trains.
 Appropriating s2SO 900 for the purchase o property on Staten Island for a marine hospita Tor the port of New York.
 Providing that before Q registration in Utal and Idaho voter shall take an oath that h, does not belong to Che Church of the Latter Day Saints.
 A bill was reported for the retirement an( rccOinage of trade dollars.
 Mir Potter, of New York; introduced @ bil providing for the issue of 2]5 per cent. bondi us substitutes for the per cent. bonds, tho new bonds to be payable at the pleasure of tht United States
 A resolution was adopted directing the Com. mittee on Expenditures in the Department ci Justice to inquire into the conduct, efficiency and good faith of all officials or persons in the pay of the government in connection with the Star route prosecutions, and whether guilty artes have been duly prosecuted.
 The Senate bill for the construction of building for the Library of Congress was taker from the table and referred to the Committed on the Library.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 --La Patrte says that over fifty Christians were massacred in the neigh borhood of Hue, in Tonquin, and that the mission houses were demolished. Bands of men in the pay of the man. darins of Nguien and Vantoung are pillaging and murdering and crying "Death to the Christians l" The Vicari- ate of Eastern Cochin China is endan- gered. The Christians in the vicinity of Tournne are fleeing to Puinhoin, hoping 10 find the French there.
 In discussing the fall of Sinkat the London Times says: "The first blow oi the whip has fallen, and all Eng land tingles with the pain of the blow. If nc change shall be announced in the Minis teriol policy the gathering dissatisfae ton of the country will have serious and perhaps decisive effect on the divi. sion in the House of Commons upon Sir Stafford Northcote's motion of censure. The English House of Lords, by 1 large majority, censured the government for vacillating policy in Egypt. Details of the battle at Sinkat show that tn, | fighting on both sides was in strict nc cord with Oriental precedents. Genera Gordon reports the country about Berbe more quiet.
 General Gordon seems really to have reached Berber, and the Mahdi ha' come into possession of small port oI | the Red Sea.
 While wedding party was crossing the River Theiss. near Domrad, Austria the ice broke and thirty. five members O the party were drowned.
 Paris papers publish dispatches iron the French bishop in Tonquin to th, effect that one priest, twenty-two cate chists and 215 Christians had been mas sacred, and that 108 mission housl hat been destroyed. The bishop appeals fo help.
 | Chiefs of neutral tribes in the Soudan, neal Suakim, have notified the rebels that they will fight unless their territory is respected.
 The German press say that Russias sue cess in Merv Is worse for England than the dis asters in the Soudan
 Recent observers of Haytian affairs repor | that President Saloman IS doing much tu miti gate the evils necessarily following the settle ment of the rebellion. An enormous coffee crop is being gathered.
 All tho Merv tribes have taken an oath O allegiance to Russia, and the couutry's indC | pendence is practically destroyed
 The commercial convention between Spai | and America was signed on Wednes day, an was gazetted in Madrid on Thursday. It is reported that mass of ice near tn | Caspian sea, upon which some fifty fishermen were at work, was carried out to sea. All tn ] fishermen are believed to have been drowned A telegram from Arequips, Peru, ar nonnces that waterspout has caused immens damage in that city and it's environs. The los is estimated at 500,000 soles. Several person were drowned.
 Another Pension Bill.