New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-02-20

from their homes bY the flood, and
there are many cases of suffering,
All large inland towns are re-
spending nobly to the calls for help.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, .. C. Feb. Is, 1884,
Judging from the number ard i'm.
portance Of bills actually passed,
but little work has been done in
Congress during the week. Fairer
and more reliable tests prove, how.
ever, that business has not Jagged
in either end Of the Capitol. Full
sessions have been held each day,
except on Saturday when neither
the Senate nor the House conven-
ed; and many questions of impor.
lance, as we'll as matters Of minor
interest have had consideration
The Senate labored some time with
the tedious perplexities Of Mexican
land grant titles, and finally passed
the bill. Senator Frye made Wig
orous argument in favor of encour-
aging American ship-buildlng. A
bill was also passed for an appropri-
alton to complete the Capitol ter.
races and the stairways leading to
them, during the discussion of
which architectural and art crit
cisms were called forth. Senator
ingalls, sharply censured some of
the work done about the Capitol,
and asked if the melancholy pile OF
statuary which meets the eye at
the approach to the main front of
the Capitol, could not be removed
to a cemetary and surrounded by
dropping willows. His suggestion
met with approval, and it is proba.
Tile the naval monument will go.
The Senate also passed bill pro
viding for the extirpation Of com.
municable diseases among domestic
animals, and talked about revising
the statute regulating the duration
Of patent rights.
The substitution of colored man
from Virginia for one from Ken.
lucky, to Senate portership, caus.
ed Senator Beck to assume the role
of champion for the displaced Ken.
tuckian, and introduce a resolution
of inquiry into the working Of the
civil service bill. This was also the
occasion Of the debut Of the new
Virginia Senator Riddleberger, who
said among other things that Vir
ginia did not have her share of re.
representatives. in government EN-
ploy:
While the erection Of Congress
sional library was considered, .oena=
tor Morrill,, who has, during previ
Gus sessions Of Congress-, appeared
as an advocate Of the bill, said the
necessity Of a new building has be.
come uncomfortable; that large and
valuable personal donations OF
books had to be stored, recently, in
the crypt Of the Capitol where they
were about as accessible as they
would be in the Roman catacombs,
and that such a subterranean dispo.
sition of books was not calculated
to encourage liberality. according tc
the plan proposed the library will
ultimately cost over three million
dollars, and the site most favored
is a square east of the Capitol. This
library being national property, is,
Of course, open to the people with.
out tickets Of admission. Senator
Morrill, spoke of the peril by fire to
which the largest storehouse OF
knowledge in the United States was
constantly subjected in it's present
poorly cared for condition.
The plan Of using improved parks
for building sites which has to some
extent pre-. allied in Washington,
judiciary square for instance, on
which the new Pension building is
now gong up, the speaker consider.
ed a public calamity. Dwelling on
the beauties of Lafayette square, in
front of the Executive Mansion, and
Franklin square on K ST., he said
there could be no proposition to
utilize such spots for building sites
until Sitting Bull gets elected to
Congress,
The House Of Representatives de.
bated lengthily and animatedIy its
bill for the establishment of ''bu.
reau Of animal industry but took
no action. That body adopted the
new set ofrules for the regulation
of its proceedings, after two days of
debate on parliamentary points, oc-
casioned by the large humber of
amendments offered and the quaint
ty Of eloquence liberated in their
support.
In retaliation for the Senate's
action in excluding ex.Represena-
tives from the floor Of the Senate,
the House adopted the amendment
to it's rules denying ex.Senators as
we'll as lobbying ex.members the
privileges Of the House floor. Dem
ocratic Senators and Representatives
are cautious as to what they say
about the Morrison tariff bill, but
it is clear the measure is not salts
factory to a large wing Of the party
1t is now to be considered in COM
mite, and can scarcely get back to
the House in less than month,
where it has stormy time ahead Of
it. This will throw the discussion
we'll into the spring when the poll.
tical cauldron will be boiling and
the appropriation bills under full
Roadway, SO that the scheme may
as wall ha dis naicsad from, tha IL.