Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-23
Rather a Lively Day in Congressional
Circles at Washington.
Ez-C Congressman English Charged
With Lobbying for His Son.
A Committee Appointed to Invest
igate the Lobbying Abuses.
calamity" Weller, Of Iowa,
Seen" and Remains Silent.
Van Wyok Wants q Laborer as
Chief of the New Bureau,
The Proposed Postal Telegraph Bill
A Plant as Large MS the w. U.
Tor 2i,OoO,OOO.
FoRTY-ElGHrH CONGRESS-.

NAT
WASHINGTON, May GA bill was
passed authorizing the construction of a
bridge across the Mississippi at st. Paul.
Mr.. Van Wyck submitted an amend
ment, to be proposed at the proper time,
extending the provisions of the lottery
bill so as to prohibit the mailing of news
papers or other publications containing
advertisements or notices of railroad,
mining, or other stocks of corporations
by margins or puts and calls, or any
agency thereof; or any notice, report or
statement of such sales.
A bill was passed appropriating $3.50 O
to compensate the officers and men of
the government steamer j. Don Cameron
for losses incurred by the sinking of the
steamer in the Missouri river in 1877.
The Utah bill was laid aside, and the
senate resumed the consideration of the
labor statistics bill.
Mr.. Van Wyck proposed an amend
ment to the labor bureau bill, which was
read, providing that the chief of the
bureau be identified with the laboring
classes, etc.
Mr.. Van Wyck said the communism
of capital was more dangerous than the
communism of labor. Six railroad
kings could sit in a parlor In New York
and regulate everything in the country.
Blair adopted Sherman's suggestion to
substitute the word department" for
''bureau' and moved to make the title
"a bill to establish a department of
labor"
Pending the debate the Senate
adjourned.
Mr.. Bayne, in offering a resolution or
dering an investigation whether VIM. FL.
English had violated the privileges of the
house, said he had information that q
member of the house in the early part OF
the proceedings had been asked to leave
his seat; that he did 30; that he had gone
into consultation with English, and that
he had thereafter disappeared from the
floor of the house without having been
paired.
THE member to whom Bayne makes
reference is Weller, who voted on the
first roll call and did not do so there.
after.
Mr.. Nichols said Jere Wilson, an ex-
member from Indiana, and counsel for
Peele, had been on the floor lobbying in
the latter's interests.
Mr. Cannon said he had not seen Will
son on the floor and didn't think any
body else had. ,
After the resolution was adopted, the
bill amending the Thurman sinking fund
act; the bill forfeiting the Oregon Central
land grant; the congressional library bill,
and the educational bill we're pushed for
consideration.
The Oregon Central measure proved sue
%cessful, the consideration of the sinking
fund bill being voted down.-yeas rs,
nays $50.
In the discussion following, Mr..
Gorge asserted the Oregon Central, to
which the decision referred, was not the
Oregon Central to which the bill related,
and intimated that Cobb was misleading
the house, %whereupon Cobb declared he
had a letter showing George to be a rail-
road attorney.
Pending the debate the house adj
journed.