The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-06-20
"a WEEK'S NEWS.

"A WEEKS NEWS.
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NJ CONGRESSIONAL. -
The Senate, on the 9th, insisted upon its
amendments to the Labor Statistics bill and
appointed q Committee of Conference. Mr.
Fance submitted the views of the minority OF
the Committee on Privileges and Elections re
eardng the Danville Investigation. The Mex
lean Soldiers Pension bill was taken up and
depending amendment was laid on the table
amendment to strike out the phrase 'for the
suppression of the rebellion" from Mr.. Hoar's
amendment, providing pensions for soldiers
fought iRe the sts war for tss
moved to lay Mr.. Hears amendment on the
table. Carried. Ayes, 20. nays, Is. Sew
srai AMENDMENTS were offered and laid on the
table and further consideration of the bill
vent over. The House went into Committee
of the Whole on the River and Harbor bill.
Without action the committee rose and the
door was accorded the Committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia. At the evening session of
the House numerous amendments increasing
d. appropriations for various improvements of
rivers and harbors were offered and voted
down After completing consideration of six
Of the forty-seven pages of the bill, the com
mittee rose apd the House adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 10th, large mum.
her of petitions were presented opposing q
Governmental telegraph. Mr.. Beck withdrew
his resolution concerning the removal of po-
consideration of the Mexican Pension bill.
The amendment offered by Mr.. Harrison, in
tended to limit the benef1ciaries of the bill to
table; yeas, %: nays, 20. The Consular and Di.
plomatic Appropriation bill was taken UP and
tae Senate went into secret session on the por-
ton relatine to the enforcement of the Neu.
tralfty act. In the House, Mr.. Morrison,
Chairman of the Committee on Ways and
Means, reported concurrent resolution pro-
Mondsv 1of he nna % ne st 81
Adopted without division. Mr.. Payson, from
the Committee on Public Lands, reported a
bill forfeiting part of certain lands granted by
Iowa to aid in the construction of railroads in
that State. The House, at its evening session,
took up the bill directing the Secretary of the
Interior to obtain from the Red Lake Chippe-
wa Indians REIMBURSEMENT of their title to
the. Red Lake Reservation of Minnesota. after
leng debate and without action the House
adjourned.
THE Senate, on the filth, went into secret
legislative session on the item I'm the Consular
and Diplomatic Appropriation bill appro-
priating s250.O00 to cover the necessary ex-
Denses attendant upon the execution of the
Neutrality actSs Nothing definite was accom-
plished, as when the doors were reopened a
quorusn was not present =. The House went
River and Harbor bill ill., The '' clause Da f for
the construction of the Hennepin ca
nal having been reached, Mr.. Jones, of
Wisconsin raised against it the point of order
ne jurisdiction over the subject, and that a
bin with substantially the same provision was
pending in the House. The Chair overruled
the point of order and was sustained on an
appeal by 103 to g. Mr.. Holman then moved
TO strike out the Hennepin canal clause. Mr.
Potter supported the motion, butt was lost by
ax .<Nff - Hz,~
crease from 5000 to $s50OOO the appropria-
ton for the improvement of the Missouri from
its mouth to Sioux City. Lost. After con-
fbe sne nd mp H0s OF the bill
The Senate, on the 18th, took final vote
on the Consular and Diplomatic Appropria-
ton bill, and the bill was passed by thirty
eight yeas and two nays Vance and Van
Wycs). The bill as passed is almost precisely
as reported from the Senate Committee on
Appropriations, making an addition of $780,,
The Mexican Pensions bill was then taken up
After debate, the Senate, without reaching a
conclusion on the bin went into executive
session, and when the doors opened, ad-
tourned. The House met in continuance of
Wednesdays session, and went into COM
mittee of the Whole, on the River
preparation for the ice harbor on the
Muskingum River was increased from $4,000
TO SS0W0. The committee rose and reported
strike out the Hennepin canal clause The
motion to strike out was agreed to: yeas 146;
nays, ID. Mr.. Murphy then moved to lay the
bill and pending amendments on the table
The motion was lost: yeas, 81; nays, 158. The
bill was then passed by a vote of yeas. 151;
nays, TO-, The Speaker announced that the
vote on the motion to strike out the Henne-
pin canal clause had not been correctly
stated; that the actual vote was: yeas, 146;
nays, 102- Mr.. Eaton then called up the Sem
ate bill regulating the electoral count. After
some discussion, the House adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 18th, Mr.. Brown OBJ
tanned unanimous consent to take up the bill
to require the payment in cash to the State of
Georgia of sa5,5s5. appropriated for that State
by act of Congress, passed March Sd, to re-
fund to Georgia certain moneys expended for
the common defense in 17!7. Mr.. Dolph
Oregon and S4a5 for California to refund
moneys expended by those States in the sup
preston of the Modoc hostilities. After a
long discussion, Mr.. Ingalls, moved to recon-
NIT the bill to the Committee on Claims 1t
was then discovered that no quorum was pres
ent and the Senate adjourned until the 10th
In the House the Senate amendments to
Appropriation bills were non-concurred in.
Mr.. Pryor then took the floor on the Electoral
bill. At the conclusion of Mr.. Pryor's speech
Mr.. Townshend, of Illinois, submitted con.
ference report on the Post-ofice Appropri-
alton bin He said tina: the items upon
which no agreement had been reached
for the pay of letter carriers; second, in
creasing by 100000 the appropriation for
mail transportation on railroad routes; third.
striking out the clause regulating the COM
Pensation to land grant roads: fourth. appro-
priating $1S5 900 for special mail facilities and
nth, increasing by $500, 600 the appropriation
for railway post-otfice clerks. The conference
report was adopted as far as the items are
concerned upon which the agreement had
been arrived at. The House at its evening
session passed seventy-siX pension bills and
adjourned. .-Es-. =. IL
ia~ ... WASHINGTON NOTES
THE record Of the Court of Inquiry in the
case of General Swain, Judge Advocate
General of the Army, reported the facts as
developed by the evidence, and concluded
as follows: "The court is of the opinion