The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-23
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
THE SENATE.


OeDhte On THE Bill frOpOSluB u oueau Vi
Labor Statistics.
WAsHINGToN, May ga bill was passed
authorizing the construction Of bridges across
the Mississippi at ST. Paul
Mr.. Morgan, from the committee on foreign
relations, submitted proposed amendment to
the consular and diplomatic bill, appropriating
so, 600 to enable the President to open com
mercial or diplomatic intercourse with the
Congo country.
bill was introduced providing for the pay
ment of female nurses services during the war.
On motion of Mr. Coke, q bill was passed
amending the act creating the Northern judicial
district of Texas, and providing for holding
terms of court in the Western judicial district
of Texas, at Ell Paso. 1t provides for hold
ing terms of court twice year at Brownsville,
on the first Mondays of january and July; at
San Antonio on the first Mondays in May and No
vembef; at Ell Paso on the first Mondays in
April and October, and at Austin the first
Mondays in February and August 1t also pro-
vides for the appointment of deputy clerk at
FL Paso.
The Senate took up the bill to prohibit the
mailing of newspapers and other publications
containing lottery advertisements.
Mr.. Nest objected to its consideration and the
Senate. by vote of twenty-five yeas, twenty
it goes to the foot of the calendar.
Mr.. Van Wyck submitted an amendment.to be
disposed of at the proper time, extending the
provisions of the lottery bill to prohibit the
mailing of newspapers other publications con
tanning advertisements or notices of sales of
railroad. mining or other stocks of corporations
by margins, or puts and calls, any agency
thereof, or any notice, report or statement Of
any such sales.
A bill was passed appropriating sos 600 to
COmnenSatp officers
ment steamer Don Cameron, for losses incurred
by the sinking of that steamer in the Missouri
river, 10 1877.
The Utah bill was laid aside, and the Senate
resumed the consideration of the labor statistics
bill.
Mr.. Van Wyek's proposed amendment to the
labor bureau bill was read providing that the
chief of the bureau shall be identified with the
laboring classes, etc.
Mr.. ingalls, said every fiber of his being was in
sympathy with labor but this was a bill which
he could not supper, in its present shape The
committee on labor, he said, seemed to think
there was all over the land an intense, eager
ayidlty for Suceulent. juicy and nutritious vol
urnes Of statistics. He could imagine the com
fort with which the weary plowman would wend
his way homeward if he knew that on passing
the pestotfee he could secure volume of stats
tics He thought the Senate could bow down
and worship this bill without being guilty Of
idolatry, because it resembled nothing in the
heavens nor in the earth beneath, nor IN the
water under the earth. If, however. the bill was
properly amended he would support it.
Mr.. Van Wyck said that communism Of CAPT
tai was more dangerous than communism of la
Dor. Six railroad kings could sit in parlor in
New York and regulate everything in this eoun-
try.
Mr.. Blair, replying to Mr.. Ingalls,, said the
criticism of that senator had been simply piece
of elaborate bat trivial buffoonery. Mr.. Blair af
forwards withdrew the word "buffoonery,' and
raised a laugh by suggesting that the reporter
put in its place some word that would not be so
offensive but would mean as nearly as possible
tine same thing.
Mr.. Sherman suggested the substitution Of
the word department for bureau.
Mr.. Blair adopted the suggestion, and moved
to make the title of the bill "a bill to establish
a department of labor" Pending debate, ad-
journed.