Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-02-21
The Failures ofthe week,

Harberacker was fatally injured and the
children Mary and Willie were also badly
hurt about their bodies and heads.
The Failures of the Week.
NEW YORK, Feb. 20.-There were 254 fail
ures in the United States reported to Brad
streets during the week against 273 in the
preceding week and 218, 2O4 and 1876 IN the
corresponding weeks of 1884, 1888 and 1882
respectively.
18th Congress- Second Session.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.
SENATE.-After some talk about to-mor-
rows ceremonies the chair laid before the
Senate the unfinished business in the morn
ing hour-the bill to quit title of settlers on
the Des Moines river lands in the State of
Iowa. Mr.. Lapham took the floor and was
still talking when the hour of 1 o'clock ar
rived and the chair laid before the Senate the
next special order-the Galveston improve
ment bill.
Mr. Morrill, moved to take up in preference
the bill for the retirement of the trade dol
lar with the Senate committees amendments
thereto, which after some debate was agreed
to. The vote had hardly been announced
when Mr.. Hale moved to take up
the agricultural appropriation bill, and
the Senate by viva voce vote agreed
dollar bill back to the calendar. The agri-
cultural appropriation bill was read and dis
cussed section by section and as reported by
the Senate Committee Appropriations was
adopted with only one amendment increas-
ing the appropriation for experiments in
making sugar out of sorghum from 10000
to $780, 900.
The chair again laid before the Senate the
special order with regard to Galveston har-
Dor improvements.
Mr.. Plumb asked unanimous consent to
take up the postoffice appropriation BILL and
the bill was taken up by unanimous consent
and discussed ThelHouse provisions max
ing two cent stamp carry letter weighing
an ounce instead of one-half ounce as at pres
ent and reducing second class postage to one
cent a pound, were among the provisions
which the Senate committee had stricken out
under the Senate rule prohibiting the con-
sideration of general legislation in an appre-
priation bill.
The question was first taken on agreeing
to the committees amendment in striking
out the provision increasing the weight of
second class letter postage. Mr.. Edmunds
protested against it as general legislation, and
the Senate by vote of 80 to IS refused to
agree to the recommendation of the commit
tee to strike out the legislative section in re-
gard to letter postage.
At this point Mr.. Conger became ANXIOUS
for an executive session, and the Senate re-
fusing, he demanded the ayes and nays On
alternate motions to adjourn and to go into
executive session until 6 o'clock, when the
Senate yielded, went into executive session
and at $50 adjourned until 1 p. M. to-mor-
row.
THE action of the Senate clears the way
for the introduction into the bill of the mail
subsidy clause which the House struck out
and which is before the Senate as an amend
ment to the bill duly reported by the Com
mittee on Postoffiees and Post Roads.
HoUsE-The House met at 10 a. m. in con-
tinuation of Thursdays session and at once
went into committee the river and har-
Dor bill. Various amendments to the Missis-
sippi river clause at variance with the gener-
al plan of the bill were offered and voted
down. Finally to get the bill into the House,
tire clause to be stricken out of the bill there
by cutting off amendment. The clause re-
lating to the Hennepin canal was at
last reached for the second time
On this certain points of order
had been madesand the decision of the chair
reserved. The chair (Mr. Hammond of
Georgia) then read an elaborate decision
overruling the points that it was not gernane
and that it was new legislation, but sustained
the point that the proposition should have
been considered by the Committee on Rail
ways and Canals, and that the paragraph
must go out. Mr.. Henderson, of illinois,
appealed from the decision of the chair.
Pending action on the appeal the COM
mittee rose and at II SO the House ad-
journed and was at once called to
order for the session of Friday
Mr.. Burnes, from the conference committee
on the consular and diplomatic bill, submit
ted report which was adopted.
Mr.. Wolford called up the motion to recon
slider the vote by which the House refused to
pass the bill granting pension of $50 per
month to the widow of Major Thornburgh,
killed at the Ute massacre. The bill was
passed.
The next bill was the Senate bill to in
crease the pension of the widow of Com
mander Craven from $50 to $50 per month,
which came up as the unfinished business of
last Friday; rejected.
Further private business was set aside.
Mr.. Bingham, from the Committee on
Postoffices and Post Roads, reported reso-
lution calling on the Postmaster General for
information concerning the amendment of
the contract of Kellogg & Co. of Springfield,
Mass. for official envelopes; adopted
In the hour under the new rule Mr. Spoon
er, of Rhode Island, called up bill for the
transfer of ground to the city of Providence
for highway purposes and it was passed.
Mr. Ermentrout, of Pennsylvania, secour-
ed the passage of bill for public building
at Reading to cost $4,000; Mr.. Wilson, Of
Iowa, lOT Guc COM l0IlOu VI Lie puDQC
ing at Council Bluffs, 500, 900; and Mr.
Golf, of West Virginia, a $4,000 building at
Clarksburg, w. Va.
Mr.. Willis asked the passage of the bill
extending the limit for the public building
at Louisville from $500, 900 to 81 ZOO, 600 and
it was passed.
The House then went into committee on
the naval appropriation bill. The second
section was reached. On this the deferred
four hours general debate was opened by
Mr.. Keifer, of Ohio, in opposition to the
plans proposed by the bill for strengthening
the navy Mr.. Keifer argued that it was
better to go on with well considered plans al
ready possessed by the government than to
invite plans for the geniuses sometimes
called cranks of the country and waste valu-
able time and delay the building of the
navy.
Mr.. Long, of Massachusetts, next took the
floor, but yielded to a motion to that end
aud at 5 p. m. the House took recess until
7 p. m.
At the evening session fortyznine pension
bills were passed, which cleared the calendar
of cases upon which the committee had made
favorable reports, Tie House at p. m. ad-
journed.
An Imbeci1e's Damaging Testimony.