The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1886-07-23
CONGRESSIONAL.
Senate.

Senate
July 1.-THE senate discussed the river
and narbor bill to-day.
The amendment reducing the apprOpria-
ton for improving the Tennessee river at
| Mussel shoals from $3.50, 600 to $3.50, 600 was
! rejected-10 to 80.
| The amendment proposing to appropriate
$3.50, 900 for the purchase of the Portage
Lake canal and the Lake Superior ana Iron
company canal was agreed tO-yeas 35,
nays 81.
The amendment in relation to the Calu-
met river was agreed to.
The amendment accepting the grant of
| the Illinois and Michigan canal and for the
construction of the Hennepin canal was
adopted-yeas q, nays 20.
Without progressing further with the bill
the senate adjourned.
July 15..-The senate to-day agreed to
the Mississippi river amendments to the
river and harbor bill, as reported from the
The amendment authorizing the secre-
tary OF war to establish harbor lines where
the debris of mines and stamp works could
be made was agreed to. and the amendment
forbidding any such deposits was stricken
out.
An amendment to increase the appropria-
ton for the Illinois river from 100000 to
$3.50, 900 was adopted.
Senator Mcmillan, chairman of the COM
mittee on commerce, moved to strike out
the items now in the bill, but reduced 25
per cent in each case, and stated that while
the committee favored the bill as it stood
they believed the reduction necessary in
order to pass 1t.
After considerable discussion the senate
adjourned without reaching a vote.
july l6.-In the senate to-day the house
bill Increasing the pension of John Ryan
and the senate bill granting pension TO
James Noyes were taken up, and passed,
the latter bill being described by Mr.. Cock
rell as mere act OF charity to q colored
preacher who had only served a little while
in the Louisiana native guards; but Mr..
Blair said the man had also served In
colored regiment and in the veteran
brigade.
The next bill passed was house bill
granting pension of $25 monthly to Miss
Mary A. Thomas, who had acted as volun-
teer army nurse and superintendent of
nurses at Frederick, Md.
After ten more pension bills were passed
the senate resumed consideration of the
river and harbor bill, which was passed
with the amounts reduced 25 per cent
A message from the house was presented
insisting on its disagreement to three or
four amendments to the legislative apprO-
priatOn bill. The former conferrees were
reappOinted.
Mr.. Pugh gave notice that on Tuesday
next, at o'clock, he would call up the re-
port OF the committee on privileges and
elections in the Payne case.
The naval appropriation bill was passed,
and the Senate adjourned.
July 17.--Mr. Miller called up the oleo-
margarine bill-the house bill defining but
ter and regulating the manufacture, sale,
Importation, and expectation Of Oleomar-
garine. The bill was read in full. The
question whether the bill should be now
considered was decided in the affirmative
yeas, 2S; nays, IL.
Mr.. Beck moved to refer the bill to the
committee on finance. 1t was, he said q
tax bill, beyond all controversy and as such
should, under the rules of the senate, be
not only dealt with internal taxation, but it
changed the tariff laws.
Mr.. Miller opposed the motion, and Mr..
Maxey advocated it. This, he said, was
simply another effort to use the power of
the government unlawfully to beat one
honest industry at the expense of another.
That was the foundation OF the whole thing.
Mr.. Edmunds said that to send the bill
to the committee on finance now would
mean its defeat for this session.
!. Mr., Beck said It was not an easy matter
TO get at bill. The senator from Vermont
bad promised to report back the bill against
railroad attorneys within eight days, but
held 1t back for twenty-five days, and then
Drought In burlesque substitute.
| The motion to refer the bill to the COM
Hittee on finance was rejected-yeas, ID;
J July 19.-In the senate to-day Mr.. Whit
horne introduced a bill to return the tax
on cotton collected by the United States in
1S65-6-7-S from the people of certain states
of the union to be held or used by such
The oIeomargarne biii P was discussed at
considerable length, but the senate adj
j0urned without reaching vote.
JULY 20-In the senate to-day the chair
presented resolutions Of the constitutional
convention of Dakota praying for the adj
mission of South Dakota as a state, and for
Referred to the committee on territories.
Mr.. Miller presented memorial of the
Evangelical Alliance of the United States,
referring to the recent outrages and massa-
ores perpetrated on Cinnamon on the Pa
cific coast, with letter from branch of
the alliance In China, setting forth the In
furious effect of these Outrages on Ameri-
cans and Christians In the Chinese empire.
He thoroughly Endorsed the sentiments en-
bodied in the memorial and letter. The
memorial was read in full and referred to
the committee on foreign relations.
Mr.. Hale reported from the committee on
appropriations the general deficiency bill,
and he gave notice that unless the sundry
civil appropriation bill was called up to-
morrow morning he would ask to have the
deficiency bill considered.
The oeomargarine bill was amended and
passed by vote of-yeas, 81; nays, 81.
The section as to penalties, as amended,
reads as follows:
Every person who knowingly sells or
offers for sale, or delivers or offers to de-
liver, any oleomargarine In any other form
than In new wooden or paper packages as
aboye described, or who packs In any pack
age any oleomargarne in any manner con-
trary to law, or who falsely brands any
package or aflixes stamp on any package
denotng less amount OF tax than that re-
quired by law, shall be fined for each
Offense not more than $1,000 and be Inn
prisoned not more than two years.
House.
JULY 14-The resolution directing tho
payment of Understanding bonds with the
surplus In the treasury over 500, DOC, 900 was
passed by the house to-day.
In the debate Mr.. Hewitt denied that the
passage of this resolution would give en-
ployment to single man. Instead of
giving employment to 100, GOO men, 100000
men would be dismissed from employment
on the very first day that the public real
lied that the stability Of the treasury was