The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-07-09
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
a Summary Of tho Daily News
CONGRESS.

CONGRESS.
AMONG the reports Of committees In the
Eenate on the 18th was the conference report
on the Pension Appropriation bill which was
agreed to. the House recedlng from its
amendment. The conference report on the
Post office Appropriation bill was received.
point Of disagreement being the subsidy pro.
vision. After a LENGTHY debate the Senate
Insisted on it, amendment. After executive
ns s Tarn
the usual routine OF the morning hour tho
House went into Committee OF the whole on
the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill Then
er Sparks was an especial target for the shots
Of speakers Pending action the committee
rose and the House adjourned.
The Senate on the 10Th. passed the bill
to quiet titles of settlers on the Des Moines
lands over the Presidents veto. by q vote of
u to Is The Senate agreed to the conference
Legislative. Executive and Judicial Appro.
priatiOn bill was then taken up and debated
for some time. The conference report on the
to ana the Senate ON routine
business in the House the conference report
on the Pension Appropriation bill was sub.
mitted and agreed to. The House then went
Civil bill. After debate the comm 'ttee rose
The conference report on the Post Office Ap.
preparation II was agreed to, the Senate
having receded from several amendments
among them being the foreign NAL subsidy
clause. After agreeing to several other con-
ference reports the House adjourned.
The Senate on the 3Oth took up the
resolution for open executive sessions. and
the speech OF Senator Morrill, against the
measure was read nv Mr.. henderson. sena-
tor Hoar also spoke in opposition. After is
Consular and Diplomatic hill the Senate pro-
ceeded with the Legislative Apprnpr alton
bill. Debate was continued into and fnclud.
port was presented signed by four members
Of the committee appointed to investigate
the telerhone matter. The report was &C
tornev General Garland and Others from the
charges made by certain newspapers IN the
Pan.Elec'r'c Telephone cases. Mr. Rannev
submitted an adverse report and Mr.. Hale
also presented his views on the same sub
iect The Sundry Civil bill was then taken
mp in Committee OF the Whole. The bill was
completed and the comm ttee rose. The
House then agreed to the conference report
on the Consular anG Diplomatic bill. and ad-
journed
In the Senate on July 1 the O!eomar-
garne bill was reported from the Agricul-
tursl Committee as 1t came from the House.
Senators Jones. Of Arkansas. G 'bson, George
and Fair dissented from the report. A Joint
DAYS was passed Considerat- on Of the leg.
fslative Appropr alton bill was then resumed.
The bill was finally completed and reported
hack to the Senate. Adjourned :. In the
settlers on the Des Moines river lands was
presented nv the Speaker and ny vote of
16l yeas to 81 navs the House refused to pass
two thirds The House then went into Com.
mittee of the Whole on the Snndry Civil bill
The bill was finally reported to the House
and passed. Adjourned.
THE Senate on the Cd amended and
passed the Legislative Appropriation bill.
The River and Harbor bill was then taken
MP. pending the reading of which Mr.. Eustis
called up the resolutions relating to the
death OF Mr.. Hahn. member of the House
from Louisiana. Euiogies were delivered
and the Senate adjourned. In the House
the bill forfeitpg land grants to certa n
Southern railroads was reported from the
committee with an amendment excepting
the Gulf Ship Island road. Amendment
agreed to. The Senate amendments to the
bill repeating the Pre-empt' on. T Eiber Gull
ture and Desert Lands acts were non-cOn-
Cured in. The House then. in Committee of
the Whole. took up the General Deficiency
bill, which was debated until recess. An
evening session was held. but the House got
into dead lock which lasted until adjourn.
ment-about midnight.
NoTES,
JOHN MEASURES and his wife and two
children, aged seven and ten years. of
Stoneham, driving in a buggy, were instant
ly killed at the Albion street crossing of
the Boston & Maine railroad at Boston re-
Gently, being struck by an express train.
THE President has approved the Diplo-
matte and Consular Appropriation bill and
the act authorizing the Denison & Washita
Valley Railway Company to construct and
operate a railway through the Indian Ter
ritory.
In Washington it was currently stated
that the 5000, 600 River and Harbor bill
had been made up with the expectation that
the President would veto it and that the
distribution of the money has been ar.
ranged in order to secure votes enough to
pass it over his head.
The decrease in the public debt for June
was $l1, 100000.
The President has nominated Hugh s.
Thompson, of South Carolina, as Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury.
The President has signed the Fitz John
Porter bill.
The First Comptroller of the Treasury
has decided that laborers, workmen and
mechanics are entitled to extra pay for
work over eight hours.
A WOMAN clerk in the Pension Office at
Washington was arrested recently for hav.
ing set fire to her house for the purpose Of
securing the insurance.
THE EAST.
NEW YORK is agitating the question Of
putting telegraph wires in q concrete
asphalt underground conduit.
The cotton firm of j. T. A. W. Beall, New
York, has suspended.
The Massachusetts, Legislature was pro-
rogued on the 1st.
Two more boycotters of the New York
concert hall recently pleaded guilty.
The adjourned meeting of the creditors
of the Lewiston mills was held in Boston
ON the 3Oth. The committee appointed at
the former meeting reported tho total in.
debtedness to be ss,500 COO, with assets
amounting to &c. 462 go
A NUMBER of the leading wine aerchants
OF New York have sent . petition to Con-
gress asking for the better enforcement of
section 5, ES of the revised statutes which
taxes imitation and spurious winek
Two mea sailed for New York from the
Clyde recently in q boat nineteen feet long.
They took provisions for two month";
FIVE persons were recently almost smoth
cred to death by fat burning at Brooklyn
On " bakery. They were rescued in an
insensible condition.
MITCHELL q HUNTLEY's f~e-story 5ute
and hemp warehouse, New York, was on
fro recently. one section being Destroyed.
Damage about 500, 600; amply insured
Miss ALICE JoRDAN has been awarded the