Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-03-04
THIS WEEK IN CONGRESS.


badly injured during the recent cold wealth
er. HAL.
THIS WEEK IN CONGRESS.
A Washington letter of Saturday, fore
shadowing the work of Congress the pres
ent week, says
Senator Pugh will present to the Senate
on Monday the minority report of the ju-
dietary committee on the question arising
from the refusal of the Attorney General
to furnish the papers in the Dustin case, and
Senator Edmunds will seek to open the de-
bate on the subject as soon thereafter as
possible. But the education bill stands
on the calender as unfinished business,
position it has occupied since the 9th ul-
timo. Senator Edmunds has not intmat-
ed purpose to have it set aside. The
friends of the education bill hope it may be
disposed of within two or three days, and
Senator Blair will resist all attempts to
have it laid aside for any purpose. The
debate on the issues between the majority
in the Senate and the Executive, to which
the minority report will give rise, is ex
pected to last several days and may cover
two or three weeks. Senator Hale will
probably move for an executive session to-
morrow to dispose of the Pillsbury and
Chase cases, but if the motion is made, as
is it is expected, early in the day, it will be
resisted by Senator Blair. Senators having
charge Of the Bankruptcy bill, the bill for
the admission Of Washington Territory,
the Interstate Commerce bill, and the
Electoral Count bill are anXiously watching
an opportunity to get the measures before
the Senate, but there is little prospect of
success until the above mentioned debate
is concluded. Meanwhile, however, much
legislative business OF character not pro-
vocative of long debates will be transacted,
as heretofore, during the hours each day de-
voted to the Calendar.
The present week promises to be busy
one in the House Of Representatives. Af
ter the call of the States on Monday it will
be in order for the Speaker to recognize
members for the purpose of moving to put
any measure on its passage under suspen-
sion of rules. 1t is understood that Mr..
James, of New York, will be recognized
for the purpose of asking the adoption of
resolution fixing certain days for the con-
sideration of the adverse report on the bill
for the free coinage Of silver. Under the
rules half hour debate is permitted on
every motion to suspend the rules, but as
there is a general sentiment of the House
that the veXed silver question should be
speedily settled, there will probably be no
adopted without debate.
The call of committees this week during
the morning hour now rests with the COM
mittee on mines and mining, which has but
one measure on the Calendar, namely for
the appointment of a commission Of experts
to execute tests on iron and steel. If this
is called up it's consideration will consume
but little time. The call will then rest with
the committee on public buildings and
grounds, and it is the intention of that
committee to call up in the order in which
they stand on the Calendar, the various
public building measures. There are seven
teen such bills to be disposed Of, and it is
not likely that the two hours allowed to the
committee will be sufficient to permit ac-
tion on them.
| Mr.. Crisp, of Georgia, has been instructed
blythe committee on Pacific railroads, which
stands next on the list, to call up the bill
requiring Pacific railroads to pay cost Of
surveying their lands and to take out pat
ents and become subject to State taxation,
but it is doubtful whether this measure will
receive final action during the week.
! The unfinished business coming over from
previous morning hours consists of the ''set
off claim" bill and the Hennepin canal bill,
but the indications are that neither Of them
will receive further consideration this week.
There are now five general appropriation
| bills in committee of the whole, which will
occupy the attention of the House after the
morning hours on Tuesdays, Wednesdays
and Thursday, and they may be allowed to
displace the private Calendar on Friday.
| The committee on appropriations will try
to secure the passage of the urgent def
cheney bill on Tuesday. The pension and
Indian bills will follow in time. Saturday,
under special order, will be devoted to
general debate Oh the state of the Union.
THE BURIED MEN AT NANTICOKE.-The
work at Slope No. !, Nanticoke, is nearing
the end, and there, is little prospect that the
bodies of the tWenty-siX entombed men will
ever be recovered. The bore-hOle is down
about 200 feet, and seventy feet further will
carry the drill into the workings. But there
is not shadow of hope to be drawn from
this. The men at work clearing the blocked
gang-Ways below have advanced to within
seventy feet Of the fourth counter, a straight
passage leading up steep slope directly to
the place where the cave-in took place.
When this point is reached it is about GER
tain that all further efforts must be aban-
doned. TO attempt to penetrate up this
fourth counter would be very dangerous,
and only result in the further loss of life.
Under the enormous pressure from the
glgantlC culm PIE ABOVE, lne culH anu
quick sand that blocks the passage would
run like water if an attempt to dig it out
was made, and another rush would certainly
overWhem every workman in the way.
The men have already expressed great
reluctance to continue the work, as at
present they are in no little danger. The
officials say themselves that they dare
not venture into the fourth counter, and
that they will ask no one to work where
they dare not lead. 1t is highly probable
that when the fourth counter is reached the
work will be abandoned. All the passages
leading up to the spot where the cave-in
took place and beyoud which the men are
will be walled in, and the twentysix vic
TINS allowed to remain in their dark tomb,
300 feet below the surface.
The fact that no trace of the men has been