Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-07-17
the RIVER AND HARbOR BILL.
The Measure Passes the Senate After
Being Reduced Twenty.
Five Per Cent.
Vetofng the Pension VetOes Tried II
the House With Varying Sue.
cess-TWO to One.
After the Naval Cadets scheme tt
Court Martial the Bad Ones
Indian Trader Scandal.

the Senate bill granting a pension to Jas
Noyes were taken up and passed; the latter
bill being described by Mr.. Cockrell as g
mere act of charity to q colored preacher
who had only served a little while in the
Louisiana malarial grounds. Mr.. Blail
said hat the man had also served in q
colored regiment and in the veteran corp
The next bill passed was House bill grant
ing a pension of $25 monthly to Miss Mary
A. Thomas who had acted as volunteer
army nurse and superintendent Of nurses
at Frederick, Md. After ten more pension
bills vera passed, the Senate resumed the
consideration of che River and Harbor
bill. The question was finally taken on
agreeing to the committee amendment, re.
ducing all appropriation 25 per cent. and
it was agreed to yeas 81, nays Is. Bill
was then passed yeas AZ, nays IA. The
Senate then took up the Naval Appropria-
the Committee on Appropriations were all
agreed to without question and the bill
was passed. The Senate then adjourned.
House.
The House resumed the consideration OF
the conference report on the Legislative
Appropriation bill, and it was agreed to,
thus disposing OF SO many OF the amend
ments in dispute as were agreed to by the
Conference Committee. Mr.. Cannon, of
Illinois, moved that the House recede from
it's disagreement to the Senate amendment
providing for an increase Of clerical force
of Civil Service Commission, agreed to.
Yeas 1913, nays Ill. Mr.. Matson, of Indi-
ana, called up the report OF the Committee
on Invalid Pensions on the message of the
President vetoing the bill pensioning Cartro
w. Tiller, and upon his statement that the
case had been reopened in the pension Office,
tie consideration of the report was post.
poned until nexteession. Nj. Matson then
called up the veto message on the bill
granting a pension to Elizabeth Luce. MI.
Forney, of Alabama, raised the question OF
consideration desiring that the House
should take up the Fertilization Appro-
priation bill, but by a vote of 80 to 70 the
House determined to consider the Pension
bill. In this case q majority of the com
mittee recommended that the bill pass
Notwithstanding the veto, while q minority
report that the bill should not pass. The
Speaker announced that the question was
and it was decided in the negative. Yeas
113, nays-l24. Not a constitutional, two
thirds voting in the affirmative. The fol.
lowing Democrats voted to pass the bill
over the veto: Messrs. Carleton, Foran,
Frederick, Geddes, Maybury, Tarsney,
Weaver, Qowa,) Walford and Worth
ington.
Mr.. Belmont. of New York, from the
Committee on Foreign Affairs reported a
resolution which wac adopted re-
questing the President to furnish the
House with all correspondence not hereto
fore made public between the Government
of the United States ard the Republic OF
Nicaragua since 1876 in reference to the
location and construction OF an inter-
oceanic canal by the San Juan River and
Lake Nicaragua and relating to the treaty
and other rights with it's bordering Re.
public.
The next veto message called up was that
vetoing a bill pensioning Catherine McCar-
thy. On this question, also, the majority
Of the Committee on Invalid pension re.
commended the passage of the bill. In this,
as in the previous case, the Speaker pro
tempore, Mr.. Mills, OF Texas, recognized
Mr.. Matson, of Indiana, who had
signed both minority reports. to cali the
previous question. Against this the Re-
publicans vigorously protested, contending
that the chair should have recognized one
the members who had signed the ma.
iority report to control the floor instead
Of recognizing the member who held the
negative side of the question and giving
him the power to hut off debate. The
House refused to pass the bill over the
1872, nays IT, The nest mes
sage called up was that vetoing the bill
a pension to Joseph Romizer. In
this case the Committee on Invalid Pen. !
'ions is unanimously OF the opinion that
The bill should be passed over the veto. |
The bill was passed over the ~veto-yeas
LIS, nays 80. The House then took a
recess until 8 o'clock, the evening session
% be for the consideration of pensions.