Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-03-02
AT TIE CAPITOL TO-DAY
THE EIGHT HOUR LAW.
DIPLOMATIC APPROPRIATION BILL
The Senate.

DIPLOMATIC APPROPRIATION BILL.
| The Senate.
! THE EIGHT HOUR LAW
| Among the petitions presented was one by
MI aoaf, rom workingmen employed in gov
eminent workshops since the eight hour law of
1868 was passed, praying compensation for
overtime, or reference OF their claims to some
tribunal that may adjudicate the question
whether they ought to have such compensa-
| ton.
MIR. Hoar said he favored the request of the
petitioners. He believed the object of the
| eisnt hour law was to test the soundness of the
tsss law, affirmed by the workingmen of
| THIS country, as we'll as by many
economic writer's, that on a large scale of manu-
Ing employment the individual working
| mah VIII DC larger producer when working
only eight hours per day than when working a
| longer number. The increased vigor zeal and
tenn. Mr. Hoar believed would make them bet.
! ter producers and more valuable citizens The
peutlon was appropriately referred.
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.
MIR. Edmunds, in reporting adversely the bill
referred to the committee on the judiciary to
provide for the gathering of marriage and d.
vorce statistics. explained that the committee
WINE layortng the object of the bill. believed
autnor1ty TO gather statistics of marriage and
divorce and all that was necessary was to APP
propriate sufficient money to enable that bu-
postponed.
PENSIONS OF WIDOWS AND MINOR CHILDREN.
Mr. van Wyck, from the committee on PEN
slons, reported, with an amendment, the House
Dill to increase the pensions of widows and de-
pendent relatives of deceased soldiers and sail
ors; ne amendment provides for the increase
ct the pensions of minor children from So q
month-the amount ii xed by the House-to "a a
month"; Mr.. Van Wyck said he would ask an
early consideration OF the bill, and would ask
the senate to increase the minor children's
pension TO So month, instead of the four re-
Mr. Logan hoped the bill would soon be taken
up, and that it would be passed
Inc DILL was placed on the calendar.
MIR. CALL ON THE EDUCATION BILL.
AL one O'Clock. on motion Of Mr. Blair the
Senate took up the education bill, and Mr. Call
addressed the Senate in opposition to Mr.. ALI
sons amendment. He characterized il rs a
fenect1on on the states and an abandonment of
one OF the principles OF our government.
Nominations by the President.
The President sent the following nomina-
lions to the Senate today:
Henry +. Kitfield, to be assistant appraiser of
merchandise in the district of Boston and
Charlestown, Mass
To be consuls of the United States-Hepry
Alert Johnson, Of the District of Columbia, at
| st. Thomas.
Commodore VIM. T. Truxton, to be rear ad-
Elmer Clark Tracy, OF New York to be an as
Slstant surgeon In the navy.
House Of Representatives.
Mr. Merrill (kan.), from the committee on In
valid pensions, reported bill extending until
July LIST, 1888, the time within which appli-
cations for arrears Of pensions may be fled, ex-
tending the provisions OF the arrears act to spe-
cial pensioners and providing that in applica-
ton for pensions the person on whose account
the pension Is claimed shall be presumed prin,a
at the date of entering the service. Committee
| of the whole.
THE CONSULAR AND DIPLOMATIC APPRoPRI-
| ALTON BILL.
Mr.. Belmont On. Y.) from the committee on
foreign affairs, reported the consular and diplo-
matte appropriation bill, and it was referred to
the committee OF the whole.
THE SILVER DOLLAR.
The Speaker laid before the House the re-
| spouse of the Secretary of the Treasury to the
Bland resolution calling for information con-
corning the circulation Of the Standard silver
dollar and the policy to be pursued as to nav
ment of silver. Referred to the committee on
coinage, weights and measures.
District i'm Congress-.
DISTRICT APPROPRIATIONS.
| The District appropriation bill was not COM
nleted to-day. 1t will be again considered on
Thursday.
A PETITION.
Representative Barbour presented petition
| in the House yesterday signed by some thirty
| citizens of the District asking for the passage
| of an act to relieve them "from an oppression.
annoyance and nuisance, caused by the ope-
rating machinery and engines of the United
states STA electric lighting company, situate on
the square bounded by b and and LIST and I'd
| streets northwest
MISCELLANEOUS BILLS.
The following District bills were introduced
in the House yesterday: By Mr.. Green, to pay
$4,000 to Daniel Donovan for his services as
Mr.. Morgan, to pay Paul Leary, of the District,
5000, expended in a substitute during the war;
by Mr.. ONeil, Of Missouri, to pay the laborers
| for work performed under the old board OF pub
| lie work; bill authorizing the purchase of a
| site for a new building to be used as a store
Mrs. b ce
works in the District was introduced In the
House yesterday by Mr.. Burrows.
Capitol Topics.
THE HOUSE CLAIMS COMMITTEE
decided to-day in favor of the claims of
I the officers and crew of the ''Tallapoosa''
| for loss of property by her sinking. They
decided also in favor of the claim of gov
eminent employees for pay for time over eight
passage Of the eight-hOur law.
MR.. DINGLEY's PILoTAGE BILL
The House shipping committee yesterday
| voted-6 to 4-in favor of Mr.. Dingleys pilotage
! bill. The other three members not present
were allowed until tomorrow to file their votes
mere is no QOuDL OF Cner0 Oe10R q favorable
port of the bill. It does not abolish compulsory
| pilOtage. 1t authorizes United States local in
! spectors to examine and license, If found COM
petent, the masters or mates OF American sail
ing vessels engaged in the cOastwise trade to
act as pilots for their own vessels and exempt
them from any obligation to pay second pilot
| age fee.
| THE INVESTIGATION OF SIGNAL SERVICE AC-
COUNTS.
The House committee on expenditures In the
War department resumed the examination
| into the accounts of the signal service yester-
day. Controller Maynard produced q num-
Der of vouchers in which it is claimed there are
irregularities. Some of them were for materials
purchased Tin large amOunts) Tor the construc-
ton Of military telegraph lines, in regard to
which the law and the army regulations re-
curing advertisements for proposals were dis
regarded.
RESIGNED HIS POSITION.
Mr. Chas. E. Kincaid, of the Louisville Times,
who was carried on the folders roll of the House
at $40 per year, told the investigating COM
mittee yesterday that the position was not the
one promised him, and he intended to resign.
He SAID he never did any work folder.
THE NOMINATIONS OF CHASE AND PILLSBURY
REJECTED.
The Senate In executive session yesterday re-
tected the nominations of Messrs. Chase and
Pillsbury to be collectors of internal revenue
for Massachusetts, and Maine, respectively. Mr..
Hale spoke first, earnestly urging the rejection
OF the two men as q rebuko to their nOlitical